Download or read book The A E Nordenski ld Collection in the Helsinki University Library written by Helsingin yliopisto. Kirjasto and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Map Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bestiaires de Voltaire written by Christiane Mervaud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christiane Mervaud, 'Bestiaires de Voltaire' Pourquoi s'int resser la pr sence des b tes dans l'uvre de Voltaire? Le nombre d'occurrences relatives au r gne animal ne peut laisser indiff rent. Sans n gliger l'apport de la biographie, la recherche s'est efforc e d'abord de d terminer comment la philosophie de Voltaire r agit l' preuve de l'animalit , ce qui a conduit souligner son rejet de la th orie cart sienne de l'animal-machine, son int r t pour les singularit s de la nature. Mais si Voltaire se tient au courant des d veloppements des sciences naturelles, il s'int resse surtout, en historien, au statut de l'animal dans les soci t s et son r le dans les mythologies. Les b tes servent d'observatoire privil gi pour juger de la marche de l'esprit humain. La typologie zoologique d pend d'une typologie textuelle. Alors que la m nagerie du pol miste exploite sans vergogne pr jug s et clich s, dans les bestiaires fabuleux et religieux se d ploie une activit ludique et d sacralisante. Le bestiaire amoureux se permet des variations sur le th me de la bestialit , dans une atmosph re irr elle ou surr elle. L'animal est, bien des titres, un r v lateur de la pens e de Voltaire, une pierre de touche de sa philosophie, un condens de recherches historico-religieuses, un d clic pour la cr ation litt raire, un champ ouvert sa r flexion et sa fantaisie. Fr d ric Deloffre, 'Gen se de Candide tude de la cr ation des personnages et de l' laboration du roman' La pr sente tude ne consid re pas Candide comme une uvre philosophique, mais comme un roman. Voltaire a toujours profess que l'magination ne cr e pas, mais ne fait qu'arranger ce que lui fournit la m moire; nous avons donc recherch quels v nements personnels lui avaient fourni le sch ma de son histoire, quels personnages rencontr s lui avaient inspir ses h ros. Nous n'avons retenu comme significatives que les donn es qui se rattachent des ensembles, parmi lesquels nous avons privil gi celui qui s'organise autour du lieu fondateur, Thunder-ten-Tronckh, transposition satirique du ch teau de B ckeburg. C'est l que Voltaire a rencontr Henri Le Ma tre, chapelain du lieu, dont il fera Pangloss, et Mme Bentinck, la 'franche westphalienne' qui pr tera des traits Cun gonde; c'est l aussi que fut voqu Fr d ric II, qui passera dans le second chapitre du roman sous le nom du 'roi de Bulgares'. Ce 'fonds m moriel' de B ckeburg/Thunder-ten-tronckh fournit la mati re des quatre premiers chapitres, consacr s respectivement aux conversations de B ckeburg, Pangloss, Cun gonde, et aux relations entre 'Candide et le roi des Bulgares'. Le chapitre 5 tudie le processus par lequel le jeu de r les entre Voltaire et Mme Bentinck finit par rejoindre la fois le roman et la r alit . C'est un nouvel aspect du romancier qui se profile ainsi derri re le philosophe.
Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress Titles 5325 7623 written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin hispanique written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Morocco written by Chouki El Hamel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.
Download or read book History of Civilization in England written by Henry Thomas Buckle and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Author List written by Philip Lee Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity written by Wout Jac. van Bekkum and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading theme of this collection of essays and studies is the diversity of aspects of medieval communal identity. While the authors were selected for the very diversity of their interests, their final papers do tend to cohere around some recurrent themes. All of the studies in this volume touch upon one or more of the complex issues that lie at the heart of religious identity in the Middle Ages. They do so through concrete study of the very real practices by which medieval Jews, Christians and Muslims could police the perimeters of their spiritual communities. The authors were especially urged to note instances where religious identity was shaped without reference to dogmas, creeds, or sacred law. In no case are any of these papers satisfied with normative, legal definitions of Jew, Christian, or Muslim in medieval times. Sometimes small and subtle, sometimes explicit, dire, and violent, the techniques that emerge from these studies testify to the diversity of strategies of medieval communal identity over space and their changes over time.
