Eternal light and earthly concerns
Eternal light and earthly concerns

Author: Paul Fouracre

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1526114003

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In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these ‘eternal’ lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.

Eternal Light of the Crypts
Eternal Light of the Crypts

Author: Alan Van't Land

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781987970289

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890 AD France. The last imperial heir of Charlemagne is dead, and every duke is proclaiming himself king. Egilolf, a former soldier, could care less. He needs to steal bones. A saint's bones. With the prospect of a large payout, he recruits the scribe Aristeus, a refugee fleeing Viking invasions. Perhaps he should have told his new companion the true reason he's pilfering saints. Together the thief and scribe must dodge bandits, Vikings, and warring lords-not to mention their own lies-only to find unearthing bones the easiest step. Yet Egilolf's fiercest battle is the one within. How can defending the weak be just, when God abandons him when he has to kill? And when Vikings become more than a faceless enemy to Aristeus, will he, like the ancient martyrs he's always extolling, risk death to convert them?

Songs at Twilight
Songs at Twilight

Author: Arthur Langer

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 146343202X

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Songs at Twilight is a collection of non-fiction stories stretching from the days of The Great Depression through World War II to the golden years beyond; growing up in the 30's, adventures in khaki, life upon the wicked stage, the world as an oyster, and material witness to the perfect murder.

Resting Places
Resting Places

Author: Scott Wilson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 887

ISBN-13: 0786479922

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In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.

Experiencing Byzantium
Experiencing Byzantium

Author: Dr Claire Nesbitt

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1472416716

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From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world. The theme of experience embraces all aspects of Byzantine studies and the Experiencing Byzantium symposium brought together archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, musicians and theologians in a common quest to step across the line that divides how we understand and experience the Byzantine world and how the Byzantines themselves perceived the sensual aspects of their empire and also their faith, spirituality, identity and the nature of ‘being’ in Byzantium. The papers in this volume derive from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies by the University of Newcastle and University of Durham, at Newcastle upon Tyne in April 2011. They are written by a group of international scholars who have crossed disciplinary boundaries to approach an understanding of experience in the Byzantine world. Experiencing Byzantium is volume 18 in the series published by Ashgate on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

The Creation
The Creation

Author: Hubertus Huber

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-10-13

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 3756263959

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The Catholic Church has a visible head, the Pope, and an invisible head, Jesus Christ. In order for the Church to safely fulfill its mission, Christ promised His assistance and sent the Holy Spirit. With the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the popes taught that religious freedom is a false doctrine worthy of condemnation. The Council of 1965, rejected this teaching. Hubertus Huber, has asked himself, can God (the Holy Spirit) err? When God errs, he is not God. He never changes his decisions. Only people can err. Hubertus Huber wrote some writings in which he dealt with this subject. Soon he stood alone with his "aberrant" thoughts. In this situation he asked God for help. He promised to burn everything if he did not find proof for the correctness of his writings. A few days later he met a priest who told him they had overlooked an important argument and he brought him a calendar with the coronation oath of the popes. The Coronation Oath is a contract between Christ and His Vicar. According to this contract, any change in doctrine, rites and tradition, leads to "BANN or excommunication. This punishment hit in 1965, 2,400 bishops who had voted in the Council, against the teaching of the Church. In order to cover up the bishops' ban, the coronation oath was embezzled and deleted from the doctrine. Today it is unknown among theologians and universities. The embezzlement was an attack on God and His teaching. For Hubertus Huber the miraculous guidance, to the coronation oath of the popes, was the requested proof for the correctness, of his writings. In this book, the decline of the Catholic Church to a priestless sect, is described in detail.

The Shadow of the Succubus / the Eternal Thirst
The Shadow of the Succubus / the Eternal Thirst

Author: John Condenzio

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 141403914X

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The first collection of short stories released by Thomas Porky McDonald, Paradise Oval spans the worlds of baseball, mass transit and a number of other venues that the otherwise rambling poet has drifted through. Brought to life in three distinct sections, the characters that roam through the pages of McDonald's sometimes longing narratives seem connected only in their divergent quests for faith and loyalties. In "A Subtle Reunion", a young man faces up pensively with his whispering past, while tales like "Always Identities", "Equidistant" and "Paradise Oval" each trek the terrain of where one might have been and how that might shape where we choose to go in the future. In addition, the caustic sportscaster Chauncey McGee and the genuine observer Riley O'Reilly are memorable characters that McDonald summonses to give you pause for thought, while also bringing a grin to the face or a sigh to the heart. On each occasion, different aspects of baseball and/or the ballpark are cited to stress a point. A half dozen tales explore some of the intricacies of a large metropolitan transit system, drawn from almost two decades of experience in that most public sector. Internal stories, such as "When We Musketeered", "Tales of Odie" and "Three Months in a Blender" are nonetheless balanced with the roads that we all might encounter, beyond the workplace. "A Moment in Malverne", set in the smallest of towns, questions the meanings of life and death, and the fact-based "Two Words of Christmas " gives a positive spin on relations among all men and women. A collage of life tales closes the volume, with such diverse characters as the mysterious former high school buddy Mo Oh and the sly and calculating thief Frankie Jingo leading the way. Along the way, "A Stop Far Away" and "A Seat of Honor" recall McDonald's childhood vibrantly. The manic "Beyond the Forbidden Zone" offers up a most amusing take on the world just around the one that defined the writer's New York City upbringing. Throughout, Paradise Oval takes the reader to places they may not have been, but may well choose to return to again and again.