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Download or read book Sacred Plunder written by David M. Perry and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
Book Synopsis Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law by : Edward Porter Humphrey
Download or read book Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law written by Edward Porter Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent by : Elisabeth Fischer
Download or read book Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent written by Elisabeth Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.
Book Synopsis Plunder of the Ancients by : Lucinda Schroeder
Download or read book Plunder of the Ancients written by Lucinda Schroeder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunder of the Ancients is a rare look inside an undercover investigation in which special agent Lucinda Schroeder reveals the details of her case in which she was assigned to expose Indian Art thieves and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who out of unmitigated greed, were exploiting sacred artifacts for huge sums of money. Her final task was to bring the criminals to justice; recover the sacred artifacts and return them to their rightful people. Plunder of the Ancients takes readers along on a dangerous and unprecedented assignment as Schroeder battles betrayal, evil spirits, and shape shifters for a cause she strongly believes in. Learn more at www.lucindaschroeder.com
Book Synopsis Hitler's Holy Relics by : Sidney Kirkpatrick
Download or read book Hitler's Holy Relics written by Sidney Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. This is the true-life Indiana Jones story of a college professor turned Army sleuth who foils a Nazi plot to preserve these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. Author Sidney Kirkpatrick draws on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents, including interrogation and intelligence reports, diaries and correspondence, as well as on interviews with all remaining living participants involved with the case, to re-create this thrilling true-life story.
Book Synopsis Tools and the Man by : Washington Gladden
Download or read book Tools and the Man written by Washington Gladden and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Desecrators of the Sacred Trust by : Bereket H. Selassie
Download or read book Desecrators of the Sacred Trust written by Bereket H. Selassie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two different leaders, with more contrasting characteristics. Comparing the two leaders from two countries with striking contrast in size, history and government structure may seem strange. America is a democratic republic with a constitution two hundred and thirty years old; Eritrea is a dictatorship ruled by an unelected former guerrilla leader who suppressed a ratified constitution and rules by decree. However, both leaders are dedicated to the destruction of, or at the very least, the demeaning of the primary values of the democratic epoch, namely, democracy and rule of law.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Civilization by : Rutherford Hamilton Towner
Download or read book The Philosophy of Civilization written by Rutherford Hamilton Towner and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Principles of Natural and Politic Law... by : Jean Jacques Burlamaqui
Download or read book The Principles of Natural and Politic Law... written by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cult of the Dead written by Kyle Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In this innovative cultural history, Kyle Smith shows how a devotion to death has shaped Christianity for two thousand years. For centuries, Christians have cared for their saints, curating their deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs’ stories, lurid legends of torture, have been told and retold, translated and rewritten. Martyrs’ bones are alive in the world, relics pulsing with wonder. Martyrs’ shrines are still visited by pilgrims, many in search of a miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time, with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint. From Roman antiquity to the present, by way of medieval England and the Protestant Reformation, Cult of the Dead tells the fascinating story of how the world’s most widespread religion is steeped in the memory of its martyrs.
Download or read book Stolen Words written by Mark Glickman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"-Title page verso.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Papacy by : William Ernest Beet
Download or read book The Rise of the Papacy written by William Ernest Beet and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Essayists by : Alexander Chalmers
Download or read book The British Essayists written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers by : British essayists
Download or read book The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers written by British essayists and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade by : Alfred Andrea
Download or read book Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade written by Alfred Andrea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents English translations of seven major bodies of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204). Combined, the different perspectives of these sources deepen our understanding of this complex and controversial moment in Western-Byzantine relations.
Book Synopsis Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 1 by : James Fieser
Download or read book Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 1 written by James Fieser and published by James Fieser. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the seventh in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Book Synopsis Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East by : Paul J. Kosmin
Download or read book Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East written by Paul J. Kosmin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor - in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely nativistic or 'nationalist', but conditioned by local traditions of government, historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent transregional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East is organized into three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized, and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms. The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The volume's final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.
