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Book Thirty Five Years of Bologna

Download or read book Thirty Five Years of Bologna written by Mike Pappas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with wit and wisdom, Thirty-Five Years of Bologna is the true story of Mike Pappas, a deli Manager who served up more bologna during his career than he cares to recall. Like a novel that interacts with a community of voices, Pappas writes in a style that involves the casual advice he picks up from his customers and some co-workers along the way. Thirty-Five Years of Bologna follows Pappas as he becomes a husband, father, and deli Manager and shares how he juggled working long hours with his busy home life. Pappas candidly retells humorous situations about an ever-changing pool of co-workers and managers who enter the deli scene as quickly as they leave. The picture Pappas paints will give you a new view of your neighborhood deli and the personalities that serve you sandwich meat and cheese. But Pappas ultimately learns that life isn't about the work you do, but the people you work with. Thanks for my support on my book: Mr. James Levine of Eyes Wide Open, Mr. Joe Spina of Seaside Prov, Mr. Vinny Bruscino of Vinny's Prov, and Mrs. P. of U Make Your Gift.

Book Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities

Download or read book Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities written by Gabriel Compayri and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in its field, Compayré's Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities (originally published in 1892) is as applicable today as when it was written, giving an idea of what these great associations of masters and students which played such an important part in the past, must have been in their beginnings, in their internal organization, their programs of study, their methods of instruction, and in their general spirit and external influence.Compayré, the well-known French educationalist, has prepared in this volume an account of the origin of the great European universities that is at once the most scientific and the most interesting in the English language. Naturally the University of Paris is the central figure in the account; and the details of its early organization and influence are fully given. Its connection with the other great universities of the Middle Ages and with the modern university movement is clearly pointed out. Abelard, whose system of teaching and disputation was one of the earliest signs of the rising universities, is the typical figure of the movement; and Compayré has given a sketch of his character and work, from an entirely new point of view, that is most instructive.Compayré's works were still being published well into the 20th Century, including Montaigne and the Education of the Judgment, Peter Abelard and the Rise of the Modern Universities and Jean Jacques Rousseau and Education from Nature. " Abelard may fairly be called the founder of university education in Europe, and we have in this volume a description of his work and a careful analysis of his character. As the founder of the great Paris University in the thirteenth century the importance of his work can hardly be overestimated. The chapter devoted to Abelard himself is an intensely interesting one, and the other chapters are of marked value, devoted as they are to the origin and early history of universities ... The volume is a notable educational work." - Boston Daily Traveler

Book The Catholic Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles George Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigrants in industries  in twenty five parts

Download or read book Immigrants in industries in twenty five parts written by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forged in the Shadow of Mars

Download or read book Forged in the Shadow of Mars written by Peter W. Sposato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds that the strenuous knights and men-at-arms of the Florentine chivalric elite—a cultural community comprised of men from both traditional and newly emerged elite lineages—embraced a chivalric ideology that was fundamentally martial and violent. Chivalry helped to shape a common identity among these men based on the profession of arms and the ready use of violence against both their peers and those they perceived to be their social inferiors. This violence, often transgressive in nature, was not only crucial to asserting and defending personal, familial, and corporate honor, but was also inherently praiseworthy. In this way, Sposato highlights the sharp differences between chivalry and the more familiar civic ideology of the popolo grasso, the Florentine mercantile and banking elite who came to dominate Florence politically and economically during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As a result, in Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Sposato challenges the traditional scholarly view of chivalry as foreign to the social and cultural landscape of Florence and contests its reputation as a civilizing force. By reexamining the connection between chivalric literature and actual practice and identity formation among historical knights and men-at-arms, he likewise provides an important corrective to assumptions about the nature of elite violence and identity in medieval Italian cities.

Book The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal

Download or read book The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder in Renaissance Italy

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  • Author : Trevor Dean
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-07-13
  • ISBN : 1107136644
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Murder in Renaissance Italy written by Trevor Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public; while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological research on homicide, it brings together new research by an international team of specialists on a broad range of themes: different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation); different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence, and homicide studies.

