Download or read book Love in the Time of the Plague written by Katie MacAlister and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Sex in the Time of Plague written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Download or read book Love in the Time of the Plague written by Katie MacAlister and published by Bee & Moon. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in the Plague written by Vincent Brome and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries, two tragedies, one fear: Plague. Lucille lectures in 17th century history. Her husband Richard works in cybernetics. Lucille's life in the 17th century world of poverty and disease grows ever more real. The two worlds collide as plague finds its modern counterpart in AIDS, and they find their whole world thrown into doubt.
Download or read book Love in the Time of the Plague written by Katie MacAlister and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nights Of Plague written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria-the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives-brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria-the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island's governor and local administration and the people's refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Plague written by Isaacson Emily Isaacson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Sex in the Time of Plague written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, Boccaccio’s collection of novelle was, in Guido Ruggiero’s words, a “symphony of life.” Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to Boccaccio’s world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the Decameron’s cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il Popolo—the people, fractious and enterprising. Boccaccio’s stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Plague written by L. Giltrow-Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lovers in the Time of Plague The Answers written by Donna White-Davis and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lover's in the Time of Plague The Answers, is my final book in the trilogy of the incredibly accepted Lover's in the Time of Plague series concerning both a love story, a professional search for answers and the difficult and dangerous world of treating and advocating young persons who have been abused especially those abused by political or power structures. When readers read my book they often feel, unfortunately close to incidents in their lives they have kept secret for decades o9ut of fear and threats by perpetrators. They have also kept silent by a lack of education and knowledge of what actually defines abuse and especially sexual abuse leading the perpetrators to continue abusing and worse teaching others to abuse. The writing comes from my educational and profession background as an educator and clinician who has been working along side some of America's best clinicians. It is gutsy, valid and insightful and its purpose is to energize others to rid America of this plague. It is also a love story. The codes of professional standards do not allow patient confidences to be disclosed and do not condone staff relationships. The clinicians in the books are outside of their research, often in different paths, lovers who have created for themselves and as a model for others a relationship of spiritual and human love that transcends the usual prescribed guidelines of relationships. Thus, the love story is deep and gives human beings a possibility of what is possible when we are thoroughly educated not for the purposes of power structures to use our reproduction for their means but for love, for peace, for God given happiness. Theirs is not a perfect life. The slings and arrows thrown by life's foibles threatened and harm even them. However, it is the strength of their love that allows them the strength to health others and prevent others from continuing to be abused.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Plague written by Emily Isaacson and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian poet and one of the persecuted writers, to win over her audience Isaacson had to be as poignant as Edna St. Vincent Millay, as fearsome as Margaret Atwood, and as regal as the Queen. Her clear and unadultered voice resounded through her craft with both practicality and romance. She cleared the conscience of a nation and won an audience of those who had lost interest in the dusty field of verse long ago. Rekindle poetry at its finest hour. . . This collection of old paired with new, includes Emily Isaacson's most well-known sonnets with fifteen new ones. Many of her beloved poems have prophesied plague. As a postmodern poet, her work surrounds the guillotine of the pandemic that has taken the modern world by surprise and its economic hardship. She sets out to make a postmodern impact by using colour and style paired with the creativity necessary for survival. She knew intrinsically that people would redesign their lives. How they would continue on questions the ingenuity and desperation people have to save what matters most to them in crisis.
Download or read book Lovers in the Time of Plague written by Donna White-Davis and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never ending love, sex, violence, abuse, intrique in the underworld of sexual investigations and politics. A love story spun through separations and union of those fighting the abuse found in everyday relationships.
