Between the Monster and the Saint contains a description of 18th-century torture that tender-minded readers may prefer to skip.
His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of 18th-century society in the capitals of Europe.
New demands stimulated growth in the coal-mining industry, yet the organization of labour remained much as it had when Agricola wrote his description of 16th-century mining.
This was the crucible in which modern drinking culture was formed.In this section The high cost of virtue Always with us Down and out in London Olympic Britain v royal Britain ReprintsMr Withington's description of 17th-century drinking practices will sound familiar to anybody who has been within a few miles of a British university.
It is also to be awash in a phrase that echoes hauntingly in the descriptions of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century quilts: "Maker unknown".
(McFarland's descriptions of 19th-century life, from the intricacies of musket warfare to the formative years of our national pastime, are stunning in their lyricism and detail).
His descriptions of life as a young man in the crazy, cutthroat world of Venetian theater, with all of its magnificent, oversize personalities, bitter rivalries and profound triumphs, make this one of the great theatrical memoirs ever, and probably one of the most inviting descriptions of 18th-century life that anyone has written.
Impersonations, anecdotes, magic tricks, passages from Dickens's fiction, descriptions of 19th-century London, helpful thumbnail character portraits of the artist at different periods in his life: all these pass by in a gale-force whirlwind as delivered by Mr. Callow in the production that opened last night at the Belasco Theater.
March 17, 1520 Dijon, France July 23 , 1595Langres, France Thoinot Arbeau, original name Jehan Tabourot (born March 17 , 1520 Dijon, Fr. died July 23 , 1595 Langres), theoretician and historian of the dance, whose Orchésographie (1588) contains carefully detailed, step-by-step descriptions of 16th-century and earlier dance forms.
Brewster includes descriptions of 16th-century scientific experiments in his formally written biography of Galileo, as well as information on other Renaissance natural philosophers.
