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Book Synopsis Jenatsch's Axe by : Randolph Conrad Head
Download or read book Jenatsch's Axe written by Randolph Conrad Head and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging volume, Randolph C. Head traces the career of an extraordinarily adaptable and ruthless figure, George Jenatsch (1596-1639). Born a Protestant pastor's son, Jenatsch's career took him from the clergy to the military to the nobility. A passionate Calvinist in his youth, he converted to Catholicism and prudence as his power grew. A native speaker of the Romansh language, he crossed the boundaries of language and local loyalty in his service to France, Venice, and his own people. Violence marked every turning point of his life. After fleeing the "Holy Massacre" of Protestants in the Valtellina in 1620, Jenatsch helped assassinate the powerful Pompeius von Planta, in 1621, using an axe. He killed his commanding officer in a duel in 1629, and his own life ended in a tavern in 1639 when he was murdered -- with an axe -- by a man dressed as a bear. After his death, myth took over. Rumors spread that Jenatsch was killed by the same axe that he had wielded on von Planta -- and from there the story only got better, culminating in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's celebrated 1876 novel, Jurg Jenatsch. This study meticulously traces the social boundaries that characterized seventeenth-century Europe -- region, religion, social state, and kinship -- by analyzing a distinctive life that crossed them all. Professor Randolph C. Head teaches European History at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons.
Book Synopsis Strange Ways to Die in History by : Ben Gazur
Download or read book Strange Ways to Die in History written by Ben Gazur and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordinary, unusual, and downright weird demises. In Strange Ways to Die in History you will find out about the true stories behind unlikely stories of bizarre accidents, assassinations, and misadventures. Did a playwright really die from a tortoise being dropped on his head by an eagle? Why did an English vicar end up being eaten by lions? And what are the chances of fatality from falling into a toilet? Looking at the lives that came before the deaths reveals some of histories most fascinating individuals. Some of those examined are well known. Some are remembered only for the odd way they departed this life. Some have been forgotten entirely. Sometimes how a person dies, and how history has recorded the event, can tell us a lot about society and how we remember. This book uncovers eye-witnesses to the deaths described and contemporary reports from those who were left behind.
Book Synopsis JÃ1?4rg Jenatsch by : Carl Ferdinand Meyer
Download or read book JÃ1?4rg Jenatsch written by Carl Ferdinand Meyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jürg Jenatsch (1596-1638) was one of the most controversial figures of the Thirty Years War (1618'1648), preacher, soldier, statesman, a traitor and heretic to some, a patriot and saviour to others. In Swiss history he became the man who pitted his wits against the mighty Richelieu and the Crown of Spain, playing one against the other and rescuing his country from foreign occupation.C.F. Meyer's historical but timeless novel of 1897 tells his story with unique insights into the man and the turbulent times he lived in.The story of the axe is found in chronicles written within weeks of his death. Jenatsch's body was exhumed in 1959, his skull split and remnants of his bloodied clothes still on him. Only recently have official protocols of the incident come to light, naming Bartolomi Wirtsch as the murderer, a member of the Haltenstein brotherhood, closely associated with the Von Plantas.
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Book Synopsis The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer by : Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Download or read book The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer written by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1976-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the eleven novellas of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer from the German into English is the first attempt to make the entire body of his narrative prose available to the English reader in complete and unified form.
Book Synopsis 1635: The Papal Stakes by : Eric Flint
Download or read book 1635: The Papal Stakes written by Eric Flint and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #15 in the multiple best-selling Ring of Fire Series. It's springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it's no Roman holiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna. They're in the clutches of would be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope¾Urban VII¾on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need it quickly. Special rescue teams¾including Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew¾converge on Rome to extract Frank and Gia. And an uptime airplane is on its way to spirit the Pope to safety before Borgia's assassins can find him. It seems that everything is going to work out just fine in sunny Italy. Until, that is, everything goes wrong. Now, whether they are prisoners in Rome or renegades protecting a pope on the run, it's up to the rough and ready can do attitude of Grantville natives to once again escape the clutches of aristocratic skullduggery and ring in freedom for a war torn land. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Book Synopsis Assassins’ Deeds by : John Withington
Download or read book Assassins’ Deeds written by John Withington and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assassins have been killing the powerful and famous for at least three thousand years. Personal ambition, revenge, and anger have encouraged many to violent deeds, like the Turkish sultan who had nineteen of his brothers strangled or the bodyguards who murdered a dozen Roman emperors. More recently have come new motives like religious and political fanaticism, revolution and liberation, with governments also getting in on the act, while many victims seem to have been surprisingly careless: Abraham Lincoln was killed after letting his bodyguard go for a drink. So, do assassinations work? Drawing on anecdote, historical evidence, and statistical analysis, Assassins’ Deeds delves into some of history’s most notorious acts, unveiling an intriguing cast of characters, ingenious methods of killing, and many unintended consequences.
Book Synopsis Rituality and Social (Dis)Order by : Alessandro Testa
Download or read book Rituality and Social (Dis)Order written by Alessandro Testa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic diversity, and sundry social configurations make it an exceptional object of cultural analysis. The product of more than 12 years of research, this book is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival in the English language, with a focus on its symbolic, religious, and political dimensions and transformations throughout the centuries. It builds on a variety of theories of social change and social structures, questioning existing assumptions about what folklore is and how cultural gaps and differences take shape and reproduce through ritual forms of collective action. It also challenges recent interpretations about the performative and political dimension of European festive culture, especially in its carnivalesque declension. While presenting and exploring the most important features and characteristics of European pre-modern Carnival and discussing its origins and developments, this thorough study offers fresh evidence and up-to-date analyses about its transversal and long-lasting significance in European societies.
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to German Literature by : Henry Burnand Garland
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to German Literature written by Henry Burnand Garland and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers, in alphabetical sequence, a series of concise biographies, critical surveys of writers, and synopses of literary works.
Book Synopsis A Wayfarer in Switzerland by : James Fullarton Muirhead
Download or read book A Wayfarer in Switzerland written by James Fullarton Muirhead and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Motion Picture Guide by : Jay Robert Nash
Download or read book The Motion Picture Guide written by Jay Robert Nash and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Freud by : Alexander Grinstein
Download or read book Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Freud written by Alexander Grinstein and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Swiss Reformation by : Amy Nelson Burnett
Download or read book A Companion to the Swiss Reformation written by Amy Nelson Burnett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Swiss Reformation presents the varied form taken by the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland over the course of the sixteenth century, highlighting regional differences as well as consequences for the Swiss Confederation as a whole.
Book Synopsis „And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“ by : Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt
Download or read book „And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“ written by Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt and published by disserta Verlag. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This voluminous work on Church History by Philip Schaff (1819-1893) was originally published between 1858 and 1893 in eight volumes in the USA and covers the period from the beginnings of Biblical Christianity in A.D. 1 to the History of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (1517-1648). Being still a popular text in North America, this work had been out of print for over a century and has now been carefully edited and reformatted for republication in four volumes, each of them containing the text of two volumes of the original edition. Schaff’s work, unlike other works in the field, covers a multitude of church history-related aspects - from church doctrine, policy, events and processes to aspects of social moral and family life, arts and more. This is the fourth and final volume in this series and is a special edition covering the period of the Reformation from 1517-1648 that ends with the Peace Treaty concluded 1648 in Münster, Westphalia, following the long period of the Thirty-Year War.
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Download or read book The Journal of English and Germanic Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
