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De persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

De persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I's treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons's role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546–1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion, with rapidly revised versions bringing the narrative up to date after Campion's execution on 1 December 1581. Written in Latin to appeal to readers throughout Europe, it was translated into French, Italian a...

De Persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

De Persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.

"De Persecutione Anglicana has been described as the most famous martyrological work by an English Catholic during the Reformation period and is presented here for the first time in an accessible authoritative edition. Robert Persons (1546-1610) was a Jesuit activist, controversialist, missionary strategist and educationist whose importance has become increasingly appreciated over the past decades thanks to the rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies. His prolific work is well known and widely studied but his Latin writing is neglected as inaccessible to many scholars"--

Storyscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Storyscapes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

In Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart, André Brink's Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts - and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world - are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.

Alma Parens Originalis?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Alma Parens Originalis?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This original collection of articles, derived in part from the papers presented at the twenty-sixth biennial conference of the Classical Association of South Africa held at Durban and Pietermaritzburg 5-7 July 2005, explores a wide range of receptions of Classical ideas in the fiction, drama, poetry, history, opera, and popular culture of a number of countries from South Africa to Cuba. There is a strong emphasis on the use of Greek and Roman tragedy, especially Aeschylus Seven against Thebes, the Electra plays of Sophocles and Euripides, various reworkings of the figures of Antigone and Medea, and the dramatic style of Seneca, but the compendium also includes chapters on Platonism, Horatian...

The Anthropology of Drugs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

The Anthropology of Drugs

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear introduction to the anthropology of drugs, providing a cutting-edge and accessible overview of the topic. The authors examine and assess the following key topics: How drugs feature in anthropology and the work of anthropologists and the general role of drugs in society Comparison between biochemical and pharmacological approaches to drugs and bio-socio-cultural models of understanding drugs Evolutionary origins of psychotropic drug sensitivity and archaeological evidence for the spread of psychoactive substances in pre-history Drugs in spiritual and...

Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities

Since at least the fourth century CE, the Jewish historian Josephus’ Judean Antiquities has been assumed to be a critical source for valid extra-biblical evidence pertaining to the existence of the historical Jesus, James the Just and John the Baptist. Based on the latest findings from both contemporary and independent research, this book sets out, step by step, the final proof that (apart from the New Testament) there is absolutely no valid record pertaining to the historical existence of any of these individuals.

Augustinus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Augustinus

Augustinus was een van die grootste teoloe wat ooit geleef het.Sy lewe en geskrifte het die Westerse kerk-, teologie- en kultuurgekiedenis na hom radikaal beinvloed. In hierdie boek ondersoek die outeur die etiek van die kerkvader vanuit 'n populer-wetenskaplike oogpunt en hy wys veral op die betekenis daarvan vir Suidelike Afrika. Navorsers, studente en belangstellende lesers sal die boek insiggewend en inpirerend vind.

De Persecutione Anglicana
  • Language: en

De Persecutione Anglicana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"De Persecutione Anglicana has been described as the most famous martyrological work by an English Catholic during the Reformation period and is presented here for the first time in an accessible authoritative edition. Robert Persons (1546-1610) was a Jesuit activist, controversialist, missionary strategist and educationist whose importance has become increasingly appreciated over the past decades thanks to the rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies. His prolific work is well known and widely studied but his Latin writing is neglected as inaccessible to many scholars"--

De Persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.
  • Language: en

De Persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I's treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons's role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546-1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion, with rapidly revised versions bringing the narrative up to date after Campion's execution on 1 December 1581. Written in Latin to appeal to readers throughout Europe, it was translated into French, Italian an...

Acta classica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 674

Acta classica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vol. 1 is "Roman life and letters." Studies presented to T. J. Haarho ff.