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Book The Papacy  Quietism Zouaves  Pontifical

Download or read book The Papacy Quietism Zouaves Pontifical written by Philippe Levillain and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New American Cyclopaedia

Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New American Cyclopaedia

Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forty Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Booker
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-09-19
  • ISBN : 1000451097
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Forty Days written by John Booker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

Book Viaggio nel Sud  Viaggiatori stranieri in Sicilia

Download or read book Viaggio nel Sud Viaggiatori stranieri in Sicilia written by Emanuele Kanceff and published by CIRVI. This book was released on 1990 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Academy and Literature

Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Paris to Pompeii

Download or read book From Paris to Pompeii written by Göran Blix and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote to the French anxiety of amnesia that undermined faith in progress, and it armed writers from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Michelet and Renan with the intellectual tools needed to affirm the indestructible character of the past. From Paris to Pompeii reveals how the nascent science of archaeology lay at the core of the romantic experience of history and shaped the way historians, novelists, artists, and the public at large sought to cope with the relentless change that relegated every new present to history. In postrevolutionary France, the widespread desire to claim that no being, city, culture, or language was ever definitively erased ran much deeper than mere nostalgic and reactionary impulses. Göran Blix contends that this desire was the cornerstone of the substitution of a weak secular form of immortality for the lost certainties of the Christian afterlife. Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its central example, and ranging widely across French romantic culture, this book examines the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, and secular theology of memory, before turning to its broader political implications.

Book The New American Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New American Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Viaggio nel Sud

Download or read book Viaggio nel Sud written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geography and Travels

Download or read book Geography and Travels written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pompeii s Ashes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Moormann
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-03-10
  • ISBN : 1614519188
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Pompeii s Ashes written by Eric Moormann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library

    Book Details:
  • Author : Astor Library
  • Publisher : Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1140 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press. This book was released on 1886 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum written by Science museum libr and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Academy

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europeans writing the Mezzogiorno

Download or read book Europeans writing the Mezzogiorno written by Bernard Dieterle and published by Université de Saint-Etienne. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Catalogues

Download or read book Foreign Catalogues written by Williams & Norgate and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pathologies of Travel

Download or read book Pathologies of Travel written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here not only contribute to our understanding of the conception and application of a variety of medical ideas, showing how they depended on beliefs about climate and corporeal constitution as well as often inconsistent data or récits culled from travellers and geographically dispersed case histories, but also open up illuminatingly complex perspectives on the uncertainties and dangers of the phenomenon of modern travel.