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Book Synopsis The Last Descendant of Aeneas by : Marie Tanner
Download or read book The Last Descendant of Aeneas written by Marie Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the eve of the modern era, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. In this fascinating original study, Marie Tanner presents the history of the emperor's mythic image and its continuing influence on Western political thought. She shows that these pretensions to divinity were based on the Trojan legend and the myth of Rome as developed in Vergil's Aeneid and that later Christian emperors expanded these claims by tracing their lineage not only to the pagan gods but also to the priest-kings of the Old Testament. Through this amalgam of heritages each successive Holy Roman emperor proclaimed that he was the last descendant of Aeneas, destined to yield the terrestrial rule of Rome to Christ and thereby inaugurate millennial peace. By examining a wide range of literary, artistic, and historical sources plus a corpus of new illustrations, Tanner discovers remarkable chains of evidence for this process, one that culminates with the Renaissance Hapsburgs who imbued the holiest symbols of the faith with dynastic meaning as they attempted to consolidate all priestly and secular powers in their grip. On these foundations Philip II of Spain, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the first monarch to rule the four known continents, created a new concept of absolute monarchy that shaped the principles of modern statecraft and determined the dominant form of government in Europe for the next two centuries.
Book Synopsis The Pantheon, Design, Meaning, and Progeny by : William Z. MacDonald
Download or read book The Pantheon, Design, Meaning, and Progeny written by William Z. MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome written by Greg Woolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire
Book Synopsis The Roman Empire the Empire of the Endomite by : William Beeston
Download or read book The Roman Empire the Empire of the Endomite written by William Beeston and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rome: An Empire of Many Nations by : Jonathan J. Price
Download or read book Rome: An Empire of Many Nations written by Jonathan J. Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic and colourful view of the many ethnic identities, languages and cultures composing the Roman Empire.
Book Synopsis Re-union of the Descendants of John Lee of Farmington by : Leonard Lee
Download or read book Re-union of the Descendants of John Lee of Farmington written by Leonard Lee and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1 by : Edward Gibbon
Download or read book History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1 written by Edward Gibbon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Book Synopsis The Cymry of '76, Or, Welshmen and Their Descendants of the American Revolution by : Alexander Jones
Download or read book The Cymry of '76, Or, Welshmen and Their Descendants of the American Revolution written by Alexander Jones and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Descendants: The Complete Trilogy by : T.K. Eldridge
Download or read book The Descendants: The Complete Trilogy written by T.K. Eldridge and published by Graffridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age three, Emlen watched her mother's murder. Years later, she returned to the scene of the crime to try and solve that murder. That set into motion a series of events that took her from a coastal cottage to the White House. One of the few magical Descendants of Charlemagne, protected by an ancient cadre of guardians, Emlen learns that power can give life - and take it away. Come enjoy the series that has captivated the imagination of many and makes you think there maybe some reality to magic. Remembrance, Revelation, and Revenge - The Descendants Trilogy *The Descendants series contains ghosts, magical bloodlines, political intrigue, second-chance romance, and found family.
Book Synopsis The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by : Edward Gibbon
Download or read book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn. and His Descendants, 1634-1900 by :
Download or read book John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn. and His Descendants, 1634-1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Nation of Descendants by : Francesca Morgan
Download or read book A Nation of Descendants written by Francesca Morgan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.
Download or read book Are We Rome? written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
Book Synopsis Monstrous Progeny by : Lester D. Friedman
Download or read book Monstrous Progeny written by Lester D. Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Genealogy of the descendants of the Prichards, formerly lords of Llanover, Monmouthshire, with an appendix of the pedigrees of the houses, with which that family intermarried by : Thomas Gregory Smart
Download or read book Genealogy of the descendants of the Prichards, formerly lords of Llanover, Monmouthshire, with an appendix of the pedigrees of the houses, with which that family intermarried written by Thomas Gregory Smart and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bi-centenary Reunion of the Descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois (emigrants to America, 1660 and 1675), at New Paltz, New York, 1875 ... by : William Ewing Du Bois
Download or read book Bi-centenary Reunion of the Descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois (emigrants to America, 1660 and 1675), at New Paltz, New York, 1875 ... written by William Ewing Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rex Electi written by W. P. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caius Serica, a pilot in the Roman military in the year 1999, is whisked away from his camp in the middle of the night under mysterious circumstances. He soon learns that every aspect of his life so far, including the staged deaths of his parents, has been arranged by the Senate Tribunal in an attempt to mold him into the perfect leader. Now there are only thirty candidates, including Caius, left competing to be the Emperor's heir. Success in a series of Trials will reunite him with his family and make him the most powerful man in the world, but failure will lead to a life of isolation and imprisonment hidden in the eaves of the palace. As Caius enters the trials, it becomes apparent that the tests themselves are not the problem: it is the twenty nine other candidates willing to do whatever it takes to win, including maim or kill their top competitors. Can Caius navigate the pitfalls of imperial politics and cutthroat competition, all while performing well enough to succeed in the trials fair and square?
