Spiritus Maximus Issue #1

Spiritus Maximus Issue #1

Author: Kat Klockow

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1365470245

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Legendary creatures are now the main population on Earth, with vampires, werewolves, mermaids, and others out in the open around the world. Humans, however, have become a thing of legend themselves. Spritus, or their ghosts, are the only remaining fragment of human life. A popular past time for young Monstrum is to go seeking such spirits. Sawyer (a vampire) and Munny (a werewolf) particularly love going spirit hunting. On one outing however, in an abandoned hospital, they come across the most mythical of beings- a human girl.


The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena

The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena

Author: Willemien Otten

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9789004093027

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This book deals with Eriugena's view of man in the context of his thinking on universal nature. Although man is seen as possessing a sinful created state, this does not prevent him from entertaining a free and direct relationship with God and the surrounding universe. It is shown that, while man is governed by nature's unfolding, he can also exercise significant control over it.


Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus

Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus

Author: Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 113448836X

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Triune God

The Triune God

Author: Bernard Lonergan

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13:

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entirety to contemporary readers." --Book Jacket.


Gesta Danorum

Gesta Danorum

Author: Saxo (Grammaticus)

Publisher: Oxford Medieval Texts

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 019870576X

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Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany. The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play. Volume II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.