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Book The Exulted Rolls of South Italy

Download or read book The Exulted Rolls of South Italy written by Myrtilla Avery and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exultet rolls of South Italy

Download or read book The Exultet rolls of South Italy written by Myrtilla Avery and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Images of the Mother of God

Download or read book Images of the Mother of God written by Maria Vassilaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the 'Mother of God' exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. It brings together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a wide-ranging survey of how the Theotokos was perceived in the Byzantine world. It embraces the disciplines of art historians, archaeologists, traditional and feminist historians, as well as theologians, philologists and social anthropologists. Images of the Mother of God will appeal not just to those interested in Byzantine art and culture, but also to scholars of Western Europe in the Middle Ages who are looking for comparative materials in their own work.

Book Images and Ideas in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Images and Ideas in the Middle Ages written by Gerhart B. Ladner and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1983 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogues of the Berenson Library of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti  Florence  Italy

Download or read book Catalogues of the Berenson Library of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti Florence Italy written by Berenson Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Light

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  • Author : K.P. Clarke
  • Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
  • Release : 2014-12-30
  • ISBN : 0907570291
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book On Light written by K.P. Clarke and published by Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays assembled in this new volume explore the fascination of the Middle Ages with the mystery of light, and its central role in the period's thought and creativity. Spanning medieval theology, literature, science and material culture, the topics covered include the history of light (and, inseparably, darkness) as a literary figure, from the Latin Bible to Geoffrey Chaucer; theoretical speculations on colour, sight and blindness, and their unexpected fertilization of fields such as poetic imagery; medieval preachers' evocations of light as much more than merely figuring the moral and religious, from St. Simeon in the ninth century to John Fisher in the early sixteenth; indeed the belief that light possessed not only reality but physical materality, as manifested in artefacts such as the Gloucester Candlestick. On Light thereby reveals not only the importance of this phenomenon to diverse aspects of medieval culture, but profound and unremarked ways in which it helped to bind these into a whole.

Book The Encyclopedia of Visual Art  History of art

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Visual Art History of art written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of Visual Art  A history of art

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Visual Art A history of art written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil at Baptism

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  • Author : H.A. Kelly
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2004-01-30
  • ISBN : 1592445322
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Devil at Baptism written by H.A. Kelly and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian baptismal ceremony was at first quite simple; by the beginning of the third century it included complex anti-demonic rites. Henry Ansgar Kelly here describes the evolution of the rites of baptism from New Testament times to the present day and explores the impact of demonological theories on Christian liturgy. Kelly begins by identifying the nature and origins of the evil spirits that are referred to in the New Testament, which proved to be major subjects of speculation and theological development by the Church Fathers. He then traces the history both of Christian demonology and of the initiation rituals, clearly illustrating their parallel evolution and their interaction. In his analysis, Kelly examines not only the direct expression of demonological theory in the original ceremonies but also the symbolic reinterpretation of theoretically untenable rituals into allegorical dramas. An astute and ambitious work, 'The Devil at Baptism' covers all the anti-demonic rites of the catechumenate and baptismal services and compares developments in East and West since the emergence of Christianity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the development of Christian liturgy in particular and in the history of religion in general.

Book Romanesque Art

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  • Author : George Zarnecki
  • Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Romanesque Art written by George Zarnecki and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1971 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Society of Norman Italy

Download or read book The Society of Norman Italy written by Graham A. Loud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 120.II der Burgerbibliothek Bern. - Abb. auf Umschlag: f. 101r.

Book Australia s Greatest Escapes

Download or read book Australia s Greatest Escapes written by Colin Burgess and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars Australia’s Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience – escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled through stinking drains, or clawed a passage beneath barbed wire in a desperate attempt to flee captivity. They were willing to risk the odds and even death in the loneliest war of all – the fight to be free. Each possessed in spades the noble qualities of boldness, resourcefulness, cunning, determination and mateship we have come to admire about our Australian service men and women under adversity. Featuring stories of Australian POWs from all theatres of war, including one who fled a German work camp during World War I, another involved in a mass tunnel escape from a notorious Italian camp, and an airman who brazenly attempted to steal a German fighter and fly it back to England. We also re-live the tragic saga of the Sandakan death marches in which six Australian escapers became the only survivors from 2000 POWs, and follow the perilous journeys to freedom undertaken by Australian infantrymen following the appalling massacre of their fellow soldiers on the Japanese-held island of Ambon.

Book Viator

Download or read book Viator written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Harry S. Ashmore and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Crusades  Volume 1

Download or read book A History of the Crusades Volume 1 written by Marshall W. Baldwin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book The Exultet in Southern Italy

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  • Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1996-09-26
  • ISBN : 0195357353
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Exultet in Southern Italy written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exultet rolls of southern Italy are parchment scrolls containing text and music for the blessing of the great Easter candle; they contain magnificent illustrations, often turned upside down with respect to the text, The Exultet in Southern Italy provides a broad perspective on this phenomenon that has long attracted the interest of those interested in medieval art, liturgy, and music. This book considers these documents in the cultural and liturgical context in which they were made, and provides a perspective on all aspects of this particularly southern Italian practice. While previous studies have concentrated on the illustrations in these rolls, Kelly's book also looks at the particular place of the Exultet in changing ceremonial practices, provides background on the texts and music used in southern Italy, and inquires into the manufacture and purpose of the Exultets--why they were made, who owned them, and how they were used.

Book Anzio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Sheehan
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780806126784
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Anzio written by Fred Sheehan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most bitterly contested pieces of land in World War II was a strip of Italian seacoast fifteen miles long and seven miles deep - the Anzio beachhead. Fred Sheehan, a soldier who participated in the campaign, tells the story of this largely neglected battle, whose purpose was to open the road to Rome. The unopposed January 1944 landing of 40,000 Allied troops seemed to promise easy victory. Yet a month later, with their number increased to 120,000, the Allies were no nearer Rome and were desperately fighting to hold their own against the German forces of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. After a four-month siege, the Allies finally established a firm foothold in what Kesselring himself called "an epic of bravery."