St Stephen's Day
St Stephen's Day Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
... Stephen's Day (26 December). The day after Christmas Day, or ‘Boxing Day’ to most of us, St Stephen's Day is nowadays subsumed into the general two-day Christmas period and has little character of its own. Boxing Day derives its name from a previous custom on the day of asking and giving ‘Christmas boxes’, i.e. presents, either money or in kind. The ‘box’ was originally the receptacle into which the money was placed, but it gradually came to refer to the gift itself. There are strong historical traditions of gift-giving on Christmas Day and New Year 's Day,...
St Stephen's Day
The Bible in Literature Reference library
David Jasper
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...a cosmic humanity’. In his late poem ‘The Everlasting Gospel’ ( c. 1818), Blake identifies the High Priest Caiaphas with the bishops and hierarchy of the Church, suggesting that … Caiaphas was in his own Mind A benefactor to Mankind: Both read the Bible day & night, But thou read'st black where I read white. ‘Pandemonium’ from the illustrations by John Martin (1789–1854) to Milton's Paradise Lost. The Royal Collection © 2000 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The most important books of the Bible for Blake are...
4 The History of the Book in Byzantium Reference library
N. G. Wilson
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...the use of the term by scribes is proof that some clients had a high regard for their services, and many extant MSS are marvels of elegant script with a uniformly high standard maintained for several hundred pages—a striking example is the Euclid written for Arethas in 888 by Stephen the cleric (who as it happens does not call himself a calligrapher in the colophon). It is also clear that, for biblical and other religious texts, there was an expectation that formal script would be used, and generally such books, even if not elegantly written, exhibit a...
9 Missionary Printing Reference library
M. Antoni J. Üçerler
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...in an Indian language other than Tamil was printed in Konkani some time before 1561 at the College of St Paul. In a letter from Goa on 1 December 1561 , Luís Fróis reports that a printed summary of Christian doctrine was read to the local people ‘in their own language’ (Wicki, v. 273; Saldanha, 7–9). No copy of this work (probably a small booklet) is known to have survived. There are copies, however, of the books written by Thomas Stephens , an English Jesuit and pioneer in the study of Indian languages. The first was his ‘Story of Christ’ ( Krista...
Acts Reference library
Loveday Alexander and Loveday Alexander
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...typology, and one well adapted to the dramatic scenario of Stephen's speech, which understands Moses as the prototype of Jesus, sent by God as saviour of his people but rejected by those he came to save. ( 7:30–8 ) Moses Selected Moses' rejection by his own people is placed in stark juxtaposition with his call by God. vv. 30–4 extract the key statements from the much longer narrative of Ex 3, 4 . The assimilation of Horeb and Sinai ( cf. v. 30 with Ex 3:1 ) was well established by Luke's day: the ‘mountain of God’ ( Ex 3:1 was pre-eminently Sinai, and...
Education Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...and King's College, Aberdeen, 1495–1860 (1893) , W. I. Addison , A Roll of the Graduates of the University of Glasgow from 1727 to 1897 (1898) , J. M. Anderson , Early Records of the University of St Andrews: The Graduate Roll, 1413–1579, and the Matriculation Roll, 1473–1579 (1926) , and J. M. Anderson , The Matriculation Roll of the University of St Andrews, 1747–1897 (1905). The only other British universities that were founded before the civic universities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were London ( 1826 ) and Durham ( 1837 ). During...
Landscape History: The Countryside Quick reference
H. S. A. Fox
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
..., for the Domesday Book records little wood or pasture here) that its wild state is no longer remembered in its names. Ecclesiastical evidence provides further and firmer clues. A cult of St Kew flourished among the people of this landscape at least as early as ad 900 , when a list of saints, a very rare survival, in all probability locates it here; a life of St Sampson of Dol, probably written in the 8th century, refers to this region as Tricurius, now Trigg. Just to the north of Camelford is a monument commemorating a Christian inhabitant of the area...
44 The History of the Book in Australia Reference library
Ian Morrison
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...minority until well into the 20 th century, and university libraries were accordingly slow to develop. Inflation soared as employers increased wages to keep tradesmen from the diggings. In 1850 , skilled tradesmen could earn 5 s . or 6 s . a day; by 1855 , compositors on the Melbourne Herald were being paid £1 a day. Melbourne, the city hardest hit, embarked on a series of major public works—a Public Library, an Exhibition Building, a University—to bring a sense of order to what was essentially a frontier town devastated by the stampede to the diggings. By...
The Reformation to 1700 Reference library
David Wright
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...standard for ignorance. The cause of vernacular scripture for Scotland was eloquently championed from the Continent by Alexander Alesius, an Edinburgh native won to Lutheranism in St Andrews, in an appeal to James V. Reading from a chained Bible in the crypt of Old St Paul's, a painting by Sir George Harvey. The onlookers include the bearded Bishop of Winchester, Stephen Gardiner in conversation with the Vicar General, Lord Cromwell. Hulton Getty. In England, policies concerning the free availability of English Bibles varied with...
