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Author : Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Bishop's Beggar written by Stephen Vincent Benét and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812575972
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priest has gone missing in Paris, and Bishop Blackie Ryan is sent to the rescue.
Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429912235
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling priest & novelist Andrew M. Greeley continues the tales of the intrepid Bishop Blackie Ryan with this absorbing & suspenseful mystery, set in France, of a missing beloved television priest. Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community. The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter with a brusque "See to it, Blackie." In Paris, Blackie meets a young and beautiful woman begging for money at the door of the church of St-Germain-des-Prés. When he hires her as a translator, she turns out to be an excellent Dr. Watson and a brilliant musician as well. She is at his side as Blackie learns that neither the Church nor the police are eager to have the saintly priest returned, and once the public discovers the disappearance of their beloved priest, the miracles start-and nothing scares the Church more than miracles. Undaunted, Blackie and his beautiful sidekick defy uncooperative Paris police, an unbending church, and reluctant witnesses to find the bizarre solution to one of the most fascinating puzzles he has ever encountered. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Daniel Folger Caner
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520344561
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Wandering, Begging Monks written by Daniel Folger Caner and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere—including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes—to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society.
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson ; with One Hundred and Twenty-seven Illustrations written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas McStay Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195364015
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Bureaucrats and Beggars written by Thomas McStay Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study, Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these so-called dépôts de mendicité, as seen by critics of the experiment (including learned judges and influential spokesmen of the provincial Estates) and as seen by those responsible for its success: the provincial intendants, the royal engineers, the doctors, the inspectors, the contractors, and various givers of advice. He shows how the debate--both internal and external--over the operation of the dépôts contributed to the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. The resulting web of reasoning and empirical data gave support to Montesquieu's principle that the state owes every one of its citizens "a secure subsistence, suitable food and clothing, and a manner of life that is not contrary to good health."
Author : Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226473239
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Beggar and the Professor written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings--diaries, travel journals, memoirs--Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter, born in France in 1499, and his sons, whose rich careers spanned the entire 16th century, from medieval times through the Renaissance and into the Reformation. 26 halftones. 5 maps.
Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207505
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Beggar Thy Neighbor written by Charles R. Geisst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Author : Donal A. Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198207375
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Nation of Beggars? written by Donal A. Kerr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Kerr's scholarly and incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between Church and State and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of bringing a golden age to Ireland.
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Lord Tennyson written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poems written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poetic and Dramatic Works written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred lord Tennyson [ed.] (by W.J. Rolfe). Cambr. ed written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003822118
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Book of Hours and the Body written by Sherry C. M. Lindquist and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
Author : Kevin Wells
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642291684
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Priest and Beggar written by Kevin Wells and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington, D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film. Squatters with blank stares picked through hills of garbage. Paper-fleshed orphans lay on the streets like leftover war shrapnel. The scenes pierced him. Within just fifteen years, Father Schwartz had changed the course of Korean history, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, schools, and the Sisters of Mary, a Korean religious order dedicated to the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. All the while, he himself—like the Sisters—lived the same hard poverty as the people he served and loved. Biographer Kevin Wells tells the story of a different kind of American hero, an ordinary priest who stared down corruption, slander, persecution, and death for the sake of God's poor. "What Father Al managed to do is beyond the pale", said his longtime collaborator Monsignor James Golasinski. "He was the boldest man I ever knew. He feared nothing." Known for his joy and his humor, even in the teeth of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Schwartz was declared a Servant of God by Pope Francis in 2015. By the time of his death in 1992, his work with the Sisters of Mary had spread to the Philippines and Mexico; and since then, the Sisters have founded Boystowns and Girlstowns across Central and South America, as well as in Tanzania. Father Schwartz died calling out to his beloved Mary, the Virgin of the Poor, saying, "All praise, honor, and glory for anything good accomplished in my life goes to her and to her alone." Includes 16 pages of photos.