Download or read book Lovers After the Time of Plague written by Donna M. White-Davis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's Statement Lovers After the Time of Plague is long awaited the sequel by Donna White-Davis to her second novel Lovers in the Time of Plague. It follows the lovers into later life after years of self-sacrificing research in intensely dangerous and risky situation into a world they spent their lives and loves trying to shape into a world of loving peace. As with Hemingway and Fitzgerald White-Davis records her time, life with all the flaws and enthusiasms of youth allowing her characters to pass into a loving graceful, yet still intense aging denied the characters of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Donna herself says "My characters are not 'role models of perfect behavior'. They are what they are. They lived as they lived, during a time that is what it is. Miraculously they challenge her lovers give to convention actually succeed, if not for themselves for others into a future that defeated the 'plague' of unknown diseases and irresponsible procreating into on of educated loving responsible choice all while delighting and savoring the God given blessing of loving each other completely". Did it actually happen? Could any lovers love so deeply dedicated to each other and their research into the established institutions and religions of their time to find universal truth about responsible loving that includes passion for life. to change the relationships of generations? She writes the book to say life is what it is. She is also asking what will the next generation of lovers face and will they be willing to risk life and love to save the world?
Download or read book A 21st Century Plague written by Elayne Clift and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is more than a year since Covid-19 invaded our countries and our bodies, causing us to long for the touch of loved ones, to fight anxiety and despair, and to adjust to the stunning effects of prolonged isolation. We watched as the numbers of deaths mounted and agreed that it was the worst health crisis we’d experienced in a hundred years. We saw pictures of those we’d lost, and resisted having them treated as mere statistics. What we longed for were stories about people lost to the insidious virus, and those left behind. We wanted stories of survival, coping, finding our way to the future. We wanted stories that made us laugh, weep, empathize, share sadness, become better people ourselves. That’s because storytelling, whether sung, danced, painted, acted, or written in prose and poetry is primal. It’s how we come to understand the world around us. Stories give us wholeness and allow us to recover something vital and true in our lives. Stories, as writer Sue Monk Kidd knows, are “the life of the soul.” Telling and hearing stories of how we got through this dreadful pandemic is how we say what happened, with empathy, so that future generations will know what it was like to live in isolation for over a year, to feel afraid while trying to be brave, to cope, and even to grow because of the shared experience. The stories we tell, and the carefully crafted words we use to tell them are an act of remembrance in which our words build monuments to a time when our lives called upon us to carry on and to endure, to know what really matters, to know what to cling to and what to let go. In making much of the mundane, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems, by diverse and award-winning writers, capture and share the collective Covid experience in which we became “gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,” as writer May Sarton put it. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey, and that we dared “to deal with our bag of fears,” as Eudora Welty said we must. The poetic expressions of such courage are healing. They soothe us and help us recover from, and recall, a transformative experience. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us.
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Download or read book Godly Directions in a Time of Plague written by C. Matthew McMahon and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very timely and advantageous work is truly a godly help to Christ’s church, a present help in a time of plague. It is filled with godly directions from various authors who took time to thoughtfully set down specific biblical directions, pleading with the people of God to forsake sin, and follow Christ’s prescription for holiness and righteousness. These authors are all of one mind, though they lived at different times over a span of almost 200 years. This is because all godly directions taken from careful Scriptural study will always end up in the same place. It is true, each writer deals with various texts, from various angles. But, still, their conclusions are the same, and they all offer the church today godly directions that will deliver the church from under the heavy hand of God’s judgments. The authors are well known to those who have taken an interest in the preachers of old, and in times of reformation. The works included have been chosen to be helpful, not overbearing. They are, however, clear in their content, though more examples could certainly be added (having whole books written on this subject of the plague). There are four sermons, one by John Hooper (on Mark 1:15) which is a shortened homily, a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes (on Psa. 106:29–30), one by John Owen (on 2 Timothy 3:1) and one by Thomas Manton (on Psalm 119:67). There is an extended prayer given by William Crashaw (which is amazing and experimentally helpful) coupled by an exhortation given by him about the plague, as well as an extended exhortation by Henry Burton on self-denial and humiliation (on Luke 9:23). Finally, Thomas Draxe sets down a series of simple questions and answers to the difficulty of a plague and how the godly should conduct themselves. In all of these the church around the world would do well to heed their godly directions in this time, that God would hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and remember his covenant for their good.
