Download or read book Bert Bertha King Queen of Kent written by William Griffin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Ethelbert, King of Kent, goes to Paris to collect a substantial debt. Old Charibert, King of the Franks, greets him, stalls him a hundred times, then promises his daughters weight in gold. On second thought he gives her away instead. Bertha is large, but shes beauteous, bounteous, bumptious. Ethelbert is small, but hes a fierce warrior who bows to no one. But she nearly kills him by opening a door just as he was about to knock on it. She tends to his splattered nose and his wounded pride. He likes her jolly jokes, but she grows sad, thinking that Bert, like all the other young men shes met, will run away from a big fat blob like herself. She wont be sad ever again, promises Bert, not while hes alive. Having met their match, then, they decide to make a match, even though her parents and the bishop dont think its a good match. Ethelbert, you see, is a pagan, and Bertha, a Christian. A beautiful marriage and a wild wedding reception take place, complete with pop-up cake, dwarf-tossing, competitive dancing, and truly horrid foods that only a young reader can like. By the way, its A.D. 562 for anyone who wants to know.
Download or read book St Augustine of Canterbury written by Frederick Oakeley and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire written by Marianne Saghy and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the terms ?pagan? and ?Christian,? ?transition from paganism to Christianity? still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ?pagans? and ?Christians? in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ?pagans? and ?Christians? replaced the old ?conflict model? with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ?paganism? had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ?Christianity? came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ?pagans? and ?Christians? lived ?in between? polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies. ÿ
Download or read book The Life of Saint Augustine Archbishop of Canterbury By Frederick Oakeley written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lives of the English saints ed by J H Newman written by English saints and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the English Saints written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of British Women written by Cathy Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.
Download or read book St Anselm and the Handmaidens of God written by Sally N. Vaughn and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As abbot of Bec and archbishop of Canterbury, the renowned theologian St. Anselm spent most of his career working 'in the world', primarily with laypersons, not in the cloister. His correspondence contains surprisingly many letters to laywomen, only a few perfunctory letters to nuns and abbesses. Anselm wrote to all estates of noble laywomen: young girls, mothers, mature wives or widows, countesses and queens. Vaughn argues that Anselm collected and edited his own letters, which addressed real women and situations, but also represented particular ideals of women, marriage, parents and children, students and teachers; that the correspondence, an artful construct, was almost an autobiography, teaching by word, deed, and his own example; and a lens through which to discern Anselm's views of men and women in Anselm's ideal society. Anselm accords women surprising equality and power, seeing queens as equal to both kings and archbishops, all three primarily as nurturers and teachers, and ideal married couples writ large - social views modelled on past ideals (primarily St. Gregory), but ironically leaping toward new Twelfth Century attitudes of introspection, self-analysis, individualism, and logic and reason in theology, social issues, politics and law. Mothers and teachers emerge as the ultimate Handmaidens of God.
Download or read book A Synopsis of English History from the earliest period comprising the wars dates leading events and celebrated persons in each reign etc written by George W. BARTLE and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography Consisting of Sketches of All Women who Have Been Distinguished by Great Talents Strength of Character Piety Benevolence Or Moral Virtue of Any Kind Forming a Complete Record of Womanly Excellence Or Ability written by Henry Gardiner Adams and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Cyclop dia of Female Biography A revised abridgement with additions of Woman s Record Edited by H G Adams written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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