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Book Ladies of Zamora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Linehan
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 0271039094
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Ladies of Zamora written by Peter Linehan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ladies  Companion

Download or read book The Ladies Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor

Download or read book Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Book The Ladies  Companion and Literary Expositor

Download or read book The Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady of the Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Sloan
  • Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
  • Release : 2017-05-24
  • ISBN : 1627874984
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Lady of the Road written by Michael Sloan and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A centuries-old secret lays buried and forgotten. An exquisite pendant contains an obscure record of the hidden location. A country road, long abandoned and overgrown, leads to a priceless treasure. And the connection between these elusive clues is grasped by a resolute highwayman who hides behind mask, sword, and pistol. But this feared "Gentleman of the Road" is actually a woman, Zamora Delevan. Considered her family's poor, unremarkable cousin, she conceals a lethal skill. Her father Richard, one of the King's most proficient military fencing masters, privately trained Zamora at his London studio until her expertise rivaled his own. After Richard's premature death in 1721, Zamora finds herself thrust into the world of rural aristocrats who exploit England for personal gain. In an effort to ensure justice, and to prevent the foreclosure of her family's estate, Zamora -- in the guise of a highwayman -- embarks upon a dangerous journey where honor, love, and revenge are fulfilled at the point of a sword.

Book Taming a Brood of Vipers

Download or read book Taming a Brood of Vipers written by Michael A. Vargas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audacious transgressors, rebellious sowers of discord, a brood of vipers – so leaders of the Order of Preachers described their own men. This lively study of costly corporate successes and failed reforms restores to the late medieval friars their complex humanity.

Book The Annual Review and History of Literature

Download or read book The Annual Review and History of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women  the Crusades  the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture

Download or read book Women the Crusades the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture written by Helen J. Nicholson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known worldwide among scholars of medieval Europe for her books on the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar, the trial of the Templars in Britain and Ireland, and women and the crusades, Professor Helen J. Nicholson has drawn together in this volume a selection of her shorter publications, previously published in academic journals, scholarly collections, or online. Reflecting almost thirty years of published research, this collection includes articles focusing on women’s depiction in contemporary writing on the crusades and their involvement with the military religious orders, the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ relations with the rulers of Latin Christendom and with their noble patrons and their operations in Britain and Ireland. Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture will interest scholars, students, and other researchers studying the military religious orders, the crusades and women’s lives in medieval Europe and the crusader states.

Book Dominican Penitent Women

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  • Author : Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780809139798
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Dominican Penitent Women written by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominican Penitent Women is the first comprehensive introduction in English to Dominican penitent spirituality. The volume examines Italian lay-women's ways of life through religious rules, hagiographical texts, and their own writings spanning the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The first section contains translations of two versions of their rules, which open a window to the religious practices and institutions that structured their lives. The second section introduces hagiographical texts, including the Miracoli of Catherine of Siena and an extract from Thomas of Siena's Supplement, which includes accounts not discussed in Raymond of Capua's Legenda maior. A final section consists of Osanna of Mantua's letters to Francesco Gonzaga and Lucia Brocadelli's Seven Revelations, in which these two women wove mundane details and cunning practical insights into their Christ-centered devotion. Book jacket.

Book The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law

Download or read book The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law written by Peter Linehan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Amongst those discussed and explored are the question of feudalism in the 11th and 12th century, the rise and fall of a royal capital, the city of León, the ritual of king-making, focusing on Castile and Portugal, the interplay of royal influence and papal authority, and the impact of the mendicant orders. A previously unpublished study provides a cautionary tale of a particular bishop in politics. Four essays are devoted to the investigation of individuals and issues central to the history of late 13th-century papal Rome, while two look at medieval and modern historiography.

Book If Forever Is The End  For Hope  Book 1

Download or read book If Forever Is The End For Hope Book 1 written by Clint Lowe and published by Heroes Press. This book was released on 2024-09-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stricken spirit is unbearable. Unrequited love insufferable. And yet, the search for forever has begun. In the dusk of the eighteenth century, an unthinkable mêlée rises from the South of France. Following the trail of his lost father, an adrift young man crosses deadly paths with an eccentric, self-proclaimed king concocting a horrendous plot and an unliveable dream. The entanglement that holds the lives of a whole province in the balance will go stretching from Southern France all the way to hidden islands and unsearched depths of Africa. Royals and beggars, assassins and traitors, beasts both human and animal, liars, rogues, a clandestine guild with a fatal secret, some wayward and a few with honor, and a light-fingered Spanish-Moroccan girl on a quest all her own . . . all will struggle for forever. If Forever Is The End is an epic romance, unraveling through a deadly quest spanning parts of Europe, Africa, and surrounding islands. The search for forever has begun.

Book Reassessing the Roles of Women as  Makers  of Medieval Art and Architecture  2 Vol  Set

Download or read book Reassessing the Roles of Women as Makers of Medieval Art and Architecture 2 Vol Set written by Therese Martin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today's standard division of artist from patron.

Book Fides Et Historia

Download or read book Fides Et Historia written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women  Witchcraft  and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Download or read book Women Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World written by María Jesús Zamora Calvo and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects’ social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.

Book Queenship in the Mediterranean

Download or read book Queenship in the Mediterranean written by E. Woodacre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.

Book Catholic Women and Mexican Politics  1750   1940

Download or read book Catholic Women and Mexican Politics 1750 1940 written by Margaret Chowning and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long nineteenth century. This traditional view, writes Margaret Chowning, cannot account for the continued power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, which has withstood extensive and sustained political opposition for over a century. How, then, must the scholarly consensus change to better reflect Mexico's history? In this book, Chowning shows that the church repeatedly emerged as a political player, even when liberals won elections, primarily because of the overlooked importance of women in politics. Catholic women kept the church alive through the wars of independence and made it into the political force it continues to be in present-day Mexico. Using archival sources from ten Mexican states, the book shows how women, who were denied the vote and expected to stay out of the political sphere, nevertheless forged their own form of citizenship through the church. After Mexico gained its independence in 1821, women self-consciously developed new lay associations and assumed leadership roles within them. These new associations not only kept Catholicism vibrant, they also pushed women into public sphere. Methodologically, this book shows the value of exploring gender in political and religious history and reveals the equal importance of informal political power to more formal activities like voting"--

Book Victory on Earth Or in Heaven

Download or read book Victory on Earth Or in Heaven written by Brian A. Stauffer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. An essentially grassroots movement--organized by indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mestizo parishioners in Mexico's central-western Catholic heartland--the Religionero rebellion erupted in response to a series of anticlerical measures raised to constitutional status by the Lerdo government. These "Laws of Reform" decreed the full independence of Church and state, secularized marriage and burial practices, prohibited acts of public worship, and severely curtailed the Church's ability to own and administer property. A comprehensive reconstruction of the revolt and a critical reappraisal of its significance, this book places ordinary Catholics at the center of the story of Mexico's fragmented nineteenth-century secularization and Catholic revival.