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Book Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Download or read book Saint Nicholas of Tolentino written by Michael Di Gregorio and published by St. Francis of Assisi Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A joy to those who were sad, a consolation to those who were suffering, peace to those who were at odds with one another, refreshment to those who were weary from their daily toil, support for those who were poor and a healing balm for those who found themselves in prison." This is the way a fellow religious described the ministry of St. Nicholas of Tolentino. Thanks to Pope Leo XIII who gave him the title in 1884, we remember him today, though, principally as the special patron saint of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. This is a fascinating little biography of a saint whose feast is celebrated by the Augustinian Family throughout the world on September 10th each year.

Book The Philippine Islands  1493 1803

Download or read book The Philippine Islands 1493 1803 written by James Alexander Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ermita de San Nicolas de Tolentino

Download or read book The Ermita de San Nicolas de Tolentino written by Jaime C. Laya and published by . This book was released on 20?? with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

    Book Details:
  • Author : André Vauchez
  • Publisher : James Clarke Company
  • Release : 2001-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780227679319
  • Pages : 1360 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages written by André Vauchez and published by James Clarke Company. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work of reference for scholars and libraries, The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages offers a wealth of information available from no other single source, and providing precise and concise information on all aspects of the Middle Ages. The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages is a tool of great value, a synthesis of knowledge covering the millennium from the fifth century to the fifteenth. Cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history are all covered, and while the main concentration is on Europe and Christendom, the rise of Islam and the Arabs, and of other cultures with which Europeans came into contact is also extensively treated. Art and architecture (including the building of the great cathedrals), the growth of universities, developments in law and scientific discoveries are all treated in the same depth as political history. Archaeological, geographical, historical, linguistic, philosophical and theological topics receive full treatment. Biographies of monarchs, bishops and major intellectual figures are included, as are descriptions of varying lengths of major ideas and beliefs. The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages is the work of a team of over 600 scholars from more than forty nationalities. It contains over 3000 articles, ranging from a few sentences to 10,000 word essays, and more than 600 illustrations, many in colour, and is thoroughly indexed. Substantial bibliographies attached to each entry provide access to fuller information. The Encyclopedia makes the great treasure house of knowledge of the medieval world easily accessible and the user, whether a scholar or merely an interested reader, will find the book an essential but easily accessible resource. It is designed as a companion to the Encyclopedia of the Early Church, edited by Angelo di Berardino and published in 1992. The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages will be an essential reference work for all major libraries, and for specialist collections dealing with any aspect of the Middle Ages.

Book Centering Animals in Latin American History

Download or read book Centering Animals in Latin American History written by Martha Few and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implications of centering animals within historical narratives, seeking to include nonhuman animals as social actors in the histories of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. The essays discuss topics ranging from canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in Bourbon Mexico to imported monkeys used in medical experimentation in Puerto Rico. Some contributors examine the role of animals in colonization efforts. Others explore the relationship between animals, medicine, and health. Finally, essays on the postcolonial period focus on the politics of hunting, the commodification of animals and animal parts, the protection of animals and the environment, and political symbolism. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Lauren Derby, Regina Horta Duarte, Martha Few, Erica Fudge, León García Garagarza, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Heather L. McCrea, John Soluri, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, Neil L. Whitehead

Book Annals of His Time

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  • Author : Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780804754545
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Annals of His Time written by Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier practitioner of the Nahuatl annals form was a writer of the early seventeenth century now known as Chimalpahin. This volume is the first English edition of Chimalpahin's largest work, written during the first two decades of the seventeenth century.

