Download or read book Minosse e i segreti di Creta written by Giorgio Ieranò and published by Marsilio Editori spa. This book was released on 2015-04-09T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minosse è uno dei personaggi più ambigui della mitologia greca, dipinto da Omero come un giudice saggio e un sovrano giusto è passato alla storia come un regnante tirannico e crudele. Ieranò ci guida alla scoperta di tutte le vicende legate al re di Creta e al famoso Minotauro, il “toro di Minosse”. Nei miti eroici si trova la matrice di tutte le narrazioni future. Ci sono amori, avventure, intrighi, prodigi, mostri. Ci sono viaggi fino alla fine del mondo e love-stories che sfidano anche la morte. Tutto quello che ancora oggi ci appassiona e ci commuove quando leggiamo un romanzo o guardiamo un film, i greci lo avevano già narrato nei loro miti. (da “Eroi. Le grandi saghe della mitologia greca”)
Download or read book The Afterlife of al Andalus written by Christina Civantos and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos's analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation.
Download or read book Dante and Islam written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
Download or read book Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire 900 1200 written by Alan Harvey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Dr Harvey shows that, if we broaden our comprehension of feudalism, the economic developments of the Byzantine Empire and of the medieval west were far more comparable than Byzantine historians have been prepared to admit. Previous interpretations have linked economic trends too closely to the political fortunes of the state, and have consequently regarded the twelfth century as a period of economic stagnation. Yet there is considerable evidence that the empire's population expanded steadily during the period covered by this book, and that agricultural production was intensified. A wealth of evidence serves to reinforce the point that the disintegration of the empire in the late twelfth century should no longer be associated with economic decline. Dr Harvey's conclusions, in particular that there is no incompatibility between the development of the landed wealth of a feudalising aristocracy and the growth of commerce and urbanisation, will affect all future interpretations of Byzantine history.
Download or read book Lucifer written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If, as Chesterton claimed, the devil's greatest triumph was convincing the modern world that he does not exist, Jeffrey Burton Russell means to rob him of his victory. Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages is both a scholarly assessment of the development of diabology in the Middle Ages and an impassioned plea to the 20th century to recognize and acknowledge the existence of real, objective evil. The third in a series of works tracing the history of the devil from his Judeo-Christian roots, it represents a formidable undertaking: the devil's history is integrally related to the problem of evil, which is in turn at the heart of Western religious thought. Each of the volumes on Satan comprises, in essence, a judicious and able tour of Christian theology from the villain's point of view... Book jacket.
Download or read book The Hellenica written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of Greece written by Richard Clogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.
Download or read book The History of Herodotus written by Herodotus and published by Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers. This book was released on 1928 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Dante and the Medieval Other World written by Alison Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a thorough examination of the poem in the context of popular beliefs. Her principal sources are thus not the highly literary texts (such as Virgil's Aeneid or Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae) which have become a familiar context for the poem, but rather visions of the Other World found in popular writings, painting and sculpture from the centuries leading up to its composition. The book will be of interest to non-specialists in addition to scholars of Dante, since it offers a clear preliminary account of the Other World tradition, a chronology of its principal representations and summaries of the major texts. Fully illustrated throughout, it integrates with the literary and theological aspects of Dante's heritage the important but often neglected dimension of art history.
Download or read book Brodsky written by Людмила Штерн and published by Baskerville Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration. Includes never before published poems and numerous photographs.
Download or read book Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England written by Gerald Robert Owst and published by Oxford, Blackwell, 1966 c1961. This book was released on 1966 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest of Doom written by Ian Livingstone and published by Wizard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Warhammer of Stonebridge lies lost and broken in the treacherous wilderness of Darkwood Forest. Without it, the Dwarves of Stonebridge are doomed...Only the foolhardy would enter the murky depths of Darkwood. But your quest will lead you into the very heart of the forest. Dare you take on the unknown perils of Darkwood, and survive the puzzles, traps and fearsome creatures that lie in wait for you? You alone must find the missing pieces of the Warhammer and save the Dwarves of Stonebridge before it is too late!
Download or read book On Grief and Reason written by Joseph Brodsky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Grief and Reason c"ollects the essays Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The volume includes his Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate DonGiovanni; his "Immodest Proposal" for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost; Brodsky's searching estimations of Hardy, Horace, and Rilke; and an affecting memoir of Stephen Spender.
Download or read book James Joyce written by Robert H. Deming and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 1902-1927 V.2 1928-1941.
Download or read book Visions of Heaven Hell Before Dante written by Venerable Bede and published by Medieval & Renaissance Texts. This book was released on 2009-03-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential and widely used collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, presents new translations of two visions and newly edited versions of previously translated ones. Describes the place of these works in medieval literature and provides a helpful resource for studying elements of medieval religion. Includes: St. Peter's Apocalypse, St. Paul's Apocalypse, St. Brendan's Voyage, St. Patrick's Purgatory, and the Visions of Furseus, Drythelm, Wetti, Charles the Fat, Tundale, the Monk of Evesham, and Thurkill. Bibliography, index, glossary, notes, illustrated.
Download or read book The Philosophers Madonna written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Atlas. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short novel weaves together the lives of Maria Ripamonti, daughter of impoverished aristocrats shivering in a castle, and Engineer Baronfo, a dyspeptic salesman stressed out by years of getting on and off trains, who has turned to collecting antiquarian tomes of philosophy.
