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Originally published in 1933. As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. This is what Sidney Painter had in mind when he wrote a William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. The subject has proved a peculiarly fortunate one. The fourth son of John fitz Gilbert, marshal of the king's court, William for the first forty years of his life was a landless knight who devoted most of his time and energy to tournaments. In the year 1189 by his marriage to the daughter and heiress of Earl Richard of Pembroke, William became a great feudal lord with fiefs in Normandy, England, Wales, and Ireland. Thus his biography depicts the two extremes of feudal society-the landless knight and the rich baron. Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England.

Pembroke, William Marshal, --- Guillaume, --- Marshal, William, --- Striguil, William Marshal, --- William, --- European history

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Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce

Authors, English --- English letters --- Masculinity in literature. --- Friendship in literature. --- Masculinity --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Walpole, Horace, --- Muralto, Onuphrio, --- Orford, Horace Walpole, --- Uolpol, Gorat︠s︡iĭ, --- Walpole, Horatio, --- H. W. --- W., H. --- Hōrēs Vālpōl, --- Vālpōl, Hōrēs, --- Marshall, William, --- Marshal, William,

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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.

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Berry, Mary, --- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, --- Walpole, Horace, --- Muralto, Onuphrio, --- Orford, Horace Walpole, --- Uolpol, Gorat︠s︡iĭ, --- Walpole, Horatio, --- H. W. --- W., H. --- Hōrēs Vālpōl, --- Vālpōl, Hōrēs, --- Marshall, William, --- Marshal, William, --- Champrond, Marie de Vichy, --- Chamrond, Marie de Vichy, --- Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, --- Du Deffand de La Lande, Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, --- Du Deffand, --- La Lande, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, --- Lande, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, --- Vichy Chamrond, Marie de, --- Fiction. --- Walpole, Horace, - 1717-1797 - Fiction --- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, - marquise, - 1697-1780 - Fiction --- Berry, Mary, - 1763-1852 - Fiction --- Walpole, Horace, - 1717-1797 --- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, - marquise, - 1697-1780 --- Berry, Mary, - 1763-1852