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Anna of Saxony

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Author : Ingrun Mann
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1945430257
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Anna of Saxony written by Ingrun Mann and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her early youth at the glittering court of Dresden, Anna had been known as a difficult child and troublemaker. Servants complained about her violent outbursts, while courtiers bemoaned her general disregard for aristocratic female etiquette. Upon reaching her teenage years, the princess’ guardians decided that Saxony’s enfant terrible should leave home as quickly as possible by marrying a foreign suitor in a preferably far-away land. Enter William of Orange: handsome, charming, and heir to one of the Netherlands’ largest estates. The fact that he was also a profligate partier and lover of women was conveniently overlooked. Anna immediately fell for the Dutch bon vivant despite warnings from a few well-meaning relatives. For one, William was a Catholic, while Anna adhered to the Protestant teachings of Martin Luther, critical voices cautioned, correctly predicting future trouble for the princess in the Catholic Netherlands. Furthermore, the prince’s liege lord, the fanatical Philip II of Spain, very much disapproved of a match between his premier vassal and a “Lutheran heretic.” There was also the issue of plain Anna’s growing obsession with the roguish William; an obsession that was not reciprocated. In the end, the impetuous princess threw caution to the wind. No other than William would do for a husband, she insisted, while publicly announcing that “every vein in my body heartily loves him.”

Panaceia's Daughters

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Author : Alisha Rankin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226925382
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Panaceia's Daughters written by Alisha Rankin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panaceia’s Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen’s healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen’s pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen’s pharmacy was bound up in notions of charity, class, religion, and household roles, as well as in expanding networks of knowledge and early forms of scientific experimentation. The opening chapters place noblewomen’s healing within the context of cultural exchange, experiential knowledge, and the widespread search for medicinal recipes in early modern Europe. Case studies of renowned healers Dorothea of Mansfeld and Anna of Saxony then demonstrate the value their pharmacy held in their respective roles as elderly widow and royal consort, while a study of the long-suffering Duchess Elisabeth of Rochlitz emphasizes the importance of experiential knowledge and medicinal remedies to the patient’s experience of illness.

Anna, Duchess of Cleves

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Author : Heather R. Darsie
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677113
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Anna, Duchess of Cleves written by Heather R. Darsie and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at Anne of Cleves’ life as a German noblewoman, and the Continental politics that affected her marriage. Did the doomed union really cause the fall and execution of Thomas Cromwell?

Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood

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Author : Tara Nummedal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295935
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood written by Tara Nummedal and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days. Boldly envisioning herself as a Protestant Virgin Mary, Anna proposed that the lion's blood, paired with her own body, could even generate life, repopulating and redeeming the corrupt world in its final moments. In Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood, Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet Anna Zieglerin. She situates Anna's story within the wider frameworks of Reformation Germany's religious, political, and military battles; the rising influence of alchemy; the role of apocalyptic eschatology; and the position of women within these contexts. Together with her husband, the jester Heinrich Schombach, and their companion and fellow alchemist Philipp Sommering, Anna promised her patrons at the court of Wolfenbüttel spiritual salvation and material profit. But her compelling vision brought with it another, darker possibility: rather than granting her patrons wealth or redemption, Anna's alchemical gifts might instead lead to war, disgrace, and destruction. By 1575, three years after Anna's arrival at court, her enemies had succeeded in turning her from holy alchemist into poisoner and sorceress, culminating in Anna's arrest, torture, and public execution. In her own life, Anna was a master of self-fashioning; in the centuries since her death, her story has been continually refashioned, making her a fitting emblem for each new age. Interweaving the history of science, gender, religion, and politics, Nummedal recounts how one resourceful woman's alchemical schemes touched some of the most consequential matters in Reformation Germany.

Frederik II and the Protestant Cause

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Author : Paul Douglas Lockhart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004137904
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Frederik II and the Protestant Cause written by Paul Douglas Lockhart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Danish foreign policy in the late sixteenth century examines the efforts of Denmark's King Frederik II (1559-88) to create an international alliance of European Protestants as protection against advances of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

The Drunken Silenus

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Author : Morgan Meis
Publisher : Slant Books
ISBN 13 : 1639820566
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Drunken Silenus written by Morgan Meis and published by Slant Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born and educated all over again--and why Rubens depicted him not as a character out of a farce, but as one whose plight evokes pity and compassion. The narrative spirals out from there, taking in the history of Antwerp, bloody seventeenth-century religious wars, tales of Rubens's father's near-execution for sleeping with William of Orange's wife, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the impossibility of there being any meaning to human life, and the destruction of all civilization by nefarious forces within ourselves. All of this is conveyed in language that crackles with intelligence, wit, and dark humor--a voice that at times sounds a bit tipsy and garrulous, but which ultimately asks us to confront the deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and hope in the face of death and tragedy.

History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages

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Author : Johannes Janssen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages written by Johannes Janssen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the Moderate Man of the Sixteenth Century

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Author : Ruth Putnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages

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Author : Johannes Janssen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages written by Johannes Janssen and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages: Economic, social, religious and moral conditions. Witchcraft and witch-persecution

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Author : Johannes Janssen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages: Economic, social, religious and moral conditions. Witchcraft and witch-persecution written by Johannes Janssen and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood

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Author : Tara Nummedal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250893
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood written by Tara Nummedal and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days. Boldly envisioning herself as a Protestant Virgin Mary, Anna proposed that the lion's blood, paired with her own body, could even generate life, repopulating and redeeming the corrupt world in its final moments. In Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood, Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet Anna Zieglerin. She situates Anna's story within the wider frameworks of Reformation Germany's religious, political, and military battles; the rising influence of alchemy; the role of apocalyptic eschatology; and the position of women within these contexts. Together with her husband, the jester Heinrich Schombach, and their companion and fellow alchemist Philipp Sommering, Anna promised her patrons at the court of Wolfenbüttel spiritual salvation and material profit. But her compelling vision brought with it another, darker possibility: rather than granting her patrons wealth or redemption, Anna's alchemical gifts might instead lead to war, disgrace, and destruction. By 1575, three years after Anna's arrival at court, her enemies had succeeded in turning her from holy alchemist into poisoner and sorceress, culminating in Anna's arrest, torture, and public execution. In her own life, Anna was a master of self-fashioning; in the centuries since her death, her story has been continually refashioned, making her a fitting emblem for each new age. Interweaving the history of science, gender, religion, and politics, Nummedal recounts how one resourceful woman's alchemical schemes touched some of the most consequential matters in Reformation Germany.

CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE,AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

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Author : BERNARD QUARITCH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE,AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING. written by BERNARD QUARITCH and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A General Catalog of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices

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Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices by Bernard Quaritch ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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A Century of Giants, A.D. 1500 to 1600

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Author : Ted Byfield
Publisher : CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
ISBN 13 : 9780968987391
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Giants, A.D. 1500 to 1600 written by Ted Byfield and published by CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT. This book was released on 2010 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts

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Author : Bernard Quaritch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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