Download or read book Memorial Rings written by Frederick Arthur Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Rings written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each ring is illustrated with one or more black and white photograph, with 500 superb colour photos of the most important pieces. Major trends in ring design are outlined, and explanations and anecdotes are given on many of the individual rings. Supplementary images provide additional visual reference for the historical context. This deluxe book introduces the finest, most exhaustive private collection of finger rings in the world: the Hashimoto Collection. Organised chronologically by culture, it begins with the Ancient Mediterranean World, and progresses
Download or read book Rings for the Finger from the Earlieast Known Times to the Present written by George F. Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rings for the Finger written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.
Download or read book Rings written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author considers rings in all their forms and makes their context come alive through paintings, drawings and vivid quotations.
Download or read book The Bibliophile written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Rings in the Collection of Joseph Mayer F S A written by Joseph Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finger ring lore written by William Jones (F.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Rings written by Frederick Arthur Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finger ring Lore written by William Jones and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Church of St Giles Northampton written by Robert Meyricke Serjeantson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signs and Symbols written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since when did certain hand gestures become offensive? And why are scales a symbol of justice? For thousands of years, humans have communicated through a language of signs and symbols. From uniforms to body adornment and corporate logos, symbols are everywhere, and this book is your guide to their secret meanings and history. The Sun as well as the night sky with its stars and planets has long been used to symbolize supernatural forces. Learn about this and also how humans have used patterns, numbers, clothing, and more to signal authority, kinship, and status. Signs & Symbols decodes over 2000 emblems, explaining the visual language of architecture, heraldry, religion, and death. It answers questions such as why, for example, Christianity is symbolized by a fish, or how the Chinese use the crane bird to signify longevity. This comprehensive book also explores how certain gemstones or flowers became linked to personal qualities and how the alphabet and national flags came into being. Signs & Symbols will open your eyes to the fascinating world of symbolism that is embedded in every area of our lives.
Download or read book Amulets and Magic written by E.A. Wallis Budge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Everywhere that excavations of ancient sites, temples and tombs have been carried out, the objects most frequently brought to light are amulets and talismans. The use of these objects is not confined to anyone place, people and period - they are universal, reflecting a belief in magic which is as old as humankind and continues today. Amulets and talismans have always been used for protection against enemies and the evil eye, to attract love and to cast spells of all kinds. This remarkable work – both scholarly and highly readable - contains the original texts with translations and descriptions of key Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and magical devices and figures. Among the subjects dealt with are ring amulets; the protective and therapeutic qualities of gemstones; the importance of colour, shape and form in amulets; the Kabbalistic names and signs, stones of the planets and their influences, mystical numbers, lucky and unlucky days and contracts with the devil. This is a rich resource for all those interested in ancient wisdom and timeless practices.
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
