Böcker av Robert Tittler

Journals of the natural world reveal fascinating details of life at the time.

This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-classical styles associated with the Renaissance. -- .

At the outset of the Reformation, England was an agrarian society; by the Civil war it was on the way to becoming an urban one as well. The complexity of those developments become especially vivid when we experience them through the lives of ordinary townspeople, which Tittler allows us to do.