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Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 by Harvey, L. P. (Leonard Patrick)

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula -- Spain's Muslims under a new order -- The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to their forcible conversion -- Crypto-Muslims in the lands of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525-60 -- The intellectual life of Spain's clandestine Muslims -- Crisis and war : Granada, 1567-71 -- Assimilation or rejection? …”
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Alfonso X, the Learned a biography / by Martínez, H. Salvador

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "Alfonsine era" -- The apprenticeship of a great king -- A prince's education -- Alfonso King -- The quest for the imperial crown -- Alfonso, King of the Romans -- Gregory X and the end of imperial ambitions -- Illness and intellectual pursuits -- The black decade (1269-1279) -- The nobles' rebellion -- Desnaturación -- The problems of succession -- Don Sancho is declared successor -- Deposition and civil war -- Don Sancho seeks the consolidation of power -- The last wills of Alfonso X -- Conclusion: In praise of knowledge.…”
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Alfonso X, the Learned a biography / by Martínez, H. Salvador

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "Alfonsine era" -- The apprenticeship of a great king -- A prince's education -- Alfonso King -- The quest for the imperial crown -- Alfonso, King of the Romans -- Gregory X and the end of imperial ambitions -- Illness and intellectual pursuits -- The black decade (1269-1279) -- The nobles' rebellion -- Desnaturación -- The problems of succession -- Don Sancho is declared successor -- Deposition and civil war -- Don Sancho seeks the consolidation of power -- The last wills of Alfonso X -- Conclusion: In praise of knowledge.…”
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Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 by Harvey, L. P. (Leonard Patrick)

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula -- Spain's Muslims under a new order -- The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to their forcible conversion -- Crypto-Muslims in the lands of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525-60 -- The intellectual life of Spain's clandestine Muslims -- Crisis and war : Granada, 1567-71 -- Assimilation or rejection? …”
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Queen of the Lakes / by Thompson, Mark L., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The Regal Shenango; 19. Shenango Retains the Crown…”
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Queen of the Lakes / by Thompson, Mark L., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The Regal Shenango; 19. Shenango Retains the Crown…”
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Judicial review / by Michael Supperstone, Michael, Sir

Judicial review / by Michael Supperstone, Michael, Sir

Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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The three-piece suit and modern masculinity England, 1550-1850 / by Kuchta, David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation."…”
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The three-piece suit and modern masculinity England, 1550-1850 / by Kuchta, David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation."…”
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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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Repairing paradise the restoration of nature in America's national parks / by Lowry, William R. (William Robert), 1953-

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Repairing paradise the restoration of nature in America's national parks / by Lowry, William R. (William Robert), 1953-

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Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire : Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) / by Kramer, Rutger

Table of Contents: “…Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel -- Life in Context -- Directions for a King: The Via Regia -- Explaining a Way: The Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicts -- Crowning Achievement: The Diadema Monachorum -- Lives of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel -- 4. …”
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Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire : Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) / by Kramer, Rutger

Table of Contents: “…Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel -- Life in Context -- Directions for a King: The Via Regia -- Explaining a Way: The Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicts -- Crowning Achievement: The Diadema Monachorum -- Lives of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel -- 4. …”
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On the margins of crusading the military orders, the Papacy and the Christian world /

Table of Contents: “…A Jerusalem indulgence / Anthony Luttrell -- Fulfilling a Mediterranean vocation : the Domus Sancte Marie Montis Gaudii de Jerusalem in north-west Italy / Elena Bellomo -- Templar liturgy and devotion in the crown of Aragon / Sebastián Salvadó -- Gerard of Ridefort and the Battle of le Cresson (1 May 1187) : the developing narrative tradition / Peter Edbury -- Clement V and the road to Avignon, 1304-1309 / David Bryson -- Vox in excelso : deconstructed : exactly what did Clement V say? …”
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On the margins of crusading the military orders, the Papacy and the Christian world /

Table of Contents: “…A Jerusalem indulgence / Anthony Luttrell -- Fulfilling a Mediterranean vocation : the Domus Sancte Marie Montis Gaudii de Jerusalem in north-west Italy / Elena Bellomo -- Templar liturgy and devotion in the crown of Aragon / Sebastián Salvadó -- Gerard of Ridefort and the Battle of le Cresson (1 May 1187) : the developing narrative tradition / Peter Edbury -- Clement V and the road to Avignon, 1304-1309 / David Bryson -- Vox in excelso : deconstructed : exactly what did Clement V say? …”
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