Download or read book Roman Night written by Jonathan Malone and published by Jonathan Malone. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Night is the second novel in The Sebastian Cycle quadrilogy of the Blood of Martyrs series, which deals with the persecution of Christians during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. The main character is the historical figure known in hagiographic literature as Saint Sebastian. Historians suppose that Emperor Diocletian only visited Rome upon his accession in 284 and for the triumph of his Vicennalia (celebrating twenty years of reigning) in 303. This is incorrect. He was also there in 288 for a belated ceremony authorizing and commemorating Maximian co-emperor and Augustus. This upcoming celebration occasions trouble for Sebastian, Chief of the Palace Security in Rome. During the emperor’s absence, Sebastian has been using the official residence to host clandestine meetings of Christians, one of whom is the beautiful Susanna. He cannot skirt the issue any longer. Has he been guilty of cowardice for keeping his Christianity secret? As the emperors approach Rome, a false brother of the Church on the Palatine, a financial officer named Torquatus, begins laying the groundwork for betraying Sebastian and his friends. Although he is an informant for the pagan authorities, he hopes to eventually take over the church of Rome, foisting his own brand of heresy on it. Two members of the Praetorian Guard are incarcerated first. Determined to overcome his fear, Sebastian refuses to disavow them. In an astonishing turnabout, some of the very officials charged with proscribing the Christians are converted by Sebastian’s bold preaching.
Download or read book Roman Nights written by conte Alessandro Verri and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Nights at the Tomb of the Scipios written by Alessandro Verri and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome Across Time and Space written by Claudia Bolgia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.
Download or read book Roman Nights and Other Stories written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and published by Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augusto Augurio written by Christoph F. Konrad and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Roman Law and Religion offered to Jerzy Linderski on his seventieth birthday. Contents Praefatio Introduction: Doctus vir et perfectus magister; Dissertationes inaugurales et theses magistrales auspiciis Jerzy Linderski confectae; A bibliothecis; Jerzy Linderski: Bibliographia generalis Frances Hickson-Hahn: The Politics of Thanksgiving Timothy J. Moore: Confusing the Gods: Plautus, Cistellaria 512-527 Christopher Michael McDonough: The Pricing of Sacrificial Meat: Eidolothuton, the Ara Maxima, and Useful Misinformation from Servius Hans-Friedrich Mueller: Nocturni coetus in 494 BC M. Panciera: Livy, conubium, and Plebeians' Access to the Consulship Michael Johnson: A Witticism of Antoninus Caracalla? Jonathan S. Perry: In honorem Theodori Mommseni: G. B. de Rossi and the collegia funeraticia Daniel J. Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation Tadeusz Mazurek: The decemviri sacris faciundis: Supplication and Prediction C. F. Konrad: Vellere signa.
Download or read book The Divine Office in Anglo Saxon England 597 c 1000 written by Jesse D. Billett and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did Anglo-Saxon monks begin to recite the daily hours of prayer, the Divine Office, according to the liturgical pattern prescribed in the Rule of St Benedict? Going beyond the simplistic assumptions of previous scholarship, this book reveals that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine Office tradition inherited from the Roman missionaries; the Benedictine Office arrived only when tenth-century monastic reformers such as Dunstan and Æthelwold decided that "true" monks should not use the same Office liturgy as secular clerics, a decision influenced by eighth- and ninth-century Frankish reforms. The author explains, for the first time, how this reduced liturgical diversity in the Western Church to a basic choice between "secular" and "monastic" forms of the Divine Office; he also uses previously unedited manuscript fragments to illustrate the differing attitudes and Continental connections of the English Benedictine reformer, and to show that survivals of the early Anglo-Saxon liturgy may be identifiable in later medieval sources.
Download or read book Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome written by Phil Barker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome spans the period from 150 BC to 600 AD and describes the forces of the later Roman Republic and the Byzantine wars as well as the armies of the heyday of the Roman Empire. Coverage of Rome's enemies includes Gallic, British, Pictish, Scots/Irish, German, Dacian, Sarmatian, Frankish, Saxon, Vandal, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Hunnic, Pontic, Parthian, Armenian, Jewish, Palmyran, Sassanid and Blemye armies. It examines tactics and strategy, organisation and formations and orders of battle as well as providing a detailed guide to the dress and equipment of the armies of the period. Comprehensive illustrations by Ian Heath complement Phil Barker's text and the result is a wealth of information for anyone interested in the warfare of the time. Long out of print, the book has been a source of inspiration to wargamers and academic historians alike. It is reprinted here in its complete 1981 fourth edition with an updated bibliography.
