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The Parchment

Author : Gerald McLaughlin
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511022
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment written by Gerald McLaughlin and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2005 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is A.D. 70, and Evardus, a wine merchant from Gaul, has encountered a dying rabbi on a road outside of Jerusalem. With his final breaths, the old man urgently tells Evardus that Jewish priests have spirited sacred objects and records away from Herod's Temple in the hope of keeping them out of the hands of Roman soldiers--who are, at that very moment, attacking Jerusalem and destroying the Jews' most holy site. The merchant learns of a copper scroll hidden beneath the Holy of Holies and a map that leads to the holy objects. A thousand years later, while on a Crusade to Palestine, a descendant of the merchant finally uncovers those secrets below the temple. They include an astonishing parchment that threatens the very foundations of the Church and Christianity. The grand master of the Templars develops a scheme to advance the interests of his order, but the plan has devastating consequences. The parchment survives, however, and for nearly a millennium remains hidden in plain sight. With the dawning of the twenty-first century and pivotal world events, two American professors discover the document while researching a book. Like those before, they are tempted to use it for their own purposes. The course they pursue leads to unforeseen consequences that affect events in the Middle East and a crucial turning point for the Vatican. Gerald McLaughlin shows us a rich, haunting tableau that spans two thousand years. We are given a timely glimpse into the often-disastrous ways that we tend to deal with faith when confronted by fear and ambition, and how moral choices are made in the face of the continuing battle between good and evil--both in ourselves and in the world. Ultimately, the author shines a light of profound hope and faith into the darkest recesses of the human soul, our modern life, and world events.

Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia

Author : Ronald Deibert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780585041407
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia written by Ronald Deibert and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transf

The notebook of Elbert Hubbard; mottoes, epigrams, short essays, orphic sayings and preachemnts, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

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Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The notebook of Elbert Hubbard; mottoes, epigrams, short essays, orphic sayings and preachemnts, coined from a life of love, laughter and work written by Elbert Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sealed in Parchment

Author : Sandra Hindman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226341569
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Sealed in Parchment written by Sandra Hindman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet—inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

A Parchment of Leaves

Author : Silas House
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202912
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Parchment of Leaves written by Silas House and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere in between-established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery, dialect, music, and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him.

Parchment, Paper, Pixels

Author : Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226803074
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Parchment, Paper, Pixels written by Peter M. Tiersma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily become static and the textual practices of the legal profession can frustrate ordinary citizens, who may be bound by documents whose implications they scarcely understand. Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers an engaging exploration of the impact of three technological revolutions on the law. Beginning with the invention of writing, continuing with the mass production of identical copies of legal texts brought about by the printing press, and ending with a discussion of computers and the Internet, Peter M. Tiersma traces the journey of contracts, wills, statutes, judicial opinions, and other legal texts through the past and into the future. Though the ultimate effects of modern technologies on our legal system remain to be seen, Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers readers an insightful guide as to how our shifting forms of technological literacy have shaped and continue to shape the practice of law today.

A Companion to the History of the Book

Author : Simon Eliot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444356585
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the History of the Book written by Simon Eliot and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

On Parchment

Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260210
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book On Parchment written by Bruce Holsinger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.

Parchment The Architecture of the Written Word

Author : Ary S. Jr.
Publisher : Ary S. Jr.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Parchment The Architecture of the Written Word written by Ary S. Jr. and published by Ary S. Jr.. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parchment The Architecture of the Written Word" is a guide to the history and creation of parchment, as well as the conservation and restoration techniques used to preserve these valuable and fragile documents. The book explores the rich cultural and historical significance of parchment and its continuing importance as a medium for recording art and history.

The Parchment Paper Cookbook

Author : Brette Sember
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440529469
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment Paper Cookbook written by Brette Sember and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could whip up healthy, mouthwatering meals that your family loved--without making a mess? Well, it's as easy as parchment paper. You'll find that cooking in parchment paper is akin to cooking in foil--if foil were French, fast, and environmentally friendly. In this cookbook, award-winning author and food writer Brette Sember shows you how parchment paper cooking can revolutionize the way you cook--and save you time and money, not to mention the grief that often accompanies dinnertime. With simple instructions on the art of parchment paper folding and preparation, you'll fold your way to your family's hearts with such nutritious, delicious offerings as: Swedish Meatballs Thai Chicken with Lemongrass and Coconut Rice Stuffed Flank Steak Scallops Coquilles Lamb and Yogurt Wraps Artichoke Pizza Portobellos with Goat Cheese and Spinach Quick Baclava Peach Pie Turnovers You can forget dirty pots and pans. With this cookbook, dinner just got easier, faster, cleaner--and tastier!

