1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457334303321

Autore

Heater Derek Benjamin

Titolo

Citizenship in Britain [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Derek Heater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-7486-7196-X

9786610501557

1-280-50155-3

0-7486-2672-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

323.60941

Soggetti

Citizenship - Great Britain - History

Political science - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

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

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Early constitutional and humanist themes; Chapter 2 The efflorescence of political thinking; Chapter 3 Fighting corruption and France; Chapter 4 Two generations of progress; Chapter 5 Two issues of status; Chapter 6 Focus on social citizenship; Chapter 7 Citizenship as a key concept; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary times. This work introduces both the status and understanding of citizenship in practice and the theoretical and advisory writings on the subject, and explores their inter-relationships. It examines key themes like local and national strata.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955657303321

Autore

Varty Kenneth

Titolo

Reynard the Fox : social engagement and cultural metamorphoses in the beast epic from the Middle Ages to the present

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Berghahn Books, 2000

ISBN

1-57181-737-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Polygons  Reynard the Fox

Disciplina

809/.93374

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus -- Chapter 2. Rape and Adultery -- Chapter 3. Morals, Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs of the Alsatian Heinrich Der Glichezaere -- Chapter 4. Medieval French and Dutch Renardian Epics -- Chapter 5. The Printed Dutch Reynaert Tradition -- Chapter 6. The Flemish Reynaert as an Ideological Weapon -- Chapter 7. The Ill-Fated Consequence of the Tom-Cat's Jump, and Its Illustration -- Chapter 8. Choir-Stall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes -- Chapter 9. Reynard in England: From Caxton to the Present -- Chapter 10. Hartmann Schopper's Latin Reinike of 1567 -- Chapter 11. The Political Import of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs -- Chapter 12. Paul Weber's Satirical Use of Reineke in Cartoon Form -- Chapter 13. The Death and Resurrection of the Roman de Renart -- Chapter 14. The Fox and the Wolf in the Well -- Chapter 15. The Fox and the Hare -- The Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Titles.

Sommario/riassunto

No detailed description available for "Reynard the Fox".