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Author : Edgar Saltus
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Imperial Purple written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edmonds
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of Imperial Purple Dye written by John Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient industry of imperial purple dyeing was eradicated during the sack of Constantinople in 1453 and its secrets, purposefully kept mysterious, were lost with it. This booklet attempts a practical explanation of the micro-biological processes that could transform, as if by magic, the liquid from marine molluscs into an insoluble purple pigment. The methodology is accompanied by ancient and medieval references to the dye which was used to clothe Alexander the Great, Roman emperors and Christian rulers.
Author : United States. Bureau of Plant Industry
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Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Plant Industry and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395436356
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Imperial Purple written by Gillian Bradshaw and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early Christian times, the tale of the weaver Demetrias portrays her entrapment in a treasonous plot against the Byzantine emperor and her fight to protect her family and self as the battle for Constantinople rages
Author : Matthew Oates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147295016X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book His Imperial Majesty written by Matthew Oates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and informative account that busts the myths about Britain's most captivating butterfly species. A wondrous enigma, the Purple Emperor is our most elusive and least-known butterfly--we glimpse it only through fissures in its treetop world, yet this giant insect has fascinated us for centuries and has even inspired its own "Emperoring" language. Matthew Oates became captivated by the Purple Emperor following his first sighting as a boy. He has studied it assiduously ever since, devoting his life to trying to unravel the Emperor's secrets. His Imperial Majesty takes us on a journey, beginning with a dalliance into the bizarre history of our engagement with the butterfly, with daring doings and gross eccentricities from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Subsequent chapters explore all aspects of this remarkable butterfly's life cycle, including behaviour, habitat preferences, life history and conservation, all relayed in Matthew's unique, informative and witty style. Not so long ago, our knowledge of the Emperor was largely based on a blend of mythology and assumption. This book dispels the fabrications and reveals all about the Purple Emperor--the king of British butterflies.
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691117802
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Women in Purple written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses—Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora—changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come. In this exhilarating and highly entertaining account, one of the foremost historians of the medieval period tells the story of how these fascinating women exercised imperial sovereignty with consummate skill and sometimes ruthless tactics. Though they gained access to the all-pervasive authority of the Byzantine ruling dynasty through marriage, all three continued to wear the imperial purple and wield tremendous power as widows. From Constantinople, their own Queen City, the empresses undermined competitors and governed like men. They conducted diplomacy across the known world, negotiating with the likes of Charlemagne, Roman popes, and the great Arab caliph Harun al Rashid. Vehemently rejecting the ban on holy images instituted by their male relatives, Irene and Theodora used craft and power to reverse the official iconoclasm and restore icons to their place of adoration in the Eastern Church. In so doing, they profoundly altered the course of history. The art—and not only the art—of Byzantium, of Islam, and of the West would have been very different without them. As Judith Herrin traces the surviving evidence, she evokes the complex and deeply religious world of Constantinople in the aftermath of Arab conquest. She brings to life its monuments and palaces, its court ceremonies and rituals, the role of eunuchs (the "third sex"), bride shows, and the influence of warring monks and patriarchs. Based on new research and written for a general audience, Women in Purple reshapes our understanding of an empire that lasted a thousand years and splashes fresh light on the relationship of women to power.
Author : Isaac Herzog
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Royal Purple and the Biblical Blue written by Isaac Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florin Leonte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444105X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium written by Florin Leonte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Byzantine emperor's construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial ruleIntegrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture of Byzantine imperial ideology Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts from rhetorical, literary, and discursive theoriesOffers translations of key passages from late Byzantine rhetoricManuel II Palaiologos was not only a Byzantine emperor but also a remarkably prolific rhetorician and theologian. His oeuvre included letters, treatises, dialogues, short poems and orations. Florin Leonte deals with several of his texts shaped by a didactic intention to educate the emperor's son and successor, John VIII Palaiologos. He argues that the emperor constructed a rhetorical persona which he used in an attempt to compete with other contemporary power-brokers. While Manuel Palaiologos adhered to many rhetorical conventions of his day, he also reasserted the civic role of rhetoric. With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391-1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853425
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)
Download or read book On Politics written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, and its salient virtuousi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment." -- -from On Politics With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. The political arena afforded Mencken a special opportunity to showcase his talents. He despised pretentiousness and hypocrisy and found numerous, easy targets among politicians. But while he could be merciless in attacking local and national leaders, Mencken always interspersed his scathing commentaries with entertaining exaggerations and high humor. This collection of seventy political pieces drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun during the twenties and thirties shows the "Sage of Baltimore" at his satirical best. While social attitudes may have changed, the value of Mencken's words on American politics offers us a timeless perspective.
Author : New South Wales
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Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Industrial Progress: a Report of the Intercolonial Exhibition, 1870 written by New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rollo La Verne Lyman
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Literature and Living written by Rollo La Verne Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Sydney. Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870
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Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Industrial Progress of New South Wales: Being a Report of the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870, at Sydney; Together with a Variety of Papers Illustrative of the Industrial Resources of the Colony. [With Maps and Plans.] written by Sydney. Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870 and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Dix
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book My Joy-ride Round the World written by Dorothy Dix and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 842 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Butler Greenfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061980897
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book A Perfect Red written by Amy Butler Greenfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”—Houston Chronicle Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfield’s masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and precious—a source of wealth and power for those who could unlock its secrets. And in this world nothing was more prized than cochineal, a red dye that produced the brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen. A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in the chase to unlock its secrets, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. It evokes with style and verve this history of a grand obsession, of intrigue, empire, and adventure in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.
