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Book Corpo del re

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  • Author : Sergio Bertelli
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0271021020
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Corpo del re written by Sergio Bertelli and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Book Early Italian Literature

Download or read book Early Italian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Untar

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  • Author : Fabrizio Franzini
  • Publisher : Booksprint
  • Release : 2012-05-28
  • ISBN : 8867420259
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Untar written by Fabrizio Franzini and published by Booksprint. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In un piccolo villaggio del nord, un pescatore decide di partire per uno dei suoi saltuari viaggi in mare. La notte che precede la partenza, però, scoppia un temporale, che per i pescatori di quei luoghi è presagio di malasorte e collera divina. Untar decide di salpare ugualmente, accompagnato dal suo primogenito Harold. Dopo un paio di giorni di ordinaria navigazione e buona pesca, i due vengono affiancati, in una notte nebbiosa, da una nave da guerra, notevolmente danneggiata e a prima vista, completamente deserta. Presto alcuni individui scivoleranno di nascosto sulla barca di Untar, allo scopo di prenderne possesso e fuggire dai loro inseguitori, tra loro un vecchio druido e un singolare soldato con una gamba sola. Il pacato pescatore si rivelerà un sanguinoso guerriero, il cui passato e le gesta sono risaputi in tutte le terre e cantate da tutti i popoli. Il mondo lo crede morto, e suo figlio è all’oscuro di tutto, ma gli uomini che occupano la barca non tarderanno a riconoscerlo. I celati segreti del suo passato riaffioreranno e i nemici che lo avevano dimenticato, torneranno a tormentarlo.

Book First International Congress of Egyptology

Download or read book First International Congress of Egyptology written by Walter F. Reineke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "First International Congress of Egyptology".

Book Stages in the Development of Ictalurus Nebulosus

Download or read book Stages in the Development of Ictalurus Nebulosus written by Philip Brownell Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolerance Re Shaped in the Early Modern Mediterranean Borderlands

Download or read book Tolerance Re Shaped in the Early Modern Mediterranean Borderlands written by Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness’ real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates the analysis of original and unpublished archival documentation with early modern European travel literature, the book shows how fluid subjects and border groups adapted to new environments, often generating information that made the Ottomans and their system of values real and dignified to an Italian audience. The interdisciplinary combining of historical methodology with the tools of comparative literature, anthropology and folklore studies provides a fresh perspective on concepts of tolerance as experienced in the early modern Mediterranean.

Book The Sketch of the Romish Controversy

Download or read book The Sketch of the Romish Controversy written by George Finch and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fulfilling God   s Mission

Download or read book Fulfilling God s Mission written by Willem Frijhoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography recalls the fascinating life of the second Reformed minister of New Amsterdam (present-day New York), Everardus Bogardus, a poor but gifted youth who worked himself upward into the ministry. The first part of the book provides an in-depth analysis of his mystical experience as a 15-year old orphan in his hometown Woerden (Holland) and its significance in the Dutch context. The second part explores Bogardus’s agency in the colonial context and his appropriation of his new fatherland - as a minister among the Europeans, the Native Americans, and the blacks, as a spokesman of the opposition during Kieft’s War, and as a colonist married to the famous Anneke Jans. This biography is conceived as a mentality history of an early modern male individual. Fulfilling God’s Mission: The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647 has been granted the 2008 Hendrick's Award.

Book Romance literature pamphlets

Download or read book Romance literature pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts of Power

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  • Author : Randolph Starn
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520328787
  • Pages : 796 pages

Download or read book Arts of Power written by Randolph Starn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Book A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus

Download or read book A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus written by John Hackett and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Gender

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  • Author : Felice Lifshitz
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 1000864057
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Reading Gender written by Felice Lifshitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern medievalist films. The historical studies of medieval Europe emphasize the use of manuscript-level evidence, that is, actual sources from the period in question; arguably, this approach provides a more accurate understanding of the period than does work done on the basis of printed and edited sources. Furthermore, many of the manuscript-based essays specifically exploit liturgical or liturgy-adjacent materials; this is an area of research and a type of manuscript that has rarely been approached through a gendered lens. Meanwhile, the cinematic medievalism essays focus on the processes of remediation and adaptation, searching specifically for points at which filmmaking teams diverged from their sources as evidence for the main goals of the films (while also attending to production contexts and to reception). The juxtaposition in a single collection of scholarship on medieval manuscripts and modern movies illustrates how period specialists can contribute to conversations in the field of (historical) film studies. The book will be of interest to historians of women, gender, Christian liturgy, medieval Europe, medievalism, and historical film. (CS 1110).

Book Catalogue     1807 1871

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  • Author : Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1882
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Catalogue 1807 1871 written by Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Premodern Teenager

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  • Author : Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  • Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780772720184
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Premodern Teenager written by Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and published by Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athen  um

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athen um written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: