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Grant Risee?

Author : Adrian Tudor
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Grant Risee? written by Adrian Tudor and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the work of Brian J. Levy in the realm of comedy and humour in the Middle Ages, this collection of twenty essays explores unusual, unexpected or unacknowledged elements of humour in medieval literature and art. Scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the USA, Denmark, and the Netherlands consider comic elements taking an unusual form; a comic presence in unexpected places; comic elements intentionally / unintentionally hidden; comic elements surprisingly vaunted; a comic presence in standard contexts which stands out for a particular reason; comic elements which are for some reason controversial; comic elements as yet unidentified or unacknowledged; a commonly acknowledged comic presence which is in fact no such thing. Essays in English and French deal with a broad range of subjects. If the Roman de Renart is particularly well represented amongst these essays, other subjects make up the majority of the book. These include: Cicero's De Oratorei; the Mannekin pis; late medieval wall paintings; German and French Drama; fabliaux; vernacular pious tales and dits; the romance epic Richard Coeur de Lyon; Les Quinze joyes de mariage; bestiaries; and misericords. Sometimes shocking, often surprising, and always intriguing, the medieval comic presence rarely corresponds to our expectations and assumptions. This book shows that in numerous cases the medieval joke is actually on the modern scholar.

Rise

Author : Mira Grant
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316309567
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Rise written by Mira Grant and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command. . . FEED. Mira Grant creates a chilling portrait of an America paralyzed with fear. No one leaves their houses and entire swaths of the country have been abandoned. And only the brave, the determined, or the very stupid, venture out into the wild. Contents: Countdown Everglades Sand Diego 2014 How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus All the Pretty Little Horses Coming to You Live More from Mira Grant: Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Feedback Rise

U.S. Grant

Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742543089
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Grant written by Michael B. Ballard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this exciting new book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the period from the outset of the Civil War to the battle of Chattanooga--a period in which U. S. Grant rose from a semi-disgraceful obscurity to the position of overall commander of all Union armies. The author carefully sifts through diaries and letters of Grant and his inner circle to try to get inside Grant's mind and reveal why those early years of the war were formative in producing the Civil War's greatest general.

The Fabliaux

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871406926
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Fabliaux written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today’s standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, The Fabliaux comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years.

Scot. Text S.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Scot. Text S. written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of U.S. Grant, Etc. [With Portraits and Maps.].

Author : Arthur Latham CONGER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of U.S. Grant, Etc. [With Portraits and Maps.]. written by Arthur Latham CONGER and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meet General Grant

Author : William E. Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Meet General Grant written by William E. Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928.

Grant at 200

Author : Chris Mackowski
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121615X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Grant at 200 written by Chris Mackowski and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association. Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio native answered his nation’s call to service and finished the war as a lieutenant general in command of the U.S. Army. Four years later, he ascended to the presidency to better secure the peace he had helped win on the battlefield. Despite his major achievements in war and peace, political and sectional enemies battered his reputation. For nearly a century, his military and political career remained deeply misunderstood. Since the Civil War centennial, however, Grant’s reputation has blossomed into a full renaissance. His military record garners new respect and, more recently, an appreciation for his political career—particularly his strong advocacy for equal rights—is quickly catching up. Throughout these decades, his personal memoirs marking him as a significant American “Man of Letters” have never gone out of print. Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of a man whose towering impact on American history has often been overshadowed and, in many cases, ignored. This collection of essays by some of today’s leading Grant scholars offers fresh perspectives on Grant’s military career and presidency, as well as underexplored personal topics such as his faith and family life.

A General Who Will Fight

Author : Harry S. Laver
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813140757
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A General Who Will Fight written by Harry S. Laver and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to his service in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant exhibited few characteristics indicating that he would be an extraordinary leader. His performance as a cadet was mediocre, and he finished in the bottom half of his class at West Point. However, during his early service in the Civil War, most notably at the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg, Grant proved that he possessed an uncommon drive. When it was most crucial, Grant demonstrated his integrity, determination, and tactical skill by taking control of the Union troops and leading his forces to victory. A General Who Will Fight is a detailed study of leadership that explores Grant's rise from undisciplined cadet to commanding general of the United States Army. Some experts have attributed Grant's success to superior manpower and technology, to the help he received from other Union armies, or even to a ruthless willingness to sacrifice his own men. Harry S. Laver, however, refutes these arguments and reveals that the only viable explanation for Grant's success lies in his leadership skill, professional competence, and unshakable resolve. Much more than a book on military strat-egy, this innovative volume examines the decision-making process that enabled Grant both to excel as an unquestioned commander and to win.

Wandering Women and Holy Matrons

Author : Leigh Ann Craig
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174265
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Wandering Women and Holy Matrons written by Leigh Ann Craig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores womena (TM)s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about womena (TM)s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.