Download or read book Rome written by John Francis Maguire and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome Its Ruler and Its Institutions written by John Francis Maguire and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Holiday written by Caroline Young and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome in the 1950s: following the darkness of fascism and Nazi occupation during the Second World War, the city is reinvigorated. The street cafés and nightclubs are filled with movie stars and film directors as Hollywood productions flock to the city to film at Cinecittà Studios. Fiats and Vespas throng the streets, and the newly christened paparazzi mingle with tourists enjoying la dolce vita. It is a time of beauty, glamour – and more than a little scandal. Caroline Young explores the city in its golden age, as the emergence of celebrity journalism gave rise to a new kind of megastar. They are the ultimate film icons: Ava Gardner, Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman and Elizabeth Taylor. Set against the backdrop of the stunning Italian capital, the story follows their lives and loves on and off the camera, and the great, now legendary, films that marked their journeys. From the dark days of the Second World War through to the hedonistic hippies in the late 1960s, this evocative narrative captures the essence of Rome – its beauty, its tragedy and its creativity – through the lives of those who helped to recreate it.
Download or read book The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night, in ancient Greece and Rome, was a mythological figure, a context for specialized knowledge, a semantic space in literature, and a setting for unique experiences. Fifteen case-studies here explore how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values in all these areas of ancient culture.
Download or read book Benedictine Monachism Second Edition written by Cuthbert Butler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Benedict's Rule has been one of the great facts in the history of western Europe, and its influence and effects are with us to this day. This being so, it is surely strange that, as I believe, the Rule has never yet been made the object of an historical study setting forth on an extended scale its principles and its working. Commentaries there are, explaining it chapter by chapter; but so far as I know, there is no systematic exposition of what may be called the philosophy, the theory, of the Benedictine rule and life, no explanation of the Benedictine spirit and tradition in regard either to its inner life or its outward manifestations. The present volume is an effort to supply this want. It consists of a connected series of essays covering the most important aspects of Benedictine life and activities. It is addressed, of course, primarily to Benedictines; but it should appeal to wider circles--to students of the history of religion and civilisation in western Europe, as an account of one of the most potent factors in the formation of our modern Europe during a long and important phase of its growth: and also, in a special way, to those scholars and students who hold the Benedictine name in veneration. --from the Preface
Download or read book Madness and Civilization written by Michel Foucault and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.
Download or read book My Roman History written by Alizah Holstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and Home/Land In this exquisite and profound memoir, a medieval historian traces her lifelong obsession with Rome and the encounters with the city’s past and present that became fulcrum points in her life From the time she first felt called to its gates as a high school student fascinated by Dante and Italian thanks to a life-changing teacher, Rome has been a fixed star around which Alizah Holstein’s life has rotated—despite the fact that she bears no Italian heritage, and has never lived there long enough to call it home. In this kaleidoscopic yet intimate memoir, her shifting relationship to a vibrant city layered with human history becomes a lens on why we look to the past, on the mysteries of affinity and desire, and on what it means to grow up. Holstein weaves the stories of Romans past and present, and encounters with the city of historical figures from Petrarch to Freud, into the narrative of her evolution from a curious student abuzz with the thrill of discovery, to a lonely researcher in a city to which she feels she belongs despite knowing no one, to an ambitious young historian struggling to find her place in the halls of academia. Following a trail of memories—that first taste of a tartufo cioccolato in Piazza Navona, the ancient walls of the Via Appia blurring from the back of a motorcycle, the smudge of ink on a manuscript left by a scribe's hand over seven hundred years before—she explores what it means to be romana, Roman—and to find solace and self-knowledge in the presence of the past. An enveloping, original, and deeply resonant account, set against one of the world's most beguiling cities, of the unexpected things that give our lives meaning, My Roman History is a profound depiction of the winding path to self-realization, which—much like history itself—is mysterious, captivating, and ever-unfolding.
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Download or read book Benedictine Monachism written by Cuthbert Butler and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
