Download or read book The Bat and the Bishop written by Robert W. Prichard and published by Morehouse Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that in his youth Henry VIII studied for the priesthood and wrote a treatise that so impressed Pope Leo that he awarded the young prince the title "Defender of the Faith"? And that the first Protestant martyrs in England died from eating too much salt fish? Why balconies were removed from Anglican churches in the early twentieth century? Or how the sudden appearance of a bat changed a bishop's election? Gathered in the course of Prichard's studies over the years, this collection of intriguing snippets of church history is fascinating, funny, and entirely too good to forget. From them we learn that many established customs, observances, and ideas of the church originated from relatively obscure incidents. We also gain new insights into well-known figures. Overall, these abstruse pieces of information serve to round out our understanding of the evolution of the church.
Download or read book Ball Bat and Bishop written by Robert William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step aside, Abner Doubleday! In this impeccably researched history, Robert W. Henderson uncovers the true origins not only of baseball but of a score of related sports involving hitting, catching, throwing, or kicking a ball. Henderson traces the origins of ball sports to religious rites in ancient Egypt, where the ball (perhaps a shrunken head) represented a fertility symbol and opposing teams engaged in mock combat signifying the struggle of good against evil. Centuries later, pagan fertility rites featuring the ball were adapted by the Christian church as rituals symbolic of Easter and the Resurrection. Court tennis was also firmly rooted in the church, the earliest players being the bishops, canons, and clerics who played it in their cloistered courtyards. Henderson overturns the popular belief that the game of racquets originated in the debtors' prison on Fleet Street in the early nineteenth century. He also notes that polo, the most ancient of games played with stick and ball, originated in Persia and migrated to China and India, where it was eventually embraced by English imperialists. Other sports discussed include football, lawn tennis, cricket, and golf. The most substantial portion of Henderson's study is devoted to the game of baseball. Providing copious evidence of early forms of baseball played in England and the United States before 1829, he offers a meticulous account of the legerdemain by which Abner Doubleday, the famous Civil War general, came to be identified as the inventor in 1839 of a game that was already at least two centuries old. The new foreword by Leonard Koppett affirms the significance of this classic work of sports history, which was the first to dismantle the Doubleday/Cooperstown myth.
Download or read book The Batboy written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw. Brian is living every baseball kid's dream: he is a batboy for his hometown Major League team. Brian believes that it's the perfect thing to bring him and his big-leaguer dad closer together. And if that weren't enough, this is the season that Hank Bishop, Brian's baseball hero, returns to the Tigers for the comeback of a lifetime. The summer couldn't get much better! Until Hank Bishop starts to show his true colors, and Brian learns that sometimes life throws you a curveball.
Download or read book Sarah Bishop written by Scott O'Dell and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade Level 6.2, Book# 385, Points 7.
Download or read book Bishop Burnet s History of His Own Time from the Restoration of King Charles 2 to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht in the Reign of Queen Anne To which is Prefixed a Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State from King James 1 to the Restoration in the Year 1660 Togheter with the Author s Life by the Editor and Some Explanatory Notes The Whole Revised and Corrected by Him In Four Volumes Vol 1 4 written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Field Guide to the Bats of the Amazon written by Adrià López-Baucells and published by Bat Biology and Conservation. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A species identification guide to the 160 species of bat described in the Amazon region, including a morphological identification key with stunning photographs and an acoustic key for Amazonian bats illustrated with the echolocation spectrogram of most species.
Download or read book The Church at War The Military Activities of Bishops Abbots and Other Clergy in England c 900 1200 written by Daniel M. G. Gerrard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as merely a baron in clerical dress and has consequently fallen into the gap between military and ecclesiastical history. This study addresses three main areas: which clergy engaged in military activity in England, why and when? By what means did they do so? And how did others understand and react to these activities? The book shows that, however vivid such characters as Odo of Bayeux might be in the historical imagination, there was no archetypal militant prelate. There was enormous variation in the character of the clergy that became involved in warfare, their circumstances, the means by which they pursued their military objectives and the way in which they were treated by contemporaries and described by chroniclers. An appreciation of the individual fighting cleric must be both thematically broad and keenly aware of his context. Such individuals cannot therefore be simply slotted into easy categories, even (or perhaps especially) when those categories are informed by contemporary polemic. The implications of this study for our understanding of clerical identity are considerable, as the easy distinction between clerics acting in a secular or ecclesiastical capacity almost entirely breaks down and the legal structures of the period are shown to be almost as equivocal and idiosyncratic as the literary depictions. The implications for military history are equally striking as organisational structures are shown to be more temporary, fluid and 'political' than had previously been understood.
Download or read book What the Bishop Saw written by Vannetta Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in the Embers Lies the Truth A fire blazes out of control in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, leaving an elderly Amish bachelor dead. Bishop Henry Lapp rushes to the scene, and he learns the fire was no accident. Someone intended to kill Vernon Frey. But who would want to kill Vernon? Well, practically everyone—Amish and Englisch alike. When the police point the finger at a suspect Henry knows is innocent, the bishop must decide whether or not to use his mysterious, God-given gift—one he's tried desperately to ignore all these years—to try and set the record straight. His close friend and neighbor, Emma, encourages Henry to follow God's leading. Could the clue to solving the case be locked somewhere deep in his memory? Will Henry find the courage to move forward in faith and put the right person behind bars? Is his friendship with Emma becoming something more? What the Bishop Saw is a story of extraordinary talents, the bonds of love and friendship, and the unfailing grace of God.
Download or read book Forest and Game law Tales The bishop s flock and the bishop s herd Heathendom in Christendom Four years at Maude Chapel farm written by Harriet Martineau and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bishop s Son written by Alice Cary and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bishop Burnet s History of His Own Time written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bishop s Reckoning written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horseshoe Bats of the World written by Gabor Csorba and published by Pelagic Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive work covering 70 species from 17 groups. Each species is described with sections on characters (external, cranial and dental), recognised subspecies, morphology, taxonomy, ecology, echolocation, distribution and conservation status. The volume contains a key to groups and species, a gazeteer, many line illustrations and colour plates illustrating many of the species.
Download or read book Information Resources for Bats written by Richard L. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bishop s Daughter written by Wanda E. Brunstetter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and Miracles in Amish Country Leona is Bishop Jacob Weaver's daughter and a dedicated teacher in a one-room Amish schoolhouse. After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. How could God allow something like this to happen to one of His servants? Outlander Jimmy Scott comes to Pennsylvania in search of his real family. When he is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love between an Amish woman and an English man? What secrets will be revealed and what miracles await God's people in Lancaster County? The Bishop's Daughter is book 3 in the Daughters of Lancaster County series. Other books in the series include: The Storekeeper's Daughter: Book 1 The Quilter's Daughter: Book 2.
Download or read book Leonidas Polk Bishop and General written by William Mecklenburg Polk and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Large New Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees Within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688 written by Robert Keith and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