Ulysses S. Grant

Author : Brooks Simpson
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760346968
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Ulysses S. Grant written by Brooks Simpson and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many modern historians have painted Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher, a drunk, and a failure as president. Others have argued the exact opposite and portray him with saintlike levels of ethic and intellect. In Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822–1865, historian Brooks D. Simpson takes neither approach, recognizing Grant as a complex and human figure with human faults, strengths, and motivations. Simpson offers a balanced and complete study of Grant from birth to the end of the Civil War, with particular emphasis on his military career and family life and the struggles he overcame in his unlikely rise from unremarkable beginnings to his later fame as commander of the Union Army. Chosen as a New York Times Notable Book upon its original publication, Ulysses S. Grant is a readable, thoroughly researched portrait that sheds light on this controversial figure.

Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535

Author : Robert A. Faleer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810867400
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535 written by Robert A. Faleer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535: An Annotated Bibliography is a thoroughly researched bibliographic guide to monographic, serial, archival, and graphical resources that deal with all aspects of late Romanesque, Gothic, and early Renaissance ecclesiastical woodwork in churches throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Dealing with both the decorative and structural elements of wooden church furnishings fittings, this authoritative reference tool includes more than 900 annotated citations for works published from the mid-19th century to the present. The extensive and informative annotations provide a synopsis of each cited resource. Resources are categorized in separate chapters by their specific location in the church, their decorative features, their structural function, or other pertinent criteria. This annotated bibliography represents the most comprehensive reference tool for material that deals with church woodwork that has yet been published.

The Rise of U. S. Grant

Author : Arthur Latham Conger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of U. S. Grant written by Arthur Latham Conger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fort Sumter fell in 1861, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an obscure clerk in Galena, Illinois. Yet within three years this man rose to command the Union armies, and just over a year later secured the defeat of the Confederacy. How can his emergence be explained? Did he earn his honours or did he owe them to chance and luck?

Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World

Author : Noah D. Guynn
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843374
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World written by Noah D. Guynn and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence. The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain but also in the methods and styles they use to represent and interpret the past and make it ideologically productive. Violence is used as the key term that best demonstrates the making of historical meaning in the Middle Ages, through the transformation of acts of physical aggression and destruction into a memorable and usable past. The twelve chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range of genres (chansons de geste, histories, chronicles, travel writing, and lyric poetry), and range from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. Through examination of topics as varied as rhetoric, imagery, humor, gender, sexuality, trauma, subversion, and community formation, each chapter strives to demonstrate how knowledge of the medieval past can be enhanced by approaching medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms, and by acknowledging - and resisting - the desire to subject them to modern conceptions of historical intelligibility. Noah D. Guynn is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis; Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Contributors: Noah D. Guynn, Zrinka Stahuljak, James Andrew Cowell, Jeff Rider, Leah Shopkow, Matthew Fisher, Karen Sullivan, David Rollo, Deborah McGrady, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Simon Gaunt

The Rise of U.S. Grant

Author : Arthur Latham Conger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of U.S. Grant written by Arthur Latham Conger and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grant and Lee

Author : Edward H. Bonekemper, III
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162157010X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Grant and Lee written by Edward H. Bonekemper, III and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian is a comprehensive, multi-theater, war-long comparison of the command skills of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Written by Edward H. Bonekemper III, Grant and Lee clarifies the impact both generals had on the outcome of the Civil War—namely, the assistance that Lee provided to Grant by Lee's excessive casualties in Virginia, the consequent drain of Confederate resources from Grant's battlefronts, and Lee's refusal and delay of reinforcements to the combat areas where Grant was operating. The reader will be left astounded by the level of aggression both generals employed to secure victory for their respective causes, as Bonekemper demonstrates that Grant was a national general whose tactics were consistent with acheiving Union victory, whereas Lee's own priorities constantly undermined the Confederacy's chances of winning the war. Building on detailed accounts of both generals' major campaigns and battles, this book provides a detailed comparison of the primary military and personal traits of the two men. That analysis supports the preface discussion and the chapter-by-chapter conclusions that Grant did what the North needed to do to win the war: be aggressive, eliminate enemy armies, and do so with minimal casualties (154,000), while Lee was too offensive for the undermanned Confederacy, suffered intolerable casualties (209,000), and allowed his obsession with the Commonwealth of Virginia to obscure the broader interests of the Confederacy. In addition, readers will find interest in the 18 highly detailed and revealing battle maps, as well as in a comprehensive set of appendices that describes the casualties incurred by each army, battle by battle.

First [-third (and Final)] Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into and to Report on Certain Questions Affecting Coast Erosion, the Reclamation of Tidal Lands, and Afforestation in the United Kingdom ...

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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and Afforestation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book First [-third (and Final)] Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into and to Report on Certain Questions Affecting Coast Erosion, the Reclamation of Tidal Lands, and Afforestation in the United Kingdom ... written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and Afforestation and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: