Download or read book Imperial Legend written by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in the personal and political maelstrom between his domineering grandmother Catherine the Great and his highly neurotic and volatile father, Paul I, Alexander came to the throne as a result of a coup mounted against his father in March 1801. Alexander was devastated when the takeover turned violent and his father was assassinated.".
Download or read book Imperial Masquerade written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, traces not only the life of Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, but offers a fresh look at the woman she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed - the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century. The book also depicts the changing worlds of Paris, Tokyo and the other international stages of Der Ling's development as woman and as mystery, and deals with the many teachers who made her who she was." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Imperial Legends written by Kristina Knapp and published by Kristina Knapp. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 1 & 2 all in one book! As one makes changes to learn who they are, they learns to adapt to new situations and discover who they were meant to be. The journey is never easy but discovering oneself created a new found freedom that allows boundaries that prohibited growth to be shattered. This is a story of a girl who is given a chance to write her own destiny and immerse herself in a world that will bring out the true person that had been locked away by fear. With the world on the verge of an epic war, courage will be tested as trust is instill in a girl as she rises to her full potential. As Kariya discovers who she was meant to be challenges will appear as riddles are solved break the chains of a past that has hindered her in the past.
Download or read book Imperial Legends Birth of the Kairoshino Priestess written by Kristina Knapp and published by Kristina Knapp. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every legend has a side of it that goes untold just as we have a side of our lives that goes unseen. With countries fighting for power amongst themselves, the lands within are ravaged with turn oil and chaos. The people of the Suguremashita Region keep their hope in a legend that has yet to be proven to be true. When reality collides with fantasy, lives are taken so lives can be saved. When a young priestess is hidden in a parallel dimension where time passes slower to save her life she must return when called upon. In an unexpected moment a young girl gets thrusted from one world and into another to be transformed into the priestess she was destined to become. As one makes changes to learn who they are, they learns to adapt to new situations and discover who they were meant to be. The journey is never easy but discovering oneself created a new found freedom that allows boundaries that prohibited growth to be shattered. This is a story of a girl who is given a chance to write her own destiny and immerse herself in a world that will bring out the true person that had been locked away by fear.
Download or read book Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain written by Elizabeth B. Davis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth analysis of some of the most important epic poems of the Spanish Golden Age, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain breathes new life into five of these long- neglected texts. Elizabeth Davis demonstrates that the epic must not be overlooked, for doing so creates a significant gap in one's ability to appraise not only the cultural practice of the imperial age, but also the purest expression of its ideology. Davis's study focuses on heroic poetry written from 1569 to 1611, including Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, undeniably the most significant epic poem of its time. Also included are Diego de Hojeda's La Christiada, Juan Rufo's La Austriada, . Lope de Vega's Jerusalén Conquistada, and Cristóbal de Virués's Historia del Monserrate. Examining these epics as the major site for the construction of cultural identities and Renaissance nationalist myths, Davis analyzes the means by which the epic constructs a Spanish sense of self. Because this sense of identity is not easily susceptible to direct representation, it is often derived in opposition to an "other," which serves to reaffirm Spanish cultural superiority. The Spanish Christian caballeros are almost always pitted against Amerindians, Muslims, Jews, or other adversaries portrayed as backward or heathen for their cultural and ethnic differences. The pro-Castilian elite of sixteenth-century Spain faced the daunting task of constructing unity at home in the process of expansion and conquest abroad, yet ethnic and regional differences in the Iberian Peninsula made the creation of an imperial identity particularly difficult. The epic, as Davis shows, strains to convey the overriding image of a Spain that appears more unified than the Spanish empire ever truly was. An important reexamination of the Golden Age canon, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain brings a new twist to the study of canon formation. While Davis does not ignore more traditional approaches to the literary text, she does apply recent theories, such as deconstruction and feminist criticism, to these poems, resulting in an innovative examination of the material. Confronting such issues as canonicity, gender, the relationship between literature and Golden Age culture, and that between art and power, this publication offers scholars a new perspective for assessing Golden Age and Transatlantic studies
Download or read book National Myth and Imperial Fantasy written by Louise H. Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.
Download or read book Imperial Emotions written by Javier Krauel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Roman Coins Republican and Imperial written by Seth William Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legend of Imperial Concubine Rong written by Yue Tong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She did not have an illustrious family background, nor did she have an impeccable appearance. However, she climbed step by step up to the position of concubine. She had given birth to six children for Emperor Kang Xi, and had once pampered the harem! She had had the simplest of loves, had experienced the most complicated plans of a palace, had wanted to see through the walls of the palace cold and lonely, and had also shocked the imperial harem. She was the only one!
Download or read book Imperial Ideals in the Roman West written by Carlos F. Noreña and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.
