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The A to Z of the Crusades by Corliss K. Slack
epub |eng | 2003-03-14 | Author:Corliss K. Slack

-J- JACOBITE CHRISTIANS. Jacob Baradaeus (c.500-578) was a peripatetic saint, born near Edessa, who traveled throughout the Byzantine Empire to ordain priests and bishops for the persecuted sect of the ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
About Time by Peter Pringle
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Peter Pringle

9 When the boat was not out fishing and tied at the pier, we’d sometimes disappear ‘for a pint’ out of town. That in itself was not a problem. And ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Margaret's Monsters by Heyes Michael E.;
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Heyes, Michael E.;

4 Circumcising Olibrius Threatening sexuality and religious alterity in the Life of St. Margaret In the first three chapters, I addressed monsters in Margaret’s narrative that were overtly inhuman. The ...
( Category: Biographies March 24,2020 )
Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Jean-Pierre de Caussade [Beevers, John]

If we wish to enjoy an abundance of blessings we have only one thing to do: purify our hearts by emptying them of all desire for created things and surrender ...
( Category: Mariology March 24,2020 )
Henry the Second by J. R. Green
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:J. R. Green

CHAPTER VI THE ASSIZE OF CLARENDON The flight of the archbishop marked the opening of a new phase in the struggle. Thomas sought refuge at the Papal Court at Sens. ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )
The Life of Nelson II by A. T. Mahan
epub |eng | 2016-08-07 | Author:A. T. Mahan [Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)]

Map of Sardinia During the previous war Nelson's attention had not been called much to Sardinia. Up to the withdrawal from the Mediterranean in 1796, Corsica had been a sufficient, ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )
The History Of Scotland Volume 6: From Bothwell To James VI. by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2013-01-05 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

We think of the king and his discourse, in Latin, with "Glenvarlochides," Nigel Oliphant, in the "Fortunes of Nigel." But Gowrie had been rather too well received by Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Lorenzo de Medici by Charles L. Mee Jr
epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Charles L. Mee, Jr. [Charles L. Mee, Jr.]

“I have set you at the center of the world,” Lorenzo de Medici’s friend Pico della Mirandola has God saying to humankind, “so that from there you may more easily ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Russian Revolution of 1917: The Essential Reference Guide by Sean N. Kalic Gates M. Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Sean N. Kalic,Gates M. Brown

Red Guards form a defensive line in Petrograd as the Bolsheviks work to solidify power during the Russian Revolution of 1917. (Keystone/Getty Images) On July 26, a prolonged government crisis ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Kuuliala Jenni; Rantala Jussi;
epub |eng | | Author:Kuuliala, Jenni; Rantala, Jussi;

9 The rise of St. James’ cult and the concept of pilgrimage Klaus Herbers Introduction Qui multum peregrinantur raro sanctificantur. Those who often go on a ­pilgrimage are seldom sanctified. ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Warfare and the Making of Early Medieval Italy (568-652) by Fabbro Eduardo;
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Fabbro, Eduardo;

4 To tame a land Authari left behind a kingdom on the make but also in midst of a crisis. The dual invasion of 590 had caused serious damage to ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
John Singer Sargent and His Muse by Karen Corsano & Daniel Williman
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Karen Corsano & Daniel Williman [Corsano, Karen & Williman, Daniel]

Figure 6.3. Paul Renouard, Learning to Be Blind. Paul Renouard was a master etcher of important scenes for the Parisian press and public. He found “the most moving models,” including ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 23,2020 )
Anti-Ugly by Gavin Stamp
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Gavin Stamp

Gothic Revival Obituaries are sometimes written too soon. Seventy years ago, Harry Goodhart-Rendel dated the death of the Gothic Revival – that vital national artistic movement he admired and understood ...
( Category: Architecture March 23,2020 )
The Individualized Society by Zygmunt Bauman
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Zygmunt Bauman

11 Identity in the globalizing world ‘There has been a veritable discursive explosion in recent years around the concept of “identity”,’ observed Stuart Hall in the introduction to a volume ...
( Category: Modern March 23,2020 )
Tony’s Ten Years by Adam Boulton
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Boulton [Boulton, Adam]

As the second term began, there was a general recognition that the relationship between the media and the government was in a dire state. Campbell was already talking privately to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 23,2020 )

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