Book The Life of St  Nicholas of Tolentino

Download or read book The Life of St Nicholas of Tolentino written by Edward A. Foran and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Incorruptibles

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  • Author : Joan Carroll Cruz
  • Publisher : TAN Books
  • Release : 1991-11
  • ISBN : 0895559536
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Incorruptibles written by Joan Carroll Cruz and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuously popular since it first appeared in 1977, The Incorruptibles remains the acknowledged classic on the bodies of Saints that did not undergo decomposition after death, many remaining fresh and flexible for years, or even centuries. After explaining both natural and artificial mummification, the author shows that the incorruption of the Saints bodies fits into neither category but constitutes a much greater phenomenon which is unexplained by modern science even to this day. The author presents 102 canonized Saints, Beati and Venerables, summarizing their lives, the discovery of their incorruption and investigations by Church and medical authorities. The incorruptible bodies of saints are a consoling sign of Christ's victory over death, a confirmation of the dogma of the Resurrection of the Body, a sign that the Saints are still with us in the Mystical Body of Christ, as well as a proof of the truth of the Catholic Faith for only in the Catholic Church do we find this phenomenon.

Book Theaters of Conversion

Download or read book Theaters of Conversion written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's churches and conventos display a unique blend of European and native styles. Missionary Mendicant friars arrived in New Spain shortly after Cortes's conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521 and immediately related their own European architectural and visual arts styles to the tastes and expectations of native Indians. Right from the beginning the friars conceived of conventos as a special architectural theater in which to carry out their proselytizing. Over four hundred conventos were established in Mexico between 1526 and 1600, and more still in New Mexico in the century following, all built and decorated by native Indian artisans who became masters of European techniques and styles even as they added their own influence. The author argues that these magnificent sixteenth and seventeenth-century structures are as much part of the artistic patrimony of American Indians as their pre-Conquest temples, pyramids, and kivas. Mexican Indians, in fact, adapted European motifs to their own pictorial traditions and thus made a unique contribution to the worldwide spread of the Italian Renaissance. The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigenous contributions to the colonial enterprise. This ground-breaking study enriches our understanding of the colonial process and the reciprocal relationship between European friars and native artisans.

Book Africans to Spanish America

Download or read book Africans to Spanish America written by Sherwin K. Bryant and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America. Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.

Book Milagros del glorioso San Nicol  s de Tolentino  de la Orden de S  Agustin

Download or read book Milagros del glorioso San Nicol s de Tolentino de la Orden de S Agustin written by Cristóbal de Busto and published by . This book was released on 1604 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rim of Christendom

Download or read book Rim of Christendom written by Herbert Eugene Bolton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This re-issued biography recounts [Kino's] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find a place in every serious library."—Religious Studies Review "This is truly an epic work, an absolute standard for any Southwestern collection."—Book Talk Select maps from the 1984 edition of Rim of Christendom are now available online through the UA Campus Repository.

Book History of Spanish Literature

Download or read book History of Spanish Literature written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Spanish Litterature  2

Download or read book History of Spanish Litterature 2 written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Spanish literature   in three volumes  1

Download or read book History of Spanish literature in three volumes 1 written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foundational Arts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael K. Schuessler
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2014-01-02
  • ISBN : 0816599130
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Foundational Arts written by Michael K. Schuessler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The languages of two hemispheres collided when Spain conquered Mexico, and as a result, a dynamic expression of visual and dramatic arts emerged. Mural painting and missionary theater quickly became the media to explain and comprehend the encounter of indigenous peoples with Christ and the crucifixion, as well as with heaven and hell. In Foundational Arts Michael K. Schuessler asserts that the literature of New Spain begins with missionary theater and its intimate relationship to mural painting. In particular, he examines the relationships between texts and visual images that emerged in Mexico at two Augustinian monasteries in Hidalgo, Mexico, during the century following the Spanish Conquest. The forced combination of the ideographical tradition of Nahuatl with Latin-based language alphabets led to a fascinating array of new cultural expressions. Missionary theater was organized by ingenious friars with the intent to convert and catechize indigenous populations. Often performed in Nahuatl or other local languages, the actors combined Latin-based language texts with visual contexts that corresponded to indigenous ways of knowing: murals, architectural ornamentation, statuary, altars, and other modes of visual representation. By concentrating on the interrelationship between mural painting and missionary theater, Foundational Arts explores the artistic and ideological origins of Mexican plastic arts and literature.