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"Le tome IV du Devisement du monde retrace l'essentiel des déplacements de Marco Polo à travers l'empire de Khoubilai Khan. Le voyageur décrit des villes célèbres, situées à l'est, à proximité du Grand Canal, comme Dezhou, Jining ou Xuzhou. Mais surtout il nous fait descendre de Pékin jusqu'à l'extrême sud-ouest de la Chine. À le suivre on chemine vers Xian, l'ancienne cité du Premier Empereur, on atteint Chengdu, métropole du Sichuan, avant de gagner Kunming, capitale du Yunnan, aux confins glacés du Tibet et des forêts tropicales de Birmanie. ... .--P. [4] de la couv. du t. 4.
After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. From its inception in the Lukasbund of 1809, this art was controversial. It nonetheless succeeded in becoming a lingua franca in religious circles throughout Europe, America, and the world at large. This is the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of belief. The Nazarene quest for a modern religious id...
pt. 1. List of patentees.--pt. 2. Index to subjects of inventions.