Book Illuminated Manuscripts

Download or read book Illuminated Manuscripts written by John William Bradley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Illuminated Manuscripts" by John William Bradley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Next Pope

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  • Author : Edward Pentin
  • Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 1644133121
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Next Pope written by Edward Pentin and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch the Highlights Video of the June 24 live panel discussion from Rome.??????? When Pope Francis' pontificate has passed, it's very likely that one of the nineteen cardinals featured in these pages will be elected to become the next Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the spiritual leader of over a billion Catholics and the most influential and widely respected moral and religious figure in the world. Yet outside the Vatican walls, despite the considerable roles that some of these men play in the Church and in the world, few of them are known by the public — or even by their brother cardinals. Hence this book, an engrossing and thoroughly documented instrument through which a future pope may be known

Book The Lancet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1836 pages

Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A General Biographical Dictionary

Download or read book A General Biographical Dictionary written by John Gorton and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

Download or read book The Universities of the Italian Renaissance written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-02-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline, student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted), famous faculty members, budget and salaries, and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats—including increased student violence and competition from religious schools—ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Book The Templars

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  • Author : Piers Paul Read
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2014-07-08
  • ISBN : 1466875259
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book The Templars written by Piers Paul Read and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally best-selling author of Alive explores the rise, the catastrophic fall, and the far-reaching legacy of Knights of the Temple of Solomon. In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic Caliphate for over four-hundred years, fell to an army of European knights intent on restoring the Cross to the Holy Lands. From the ranks of these holy warriors emerged an order of monks trained in both scripture and the military arts, an order that would protect and administer Christendom's prized conquest for almost a century: the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, or the Templars. In this articulate and engaging history, Piers Paul Read explores the rise, the catastrophic fall, and the far-reaching legacy of these knights who took, and briefly held, the most bitterly contested citadel in the monotheistic West. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, and writing with authority and candor, Read chronicles the history of the blood-splattered monks who still infiltrate modernity in literature, as the inspiration for secret societies, and in the backyard fantasies of any child with access to a stick and a garbage can lid. More than armed holy men, the Templars also represented the first uniformed standing army in the Western world. Sustaining their military order required vast sums of money, and, to that end, a powerful multinational corporation formed. The prosperity that European financiers enjoyed, from the efficient management of Levantine possessions and from pioneering developments in the field of international banking, would help jump-start Europe's long-slumbering Dark Age economy. In 1307, the French king, Philip IV, expropriated Templar lands, unleashing a wave of repression that would crest five years later. After Templar leaders broke down and confessed, under torture, to blasphemy, heresy, and sodomy, Pope Clement V suppressed the Order in 1312. Was it guilty as charged? And what relevance has the story to our own times? In this remarkable history, Piers Paul Read explores the Crusades and the individual biographies of the many colorful characters that fought them.

Book The Autumn of Italian Opera

Download or read book The Autumn of Italian Opera written by Alan Mallach and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera

Book The Art of Executing Well

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  • Author : Nicholas Terpstra
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0271090731
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Art of Executing Well written by Nicholas Terpstra and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars expand on these accounts explaining aspects of the theater, psychology, and politics of execution. The main text is a manual, translated in English for the first time, on how to comfort a man in his last hours before beheading or hanging. It became an influential text used across Renaissance Italy. A second lengthy piece gives an eyewitness account of the final hours of two patrician Florentines executed for conspiracy against the Medici in 1512. Shorter pieces include poems written by prisoners on the eve of their execution, songs sung by the condemned and their comforters, and popular broadsheets reporting on particular executions. It is richly illustrated with the small panel paintings that were thrust into prisoners’ faces to distract them as they made the public journey to the gallows. Six interdisciplinary essays explain the contexts and meanings of these writings and of execution rituals generally. They explore the relation of execution rituals to late medieval street theater, the use of art to comfort the condemned, the literature that issued from prisons by the hands of condemned prisoners, the theological issues around public executions in the Renaissance, the psychological dimensions of the comforting process, and some of the social, political, and historical dimensions of executions and comforting in Renaissance Italy.

Book The Classics of International Law

Download or read book The Classics of International Law written by James Brown Scott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New General Biographical Dictionary

Download or read book A New General Biographical Dictionary written by Hugh James Rose and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: