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Total Pages : 1028 pages
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Download or read book Curiossities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances and Miscellaneous Antiquities written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippe Walter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553694
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Christian Mythology written by Philippe Walter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how Christian mythology has more to do with long-standing pagan traditions than the Bible • Explains how the church fathers knowingly incorporated pagan elements into the Christian faith to ease the transition to the new religion • Identifies pagan deities that were incorporated into each of the saints • Shows how all the major holidays in the Christian calendar are modeled on pagan rituals and myths, including Easter and Christmas In this extensive study of the Christian mythology that animated Europe in the Middle Ages, author Philippe Walter reveals how these stories and the holiday traditions connected with them are based on long-standing pagan rituals and myths and have very little connection to the Bible. The author explains how the church fathers knowingly incorporated pagan elements into the Christian faith to ease the transition to the new religion. Rather than tear down the pagan temples in Britain, Pope Gregory the Great advised Saint Augustine of Canterbury to add the pagan rituals into the mix of Christian practices and transform the pagan temples into churches. Instead of religious conversion, it was simply a matter of convincing the populace to include Jesus in their current religious practices. Providing extensive documentation, Walter shows which major calendar days of the Christian year are founded on pagan rituals and myths, including the high holidays of Easter and Christmas. Examining hagiographic accounts of the saints, he reveals the origin of these symbolic figures in the deities worshipped in pagan Europe for centuries. He also explores how the identities of saints and pagan figures became so intermingled that some saints were transformed into pagan incarnations, such as Mary Magdalene’s conversion into one of the Celtic Ladies of the Lake. In revealing the pagan roots of many Christian figures, stories, and rituals, Walter provides a new understanding of the evolution of religious belief.
Author : Alban Butler
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Total Pages : 1190 pages
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Download or read book The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782392068
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Seasons written by Nick Groom and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomized and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it matter if we no longer hear, even notice, the first cuckoo call of spring or rejoice in the mellow fruits of harvest festival? How much will we lose if we can no longer find either refuge or reassurance in the greater natural—and meteorological—scheme of things? Nick Groom's splendidly rich and encyclopedic book is an unabashed celebration of the English seasons and the trove of strange folklore and often stranger fact they have accumulated over the centuries. Each season and its particular history are given their full due, and these chapters are interwoven with others on the calendar and how the year and months have come to be measured, on important dates and festivals such as Easter, May Day and, of course, Christmas, on that defining first cuckoo call, on national attitudes to weather, our seasonal relationship with the land and horticulture and much more. The author expresses the hope that his book will not prove an elegy: only time will tell.
Author : Oliver Maddox Hueffer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329909844
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Book of Witches written by Oliver Maddox Hueffer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "LEST any reader should open this volume expecting to read an exhaustive treatise on witches and witchcraft, treated scientifically, historically, and so forth, let me disarm him before-hand by telling him that he will be disappointed. The witch occupies so large a place in the story of mankind that to include all the detail of her natural history within the limits of one volume would need the powers of a magician no less potent than was he who confined the Eastern Djinn in a bottle...."
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Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Omer Englebert
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566195164
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Saints written by Omer Englebert and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historically accurate information on more than 2,000 legendary saints, organized month by month according to the liturgical calendar. Learn the facts about the saints who have inspired masterpieces & given their names to our towns & to us." --provided by Goodreads.
Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442278315
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Television Series of the 1980s written by Vincent Terrace and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television screens in the 1980s reflected some of the most memorable programs of all time. In that decade, such critically acclaimed shows as Cheers, The Golden Girls, Hill Street Blues, Newhart, and St. Elsewhere debuted. In that same decade, iconic shows like The A-Team, Baywatch, Cagney & Lacey, Knight Rider, MacGyver,Miami Vice, and Roseanne appealed to millions of viewers. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they live on in syndication and on DVDs, entertaining many generations of viewers. In Television Series of the 1980s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about more than seventy programs from the decade. For example, did you know that Sam Malone had an ex-wife named Deborah? Or that MacGyver’s alias was Dexter Fillmore? Or Dan Fielding’s license plate on Night Court read “Hot to Trot”? These are just a handful of hundreds of fun and intriguing specifics found inside this volume. Programs from all four major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC)—as well as select syndicated programs—are represented here. This is not a book of opinions or essays about specific television programs but a treasure trove of facts associated with each show. Fromthe name of Roseanne’s diner to the title of Jessica Fletcher’s first novel, readers will discover a wealth of fascinating information that, for the most part, cannot be found elsewhere. In some cases, the factual data detailed herein is the only such documentation that currently exists on bygone shows of the era. Television Series of the 1980s is the ideal reference for fans of this decade and anyone looking to stump even the most knowledgeable trivia expert.
