Priests of the French Revolution

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271060980
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Priests of the French Revolution by : Joseph F. Byrnes

Download or read book Priests of the French Revolution written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.

General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955

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Total Pages : 1238 pages
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Book Synopsis General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 by : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pope's Body

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226034379
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pope's Body by : Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani

Download or read book The Pope's Body written by Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.

Orestes

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627933212
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis Orestes by : Voltaire

Download or read book Orestes written by Voltaire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Studies in the Lancelot Legend

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Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Studies in the Lancelot Legend by : Ernst Soudek

Download or read book Studies in the Lancelot Legend written by Ernst Soudek and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life and Art in Prehistoric Thera

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Book Synopsis Life and Art in Prehistoric Thera by : Spyridon Marinatos

Download or read book Life and Art in Prehistoric Thera written by Spyridon Marinatos and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quarrying in Antiquity

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
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Book Synopsis Quarrying in Antiquity by : John Bryan Ward-Perkins

Download or read book Quarrying in Antiquity written by John Bryan Ward-Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wide survey over four millennia is possible for quarrying tools and techniques because of their simplicity and long-lived traditions. The chief contribution of the Romans was their organisation of the stone trade by mass production, standardisation and long-distance transport. Indeed, in post-Roman Europe, especially in Britain, it was the excellence of Roman building stone which allowed so much subsequent 'quarrying' in the buildings themselves. One exception in Saxon times was the quarry for Bradford-on-Avon's church. With the 12th-century spurt in church building activity, however, natural stone quarries once more became common and distribution methods familiar to the Roman world re-emerged." - COPAC.

Later Roman Egypt

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Book Synopsis Later Roman Egypt by : Roger S. Bagnall

Download or read book Later Roman Egypt written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt by Roger Bagnall, whose book 'Egypt in Late Antiquity' has helped to bring this region and this evidence into the mainstream of historical debate. In these studies some of the main themes of his work are visible, in particular attempts to explore the possibilities for quantifying not only questions like the burden of taxation or the distribution of land-ownership, but more tantalizing and controversial matters like the rate at which the population of Egypt was Christianized.

Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Book Synopsis Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans by : Jaan Puhvel

Download or read book Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Result Of The Ongoing Activity Centered On Discovering And Understanding The Mythic, Religions, Social And Legal Underpinnings Of The Ancient Indo-European-Speaking Continuum In Terms Of Their Oldest Or Most Archaic Manifestations. Without Dustcover, Spine Slightly Damaged At Bottom, Ex-Libris, Usual Library Stamps And Markings, Text Absolutely Clean, Condition Good.

Contra Patarenos

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414000X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Contra Patarenos by : Hugo Eterianus

Download or read book Contra Patarenos written by Hugo Eterianus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cathars and Patarenes were spreading in western Europe, the Pisan scholar Hugh Eteriano, adviser to Manuel Comnenus on western church affairs, found a group of Patarenes among the western residents in Constantinople and wrote this previously unpublished treatise about them.

New Medieval Literatures

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Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
ISBN 13 : 9780198187387
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Book Synopsis New Medieval Literatures by : Wendy Scase

Download or read book New Medieval Literatures written by Wendy Scase and published by New Medieval Literatures. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.

Theological Incorrectness

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198044283
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Theological Incorrectness by : Jason Slone

Download or read book Theological Incorrectness written by Jason Slone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs? D. Jason Slone terms this phenomenon "theological incorrectness." He argues that it exists because the mind is built in such a way that it's natural for us to think divergent thoughts simultaneously. Human minds are great at coming up with innovative ideas that help them make sense of the world, he says, but those ideas do not always jibe with official religious beliefs. From this fact we derive the important lesson that what we learn from our environment -- religious ideas, for example -- does not necessarily cause us to behave in ways consistent with that knowledge. Slone presents the latest discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious people do and think things that they shouldn't.

Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity

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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161491221
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Book Synopsis Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity by : Eduard Iricinschi

Download or read book Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity written by Eduard Iricinschi and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers collected in this volume shift the focus away from "heretics" and "heresy" to heresiological discourse, by contextualizing the late antique Jewish and Christian groups that produced our extant literature. The contributors to the volume draw from multiple literary corpora and genres, bringing a variety of late antique perspective to explore the discursive construction of the Other. They unravel ethnic identities, and re-create the multiple voices textured in the dialogue between the "orthodox" and "heretical" writers."--BOOK JACKET.

The Defense of Western Europe

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Publisher : Auburn House
ISBN 13 : 9780865691599
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Book Synopsis The Defense of Western Europe by : Lewis H. Gann

Download or read book The Defense of Western Europe written by Lewis H. Gann and published by Auburn House. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Western Europe became closely linked to the United States--economically through a variety of associations within the Atlantic Community, and militarily through NATO. This volume stresses the strategic importance of Western Europe for the United States. It provides detailed surveys of the background and preparedness of the NATO defense forces and the forces of Austria, Switzerland, and other countries of strategic importance. Each chapter provides a general outline of military developments since 1945, including such topics as: the relationship between armed forces and society; recruitment practices; armaments; organization; relations with NATO; and future projections. The authoritative series of descriptive, historical, and analytical essays in this volume makes it an essential resource for defense specialists, policymakers, and scholars of Western Europe.

Amis and Amiloun

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Publisher : Early English Text Society
ISBN 13 : 9780859919371
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Amis and Amiloun by : MacEdward Leach

Download or read book Amis and Amiloun written by MacEdward Leach and published by Early English Text Society. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The York Corpus Christi Plays

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444539
Total Pages : 616 pages
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Book Synopsis The York Corpus Christi Plays by : Clifford Davidson

Download or read book The York Corpus Christi Plays written by Clifford Davidson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the "cultus Dei" thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus the "invisible things" of the divine order "from the creation of the world" might be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.

Touched by Fire

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Book Synopsis Touched by Fire by : Elliott Leyton

Download or read book Touched by Fire written by Elliott Leyton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not. They are the "smoke jumpers" among international aid organizations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the men and women of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) move in. They provide food and clean water. They dig latrines. They set up first-aid stations and field hospitals. They treat all-comers according to need. Often they are the last to remain in situations abandoned by others as too dangerous. The risks they take are moral and ethical as well as mortal. They are acutely aware that giving aid is controversial. Does it really do any good to save a child from murder one day when it will probably starve in the weeks ahead? Is it appropriate to bring expensive western medicine into a country that, in the long run, can't afford it? Should relief be given to civilians who are being starved on purpose, as part of a cynical political game, by a local warlord? Elliot Leyton and Greg Locke saw something of the implications of these and other questions when they travelled to Rwanda in the fall of 1996. There they found themselves plunged into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Hundreds of thousands of people were on the move. Armed militias and hostile armies lurked in the background. Mass starvation, plague, and an eruption into civil or criminal violence were immediate possibilities. The two Canadians, one an internationally recognized expert on the psychology of killing, the other an experienced photo-journalist, had a rare opportunity to observe MSF in action at a timewhen the stress was enormous and its resources were stretched to the limit. They watched and listened, to the perpetrators of violence and their victims, to the survivors and those who gave them assistance, and, above all, to the people of MSF who dedicate themselves to saving lives because, in the words of one MSFer: "The world can afford a humanitarian ideal." The result of Leyton and Locke's research is an extraordinary written and visual record of small miracles performed in the midst of catastrophe.