Download or read book The Abbot s Tale written by Conn Iggulden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field—on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome—from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan’s vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . . From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott’s Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings—the man who can change the fate of England.
Download or read book The abbots of St Albans a chronicle written by St. Albans abbey and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Return written by Jack Henry Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Return is sure to provoke intense public discussion and controversy. The author, Jack Henry Abbott, is now serving a fifteen-years-to-life sentence for the 1981 stabbing of Richard Adan, a young night manager of the Binibon Cafe on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Only six weeks before killing Adan, Abbott had been paroled from Marion Federal Prison in Illinois at the age of thirty-seven. While in prison, he had become well known as a promising writer, encouraged in his work by Norman Mailer and other New York literati. Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast was released at the time of his parole and was widely heralded as a major literary achievement. Except for a short-lived escape from prison in 1971, Abbott had been incarcerated in one institution or another since he was thirteen years old. His parole placed him in another potentially violent environment, but one that had a completely different set of rules. He has consistently maintained that he thought Richard Adan was carrying a knife and that his attack on Adan was the result of that perception. Naomi Zack, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, became interested in the Abbott case while doing research for a film on the victims of crime and of the criminal justice system. She is convinced that Abbott was unfairly convicted by an outraged public opinion inflamed by sensational treatment in the media. My Return is Jack Abbott's and Naomi Zack's story of the death of Richard Adan, the ensuing trial, and Abbott's return to prison. It is comprised of "The Death of Tragedy," a play based on the actual court records; an illustrated appendix giving stage directions and the background of the issues and people involved; and "Men of Letters," a collection of Abbott's essays on a variety of topics - religious, philosophical, historical, and literary - including an autobiographical account of his tragic life. It is an absorbing and undeniably fascinating work. Although it is his story, Jack Henry Abbott receives no royalties or any other remuneration from the publication of this book.
Download or read book Winter Mythologies and Abbots written by Pierre Michon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in two volumes as Mythologies d'hiver, Editions Verdier, Lagrasse, 1997, and Abbes, copyright Editions Verdier, Lagrasse, 2002."
Download or read book The Cistercian Saints of England St Stephen Abbot written by John Dobree Dalgairns and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles George Herbermann and published by New York : The Encyclopedia Press, [1922-19--]. This book was released on 1913 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Haunted Abbot written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December of 666 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Brother Eadulf, having completed their business with the Archbishop of Canterbury, make one final journey before returning to Ireland. At the insistence of Brother Botulf, a childhood friend of Eadulf, they detour from their trip to Eadulf's home village and make their way to Aldred's Abbey. Arriving at midnight on the night of the old pagan festival of Yule, as requested, they find Botulf's dead body - his head caved in by a blunt instrument. As Fidelma and Eadulf soon learn, however, murder isn't the only danger which faces those in the abbey. The ghost of a young woman haunts the cloister shadows, a ghost which closely resembles the Abbot's dead wife. Now it will require all of Fidelma's skill as an advocate of the Brehon Courts to unravel the mystery and uncover the truth behind these events before those secrets take yet another life.
Download or read book Train written by Judi Abbot and published by Tiger Tales. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Elephant LOVES trains. One day, Mommy and Daddy take Little Elephant for a ride on a real train, and Little Elephant is so excited! But on the train, Little Elephant gets angry when no one wants to play trains with him. Cat wants to play with his plane. Penguin wants to play with his car. And Rabbit would rather play with his digger. How will they all find a way to play together?
Download or read book A Catholic Dictionary written by William Edward Addis and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 2082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux A D 1091 1153 written by James Cotter Morison and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scientific Theist written by Sydney E. Ahlstrom and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is based on Sydney Ahlstrom's 1951 Harvard dissertation. The biography of Francis Ellingwood Abbot has been completely rewritten to focus on the context of his life and, as such, provides a vista into the intellectual and religious world of America in the late nineteenth century. Ahlstrom and one of his former students, Robert Bruce Mullin, began reworking the dissertation in 1983.
Download or read book The Concise Dictionary of Religions Knowledge written by Samuel Macauley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Away Game The Epic Search for Soccer s Next Superstars written by Sebastian Abbot and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world’s most popular game.”—Warren St. John, best-selling author of Outcasts United Searching for soccer’s next superstars, an audacious program called Football Dreams held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa. In The Away Game, Sebastian Abbot follows several of the boys as they chase their dreams in a dizzying world of rich Arab sheikhs, money-hungry agents, and soccer-mad European fans.
Download or read book The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England written by Martin Heale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis. The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over thousands of monks and canons, who swore to them vows of obedience; they were prominent figures in royal and church government; and collectively they controlled properties worth around double the Crown's annual ordinary income. Moreover, as guardians of regular observance and the primary interface between their monastery and the wider world, abbots and priors were pivotal to the effective functioning and well-being of the monastic order. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England provides the first detailed study of English male monastic superiors, exploring their evolving role and reputation between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Individual chapters examine the election and selection of late medieval monastic heads; the internal functions of the superior as the father of the community; the head of house as administrator; abbatial living standards and modes of display; monastic superiors' public role in service of the Church and Crown; their external relations and reputation; the interaction between monastic heads and the government in Henry VIII's England; the Dissolution of the monasteries; and the afterlives of abbots and priors following the suppression of their houses. This study of monastic leadership sheds much valuable light on the religious houses of late medieval and early Tudor England, including their spiritual life, administration, spending priorities, and their multi-faceted relations with the outside world. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England also elucidates the crucial part played by monastic superiors in the dramatic events of the 1530s, when many heads surrendered their monasteries into the hands of Henry VIII.
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
