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The English Civil Wars: Medals, Historical Commentary and Personalities, 2 vols
Authors:
Jerome J. Platt
,
Arleen Kay Platt
ISBN:
9781907427152
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2013
Pages:
848
Weight:
4 kg 242 grams
Price:
INR
14990.00
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The English Civil Wars: Medals, Historical Commentary and Personalities by Platt, J. & A.Two volumes bound in cloth, gilt embossed, and housed in a slipcase, 808 pp., illustrated throughoutSome three and a half centuries ago, Britain was convulsed by a series of civil wars. The names of its participants and major battles Oliver Cromwell and Charles I, Cavaliers and Roundheads, Edgehill and Dunbar are still well known today. These wars saw the introduction of medals as rewards for gallantry and campaign service. This book places these medals within the historical context of the times.These volumes will be an essential addition to the libraries of all who have an interest in the medals, personalities and events of the English Civil Wars. Building on earlier works on the subject, it provides detailed information which is indispensable for the collector, numismatist, auction house specialist and Civil War enthusiast as well as for the military or art historian with an interest in the period. The detailed information on over 900 individual medals illustrating over 400 subtypes in both private and public collections, accompanied by more than 500 photographs and illustrations of medals, many in colour, provides an important archival reference source. Assembled from the authors observations over thirty years of collecting and studying the medals of the period, this work places these pieces of history within the historical context of the Civil Wars, the Interregnum and the Restoration. Through historical and biographical commentary on some 100 historical personages, the personalities of the figures of the period come into focus.Through the use of commentary and over 400 illustrations from the 17th through 19th centuries, we see the personages of the Civil War as did both their contemporaries and those closer in time to the events of the Civil War.
About the Authors
Jerome J. Platt
Arleen Kay Platt
Editorial Reviews
“This book tackles an element of the
Bhagavadgītā
, namely Kṛṣṇa's smile as he is just about to start his instruction of Arjuna right before the fratricidal war on Kurukṣetra. As the authors note, this is a most interesting detail in the text and its setting—the
Mahābhārata
—yet one that has been entirely overlooked by scholarship. The authors provide a convincing analysis of the significance of Kṛṣṇa's smile and its poignant function of marking a transition from silence to instruction, as well as a very useful contextualization in the wider currents of South Asian culture and literature.”
—Aleksandar Uskokov, Yale University
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