Download or read book A Wit s World written by Stuart R. Schwartz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Maria considers herself an ordinary girl during a seemingly ordinary time in America when the milkman makes biweekly deliveries, Sunday drives are a regular occurrence, and vacations are spent at a family cabin. Thirty years later as Maria reflects on her childhood memories, she realizes that everything changed after her twelfth birthday when she met an elderly woman. In a collection of six novellas, Stuart Schwartz chronicles the lives of diverse characters as they navigate their way through life surrounded by drama, humor, intrigue, philosophical thoughts, and imaginary fun. Three years after Billy Buttons receives a stuffed lamb as a gift from his mother, he discovers the animal can talk. But the real fun begins when he lets Lambie out of his book bag. In Colonia, Illinois, the neighbors on Orchard Street mostly keep to themselves, except for two couples. Morton and Toni Williams and Ralph and Dawn Schultz are close friends. But when they attend a pyramid-scheme seminar, no one anticipates what comes next. A Wit’s World is a volume of six novellas that highlight the personal experiences and challenges facing a band of characters, each with their own ideas on how to triumph and persevere.
Download or read book The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian written by Carmela Vircillo Franklin and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De Sion Exibit Lex Et Verbum Domini de Hierusalem written by Yitzhak Hen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amnon Linder, professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has published two seminal studies in the history of the Christian Holy Land and in Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Jerusalem-Toronto, 1987 and 1997 respectively) but in recent years has dedicated himself to the study of medieval liturgy, particularly Crusader liturgy of the liberation and destruction of Jerusalem. The essays gathered here from friends; colleagues and students of Prof. Linder pick up the themes of Linders publications - medieval law, liturgy and literature. The papers deal with a variety of sources and encompass the fourth to fifteenth centuries and span from the Holy Land to the British Isles and present different methodologies. They are organized chronologically and comprise the following papers: O. Limor; Reading Sacred Space: Egeria; Paula; and the Christian Holy Land B.-S. Albert; Le judaisme et les juifs dans l'hagiographie et la liturgie visigothique Y. Hen; Educating the Clergy: Canon Law and Liturgy in a Carolingian Handbook from the Time of Charles the Bald B. Z. Kedar; Convergence of Oriental Christian; Muslim; and Frankish Worshippers: The Case of Saydnaya S. Schein; Servise de Marriage and Law Enforcement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Y. Friedman; Did Laws of War Exist in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem D. Jacoby, Pilgrimage in Crusader Acre: The Pardouns dAcre P. B. Roberts; Sermons, Preachers, and the Law A. M. Kleinberg; Depriving Parents of the Consolation of Children: Two Legal Consilia on the Baptism of Jewish Children M. Goodich; Liturgy and the Foundation of Cults in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries J. Ziegler; Text and Context: On the Rise of Physiognomic Thought in the Later Middle Ages M. Toch; The Peasant Community and its Laws: Medieval Bavaria Esther Cohen, Who Dese
Download or read book Portrayed on the Heart written by Cynthia Hahn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagiography, or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the literature and arts of the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and provides an analysis of their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahn's book is a virtual compendium of images-many rarely published-as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the role of various types of saints, the nature of their audience, and the historical moment when individual works were produced. After two informative introductory chapters setting the historical and narrative context of pictorial hagiography, Hahn considers the Lives of Martyrs and Virgins, Bishops, Monks and Abbots, and Kings and Queens, and concludes with an examination of the extraordinary chronicles and illustrations of the lives of saints by the English monk Matthew Paris. She considers such questions as: Why were illustrated saints' lives produced in such great numbers during this period? Why were they illustrated at all given the trouble and expense of such illustration? And to whom did the saints' lives appeal, and how did their readers use them? As she addresses these and other intriguing questions, Hahn traces changes that occurred over time both in the images and the stories, and shows how their creators, mostly the intellectual elite, were finely attuned to audience reception. This important aspect of hagiographic production has received scant attention in the past, and as she considers this issue in light of contemporary narrative theory, Hahn brings us to a fresh appreciation of these intricately illustrated manuscripts and their multiple audiences.
Download or read book Women and the Book written by British Library and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the pictorial evidence, these papers raise many complex and varied themes related to women's creation, use and patronage of books, and the representation of women in them.
Download or read book Turn Your Passion into Profit written by Walt F.J. Goodridge and published by a company called W. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formula is simple: take a passion--something you love to do, something you're good at, something you already have expertise and interest in--and use it as the basis of a way to generate income. This Passion Profit strategy could be your "plan Bquot; during an economic downturn (or pandemic)! Yes, you CAN make money doing what you love. Steps: 1. Find your purpose. 2. Discover your passion. 3. Create a product. 4. Market it for profit. (338 pages; 7" x 10"; ISBN:978-0974531328) Read more at www.passionprofit.com Read more at : https://www.waltgoodridge.com/books/
Download or read book The Legend of Mar Qardagh written by Joel Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. Translated from Syriac into English here for the first time, the legend of Mar Qardagh introduces a hero of epic proportions whose characteristics confound simple classification. During the several stages of his career, Mar Qardagh hunts like a Persian King, argues like a Greek philosopher, and renounces his Zoroastrian family to live with monks high in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Drawing on both literary and artistic sources, Joel Walker explores the convergence of these diverse themes in the Christian culture of the Sasanian Empire (224-642). Taking the Qardagh legend as its foundation, his study guides readers through the rich and complex world of late antique Iraq.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History of the Language and an English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perpetua s Passions written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of studies about the Passion of Perpetua, the diary written by the young Christian martyr Perpetua. This intriguing text is edited and translated before a team of distinguished scholars examine it from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical.
Download or read book The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Fictional Intersections written by Marília Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations Together with a History of the Language and an English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words by the Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4 written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Household and the Bishop written by Kristina Marie Sessa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Liturgy of the Medieval Church written by Thomas Heffernan and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to address the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples. In a series of essays, scholars of the liturgy examine The Shape of the Liturgical Year, Particular Liturgies, The Physical Setting of the Liturgy, The Liturgy and Books, and Liturgy and the Arts. A concluding essay, which originated in notes left behind by the late C. Clifford Flanigan, seeks to open the field, to examine liturgy within the larger and more inclusive category of ritual. The essays are intended to be introductory but to provide the basic facts and the essential bibliography for further study. They approach particular problems assuming a knowledge of medieval Europe but little expertise in liturgical studies per se.
Download or read book A Dissertation Upon the Ancient Service Books of the Church of England written by William Maskell and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Biography written by Thomas J. Heffernan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.
