1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002931580203316

Autore

Commissione europea : . Direzione generale Comunicazione

Titolo

L'opinion des consommateurs sur les services d’intérêt général : résumé du rapport / Commission européenne, Direction générale de la presse et de la communication

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des Communautés européennes, 2005

ISBN

92-894-9025-X

Descrizione fisica

50 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Collana

Eurobaromètre , Spécial ; 219

Disciplina

363.60685

Soggetti

Servizi pubblici - Paesi della Comunità europea - Controllo di qualità

Collocazione

CDE 04.09 (VIII)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462916103321

Autore

Rosner Lisa

Titolo

The most beautiful man in existence [[electronic resource] ] : the scandalous life of Alexander Lesassier / / Lisa Rosner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

ISBN

0-8122-0316-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

610/.92

B

Soggetti

Physicians - Great Britain

Physicians - Scotland - Edinburgh

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century

Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Journal of Life -- CHAPTER 1. Interest or Love -- CHAPTER 2. Born to Misfortune -- CHAPTER 3. Hot from Your Studies -- CHAPTER 4. This Despicable Rock -- CHAPTER 5. The Most Beautiful Man in Existence -- CHAPTER 6. Tinsel of Military Reputation -- CHAPTER 7. Soothing Hope of Speedy Promotion -- CHAPTER 8. Arrived at Wealth and Dignity -- CHAPTER 9. Thrown on the Wide World -- CHAPTER 10. Appearances Are of Essential Consequence -- CHAPTER 11. Consecutive Chain of Corroborative Evidence -- CHAPTER 12. Compare What I Might Have Been with What I Am -- Epilogue: One Series of Hardships and Privations -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was deposited in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Alexander Lesassier died in 1839 during the



First Afghan War; his trunk and its contents remained untouched for the next century and a half.It has now been opened and a remarkable tale, told in remarkable detail, has spilled forth. The life of Alexander Lesassier, as expertly reconstructed by Lisa Rosner, affords startling insight into the sensibilities of an era and of the man who, in his own eyes and those of the women who adored him, was its most perfect creation.Affable and self-absorbed, engaging and ignoble Lesassier was a physician, military surgeon, and novelist, who was also a shameless opportunist, charming scoundrel, seducer, and survivor. His is the story of a failed medical man who wanted to be something different and saw himself as entitled to more than he had; someone who can always be guaranteed to make the wrong choice, and then protest that he has done well.This fascinating and deeply absorbing book offers rare insights into Georgian, Regency, and early Victorian Britain through the fortunes and misfortunes, hopes and whims, of "the most beautiful man in existence."

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450764603321

Titolo

The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49 / / edited by Richard Oram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86748-5

9786610867486

1-4294-5261-7

90-474-0682-6

1-4337-0432-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Collana

The Northern World ; ; 16

Disciplina

941.102

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Scotland History Alexander II, 1214-1249

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Contributors. vii -- List of Illustrations. ix -- List of Maps and



Plans. xiii -- Introduction: An Overview of the Reign of Alexander II. 1 -- Richard D. Oram -- 'A great prince, and very greedy of this world's honour'. The Historiography of Alexander II. 49 -- Norman H. Reid -- Contemporary Perspectives on Alexander II's Succession: The Evidence of King-Lists. 79 -- Dauvit Broun -- Kingship, Conflict and State-Making in the Reign of Alexander II: The War of 1215-17 and its Context. 99 -- Keith J. Stringer -- Scotland and the Papacy in the Reign of Alexander II. 157 -- Andrew D.M. Barrell -- Saints and Silver: Scotland and Europe in the Age of Alexander II. 179 -- David Ditchburn -- Alexander II and the Double Tressure. 211 -- John Malden -- Canon Law, Custom and Legislation: Law in the Reign of Alexander II. 221 -- Hector L. MacQueen -- Burghs and Burgesses: A Time of Consolidation?. 253 -- E. Patricia Dennison -- Swerving from the Path of Justice: Alexander II's Relations with Argyll and the Western Isles, 1214-1249. 285 -- Noel Murray -- List of Abbreviations. 307 -- Bibliography. 313 -- Index. 329.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores aspects of the political, social, cultural, economic and religious development of Scotland in the reign of King Alexander II (1214-49). It constitutes the first full-length, multi-author study of the king and his reign. The nine contributors to the volume explore issues as diverse as the historiography of the reign, Anglo-Scottish relations, Church-State relations, economy and international trade, law, aristocratic symbolism, urban development and the territorial expansion of the kingdom. This book, the first major study of a reign which saw the Scottish monarchy achieve its mastery of northern mainland Britain, is of great importance to historians of medieval Scotland and the wider British Isles. The book is illustrated with 24 colour and b/w photographs and 5 maps and plans.