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Book The Story of War

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  • Author : Anna Maria Forssberg
  • Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
  • Release : 2017-03-15
  • ISBN : 9188168670
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Story of War written by Anna Maria Forssberg and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”O God we thank thee” was sung in the churches of France and Sweden after military victories in the seventeenth century. To celebrate Thanksgiving was a way of thanking God, but also a way for the rulers to legitimize the ever ongoing wars. For the inhabitants it was both an occasion for festivity and a way of getting information about what happened in the battlefield. Yet the image given was selective. Bloody defeats and uneventful everyday life was replaced by spectacular victories and royal glory. Even though the rituals in the two countries were similar in some ways, there were also substantial differences. The propaganda formulated a narrative about what war actually was, and what role the rulers and their subjects should play. In the crisis of 1709 this narrative was profoundly challenged. The book investigates how war events were communicated to the inhabitants of France and Sweden in the seventeenth century by the Church, and especially through days of thanksgiving (called Te Deum in France).

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mazarinades  a Checklist of Copies in Major Collections in the United States

Download or read book Mazarinades a Checklist of Copies in Major Collections in the United States written by Robert O. Lindsay and published by Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lettre du Roy a monsigneur le duc de Mont Bazon  pair   grand veneur de France  gouverneur   lieutenant general pour Sa Majest      Paris   Isle de France  Contenant la submission du duc de Rohan    la reduction de toutes les villes rebelles  tant des Sevennes  que haut   bas Languedoc   Ro  ergue  en l obeyssance de Sa Majest

Download or read book Lettre du Roy a monsigneur le duc de Mont Bazon pair grand veneur de France gouverneur lieutenant general pour Sa Majest Paris Isle de France Contenant la submission du duc de Rohan la reduction de toutes les villes rebelles tant des Sevennes que haut bas Languedoc Ro ergue en l obeyssance de Sa Majest written by France and published by . This book was released on 1629 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs

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  • Author : Marie Mancini
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226502805
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Memoirs written by Marie Mancini and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.

Book The History of Comines

Download or read book The History of Comines written by Philippe de Commynes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines", Latin Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 ? 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time."--Wikipedia.

Book Bibliotheca Accipitraria a Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry  with Notes  Glossary  and Vocabulary

Download or read book Bibliotheca Accipitraria a Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry with Notes Glossary and Vocabulary written by James Edmund Harting and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lettre des manifestes du Roy de France  escrite    Monsigneur le duc de Mont Bazon  pair et grand veneur de France     1635  contenant les justes causes que Sa Majest   a eues de declarer la guerre au Roy d Espagne

Download or read book Lettre des manifestes du Roy de France escrite Monsigneur le duc de Mont Bazon pair et grand veneur de France 1635 contenant les justes causes que Sa Majest a eues de declarer la guerre au Roy d Espagne written by and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practical Falconry

Download or read book Practical Falconry written by Gage Earle Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scanderbeide

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  • Author : Margherita Sarrocchi
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 0226735060
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Scanderbeide written by Margherita Sarrocchi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, Scanderbeide recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, Scanderbeide combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters’ motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560?–1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict and warfare but also tackles a genre that was, until that point, the sole purview of men. First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.

Book The Acharnians

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1625580681
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Book Observations upon hawking

Download or read book Observations upon hawking written by sir John Saunders Sebright (7th bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complete Poetry and Prose

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  • Author : Louise Labé
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 0226467163
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Complete Poetry and Prose written by Louise Labé and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

Book From Mother and Daughter

Download or read book From Mother and Daughter written by Madeleine Roches and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520–87) and Catherine (1542–87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother and Daughter are selections from their celebrated oeuvre, suffused with an engaging and enduring feminist consciousness. Madeleine and Catherine spent their entire lives in civil war–torn Poitiers, where a siege of the city, vandalism, and desecration of churches fueled their political and religious commentary. Members of an elite literary circle that would inspire salon culture during the next century, the Dames des Roches addressed the issues of the day, including the ravages of religious civil wars, the weak monarchy, education for women, marriage and the family, violence against women, and the status of women intellectuals. Through their collaborative engagement in shared public discourse, both mother and daughter were models of moral, political, and literary agency.

Book Cheape and Good Husbandry

Download or read book Cheape and Good Husbandry written by Gervase Markham and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ordonnances de Monseigneur le Duc de Montmorancy  Pair de France  gouverneur   lieutenant g  n  ral pour le Roy en L  guedoc  pour le soulagement du peuple contre les gens de guerre

Download or read book Ordonnances de Monseigneur le Duc de Montmorancy Pair de France gouverneur lieutenant g n ral pour le Roy en L guedoc pour le soulagement du peuple contre les gens de guerre written by Henri de Montmorency and published by . This book was released on 1629 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alderdene

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  • Author : Norris Paul
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Alderdene written by Norris Paul and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: