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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
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ISBN 13 : 9780866987318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Mutability of Fortune written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Mutability of Fortune written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years’ War, Christine’s lone but strong feminine voice could be heard defending women, expounding the highest ideals for good governance, and lamenting France’s troubled times alongside her own personal trials. In The Mutability of Fortune, Christine fuses world history with autobiography to demonstrate mankind’s subjugation to the ceaselessly changing, and often cruel, whims of Fortune. Now, for the first time, this poem is accessible to an English-speaking audience, further expanding our appreciation of this ground-breaking woman author and her extraordinary body of work.
Author : Alexander Bicknell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780371760178
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune written by Alexander Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Alexander Bicknell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune, Selected from History and Arranged According to Their Chronological Order written by Alexander Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander BICKNELL
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune, selected from ancient and modern history, etc written by Alexander BICKNELL and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Bicknell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune written by Alexander Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. L. Cairns
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589160
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought written by D. L. Cairns and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy's relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between 'Archaic' features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of Archaic thought not only in the evolution of the tragic genre, but also for developed features of the Classical tragedians' art. Along with three papers on Aeschylus, four on Sophocles, and one on Euripides, there is an extensive introduction by the editor.
Author : Alexander Bicknell
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358804113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune written by Alexander Bicknell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alexander Bicknell
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ISBN 13 : 9781104825102
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Instances of the Mutability of Fortune: Selected from Ancient and Modern History (1792) written by Alexander Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
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ISBN 13 : 9780892551880
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Christine de Pizan written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan, France's first woman of letters, is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), but very few of her many other distinguished works have been translated into English. The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy excerpts of nearly all of Christine's works, in authoritative and gracious translations. Among the writings are Christine's autobiography; lyric and allegorical poetry; the official biography of King Charles V; writings on women, warfare, politics, love, and the human condition; writings from the famous Quarrel of the Rose; The Book of the City of Ladies; The Treasury of the City of Ladies; The Book of the Duke of True Lovers; and Christine's triumphant poem on Joan of Arc. Edited and with an introduction by the foremost authority on Christine's work, Charity Cannon Willard, who sets the writings in historical, biographical, and literary context.
Author : Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108922333
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book In Fortune's Theater written by Nicholas Scott Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world, understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound ways.
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Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (664 download)
Download or read book An Historical Compendium of the Mutability of Fortune and Honour, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1600 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lydgate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Lydgate's Troy Book. A.D. 1412-20 written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Igoni Barrett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979262
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Blackass written by A. Igoni Barrett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he's been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he's been completely changed. Well, almost. There is the matter of his family, his accent, his name. Oh, and his black ass. Furo must quickly learn to navigate a world made unfamiliar and deal with those who would use him for their own purposes. Taken in by a young woman called Syreeta and pursued by a writer named Igoni, Furo lands his first-ever job, adopts a new name, and soon finds himself evolving in unanticipated ways. A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass is a fierce comic satire that touches on everything from race to social media while at the same time questioning the values society places on us simply by virtue of the way we look. As he did in Love Is Power, or Something Like That, Barrett brilliantly depicts life in contemporary Nigeria and details the double-dealing and code-switching that are implicit in everyday business. But it's Furo's search for an identity--one deeper than skin--that leads to the final unraveling of his own carefully constructed story.
Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624667317
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings written by Christine De Pizan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index
Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416566732
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book American Grace written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.
Author : Faith Wigzell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521581233
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Reading Russian Fortunes written by Faith Wigzell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society. Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their clients, and to the publishers of the books. An analysis of the relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of fortune-telling in modern Russian society.
