Download or read book Hermits and Recluses in English Society 950 1200 written by Tom Licence and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Licence discovers why medieval society invested so much in hermits and recluses, and examines how they gained their saintly reputation.
Download or read book The Brown Recluse Spider written by Richard S. Vetter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buildings. Because of this very quality and the ghastly reputation associated with the medical consequences of its bite, it has become infamous throughout North America. Although recluse spiders can cause serious skin injuries and, in very rare cases, death, the danger posed by this spider is often exaggerated as a result of arachnophobia and the misdiagnosis of non-spider-related conditions as brown recluse bites. These misdiagnoses often occur in areas of North America where the spider does not exist, making legitimate bites improbable. One of the greatest factors that keeps the myths alive is misidentification of common (and harmless) spiders as brown recluses. With this book, Richard S. Vetter hopes to educate readers regarding the biology of the spider and medical aspects of its bites, to reduce the incidence of misdiagnoses, and to quell misplaced anxiety. In The Brown Recluse Spider, Vetter covers topics such as taxonomy, identification, misidentification, life history characteristics and biology, medical aspects of envenomations, medical conditions misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites, other spider species of medical consideration (several of which have been wrongly implicated as threats to human health), and the psychology behind the entrenched reasons why people believe so deeply in the presence of the spider in the face of strong, contradictory information. Vetter also makes recommendations for control of the spider for households in areas where the spiders are found and describes other species of recluse spiders in North America. Although The Brown Recluse Spider was written for a general audience, it is also a valuable source of information for arachnologists and medical personnel.
Download or read book The Myrour of recluses written by Marta Powell Harley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Myrour of Recluses provides an edited text of British Library MS. Harley 2372, the only manuscript preserving the Middle English translation of the fourteenth-century Speculum Inclusorum. Of the four-part Latin original, the Middle English translation preserves the preface and all four chapters of Part 1 (discussing the motives for embracing closure) and the first two chapters of Parts 2 and 3 (deleting from each part only the third chapter on reading). Thus, the Middle English Myrour of Recluses treats fully the four motives for choosing enclosure and amply examines the nature and practice of prayer and meditation." "The Myrour of Recluses draws throughout on devotional and doctrinal material familiar to the general audiences of the popular religious manuals. Scriptural quotations are plentiful. The ascetic advice and the devotional and doctrinal instruction in The Myrour of Recluses serve the author's higher aim of securing for the recluses "the sweetness of the love of God and of contemplation."" "The edition presents the entire surviving Middle English text. Where chapters of the Middle English Myrour of Recluses are fragmentary, bracketed Modern English translations of the Latin original are supplied (with the Latin passages printed in Appendix A). In addition to a physical description of the manuscript, the introduction to the edition offers an assessment of the translator's aims and a consideration of the work's place within the vast body of Middle English religious prose. Following the edited text, the textual and explanatory notes address unusual emendations and unfamiliar words or allusions. Indices of the names and scriptural quotations found in the text are provided in Appendices B and C."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Dangerous Women written by Victoria Baldwin Cass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators--these are the dangerous women of traditional China. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a vivid counterpoint. Violating state-sponsored orthodoxies, the granny mocks and mimics, the geisha charms with her intellect, the warrior rules in icy superiority. Using new and freshly interpreted sources, the author leads us confidently into this surprising world, bolstering her text with color and black and white art of the period.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Monasticism written by William M. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Encyclopedia of Monasticism describes the monastic traditions of both Christianity and Buddhism with more than 600 entries on important monastic figures of all periods and places, surveys of countries and localities, and topical essays covering a wide range of issues (e.g., art, behavior, economics, liturgy, politics, theology, and scholarship). Coverage encompasses not only geography and history worldwide but also the contemporary dilemmas of monastic life. Recent upheavals in certain countries are highlighted (Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, etc.). Topical essays subtitled Christian Perspectives and Buddhist Perspectives explore in imaginative fashion comparisons and contrasts between Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Encyclopedia of Monasticism also includes more than 500 color and black and white illustrations covering all aspects of monastic life, art, and architecture.
Download or read book The New Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge written by Albert Hauck and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Artful Recluse written by Peter Charles Sturman and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China, organized by Susan S. Tai in collaboration with Peter C. Sturman and presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, October 20, 2012-January 20, 2013, and the Asia Society, New York, March 5-June 2, 2013.
Download or read book Buddhist Ethics written by Hammalawa Saddhatissa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than a quarter of a century, those in search of an introduction to Buddhist moral thought have turned and returned to this little volume which includes a remarkable range of information on Buddhist history, thought and practice as background for understanding the fundamental issues of Buddhist ethics."--Back cover.
Download or read book Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages written by Edward Lewes Cutts and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scenes Characters of the Middle Ages written by Edward Lewes Cutts and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Companion to Catherine of Siena written by Carolyn Muessig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, written by experts on Catherine of Siena, considers her as a church reformer, peacemaker, preacher, author, holy woman, stigmatic, saint and politically astute person. The manuscript tradition of works by and about her are also studied.
Download or read book Transactions Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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