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Download or read book Louis VII and His World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis VII and His World examines a lesser-known yet significant Capetian monarch and his role in the twelfth century. The essays focus upon the king’s leadership, administration and his connection to the events of the age.
Download or read book Quentin Durward written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Standard History of the World by : John Herbert Clifford
Download or read book The Standard History of the World written by John Herbert Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by : Amy Kelly
Download or read book Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings written by Amy Kelly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and went with him on the exciting and disastrous Second Crusade. Inspiration of troubadours and trouvères, she played a large part in rendering fashionable the Courts of Love and in establishing the whole courtly tradition of medieval times. Divorced from Louis, she married Henry Plantagenet, who became Henry II of England. Her resources and resourcefulness helped Henry win his throne, she was involved in the conflict over Thomas Becket, and, after Henry’s death, she handled the affairs of the Angevin empire with a sagacity that brought her the trust and confidence of popes and kings and emperors. Having been first a Capet and then a Plantagenet, Queen Eleanor was the central figure in the bitter rivalry between those houses for the control of their continental domains—a rivalry that excited the whole period: after Henry’s death, her sons, Richard Coeur-de-Lion and John “Lackland” (of Magna Carta fame), fiercely pursued the feud up to and even beyond the end of the century. But the dynastic struggle of the period was accompanied by other stirrings: the intellectual revolt, the struggle between church and state, the secularization of literature and other arts, the rise of the distinctive urban culture of the great cities. Eleanor was concerned with all the movements, closely connected with all the personages; and she knew every city from London and Paris to Byzantium, Jerusalem, and Rome. Amy Kelly’s story of the queen’s long life—the first modern biography—brings together more authentic information about her than has ever been assembled before and reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been missed by those who have dwelt on her caprice and frivolity. It also brings to life the whole period in whose every aspect Eleanor and her four kings were so intimately and influentially involved. Miss Kelly tells Eleanor’s absorbing story as it has long waited to be told—with verve and style and a sense of the quality of life in those times, and yet with a scrupulous care for the historic facts.
Book Synopsis The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians by :
Download or read book The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seven Ages of Paris by : Alistair Horne
Download or read book Seven Ages of Paris written by Alistair Horne and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned Paris for Versailles); Napoleon’s rise and fall; Baron Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris (at the cost of much of the medieval city); the Belle Epoque and the Great War that brought it to an end; the Nazi Occupation, the Liberation, and the postwar period dominated by de Gaulle--Horne brings the city’s highs and lows, savagery and sophistication, and heroes and villains splendidly to life. With a keen eye for the telling anecdote and pivotal moment, he portrays an array of vivid incidents to show us how Paris endures through each age, is altered but always emerges more brilliant and beautiful than ever. The Seven Ages of Paris is a great historian’s tribute to a city he loves and has spent a lifetime learning to know. "Knowledgeable and colorful, written with gusto and love.... [An] ambitious and skillful narrative that covers the history of Paris with considerable brio and fervor." —LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Book Synopsis An inproved manual of universal history, from the creation of the world to the end of the 18th century by : A. Tainsh
Download or read book An inproved manual of universal history, from the creation of the world to the end of the 18th century written by A. Tainsh and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World Book by : Michael Vincent O'Shea
Download or read book The World Book written by Michael Vincent O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harmsworth History of the World by : Arthur Mee
Download or read book Harmsworth History of the World written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World's Great Classics by : Timothy Dwight
Download or read book The World's Great Classics written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
Book Synopsis Meditation as Spiritual Therapy by : Matthew McWhorter
Download or read book Meditation as Spiritual Therapy written by Matthew McWhorter and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian persons today might seek spiritual development and ponder the benefit of mindfulness exercises but also maintain concerns if they perceive such exercises to originate from other religious traditions. Such persons may not be aware of a long tradition of meditation practice in Christianity that promotes personal growth. This spiritual tradition receives a careful formulation by Christian monastic authors in the twelfth century. One such teaching on meditation is found in the treatise De consideratione written by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153) to Pope Eugene III (d. 1153). In textual passages where St. Bernard exhibits a clear concern for the mental health of the Pope (due to numerous ongoing ecclesial, political, and military problems), St. Bernard reminds Eugene III of his original monastic vocation and the meditation exercises associated with that vocation. The advice that St. Bernard gives to Eugene III can be received today in a way that provides a structure for Christian meditation practice which is relevant for personal development, spiritual direction, and civil psychotherapy that integrates a client's spirituality into the course of treatment. St. Bernard thus might be interpreted as a teacher of a kind of Christian mindfulness that can benefit both a person's mental health as well as a person's relationship with God. Meditation as Spiritual Therapy examines the historical context of Bernard's work, his purpose for writing it, as well as the numerous Christian sources he drew upon to formulate his teaching. Bernard's teaching on the course of meditation itself is explored in depth and in dialogue with his other treatises, letters, and sermons. Lastly, a contemporary summary of Bernard's teaching is provided with reflections concerning the relationship of this teaching to contemporary spiritual direction and spiritually integrated civil psychotherapy.
Book Synopsis The History of the World by : Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (1865- ed)
Download or read book The History of the World written by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (1865- ed) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World's History: Central and northern Europe by : Hans Ferdinand Helmolt
Download or read book The World's History: Central and northern Europe written by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An English adaptation of Helmolt's Weltgeschichte, with a rejection of sections which did not seem quite adequate from the point of view of its English readers". -- Publisher's note.
Book Synopsis New and Complete History of the World by : Francis Thomas Furey
Download or read book New and Complete History of the World written by Francis Thomas Furey and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World's Progress written by Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eleanor of Aquitaine by : Marion Meade
Download or read book Eleanor of Aquitaine written by Marion Meade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."—Allene Talmey, Vogue.