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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.

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, 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

Nancy Drew 54: The Strange Message in the Parchment

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077557
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Nancy Drew 54: The Strange Message in the Parchment by : Carolyn Keene

Download or read book Nancy Drew 54: The Strange Message in the Parchment written by Carolyn Keene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1976-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sheep farmer receives a mysterious telephone call shortly after he buys a series of pictures painted on parchment. “Decipher the message in the parchment and right a great wrong,” the voice says. Puzzled, the owner asks Nancy to help. With Junie, his daughter, Nancy tracks down a kidnapper and a group of extortionists. Is there a connection between the message in the parchment and a boy artist on another farm? And who is responsible for the atmosphere of fear in the neighborhood? After several harrowing experiences, Nancy begins to tighten the net around a ruthless villain and calls on the assistance of her friends Ned, Burt, Dave, Bess and George to bring his nefarious scheme to a dead end.

The Parchment Boat

Author : Moya Cannon
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852352028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment Boat written by Moya Cannon and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of The Parchment Boat report the findings of her ruminations at archaeological sites, in her own garden, into custom, music, and language itself. They continue their attention to the western seaboard of Ireland and several reflect experiences of a stay in Canada. In many of them there is a kinship with mystery; in most of them a series of surprising images registers the rich yield of half-belief and faith. They recognize, and glory in, "a pattern to life's pulls and draws".

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.

Mirror In Parchment

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232489
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mirror In Parchment written by Michael Camille and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers, and historical progeny. The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the book's images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalter's representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people, high and low, looked like at work and at play. Alongside such supposedly truthful representations, the Psalter presents myriad images of fantastic monsters and beasts. These patently false images have largely been disparaged or ignored by modern historians and art historians alike, for they challenge the credibility of those pictures in the Luttrell Psalter that we wish to see as real. In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality, Michael Camille analyzes the Psalter's famous pictures as representations of the world, imagined and real, of its original patron. Addressed are late medieval chivalric ideals, physical sites of power, and the boundaries of Sir Geoffrey's imagined community, wherein agricultural laborers and fabulous monsters play a similar ideological role. The Luttrell Psalter thus emerges as a complex social document of the world as its patron hoped and feared it might be.

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.

The Sword, the Ring, and the Parchment

Author : Ed Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978552305
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Sword, the Ring, and the Parchment written by Ed Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travel back in time to the kingdom of Terrestria, the realm of the good King Emmanuel, where knights and their ladies live in castles and where dragons still roam (occasionally). Yet the land is at war. Evil, cruel Argamor wants the throne. And he has loyal followers placed strategically throughout the kingdom. Who will win the battle for Terrestria, and on which side will Josiah find himself?"--Back cover.

Pen and Parchment

Author : Melanie Holcomb
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393186
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Pen and Parchment written by Melanie Holcomb and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

The Parchment of Kashmir

Author : N. Khan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137029577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment of Kashmir written by N. Khan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-disciplinary anthology on contemporary Kashmir by academics from Jammu and Kashmir, the first such volume to appear. The book offers a panorama of key cultural concerns of Jammu and Kashmir today, incorporating analysis of military, cultural, religious, and social aspects of the society and polity.

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.

The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy

Author : Fitz Balintine Pettersburg
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465517332
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy written by Fitz Balintine Pettersburg and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Parchment

Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271484
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 2023-02-21 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.

Postcards on Parchment

Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300209891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Postcards on Parchment written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been classified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings, similar to postcards. In a delightful study identifying this group of images for the first time, Rudy delineates how these objects functioned apart from the books in which they were kept. Whereas manuscript illuminations were designed to provide a visual narrative to accompany a book's text, parchment paintings offered a kind of autonomous currency for exchange between individuals--people who longed for saturated color in a gray world of wood, stone, and earth. These small, colorful pictures offered a brilliant reprieve, and Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding light into the everyday life and relationships of those in the medieval Low Countries.

The Parchment Paper Cookbook

Author : Brette Sember
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 9781440528590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment Paper Cookbook written by Brette Sember and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 0 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!

The Secret Parchment

Author : Radu Cinamar
Publisher : Sky Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781937859138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Parchment written by Radu Cinamar and published by Sky Books (NY). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a mysterious holographic chamber was discovered beneath the Romanian Sphinx in 2003, an ancient parchment surfaced in the highest mountains of Tibet and was placed in the care of Radu Cinamar so that it could be translated and shared with the world. While the parchment presents five invaluable techniques for spiritual advancement, its very presence in the world has ignited a series of quantum events, extending from Jupiter's moon Europa and reaching all the way to Antarctica, Mount McKinley, and Transylvania. This includes an intelligence war and a successful attempt to undermine the structure of Department Zero. An ancient Romanian legend comes alive as subterranean solid gold tunnels, extending miles into the Transylvanian underground, are revealed to facilitate super-consciousness as well as lead to the nexus of the inner Earth where "all the worlds unite." Book jacket.