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Dante and the Early Astronomer by Tracy Daugherty;
epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Daugherty;

Fig. 16. Dante’s universe as illustrated in Mary’s book Dante and the Early Astronomers. In The Divine Comedy, Dante added a ninth heaven, the Primum Mobile, a crystalline sphere, luminous ...
( Category: Renaissance June 28,2020 )
Aime Cesaire, une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphaël Confiant
epub |eng | 2019-01-05 | Author:Raphaël Confiant

( Category: Movements & Periods June 27,2020 )
A Theory of Narrative by Altman Rick;
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Altman, Rick;

For Bernard, the problem lies not with overtly secular arts and texts, but with beautiful objects that pander to human curiosity in the name of the church. A similar problem ...
( Category: Documentaries June 27,2020 )
Reading and Writing History From Bruni to Windschuttle: Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti by Christian Thorsten Callisen
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-27 | Author:Christian Thorsten Callisen

Chapter 7 The Uses of Natural Law in Early Modern Germany: Christian Thomasius’s Reshaping of the Legal Persona Ian Hunter Introduction In his comprehensive and illuminating reconstruction of the historical ...
( Category: Renaissance June 27,2020 )
Conversion Disorder by Webster Jamieson;
epub |eng | | Author:Webster, Jamieson;

VII COITUS INTERRUPTUS Hence the necessity of converting reflexive language. It must be directed not toward any inner confirmation—not toward a kind of central, unshakable certitude—but toward an outer bound ...
( Category: Feminist June 27,2020 )
The Kashf al-Mahjub (The Revelation of the Veiled) of Ali b. 'Uthman al-Jullãbi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism by Nicholson Reynold A
epub | | | Author:Nicholson, Reynold A.

8. THE KHARRÁZÍS. They are the followers of Abú Sa‘íd Kharráz, who wrote brilliant works on Ṣúfiism and attained a high degree in detachment from the world. He was the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 27,2020 )
On the Heavens (World Classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Aristotle

That the stars are spherical and are not selfmoved, has now been explained. Part 10 With their order-I mean the position of each, as involving the priority of some and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 27,2020 )
English Drama Before Shakespeare by Peter Happe;
epub |eng | 1999-06-15 | Author:Peter Happe;

II In this section we turn to a variety of interludes coming from the period 1510 to 1579. It is convenient to group them as follows: • political allegories: Youth, ...
( Category: Drama June 26,2020 )
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson
epub |eng | 2020-06-23 | Author:Diane Johnson

The victim had unwittingly revenged herself. He had stabbed her heart again and again, and drained it. He had battered this poor heart till it had become more like leather ...
( Category: Victorian June 24,2020 )
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium by Christopher Vaccaro
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Christopher Vaccaro [Vaccaro, Christopher]

Notes 1. Adapted from the conference paper “Blasphemy and the Creation of the Orcs” given at the 4th Annual Tolkien Conference at UVM, April 13–15, 2007. 2. Though published and ...
( Category: European June 23,2020 )
Digging the Past by Frances E. Dolan
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Frances E. Dolan

Figure 6. Hawthorn from Gerard’s Herbal. Reproduced by permission of the University of California, Davis, Special Collections Library. Like compost, dung, and manure, discussed in Chapter 1, the word “hedge” ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2020 )
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:W. H. Auden

The idea of such an action, a pure assertion of self-autonomy, seemed to Augustine to be the central problem of ethics. One acts not on a motive of pleasure or ...
( Category: Poetry June 17,2020 )
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Uhlman

10 HOW WELL I understood (and still understand) my father. How could he, or anyone else in the twentieth century, have believed in the Devil and in Hell? Or in ...
( Category: Jewish June 15,2020 )
Collected Poems: 1958-2015 by Clive James
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

The Carnival You can’t persuade the carnival to stay. Wish all you like, it has to go away. Don’t let the way it moves on get you down. If it ...
( Category: Renaissance June 15,2020 )
The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Honore de Balzac

14. A horrible and vulgar story OLD Fanchette was the only person in Issoudun who disliked the fact that Flore Brazier had become all-powerful in her master’s household. She protested ...
( Category: Victorian June 15,2020 )

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