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The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True Adventures of an Elizabethan Traveller (Stroud: Tempus/History Press, 2006). The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). What Did Jesus Look Like? (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018).
Finding no luck in his attempts to sell his goods in the city, Timberlake arranged travel for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem accompanied by another Englishman, John Burrell of Middlesbrough. [citation needed] The journey was considered by many pilgrims to be an exceedingly hazardous one, as travellers were often subject to attacks by bandits along ...
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203 – 1272), also known as Bartholomew the Englishman, was a member of the Franciscan order and a scholastic of Paris. [132] [133] He was best known from the prototypical encyclopedia De Proprietatibus Rerum, dated c. 1240. Mediæval lore from Bartholomaeus Anglicus (1893). [134]
The Englishman's Library was an English book series of the 1840s, a venture of the publisher James Burns. It ran eventually to 31 volumes. It ran eventually to 31 volumes. The title had been used already in 1824, for The Englishman's library , edited by E. H. L., published by Charles Knight . [ 1 ]
Beatrice Chase (5 July 1874 – 3 July 1955) was the pen name for a British writer known during the first half of the 20th century for her Dartmoor-based novels.Her real name was Olive Katharine Parr, and she claimed to be directly descended from William Parr, the brother of Catherine, the sixth wife of Henry VIII.
While in Paris, Warrener made the acquaintance of William Rothenstein and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He was painted by the latter, who used his likeness in two paintings, L'Anglais au Moulin Rouge (The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge) (1892), where he was made to appear much older than his thirty-one years, and Jane Avril dansant (1892), where he appears in the background.
IN FOCUS: The new FX/Disney+ series, adapted from James Clavell’s 1975 novel, is the most-nominated show at this year’s Emmy Awards. As Kevin E G Perry writes, both the book and show take ...
Michael Maybrick (31 January 1841 – 26 August 1913) [1] was an English composer and singer, best known under his pseudonym Stephen Adams as the composer of "The Holy City", one of the most popular religious songs in English.