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Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345303707
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)
Download or read book King of the Confessors written by Thomas Hoving and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684831481
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book False Impressions written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the world of art forgery, from ancient times to the present, sharing anecdotes about some of the costliest, most embarrassing forgeries ever, as well as the motives of the fakers.
Author : Nicole Reinhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198703686
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Voices of Conscience written by Nicole Reinhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the role of royal confessors as political counsellors in seventeenth-century Spain and France, and how, against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers.--Publishers description.
Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198202035
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster written by Frank Barlow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anonymous Life of King Edward written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provides a fascinating account of Edward the Confessor and his family, including his wife Edith, his father-in-law Earl Godwin, and the queen's brothers Tostig and Harold (who became king in 1066). The foundations of the legend of St. Edward the Confessor are apparent from the version of the work supplied by the unique manuscript of circa 1100. Barlow explores the problems raised by this anonymous and now incomplete manuscript and examines the development of the cult of St. Edward. He also investigates the life and works of Goscelin of St. Bertin, a possible author. For this second edition, Barlow has not only undertaken a complete revision of the book, but recent discoveries have enabled him to reconstruct in part the lacunae in BL Harley MS 526 with texts closer to the original.
Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671880756
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Making the Mummies Dance written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions.
Author : Tom Licence
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211546
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Tom Licence and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : Gregorius
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853232261
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Glory of the Confessors written by Gregorius and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation into English of one of Gregory's eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives of confessors.
Author : Richard Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Richard Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays, originating in the celebration of the millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth, is a full-scale reassessment of Edward's life and cult." --Book Jacket.
Author : Kelly Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995857841
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Confessor's Wife written by Kelly Evans and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 11th Century, when barren wives are customarily cast aside, how does Edith of Wessex not only manage to stay married to King Edward the Confessor, but also become his closest advisor, promote her family to the highest offices in the land, AND help raise her brother to the throne? And why is her story only told in the footnotes of Edward's history?Not everyone approves of Edward's choice of bride. Even the king's mother, Emma of Normandy, detests her daughter-in-law and Edith is soon on the receiving end of her displeasure. Balancing her sense of family obligation with her duty to her husband, Edith must also prove herself to her detractors. Edward's and Edith's relationship is respectful and caring, but when Edith's enemies engineer her family's fall from grace, the king is forced to send her away. She vows to do anything to protect her family's interests if she returns, at any cost. Can Edith navigate the dangerous path fate has set her, while still remaining loyal to both her husband and her family?
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Lives of Edward the Confessor written by Henry Richards Luard and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stellwagen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666736406
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Imagery of Scripture written by David Stellwagen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When God gives us blessings, he wants us to share them with others whenever possible. The joy that comes from giving and sharing is often priceless and beyond description. This is so relevant because this book is a blessing that must be shared with you. The Imagery of Scripture is about seeing the word of God with both new and ancient eyes. It will allow you to admire the Bible in a profound way, showing you the wonder of God’s word and how it points, in untold ways, to a place named Calvary.
Author : Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Saints & Confessors of the First Twelve Centuries written by Elizabeth Rundle Charles and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Rathbone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466876107
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Last English King written by Julian Rathbone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 27, 1066, Duke William of Normandy sailed for England with hundreds of ships and over 8,000 men. King Harold of England, weakened by a ferocious Viking invasion from the north, could muster little defense. At the Battle of Hastings of October 14, he was outflanked, quickly defeated, and killed by William's superior troops. The course of English history was altered forever. Three years later, Walt, King Harold's only surviving bodyguard, is still emotionally and physically scarred by the loss of his king and his country. Wandering through Asia Minor, headed vaguely for the Holy Land, he meets Quint, a renegade monk with a healthy line of skepticism and a hearty appetite for knowledge. It is he who persuades Walt, little by little, to tell his extraordinary story. And so begins a roller-coaster ride into an era of enduring fascination. Weaving fiction around fact, Julian Rathbone brings to vibrant, exciting, and often amusing life the shadowy figures and events that preceded the Norman Conquest. We see Edward, confessing far more than he ever did in the history books. We meet the warring nobles of Mercia and Wessex; Harold and his unruly clan; Canute's descendants with their delusions of grandeur; predatory men, pushy women, subdued Scots, and wily Welsh. And we meet William of Normandy, a psychotic thug with interesting plans for the "racial sanitation" of the Euroskeptics across the water. Peppered with discussions on philosophy, dentistry, democracy, devils, alcohol, illusions, and hygiene, The Last English King raises issues, both daring and delightful, that question the nature of history itself. Where are the lines between fact, interpretation, and re-creation? Did the French really stop for a two-hour lunch during the Battle of Hastings?
Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765315236
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Confessor written by Terry Goodkind and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.
Author : Jodi Bilinkoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721003
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Related Lives written by Jodi Bilinkoff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern age. Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy, Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how they constructed their own identities around their interactions with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests, offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.
Author : Robert Bireley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820172
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War written by Robert Bireley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to light the extent to which the Thirty Years War was a religious war.
Author : Norman Scarfe
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830689
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Suffolk in the Middle Ages written by Norman Scarfe and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.
