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The Captain's Concubine

Author : Donald Weinstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801877113
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Captain's Concubine written by Donald Weinstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 21, 1578, Holy Thursday, cavalier Fabrizio Bracciolini charged that he had been ambushed, slashed, stoned, and left bleeding in a Pistoia street by fellow cavalier Mariotto Cellesi and four accomplices. In The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany, Donald Weinstein studies the lengthy investigation of the incident, bares the motives of the actors, and follows the ensuing trial. Weinstein examines the roles of the patricians, merchants, shopkeepers, weavers, priests, and prostitutes who served as audience, bit players, and chorus in this Renaissance street-theater drama. When Fabrizio is revealed to be the lover of Chiara, the concubine of Mariotto's father, questioning moves away from the street fight itself to the right of the defendants to take revenge for violated family honor: accuser becomes accused, and a simple case of assault turns into a community's discussion of its most tenacious values. Lurching from comedy to tragedy and neglected even by local chroniclers, the Holy Thursday incident involved issues of honor, family, religion, gender relations, and power familiar to social historians of late medieval and early modern Europe. For the Medici ruler of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Holy Thursday affair presented a dilemma: bound to regard duels and street fights as threats to an all too fragile public order and a challenge to his sovereignty, Francesco I nevertheless respected and fostered the aristocratic code of honor, family loyalty, and chivalric valor to which the Cellesi appealed. How these contradictions were accommodated is a crucial part of the story Weinstein tells.

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament

Author : George V. Wigram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament written by George V. Wigram and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament

Author : George Vicesimus WIGRAM
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament written by George Vicesimus WIGRAM and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prince and His Concubine

Author : Wendell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426941595
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Prince and His Concubine written by Wendell and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown Prince Xiang Xu's life is regimented and predetermined by tradition from the day of his birth. The Prince of Yan, slated to be the next emperor, is bored with his life. But this disposition changes drastically when he and his cousin journey into the village incognito. Unexpectedly, the prince encounters Wei Lu, a woman who captures his interest and will one day become his soul mate. A member of a formerly wealthy family that has fallen on hard times, Wei Lu now works in a sandal factory to help her elderly and ailing parents. In exchange for financial support for her parents, Wei Lu agrees to become Xiang Xu's concubine his first and only love. She vows to bear him many children. But the couple, so devoted to each other, faces many challenges in their unusual relationship. The vagaries of war, assassination attempts, and treachery are part of the culture in which they live, and only time will tell whether their love will last.

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based on the unpubl. work of W. De Burgh, ed. by G.V. Wigram.].

Author : George Vicesimus Wigram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based on the unpubl. work of W. De Burgh, ed. by G.V. Wigram.]. written by George Vicesimus Wigram and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Incas

Author : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Incas written by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Incas

Author : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486147053
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book History of the Incas written by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary source of information on pre-Conquest Incan history, traditions and chronology. Full details of ceremonies, festivals, and religious beliefs, origin of the Incas, arrival of the Spaniards, much more. 2 maps. Bibliography.

History of the Incas and Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru

Author : Clements Markham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409413899
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book History of the Incas and Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru written by Clements Markham and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the original manuscript in the Library of the University at Goettingen (Col. ms. hist. 809) as published by R. Pietschmann in Abhandlungen d. K. Gesellschaft d. Wiss. zu Goettingen. Philol. Hist. Kl., N.F., Bd. VI, no. 4 (1906). The second part of the author's Historia indica; a first part (Historia natural destas tierras) and a third which was to contain the history of the conquest until 1572 were projected, but apparently never completed. The first text was dedicated to Philip II in 1572; the second was written in 1610. The edition includes a bibliography of Peru, pp. 341-58. Pagination of this and the Supplement is continuous.The Supplement is another eye-witness account. Internally stated to have been issued as a separate item, yet in fact bound within the previous item. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.

History of the Incas and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru

Author : Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602069077
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book History of the Incas and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru written by Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish explorer and historian PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA (1532-1592) spent more than twenty years in Peru. During that time he collected what was, at the time of its writing in 1572, the most accurate history of Incan civilization. De Gamboa personally interviewed many Incas around Cuzco in order to hear the songs and stories of their ancestors. This history was not gathered without an ulterior motive, however. De Gamboa aimed to show that the Inca were cruel tyrants who had usurped the land they were living on when the Spaniards found them. By showing that the Inca deserved the treatment they got from the Spanish crown, De Gamboa hoped to save his country's reputation on the world stage. Scholars and amateur historians will find here fascinating Incan mythology as well as thorough explanations of Incan society. This replica of a 1907 British edition also includes The Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, by the 16th-century Spaniard CAPTAIN BALTASAR DE OCAMPO.

A Hebrew, Latin, and English, Dictionary

Author : Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Hebrew, Latin, and English, Dictionary written by Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary

Author : J.S.C.F. Frey
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5875919833
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary written by J.S.C.F. Frey and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1815 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary: Containing All the Hebrew and Chaldee Words Used in the Old Testament, Volume 1

Flashman and the Dragon

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101633816
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Flashman and the Dragon written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best.

The Secret Empire

Author : A J Burton
Publisher : Quintessence Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Empire written by A J Burton and published by Quintessence Publications Ltd. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena, Priestess of Apollo is rescued from certain death by Klaus, Captain of battleship Heiglund of Atlantis, a steampunk Empire which strangely enough exists in the time of Ancient Classical Greece. Klaus wants to marry Helena but Atlantean law decrees that she must die. Ada wants Klaus for herself and will stop at nothing to get what she wants:- power, influence and Klaus's muscular body Will Klaus manage to keep Helena alive? Does Helena really love him or is the feisty Grecian beauty just out to save her own skin? Steam Punk, Romance, Historical Romance, Adventure, Fantasy, horse race, nautical battle, airship

The Dragon and the Pearl

Author : Jeannie Lin
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373296622
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Pearl written by Jeannie Lin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty. She lives quietly alone until the most ruthless warlord in the region steals her away, intent on uncovering her mystery without falling under her spell.

The Concubine's Daughter

Author : Pai Kit Fai
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429940603
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Concubine's Daughter written by Pai Kit Fai and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny. Lotus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away... When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dreams of becoming a scholar—but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, "Little Star," in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.

I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871407728
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War written by Jerome Charyn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Charyn’s “daring” and “memorable” (The New Yorker) historical novel renders the inner life of our sixteenth president like never before. This unforgettable portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War effortlessly mixes humor with Shakespearean-like tragedy to create an achingly human portrait of the sixteenth president. Charyn conducts an orchestra of historical figures and fictional extras centered around a profoundly moral but troubled commander in chief whose relationship with his Ophelia-like wife and his sons—Robert, Willie, and Tad—is explored with penetrating psychological insight and the utmost compassion. Seized by melancholy and imbued with an unfaltering sense of human worth, Charyn’s President Lincoln comes to vibrant, three-dimensional life in a haunting portrait we have rarely seen in historical fiction.