Download or read book The Invention of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
Download or read book Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe written by Rienk Vermij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first extensive study of ideas on earthquakes before the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. The earthquake had a deep impact on European culture, and the reactions to it stood in a long tradition that, before this study, had yet to be explored in detail. Thinking on Earthquakes investigates both scholarly theories and views that were propagated among the early modern European population. Through a chronological approach, Vermij reveals that in contrast to the Ancient and medieval philosophers who suggested rational explanations for earthquakes, supernatural ideas made a powerful comeback in the sixteenth century. By analysing a variety of sources such as pamphlets, sermons, and treatises, this study shows how changes in the ideas on earthquakes were a result of social and political demands as well as from improvements in the means of communication, rather than from scientific methods. Thus, Vermij presents an illuminating case for the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. A range of events are explored, including the Ferrara earthquake in 1570 and the Vienna earthquake in 1590, making this study an invaluable source for students and scholars of the history of science and the history of ideas in early modern Europe.
Download or read book Apocalisse Aliena written by Corvo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chi sono gli Ultraterrestri? Che relazione hanno con Entitá Cattoliche Eminenti come la Madonna? Che intenzioni hanno queste entitá? Perché continuano a lanciare messaggi profetici relativi a catastrofici imminenti eventi? Cosa dobbiamo aspettarci? Da anni si parla di UFO ma il dibattito rimane arenato fra i credenti della ipotesi extraterrestre e gli scettici che negano il fenomeno. Pochissimo viene discusso dei loro occupanti e delle loro intenzioni. In parallelo esiste un il fenomeno collegato ad apparizioni di figure religiose. Esaminati da vicino i due fenomeni rivelano sorprendenti analogie. Questo testo riprende il lavoro dei migliori autori sull'argomento e traccia nuove ipotesi sulla loro provenienza, sulle loro intenzioni e su cosa questo significa per tutti noi.
Download or read book Le citt ricostruite dopo il terremoto siciliano del 1693 written by Aldo Casamento and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily written by Clifford R. Backman and published by Officina di Studi Medievali. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life and economy in the 'transitional' reign of Frederick III (1296-1337).
Download or read book Storia e figure dell Apocalisse fra 500 e 600 written by Roberto Rusconi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Authors Factions and Courts in Angevin England written by Fabrizio De Falco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies – Gerald of Wales and Walter Map – to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons – and particularly royal patrons – set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view of cultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies.
Download or read book A Companion to Joachim of Fiore written by Matthias Riedl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, from Thomas Müntzer to Friedrich Engels, have hailed him as a prophet of progress and revolution. Even present-day theologians, philosophers and novelists were inspired by Joachim’s vision of a Third Age of the Holy Spirit. However, at no time was Joachim an uncontroversial figure. Soon after his death, the church authorities became suspicious about the explosive potential of his theology, while more recently historians held him accountable for the fateful progressivism of Western Civilization. Contributors are: Frances Andrews, Valeria De Fraja, Alfredo Gatto, Peter Gemeinhardt, Sven Grosse, Massimo Iiritano, Bernard McGinn, Matthias Riedl, and Brett Edward Whalen.
Download or read book Anna written by Niccolò Ammaniti and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017 It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part. She told them that, when they reach adulthood, the sickness will claim them too. But she also told them that someone, somewhere, will have a cure. When the time comes, Anna knows, they must leave their world and find another. By turns luminous and tender, gripping and horrifying, Anna is a haunting parable of love and loneliness; of the stories we tell to sustain us, and the lengths we will go to in order to stay alive.
Download or read book Viaggio nel Sud Viaggiatori stranieri in Sicilia written by Emanuele Kanceff and published by CIRVI. This book was released on 1990 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La ricerca del Santo Graal nel Mezzogiorno d Italia durante il Medioevo Volume II Milites Christi written by Maurizio Lo Conte and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In questo secondo volume della trilogia, dopo aver individuato le fonti indicate nel primo libro, l'indagine sistematica procede attraverso la riproposizione e la rivisitazione degli straordinari avvenimenti che condussero alle fondazioni dei rinomati Ordini cavallereschi medievali. Tuttavia lo studio, che pur esamina le fasi dello sviluppo e della tragica decadenza che colpì le suddette fratellanze, è rivolto essenzialmente verso l'interpretazione, con chiave di lettura esoterica, del loro agire. Discostandosi dalle opinioni maggioritarie e convenzionali propugnate dalla critica storica moderna, al fine di far emergere le tracce celate che attestano il volontario coinvolgimento dei sodalizi in questione fin nel "cuore spirituale" della corrente del Santo Graal fluente nel Mezzogiorno della penisola italiana.
Download or read book Gli ebrei in Sicilia written by Nicolò Bucaria and published by Flaccovio Editore. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book La ricerca del Santo Graal nel Mezzogiorno d Italia durante il Medioevo volume I Michael written by Maurizio Lo Conte and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il primo volume della trilogia intitolata: "La ricerca del Santo Graal nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia durante il Medioevo", dedicato all'Arcangelo Michele in quanto fonte dell'argomento trattato, è diviso in due parti. Entrambe contengono l'accurata descrizione dell' indagine condotta per recuperare ed interpretare, in chiave scientifico-spirituale, miti, racconti, leggende ed avvenimenti storici rinvenuti nel solco sensibile e soprasensibile tracciato dalla corrente del Graal fluita nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia unitamente alla corrente ad essa contrapposta.
Download or read book L Exagoge d Ez chiel le Tragique written by Pierluigi Lanfranchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes an introduction, a translation and an in-depth commentary of the fragments of the Exagoge, a Greek tragedy written by a Jewish poet named Ezekiel the Tragedian, who lived between mid- 2nd and mid-1st century BCE. The author offers an interpretation of the play which links its 17 fragments and clarifies their position in the overall structure, in order to bring to light the ideas of Ezekiel and his social and cultural context.
