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Bibliography of printing in America; books, pamphlets and some articles in magazines relating to the history of printing in the New World. Boston, The compiler. Weeks, Lyman Horrace (1909). Historical digest of the provincial press. Prospectus. An historical digest of the provincial press. Society for Americana. Weeks, Stephen Beauregard (1891).
Jacques Cartier [a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map [3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" [citation needed] after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ...
A courtesy book (also book of manners) was a didactic manual of knowledge for courtiers to handle matters of etiquette, socially acceptable behaviour, and personal morals, with an especial emphasis upon life in a royal court; the genre of courtesy literature dates from the 13th century.
Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain (fl. c. 1185), and occasionally by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests ...
The first documented settlement of Europeans in the Americas was established by Norse people around 1000 AD in what is now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored by Spain. English settlement began almost a century later.
Foreign-born artists at the Jacobean court, in From strangers to citizens: the integration of immigrant communities in Britain, Ireland, and colonial America, 1550–1750, ed. Randolph Vigne, Charles Littleton, Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Sussex Academic Press, 2001, ISBN 1-902210-86-7, ISBN 978-1-902210-86-5, Google books ...
Free Press 2004 OCLC 53091400 ISBN 0-684-86510-6 [30] Hazel H. Davis: Davy Crockett Random House: 1955 [31] Mark Derr: The Frontiersman : The Real Life and the Many Legends of Davy Crockett William Morrow and Company: 1993 OCLC 27034755 ISBN 978-0-688-13798-4 [32] Edward S. Ellis: The Texan Trailer, or, Davy Crockett's Last bear Hunt Beadle and ...