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Book Synopsis Battling Demons by : Michael D. Bailey
Download or read book Battling Demons written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of this volume which places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the centre of an emerging set of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the 15th century.
Download or read book Binding Words written by Don C. Skemer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middle Ages, textual amulets--short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body--were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. In Binding Words, Don C. Skemer provides the first book-length study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words. Textual amulets were a unique source of empowerment, promising the believer safe passage through a precarious world by means of an ever-changing mix of scriptural quotations, divine names, common prayers, and liturgical formulas. Although theologians and canon lawyers frequently derided textual amulets as ignorant superstition, many literate clergy played a central role in producing and disseminating them. The texts were, in turn, embraced by a broad cross-section of Western Europe. Saints and parish priests, physicians and village healers, landowners and peasants alike believed in their efficacy. Skemer offers careful analysis of several dozen surviving textual amulets along with other contemporary medieval source materials. In the process, Binding Words enriches our understanding of popular religion and magic in everyday medieval life.
Book Synopsis Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe by : Barry Coward
Download or read book Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe written by Barry Coward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many generations, Guy Fawkes and his gunpowder plot, the 'Man in the Iron Mask' and the 'Devils of Loudun' have offered some of the most compelling images of the early modern period. Conspiracies, real or imagined, were an essential feature of early modern life, offering a seemingly rational and convincing explanation for patterns of political and social behaviour. This volume examines conspiracies and conspiracy theory from a broad historical and interdisciplinary perspective, by combining the theoretical approach of the history of ideas with specific examples from the period. Each contribution addresses a number of common themes, such as the popularity of conspiracy theory as a mode of explanation through a series of original case studies. Individual chapters examine, for example, why witches, religious minorities and other groups were perceived in conspiratorial terms, and how far, if at all, these attitudes were challenged or redefined by the Enlightenment. Cultural influences on conspiracy theory are also discussed, particularly in those chapters dealing with the relationship between literature and politics. As prevailing notions of royal sovereignty equated open opposition with treason, almost any political activity had to be clandestine in nature, and conspiracy theory was central to interpretations of early modern politics. Factions and cabals abounded in European courts as a result, and their actions were frequently interpreted in conspiratorial terms. By the late eighteenth century it seemed as if this had begun to change, and in Britain in particular the notion of a 'loyal opposition' had begun to take shape. Yet the outbreak of the French Revolution was frequently explained in conspiratorial terms, and subsequently European rulers and their subjects remained obsessed with conspiracies both real and imagined. This volume helps us to understand why.
Book Synopsis Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada by : Royal Society of Canada
Download or read book Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Modern Beauty by : Richard R. Brettell
Download or read book On Modern Beauty written by Richard R. Brettell and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne. As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern beauty head-on. This is not a study of aesthetic philosophy, but rather a richly contextualized look at the ambitions of specific artists and artworks at a particular time and place. Brettell shapes his manifesto around three masterworks from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring), Paul Gauguin’s Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), and Paul Cézanne’s Young Italian Woman at a Table. The provocative discussion reveals how each of these exceptional paintings, though depicting very different subjects—a fashionable actress, a preserved head, and a weary working woman—enacts a revolutionary, yet enduring, icon of beauty.
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Institut national genevois
Download or read book Bulletin written by Institut national genevois and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto by : Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Download or read book Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto written by Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences by :
Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada by : Royal Society of Canada
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes Upon Dancing, Historical and Practical by : Carlo Blasis
Download or read book Notes Upon Dancing, Historical and Practical written by Carlo Blasis and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Andre Gide and Curiosity by : Victoria Reid
Download or read book Andre Gide and Curiosity written by Victoria Reid and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of André Gide (1869-1951) is an important modernist contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural studies more broadly. Curiosity was a credo for Gide. By observing the world and then manifesting in writing these observations, he stimulates the curiosity of readers, conceived as virtual conduits of a curiosity once his own. Using a thematic structure of sexual, scientific and writerly curiosity, this volume identifies processes of curiosity in the life-writing (including the travel-writing) which illuminate processes in the fiction, and vice versa. Theories of fetishism, gender and sexuality are applied to Gide's corpus to illustrate his championing of a masculine curiosity of enlightenment and adventure over a feminised 'curiosité-défaillance' of disobedience and harm, and to explore objects eliciting his incuriosity. Gide's creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his work informed by Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic writing on epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gide's subject matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gide's oeuvre, published 1996-2009.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
Book Synopsis Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Download or read book Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Book Synopsis The Devils of Loudun by : Aldous Huxley
Download or read book The Devils of Loudun written by Aldous Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
Book Synopsis Dictionnaire Francois-anglois Et Anglois-francois, an Abrege, Par A. Boyer ... Premiére Partie [-second] by :
Download or read book Dictionnaire Francois-anglois Et Anglois-francois, an Abrege, Par A. Boyer ... Premiére Partie [-second] written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... The Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected, Etc by : Abel BOYER
Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... The Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected, Etc written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... The Third Edition, Carefully Corrected and Improv'd, Etc by : Abel BOYER
Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... The Third Edition, Carefully Corrected and Improv'd, Etc written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1715 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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