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The Pope's Rhinoceros

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199429
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Pope's Rhinoceros written by Lawrence Norfolk and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The acclaimed author of Lemprière’s Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement.” —Booklist The Pope’s Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history’s most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the “pleasure-loving Pope” into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts — a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reclusive monks and Rome’s corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope’s Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis. “An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews “Mr. Norfolk’s heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page.” —The New York Times Book Review

Rhinoceros Bound

Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806722
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Rhinoceros Bound written by Barbara H. Rosenwein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rhinoceros, that is, any powerful man, is bound with a thong so that he may crush the clods of the valleys, that is, the oppressors of the humble."—Odo of Cluny, Vita Geraldi i.8 To the second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Saint Odo, tenth-century Europe was a world filled with violent men oppressing at whim the poor and the powerless. As royal authority waned, local magnates, unrestrained by any authority, divine or human, seized the opportunity to enhance their positions. Odo, along with Cluny's other founding spiritual and ideological leaders, created within the protective walls of the monastery a model of restraint, instituting in place of the instability of everyday life an interpretation of the Benedictine Rule that stressed ritual, order, and lawfulness. Such were the beginnings of the monastery that Pope Urban II in the eleventh century would call "the light of the world," the fountainhead of what would become one of the most far-reaching religious reform movements in European history. Barbara Rosenwein in Rhinoceros Bound focuses on Cluny's founding and early growth within the context of a society shaped by the needs of those set adrift in the social upheaval of the tenth century. Examining in the first chapter traditional approaches to Cluniac studies, the author reveals that historians have generally considered Cluny's eleventh-century role in church reform without analyzing the peculiar combination of forces and founders that created the Cluniac ideal and gave it its original momentum. This fundamental problem is the topic of the second chapter. She then examines how the early Cluniacs perceived the world outside the monastery and how they viewed their own world inside of it. Rosenwein concludes with a chapter on Cluny in the tenth century that combines traditional historical techniques with contemporary sociological insights. She provides in this study a significant reassessment of a period crucial to the political development of Europe, as well as a case study of institutional response to acute and political change.

John Saturnall's Feast

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831163
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book John Saturnall's Feast written by Lawrence Norfolk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.

Lemprière's Dictionary

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199437
Total Pages : 861 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Lemprière's Dictionary written by Lawrence Norfolk and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie). In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. But when he discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years, he embarks on a personal mission that will pit him against enemies he never new he had, allies he never thought he would ever want, and a destiny he never imagined . . . Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this “superbly entertaining” tale encompasses multinational conspiracies and a motley cast of scholars, eccentrics, prostitutes, assassins, drunken aristocrats, and octogenarian pirates—all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology (The Washington Post).

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium

Author : Juan Pimentel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674974425
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium written by Juan Pimentel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to these two mysterious beasts—a rhinoceros, known only from ancient texts, and a nameless monster? As Juan Pimentel explains, the reactions reflect deep intellectual changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world. We know the rhinoceros today as “Dürer’s Rhinoceros,” after the German artist’s iconic woodcut. His portrait was inaccurate—Dürer never saw the beast and relied on conjecture, aided by a sketch from Lisbon. But the influence of his extraordinary work reflected a steady move away from ancient authority to the dissemination in print of new ideas and images. By the time the megatherium arrived in Spain, that movement had transformed science. When published drawings found their way to Paris, the great zoologist Georges Cuvier correctly deduced that the massive bones must have belonged to an extinct giant sloth. It was a pivotal moment in the discovery of the prehistoric world. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium offers a penetrating account of two remarkable episodes in the cultural history of science and is itself a vivid example of the scientific imagination at work.

Black Rhinos

Author : Kristen Pope
Publisher : Child's World
ISBN 13 : 9781631439643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Black Rhinos written by Kristen Pope and published by Child's World. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn all about black rhinos, including where they live, why they are endangered, and how people are working together to save them. Chapters explain physical characteristics and behaviors as well. Additional features include full-color photographs, informative sidebars, detailed maps, a glossary of key words and phrases, and an introduction to the author"--Publisher description.

The Golden Rhinoceros

Author : François-Xavier Fauvelle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217149
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Rhinoceros written by François-Xavier Fauvelle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist, the author reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. He looks at ruined cities found in the mangrove, exquisite pieces of art, rare artifacts like the golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe, ancient maps, and accounts left by geographers and travelers

In the Shape of a Boar

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802139672
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book In the Shape of a Boar written by Lawrence Norfolk and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.

