Courtiers of the Marble Palace

• Author : Todd C. Peppers
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 04 February 2023

Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices.

• Author : Valentine Low
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 06 October 2022

'Fascinating' The Times 'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The Telegraph The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King

• Author : Lucy Worsley
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 06 May 2010

In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives. Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices,

• Author : Annie Emma Armstrong Challice
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1863

• Author : John Peacock
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 09 August 2020

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which,

• Author : Philip Francis Esler
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 06 November 2017

First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1–36 tell the story of the descent of angels called “Watchers” from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God’s response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role

• Author : Sasson Sofer
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 December 2013

Comprehensive study of the diplomat and the diplomatic mission in Western civilization. The professional diplomat frequently takes a back seat in the public imagination to such figures as the great heads of state and leading military figures. In The Courtiers of Civilization, Sasson Sofer aims to restore the importance and reputation of the diplomat in Western civilization. Drawing on an exhaustive reading of the vast literature on diplomacy, from the late Renaissance forward, he fashions an engaging portrait of the

• Author : Lorenzo Ducci
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1685

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1892

• Author : Henry Halford Vaughan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1886

• Author : Henri Meilhac,Jacques Offenbach
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1869

• Author : Robert Greene
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1592

• Author : Library of Congress
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1992

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1895