Download or read book Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat written by Mirako Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!
Download or read book Trent 1475 written by R. Po-chia Hsia and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested all eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman living in Trent on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites. Under judicial torture and imprisonment, the men confessed and were condemned to death; their women-folk, who had been kept under house arrest with their children, denounced the men under torture and eventually converted to Christianity. A papal hearing in Rome about possible judicial misconduct in Trent made the trial widely known and led to a wave of anti-Jewish propaganda and other accusations of ritual murder against the Jews." "In this engrossing book, R. Pochia Hsia reconstructs the events of this tragic persecution, drawing principally on the Yeshiva Manuscript, a detailed trial record made by authorities in Trent to justify their execution of the Jews and to bolster the case for the canonization of "little Martyr Simon." Hsia depicts the Jewish victims (whose testimonies contain fragmentary stories of their tragic lives as well as forced confessions of kidnap, torture, and murder), the prosecuting magistrates, the hostile witnesses, and the few Christian neighbors who tried in vain to help the Jews. Setting the trial and its documents in the historical context of medieval blood libel, Hsia vividly portrays how fact and fiction can be blurred, how judicial torture can be couched in icy orderliness and impersonality, and how religious rites can be interpreted as ceremonies of barbarism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Spanish Society 1400 1600 written by Teofilo F Ruiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Society depicts a complex and fascinating country in transition from the late Middle Ages to modernity. It describes every part of society from the gluttonous nobility to their starving peasants. Through anecdotes, a lively style and portraits of figures such as St Teresa of Avila and Torquemada, the book reflects the character and humour with which the common Spaniard endured an often-wretched lot. Beginning with a description of the geography, political life, and culture of Spain from 1400 to 1600, the unfolding narrative charts the country's shifts from one age to the next. It unveils patterns of everyday life from the court to the brothel, from the 'haves' of the aristocracy and clergy to the 'have nots' of the peasantry and the urban poor. Historical records illuminate details of Spanish society such as the transition from medieval festivities to the highly-scripted spectacles of the early modern period, the reasons for violence and popular resistance and the patterns of daily living: eating, dressing, religious beliefs and concepts of honour and sexuality. This compelling account includes historical examples and literary extracts, which allow the reader direct access to the period. From the street theatre of village carnivals to the oppressive Spanish Inquisition, it gives an abiding sense of Spain in the making and renders vivid the colours of a passionate history.
Download or read book History and the Historians of Medieval Spain written by Peter Linehan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the Middle Ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. This book reveals history in the making during the 800 years between the Roman period and what is now described as the birth of the modern state.
Download or read book Historia Patria written by Carolyn P. Boyd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a broad range of archival and published sources, including parliamentary and ministerial records, pedagogical treatises and journals, teachers' manuals, memoirs, and a sample of over 200 primary and secondary school textbooks, the study examines ideological and political conflict among groups of elites seeking to shape popular understanding of national history and identity through the schools, both public and private.
Download or read book From Heaven to Earth written by Teofilo F. Ruiz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with new ways of representing the self and emerging perceptions of property as tangible. This radical shift in values or mentalités was most evident among certain social groups, including mercantile elites, affluent farmers, lower nobility, clerics, and literary figures--"middling sorts" whose outlooks and values were fast becoming normative. Drawing on such primary documents as wills, legal codes, land transactions, litigation records, chronicles, and literary works, Teofilo Ruiz documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. He also identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation and in the ways they related to their local communities and an emerging nation-state. Ruiz interprets this reordering of mental and physical landscapes as part of what Le Goff has described as a transition "from heaven to earth," from spiritual and religious beliefs to the quasi-secular pursuits of merchants and scholars. Examining how specific groups of Castilians began to itemize the physical world, Ruiz sketches their new ideas about salvation, property, and themselves--and places this transformation within the broader history of cultural and social change in the West.
Download or read book The Medieval Crown of Aragon written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work surveys the history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. It incorporates the results of recent research into the archives of Catalonia, Aragon Valencia, Majorca, and other Mediterranean lands.