The Rhinoceros of South Asia

Author : Kees Rookmaaker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004691545
Total Pages : 891 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Rhinoceros of South Asia written by Kees Rookmaaker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.

The Boilerplate Rhino

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439125430
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Boilerplate Rhino written by David Quammen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history” (The Seattle Times), a collection of enduring essays that form a bestiary of wondrous creatures and a gallery of the human faces that peer at them. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of David Quammen’s most thoughtful and engaging essays from his column for Outside magazine, gifting readers with an irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold. In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers “The Dope on Eggs” from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana. Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.

Soul of the Rhino

Author : Hemanta Mishra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 159921640X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Soul of the Rhino written by Hemanta Mishra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new release is a spirited yet humble account of one man's scientific career and personal journey to save the endangered rhinoceros in his native Nepal. For more info go to souloftherhino.com

Representing and (De)Constructing Borderlands

Author : Weronika Łaszkiewicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888605
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Representing and (De)Constructing Borderlands written by Weronika Łaszkiewicz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume stems from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, provinces or uttermost ends of different kinds, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces. From the academic point of view, their undeniable appeal lies in the fact that they constitute spaces of mutual interactions and enable new cultural phenomena to surface, grow or decline, and, as such, are worth thorough and constant scrutiny. However, they also provide the setting for radical clashes between ideologies, languages, religions, customs, and, as the media report every single day, armies or guerrilla units. Living within such areas of creative dynamics and destructive friction (or visiting them, even vicariously as the contributors to the volume do) is tantamount to exposing oneself to a difference. One’s response to this difference – either in the form of rejection or, more preferably, acceptance (or a mixture of both) – is not merely an index of one’s tolerance (a platitudinised term itself that all too often hides an attitude of comfortable indifference), but an affirmation of humaneness. Borderlands are paradoxical, if not aporetic, loci. They simultaneously connote territories on either side of a border, in a literal sense, and a vague, intermediate state or region, in a metaphorical sense. Encapsulating the idea of border, the term indicates both inescapable nearness and unavoidable (or perhaps unbridgeable) separateness. The studies included in the volume focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature, on analyses of selected works, and on the peculiarities of cultural and literary representations. Thus, the borderland landscape, both literal and metaphorical, comes to be seen as a factor contributing to the emergence of new, distinct and identifiable themes and motifs, as well as theoretical frameworks.

The Pope's Elephant

Author : Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pope's Elephant written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the court of Pope Leo X in sixteenth-century Rome, and discusses the popularity of the Pope's white elephant, Hanno, a gift from the king of Portugal.

How to Study Rhinos

Author : Bayard H. Brattstrom
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478772905
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book How to Study Rhinos written by Bayard H. Brattstrom and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhinos are interesting, fun to watch, and endangered of becoming extinct. This book is first about how scientists study rhinos, and then information is presented on rhino taxonomy, distribution, ecology, fossil history, behavior, reproduction, and conservation, including poaching. But there is a lot more to rhinos than just the above, there are also sections on rhinos in history, rhinos in art, rhino companies, logos and products, as well as lists of rhino books, toys, and conservation organizations.

Rex the Rhinoceros Beetle

Author : M.G. Leonard
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 0702301728
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Rex the Rhinoceros Beetle written by M.G. Leonard and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From MG Leonard, the award-winning author of Beetle Boy and Duncan Beedie, the bestselling illustrator of The Bear Who Stared comes this standout picture book about a little beetle with a big heart! Deep in the rainforest, rhinoceros beetles Buster and Rex are sharing stories. Buster has so many heroic tales - he's SO strong and daring! Every story leaves Rex in awe - he's never met such an amazing beetle! But with danger just around the corner, will Buster live up to his reputation, or will it be up to Rex to save the day? After all, bravery comes in all shapes and sizes!

Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857

Author : Niranjan Goswami
Publisher : Jadavpur University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857 written by Niranjan Goswami and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception and construction of the image of India by the Western, in particular French, German and English travellers, writers and thinkers is the theme of this volume, a collection of twelve essays by academics from sundry parts of the globe. Giving a new twist to Indological, philological or postcolonial understanding of travel narratives, the authors here attempt to give fresh impetus to the discovery of India story from perspectives of cultural history, historiography, ethnography, material culture, economic modes of production, fictional travel, epistolary discourse, theatrical representation of widowhood, women in the Mutiny, feminist reading of the Mughal court, colonial painting and classical music. Circumscribed by the dates of the arrival of Ralph Fitch, the first English traveller and the Mutiny, the first War of Indian Independence this anthology revives an interest in the early modern to the colonial appropriation of India in the Western imaginary.

Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030227030
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.