epub |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Almond, Philip C. [Almond, Philip C.]

The Devil’s Mark In Protestant theology, and Calvinist thought in partic­ular, the relationship established between God and man was a covenantal one in which the terms were established by God ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:William Rosen

CHAPTER EIGHT “She-Wolf of France” 1313–1320 The twelve-year-old who had celebrated the nuptial mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1308 had been a girl; a royal princess, to be sure, but still ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Charles Eisenstein [Eisenstein, Charles]

And in Ecclesiastes 2:8 we read, … I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gathered me men-singers and women-singers, and ...

mobi | | | Author:Ian Morris

epub |eng | 2001-12-26 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

Barely was the ink dry on the pages of these books, however, than they were challenged. Challenged is perhaps too weak a word, for the view they represented was in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

Valerie Flint’s reconstruction of Columbus’ known reading shows that, in addition to Italian, he was adept at Latin, Castilian and Portuguese and that his books–many heavily annotated to the point ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Yuval Noah Harari [Harari, Yuval Noah]

The Law of Nature All the religions we have discussed so far share one important characteristic: they all focus on a belief in gods and other supernatural entities. This seems ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

CHAPTER XX The Literature of India I. THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA Sanskrit—The vernaculars—Grammar JUST as the philosophy and much of the literature of medieval Europe were composed in a dead ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

On June 9, 1772, at a country dance, Goethe met Kestner’s betrothed, Charlotte Buff. The next day he visited her, and found a new charm in womanhood. “Lotte,” then twenty, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. WOLSEY AND THE CHURCH He recognized and largely exemplified the abuses that still survived in the ecclesiastical life of England: absentee bishops, worldly clergymen, idle monks, and priests snared ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

He wrote to Mme. Denis asking her to come and live with him in his paradise. She wisely preferred Paris and younger gallants. She warned him against staying long in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

VII. INNOCENT VIII: 1484–92 The failure of Sixtus was confirmed by the chaos that ruled Rome after his death. Mobs sacked the papal granaries, broke into the banks of the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...