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In the summer of 1864, with the nation in the last years of a catastrophic Civil War the lives of a young Chaplain, a widowed Georgia farm woman and a legendary Union General converge during the final days of the Atlanta Campaign. This is the setting for my historical fiction novel A Still Small Voice. The Chaplain (Jeremiah Walters) and the widow (Anna Wainwright) are fictional while General William T Sherman is the historical figure. Through the relationship between Walters and Sherman the reader sees the issues of faith and belief in God through the eyes of the believer and the skeptic. In the relationship between Jeremiah and Anna the reader sees how two people deal with the loss of a spouse and how they are drawn closer to each other. There are cameo appearances by other fictional and historical figures. As a Civil War novel A Still Small Voice is unique in its treatment of the religious aspects of this period in our history. The idea for the novel came to me after reading The Memoirs of William T.Sherman, compiled by historian, William S. McFeely. The title of the book comes from the Bible (I Kings).
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the evolving role of the widow in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to women poets including Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, as a key model demonstrating to readers how to mourn and how to live well after devastating loss.
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Welcome back to Storm Cliff Stables! Ainsley, Cassidy, Khadija, and Ryleigh--the Four Horseketeers--can't wait to start their next summer at horse camp. Ainsley Stevens and the Four Horseketeers are battling it out with the Core Four. But will their pranks go too far? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650
This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.
Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new arc...
Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches used in early modern critical race studies through fresh readings of the plays; an exploration of new methodologies and archives; and sustained engagement with race in contemporary performance, adaptation, and activism.
Avery, Bree, Esha, and Jaelyn - the Core Four are ready for a perfect summer at Storm Cliff Stables! Avery is especially anxious for this summer's adventures to start, because Olympic gold medalist Anna Wainwright is coming to camp. Riding lessons from a pro! Autographed boots! But when the girls arrive, Anna is nowhere to be found. Everyone says not to worry, but Avery is convinced something has happened to her equestrian hero. Will #1 fan Avery be able to find Anna? And what happens if she does? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference Theatre History Studies is the official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Inc. (MATC). The conference is dedicated to the growth and improvement of all forms of theatre throughout a twelve-state region that includes the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Its purposes are to unite people and organizations within this region and elsewhere who have an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre. Published annually since 1981, Theatre History Studies provides critical, analytical, and descriptive essays on all a...