Royal Encounters

Royal Encounters

Author: Paul Ratcliffe

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1445630559

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A fresh, informal insight into the daily working lives of Britain's much loved and talked about family - the Windsors.


Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301)

Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301)

Author: Dušan Zupka

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9004326391

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In Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dušan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary. Particular attention is paid to symbolic acts such as festive coronations, liturgical praises, welcoming of rulers (adventus regis), ritualised settlement of disputes, and symbolic rites during encounters between rulers. The power and meaning of rituals were understandable to contemporary protagonists and to their chroniclers. These rituals therefore played an essential role in medieval political culture. The book concludes with an outline of ritual communication as a coherent system.


Encounters in the Victorian Press

Encounters in the Victorian Press

Author: L. Brake

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230522564

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Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press - its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and opinions.


Exploring Cultural History

Exploring Cultural History

Author: Joan Pau Rubiés

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780754667506

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Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. Filippo de Vivo is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Joan-Pau Rubies is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.


Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

Author: Jamie Gilham

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-11-16

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1350299650

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Jamie Gilham collates the work of leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Christian-Muslim relations and Victorian Studies to offer fresh perspectives on Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain. The contributors reveal 19th-century attitudes and beliefs about Islam and Muslims to demonstrate the plurality of approaches and representations of Islam in Britain's past. Also bringing to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam, this book examines the lived experience of Muslims in the Victorian period. Sources include political and academic writings, literature, travelogues, the press and other forms of popular culture. Intersectional themes include religion and religiosity, 'race' and ethnicity, gender, class, citizenship, empire and imperialism, and prejudice, discrimination and resilience.


Gendered Encounters

Gendered Encounters

Author: Maria Grosz-Ngate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1136670580

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This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.


DIRE ENCOUNTERS

DIRE ENCOUNTERS

Author: Dolph C. Volker

Publisher: Dolph C. Volker

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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A continuation of the story from Book 1 "DIRE ENCOUNTERS - Man Meets Wolf - TOME 1". This is the second book of the series. Kahn, the youthful, bold, brash, and driven deposed prince of the Gamma Dire Wolf Pack seeks to regain his status within the pack but uncertain how. After surviving and discovering the plot to Eliminate him by his father, he struggles with his mind on exactly how to regain dominance and pack Ultimately overthrow his father for the status of Alpha of the pack. Kahn is not one to mix words or actions. His approach has always put directly and to the point; Usually with a certain degree of anger, violence, and revenge. He must decide Which direction his soul must take to get what he wants. With his loyal protectorate and only friend Simeon, huh Decides if it's the right approach or one with more consideration ... something Simeon tries instilling in him. Either path leads to uncertainty and lifelong Consequences. There is a light and dark side to us all in regards to our thoughts and actions. There is also a touch of gray; all of it Influenced by what we experience, know, And taught. The path to redemption is long and hard. Will the negative influences from Kahn's old Gamma pack direct his actions or the teachings of his wise and considerate protectorate, Simeon? What is Alden's influence in this process? What's to Become of him? What are the wolves influences on him, and vice versa? Alden has his own demons to sort out. His final destination is uncertain as well. What's to Become of Alden's mammalian allies, Shasta, Condo, and the wolves? This book reveals all. This book has put a pleasure to write, Such That It Became too large for just one book. It is in two volumes, with a third Considered, depending on public interest. Dire Encounters is a fiction and a work or result of my fascination with extinct megafauna of the Ice Age, admiration for the American Native Indian and my general fascination with life sciences in general. Dire Encounters has taken me seven years to write, edit, compose, illustrate, and finally publish. I hope this book inspires, entertains, educates, and moves you as it did me while writing it. This was my goal for the reader, though I started writing for Entirely different Reasons. This book is much about me as it is the characters in it and a dream of mine ... That now share digitally on virtual paper with you. The journey within the plot is filled with Christian themes as I am a Christian above all else. Try and discover the hidden meaning, words, places, names, and numbers than have references to the Bible, Christianity, and God. May the Great Spirt Bless you. Most of all Enjoy!


Encounters with Popular Pasts

Encounters with Popular Pasts

Author: Mike Robinson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3319131834

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This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.


Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Author: Theodore Koulouris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317122682

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Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium, Homer's Odyssey, and Euripides' Ion. Koulouris's examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf's narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf's 'Greekness,' Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and provided her with a means of articulating loss, whether it be loss of a great Hellenic past, women's vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf's early Greek studies for the elegiac quality of her writing, Koulouris maps a new theoretical terrain that involves reassessing long-established views on Woolf and the Greeks.