Download or read book The Coin Collector s Manual written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity written by Alexei M. Sivertsev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the development of Messianic themes in Judaism in the fifth through the eight centuries CE. It pays special attention to the ways in which Roman imperial ideology and imperial eschatology influenced Jewish representations of the Messiah and Messianic age. Topics addressed in the book include: representations of the Messianic kingdom of Israel as a successor to the Roman Empire, the theme of imperial renewal in Jewish eschatology and its Roman parallels, representations of the emperor in late antique literature and art and their influence on the representations of the Messiah, the mother of the Messiah in late antique and Byzantine cultural contexts, and the figure of the last Roman Emperor in Christian and Jewish tradition.
Download or read book Roman Empire The History the Myth written by John Bagnell Bury and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary work on Roman history by J.B. Bury covers the period of more than 200 years from the time of Julius Caesar until the end of Marcus Aurelius' reign. Through the 30 chapters of this book, readers will gain a complete insight into the political history of the golden age of the Roman Empire. Contents: From the Battle of Actium to the Foundation of the Principate The Principate The Joint Government of the Princeps and Senate The Family of Augustus and His Plans to Found a Dynasty Administration of Augustus in Rome and Italy — Organisation of the Army Provincial Administration Under Augustus — the Western Provinces Provincial Administration Under Augustus — the Eastern Provinces and Egypt Rome and Parthia — Expeditions to Arabia and Ethiopia The Winning and Losing of Germany — Death of Augustus Rome Under Augustus — His Buildings Literature of the Augustan Age The Principate of Tiberius (14-37 A.D.) The Principate of Gaius (Caligula) (37-41 A.D.) The Principate of Claudius (41-54 A.D.) The Conquest of Britain The Principate of Nero (54-68 A.D.) The Wars for Armenia, Under Claudius and Nero The Principate of Galba, and the Year of the Four Emperors (68-69 A.D.) Rebellions in Germany and Judea The Flavian Emperors — Vespasian, Titus and Domitian (69-96 A.D.) Britain and Germany Under the Flavians — Dacian War Nerva and Trajan — the Conquest of Dacia Literature From the Death of Tiberius to Trajan The Principate of Hadrian (117-138 A.D.) The Principate of Antoninus Pius (138-161 A.D.) The Principate of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 A.D.) Literature Under Hadrian and the Antonines The Roman World Under the Empire — Politics, Philosophy, Religion and Art Roman Life and Manners
Download or read book Projecting Imperial Power written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804 through Agustin and Pedro, the emperors of Mexico and Brazil in 1822 to Victoria, empress of India in 1876. Monarchs such as Napoleon III, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm Iprojected an imperial aura with coronations, courts, medals, costumes, portraits, monuments, international exhibitions, festivals, architecture, and town planning. They relied on ancient history for legitimacy whilst partially espousing modernity. Projecting Imperial Power is the first book toconsider newly proclaimed emperors in six territories across three continents across the whole range of the nineteenth century.The first emperors' successors - Pedro II of Brazil, Franz Joseph of Austria, and Wilhelm II of Germany - expanded their panoply of power, until Pedro was forced to abdicate in 1889 and World War I brought the Austrian and German empires to an end. Britain invented an imperial myth for its Indianempire in the 20th century, until George VI relinquished the title of emperor in 1947. The imperial cities of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and New Delhi bear witness to vanished empires.Using a wide range of source Projecting Imperial Power explains the imperial ambition behind these imperial cities. It discusses how the empires and their rulers are remembered today by examining how the imperial statues that were erected in huge numbers in the second part of the period are treatedtoday, and how this demonstrates the contested place of emperors in national cultural memory.
Download or read book Roman Imperial Coinage Volume X written by John Kent and published by Spink Books. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tenth volume of Roman Imperial Coinage completed the first edition of the series founded by Mattingly and Sydenham in 1923. Its layout is based on the division between the eastern and western parts of the empire, and the reigns of successive emperors. A further section deals with imitative coinages struck by certain of the barbarian peoples. There are detailed accounts of the monetary system and mints, and of the coin-types and legends. The catalogue comprises some 1,800 entries, each individually numbered, and illustrated by 80 plates. (NP The coinage is discussed not only in its historical setting, but also in a comprehensive and documented conceptual context, making RIC X essential reading for students of the late Roman and Byzantine period, as well as for collectors. This seminal volume is reprinted by Spink in 2018 to make it available again to all those interested in this fascinating period of Roman Imperial coinage. (NP) Dr John Kent joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1953, and was Keeper from 1983 until his retirement in 1990. As well as being an editor of the Roman Imperial Coinage series , he is the author of Roman Imperial Coinage Volume VIII (1981).
Download or read book Quest written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Empire written by Philip Guedalla and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