Author : Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher : New York : Hafner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Medieval France written by Arthur Augustus Tilley and published by New York : Hafner. This book was released on 1922 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Walsh
Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities written by William S. Walsh and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1898 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Michael Smith
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780903857789
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Church in Medieval York written by David Michael Smith and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Medieval France written by Arthur Augustus Tilley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1922 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : OLIVER MADOX HUEFFER
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE BOOK OF WITCHES written by OLIVER MADOX HUEFFER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lest any reader should open this volume expecting to read an exhaustive treatise on witches and witchcraft, treated scientifically, historically, and so forth, let me disarm him beforehand by telling him that he will be disappointed. The witch occupies so large a place in the story of mankind that to include all the detail of her natural history within the limits of one volume would need the powers of a magician no less potent than was he who confined the Eastern Djinn in a bottle. I have attempted nothing so ambitious as a large-scale Ordnance Map of Witchland; rather I have endeavoured to produce a picture from which a general impression may be gained. I have chosen, that is to say, from the enormous mass of material only so much as seemed necessary for my immediate purpose, and on my lack of judgment be the blame for any undesirable hiatus. I have sought, again, to show whence the witch came and why, as well as what she was and is; to point out, further, how necessary she is and must be to the happiness of mankind, and how great the responsibility of those who, disbelieving in her themselves, seek to infect others with their scepticism. We have few picturesque excrescences left upon this age of smoothly-running machine-wheels, certainly we cannot spare one of the most time-honoured and romantic of any. And if anything I have written about her seem incompatible with sense or fact, I would plead in extenuation that neither is essential to the firm believer in witchcraft, and that to be able to enter thoroughly into the subject it is above all things necessary to cast aside such nineteenth-century shibboleths. I would here express my gratitude to the many friends who have assisted me with material, and especially to Miss Muriel Harris, whose valuable help has done much to lighten my task.
Author : Janetta Rebold Benton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567206557
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art written by Janetta Rebold Benton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and informed analysis explores the startlingly diverse and sophisticated fine arts in the Middle Ages. Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the work done by artists in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Art historian Janetta Rebold Benton uses examples such as the Book of Kells, Bury Saint Edmunds Cross, and the Bayeux Tapestry, and the work of artists such as Jan van Eyck and Giotto to explore the various media available to medieval artists and the ways in which those media were used to create a stunning array of masterworks. Although the visual arts of the Middle Ages were extremely colorful, today much of that color has diminished or disappeared, the pigments and threads faded, the gold abraded, the silver tarnished. Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art allows these works to sparkle once more.
Author : Julia Bolton Holloway
Publisher : Julia Bolton Holloway
ISBN 13 : 9780820415178
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Equally in God's Image written by Julia Bolton Holloway and published by Julia Bolton Holloway. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages is a volume of essays presenting the argument that with the coming of the universities women were excluded, in an apartheid of gender, from education and power. It discusses the resulting paradigm shift from Romanesque to Gothic, describing the images which women had of themselves and which the dominant male society had of them. We meet, in the pages of this book, medieval women in their roles as writers, pilgrims, wives, anchoresses and nuns, at court, on pilgrimage, in households and convents. The volume, as a «Distant Mirror» for ourselves today, seeks to present ways in which women then fulfilled the roles society expected of them and the ways in which they also subverted - through entering into textuality - the expectations of the dominating culture in order to quest identity and equality.
Author : John Hobson Matthews
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mass and Its Folklore written by John Hobson Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Washington Wirt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Flora's Dictionary written by Elizabeth Washington Wirt and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