Footprints in Parchment

Author : Sandra Sweeny Silver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1481733737
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Footprints in Parchment written by Sandra Sweeny Silver and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footprints in Parchment Rome Versus Christianity 30-313 AD masterfully tackles the question: How did a group of Christians with no homeland and no standing army defeat the juggernaut of ancient Rome? Using hundreds of first-hand accounts of events, Silver guides the reader through the rise and the reach of Imperial Rome to its eventual ruin and rescue by the infant Christian Church. Over a three hundred year period Rome killed tens of thousands of Christians in an attempt to eradicate this new religion that it correctly intuited would bring Rome to its knees. Tertullian had said in the early 200's, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." Why did Rome kill all those people just because they believed in a Jewish carpenter from an obscure part of her Empire and why did so many Christians willingly die? The martyrs died for the religious freedom to publicly say the words "Christianus sum." "I am a Christian." They won that right. Rome Versus Christianity leads the reader down the road of Rome's decline and Christianity's rise. There are many fascinating sights along the way.

The Hermes Parchment

Author : Howard of Warwick
Publisher : The Funny Book Company
ISBN 13 : 1913383458
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Hermes Parchment written by Howard of Warwick and published by The Funny Book Company. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where goes the King’s Investigator, there goes death; by murder, usually. The author of the Best Selling The Heretics of De'Ath and other tales too numerous to be polite, does not know when to stop. Despite his protestations that disaster is inevitable, Brother Hermitage travels to Lincoln to sort out a library. It’s the task of his dreams, even if he’s reasonably confident that someone will get murdered in the process. And there are several candidates. One of those troublesome Norman soldiers in the tavern? The king’s tenant-in-chief, Lord Colesvain, who has just forced the whole town to build his house for him? Colesvain’s objectionable son, Picot, who has a rather unhealthy interest in “illustrated” literature? But a library should be safe enough; apart from the librarian obsessed with books on sorcery and magic, obviously. Delving in the bottom of a box of books delivered from a long-lost monastery, Hermitage discovers the great Hermes Parchment and the whole world goes mad. Hermitage, Wat and Cwen become embroiled in events that were pretty embroiled to begin with.There are wise men of the woods who turn out to be no such thing, and suggestions of an evil secret hidden in the parchment’s pages just waiting to be released. And a dead body turns up. Just as Hermitage said it would. Told you so. It’s yet another outing for the world’s most medieval detective. "very good indeed, brilliant," BBC Coventry and Warwick 5* Hilarious 5* Like Pratchett does 1066 5* Laugh out loud with a good mystery. 1* Stupid

A Parchment Paper Thanksgiving

Author : Brette Sember
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440532036
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A Parchment Paper Thanksgiving written by Brette Sember and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget those dirty pots and pans this holiday season - getting a great turkey dinner on the table is as easy as pie with parchment paper! In A Parchment Paper Thanksgiving award-winning author and food writer Brette Sember shows you how parchment paper cooking can revolutionize the way you cook a holiday feast. Save time, money, and sanity!

Parchment Craft - A Guide to Using Parchment in the Making of Cards, Book Marks, Lampshades, and All Manner of Other Projects

Author : Frederick T. Day
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447481593
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Parchment Craft - A Guide to Using Parchment in the Making of Cards, Book Marks, Lampshades, and All Manner of Other Projects written by Frederick T. Day and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual illustrated manual is a complete how-to guide to craft work using parchment. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606

Author : Gerard A. Wiegers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685278
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606 written by Gerard A. Wiegers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves of the "Valparaíso" hillock, from then on called "Sacromonte". They became the object of heated discussions in Europe and were condemned by the Pope in 1682. The texts are among the very last literary productions of the Moriscos, the Andalusi Muslims, many of whom continued to practice Islam in secret until their expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. With the permission of the archbishop of Granada, we offer, for the first time in history, a study, edition, translation, and images of all the tablets and shed new light on the fascinating religious messages of these enigmatic texts and their authors.

Lampshades Made Using Parchment - An Illustrated Guide for the Home Craft Enthusiast

Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473356075
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Lampshades Made Using Parchment - An Illustrated Guide for the Home Craft Enthusiast written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy book contains step-by-step information to making a range of lampshades from parchment and paper. It is extensively illustrated with black and white drawings forming a complete how-to guide for the home crafter. Contents Include: How to Make Parchment Shades, How to Decorate Parchment Shades, How to Prepare and Lacquer Papers, Three Lampshades Made with Parchment. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink

Author : Marc Michael Epstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140086562X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink written by Marc Michael Epstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all time—including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts—the book introduces readers to the history of these manuscripts and their interpretation. Edited by Marc Michael Epstein with contributions from leading experts, this sumptuous volume features a lively and informative text, showing how Jewish aesthetic tastes and iconography overlapped with and diverged from those of Christianity, Islam, and other traditions. Featured manuscripts were commissioned by Jews and produced by Jews and non-Jews over many centuries, and represent Eastern and Western perspectives and the views of both pietistic and liberal communities across the Diaspora, including Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Africa. Magnificently illustrated with pages from hundreds of manuscripts, many previously unpublished or rarely seen, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, presenting the books of the People of the Book as never before.