Music Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...and Boyce were modestly successful in the mid-eighteenth century, but thereafter every promising British composer somehow became sidetracked: Stephen Storace, William *Shield , Thomas Attwood ( 1765–1838 ), and Henry *Bishop moved into charming but inconsequential English *opera , Samuel Wesley into *church music . Thomas *Linley and G. F. Pinto ( 1785–1806 ) died young, John Field ( 1782–1837 ) left for St Petersburg , and William *Crotch 's interests became narrowly academic. There was hope for a native genre, the *glee , its practitioners...
Domestic Buildings Quick reference
Malcolm Airs
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...of the Willughby's [ sic ] of Wollaton taken out of the Pedigree, old letters, and old Books of Accounts in my brother Sir Thomas Willoughby's study, Dec a. d. 1702 ’, written by Cassandra Willoughby , Duchess of Chandos—can be used to illuminate, in her own words ‘the day‐to‐day activities, attitudes, and social customs which underlay decisions about the planning of Wollaton Hall and buildings like it’. Documents like this, originally kept in the muniment rooms of the houses themselves, are now scattered in a wide variety of repositories. Some remain...
The Merchant of Venice Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...caskets, a motif also available to him in many forms, in John Gower ’s Confessio amantis , in Boccaccio ’s Decameron , and in the anonymous Gesta Romanorum . It is possible that Shakespeare was not the first playwright to combine the pound of flesh and the casket plots: Stephen Gosson ’s The Anatomy of Abuses ( 1579 ) refers to a now lost play called The Jew , which represents, he reports, ‘the greediness of worldly choosers and the bloody minds of usurers’. Whether or not this vaguely described play served as a source for The Merchant of Venice ,...
The Winter’s Tale Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...( 1980 ) for the BBC series remains its most satisfactory screen incarnation: for its time it was adventurous in its use of the medium, with stylized settings and considerable use of close-up asides to camera. Anthony Davies Recent major editions Recent major editions Stephen Orgel (Oxford, 1996); J. H. P. Pafford (Arden, 1963); Ernest Schanzer (New Penguin, 1969) Some representative criticism Barber, C. L. , in Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy (1959) Bartholomeusz, Dennis , ‘ The Winter’s Tale’ on the Stage in England and America, 1611–1976 (1982)...
Towns Quick reference
David M. Palliser
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...conservationist climate since then, with traffic‐free zones, archaeological monitoring of development, and housing on a more human scale, will have turned the tide. See Geoffrey Martin , The Town (A Visual History of Modern Britain series, ed. Jack Simmons (1961) , and Stephen Porter , Exploring Urban History: Sources for Local Historians (1990). The most recent guide to the history of English, Welsh, and Scottish towns is The Cambridge Urban History of Britain , under the general editorship of Peter Clark (3 vols, 2000 ; i ( 600–1540 ), ed. D....
Jihad and the Modern World Reference library
Jackson Sherman
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...the Qur'ân. Perhaps more than any other Muslim thinker in modern times, his interpretive efforts have succeeded in sustaining the argument that the heirs of the classical tradition have bowed to the modern secular state's attempt to “domesticate” Islam, to borrow the term of Stephen L. Carter. According to Carter, in response to religion's higher calling, on the basis of which it may oppose the material interests of the state, “the state tries to move religion from a position in which it threatens the state to a position in which it supports the state.” 22 ...
Israel and the Nations Reference library
Oxford Bible Atlas (4 ed.)
...Prophecies, and the rest of the books’. Philo of Alexandria perhaps represents the finest example of 1st century ce Hellenistic Jewish scholarship. Although some Jewish exiles to Babylon and their descendants returned to Judah, there continued to be a considerable Jewish presence in Babylonia. In New Testament times there were some important Jewish communities, including the one at Nisibis on the Euphrates. That there were Jews in the 1st century ce in Adiabene, an area to the east of the Tigris, is clear from the ...
Macbeth Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...playlet by Matthew Gwinne , Tres sibyllae , performed before King James at St John’s College, Oxford, in 1605 . The three sibyls of the title reminded James that they had once prophesied endless dominion to Banquo’s descendants, and saluted him in turn with the words ‘Hail, thou who rulest Scotland!’ ‘Hail, thou who rulest England!’ ‘Hail, thou who rulest Ireland!’ (cf. 1.3.46–8). Synopsis: 1.1 Three witches agree to meet again on a heath in order to accost Macbeth after the day’s battle. 1.2 King Duncan, fighting against the rebel Macdonald , receives a...
48 The History of the Book in America Reference library
Scott E. Casper and Joan Shelley Rubin
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...some Boston and Cambridge printers produced their own *almanacs and other cheap books as early as 1640 , when the *Bay Psalm Book became the first book printed in British North America. One of the eleven known surviving copies of the *Bay Psalm Book , printed by Stephen *Day at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Arch. G. e. 40) The Licensing Act ( see printing act ) of 1662 , however, gave the London *Stationers’ Company a royal *patent on most of the significant works and genres, including...
