The Tarot
The Tarot

Author: Robert Place

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-03-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781585423491

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The Tarot is one of the few books that cuts through conventional misperceptions to explore the Tarot deck as it really developed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe-not, as some would suggest, in the far reaches of Egyp-tian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling portrait of the Tarot's true origins, without overlooking the deck's mystical dimensions. Indeed, Place uncommonly weds reliable historiography with a practical understanding of the intuitive help and divinatory guidance that the cards can bring. He presents techniques that offer new and valuable ways to read and interpret the cards. Based on a simple three-card spread, Place's approach can be used by either the seasoned practitioner or the new inquirer.

Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile
Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile

Author: Cynthia Robinson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0271054107

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"An interdisciplinary reassessment of the creation and reception of religious imagery, and of its place in the devotional practices of Castilian Christians, situated against the broader panorama of Spanish culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Spiritual Marriage
Spiritual Marriage

Author: Dyan Elliott

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1400844347

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The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, plays an important role in the development of the institution of marriage and in the understanding of female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century.

The Book of the Lover and the Beloved
The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

Author: Mark D. Johnston

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1800345976

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Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.

The Book of the Lover and the Beloved
The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

Author: Ramon Llull

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Blurring the lines between love, romance, passion and devotion, this collection of short poems and prose offers an in-depth look at religion and God. Widely considered a masterpiece of philosophy and religion, the book is an illuminating and spiritual look at our connection and relationship with God and romance in a unique take on passion and love. Initially written in Catalan, it is widely considered the author's magnum opus.

Lull & Bruno
Lull & Bruno

Author: Francis A. Yates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1135034133

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First published in 1999.This is Volume VIII of ten of the selected works of Frances A. Yates. The studies reprinted here demonstrate not only the range of Frances A. Yate's learning but her determination to go to the root of a problem. In order to understand the thought of Giordano Bruno, Dame Frances found it necessary to investigate the role of Lullism in the Renaissance and this led her back three centuries to the origins of the Art of Ramon Lull.

The Novel: An Alternative History
The Novel: An Alternative History

Author: Steven Moore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 1441133364

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Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.