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The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby

Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became the subject of widespread devotion, ranging from the saint's tomb in Brittany to cult centers in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Latin America, where Vincent is still venerated today. Along the way, Smoller traces the long and sometimes contentious process of establishing a stable image of a new saint.Vincent came to be epitomized by a singularly arresting miracle tale in which a mother kil...

Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540

Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art of dying" (ars moriendi). An educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of families and households but also to the practices of cultural memory, the building of institutions, and the good government of the city itself. In fifteenth-century London in particular...

Thomas Hoccleve
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Thomas Hoccleve

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Offers a significant new reading of the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve, illustrating Hoccleve's role in recasting Chaucer as a figure of intellectual and moral authority, and situating Hoccleve - and the nascent English literary tradition - firmly in the context of heresy and religious reform.

Matriarch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Matriarch

ÿ"Powerful and unforgettable." At the beginning of the twentieth century, the son of an English lord settles in Australia and marries an indigenous woman. It is an age when interracial relationships are not only misunderstood, but result in family conflict, disgrace, and disinheritance. Then the Christian missionaries come. They destroy the timeless culture and beliefs of Australia's indigenous people, leaving them to flounder in a soup of the white man's religious beliefs. The great-grandmother's telling of the family story is the nourishment that holds it together through war, and the constant battle to adjust and exist in a white man's world. The Christian missionaries will not tolerate ...

Universal History Americanised, Or, An Historical View of the World, from the Earliest Records to the Year 1808
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500
Madeline Clare; or, The important secret
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Madeline Clare; or, The important secret

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1856
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Feral
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Feral

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Edgar Degas in New Orleans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Edgar Degas in New Orleans

The grit and grandeur of New Orleans helped give rise to an icon of French Impressionism. Edgar Degas's mother was from New Orleans and from the time he buried her, he pined for Louisiana. In 1872, when he arrived, he found New Orleans wracked with devastation. He struggled with the conflict of helping his family' bankrupt cotton business, while pursuing his passion to paint. Amidst this turmoil, blossomed a tragic friendship with his blind sister-in-law, his beautiful muse. Edgar nearly went mad when he discovered his brother had gone through all the family money, and was having an affair with his wife's best friend. This book rips open the divide between Edgar and his brother that kept them from speaking for ten years, and led Edgar to start a new direction in his work: Impressionism.

Histoire universelle de l'église catholique
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 686

Histoire universelle de l'église catholique

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cornwall Parish Registers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Cornwall Parish Registers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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