The Chronicles of Bethica
The Chronicles of Bethica

Author: Warren Winston Randall Jr

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-06

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780986292842

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When Lord Gangus Abram is awakened by a strange voice in the night and told to seek out the Oracle Naman, he must make a journey across the Endless Sea to destroy the Nordoxz, an undefeated race of humanoids that is controlled by powerful forces of evil. Assisted by a group of war heroes, Lord Abram plunges into a perilous trek to obey the gods and settle in Bethica, a land of dragons, cannibals, Fallen Angels, Amazon women and Dark Lords of magic. He is joined by his Priestess wife, Brehira, son Dinary, Holy Templar, Celio, Shapeshifter and Beast Master, Olutunji and 700 people willing to risk their lives for land and freedom.

Consularia Constantinopolitana
Consularia Constantinopolitana

Author: Idatius

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres. The two texts, Chronicle of Hydatius and Consularia Constantinopolitana, provide an indispensable contemporary account of the fourth century A.D. These editions, based on the first ever examination of all surviving manuscripts, are provided with detailed introductions and appendices, and include the first English translation of Hydatius.

Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul
Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul

Author: Ralph Mathisen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 135189921X

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Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as the cradle of modern France and Germany. Standard texts and "moments" have emerged and been canonized in the scholarship on the period, be it Gaul aflame in 407 or the much-disputed baptism of Clovis in 496/508. This volume avoids such stereotypes. It brings together state-of-the-art work in archaeology, literary, social, and religious history, philology, philosophy, epigraphy, and numismatics not only to examine under-used and new sources for the period, but also critically to reexamine a few of the old standards. This will provide a fresh view of various more unusual aspects of late Roman Gaul, and also, it is hoped, serve as a model for ways of interpreting the late Roman sources for other areas, times, and contexts.

A History of the Spanish Language through Texts
A History of the Spanish Language through Texts

Author: Christopher Pountain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 113467855X

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A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain explores a wide range of texts from poetry, through newspaper articles and political documents, to a Bunuel film script and a love letter. With keypoints and a careful indexing and cross-referencing system this book can be used as a freestanding history of the language independently of the illustrative texts themselves.

The Diary of Laura
The Diary of Laura

Author: Carolyn P. Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781605541525

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"This English translation of an educational diary follows a child's first weeks in a Reggio Emilia infant-toddler program. Professionals have contributed essays on using these diaries as models for observation and family-oriented programming. Laura, the child in the diary, is now fully grown and has also written an essay reflecting on her Reggio Emilia experience." --Publisher's description.

The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE
The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE

Author: Ralph W. Mathisen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-07-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1614510997

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This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillé in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis’ victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillé that Gaul became Francia, and that “France began.” The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological.

The Tocco of the Greek Realm
The Tocco of the Greek Realm

Author: Nada Zečević

Publisher: Makart

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788687115118

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This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally from the Italian South, their five generations ruled the Greek regions of the Heptanese, Epiros and Peloponnese. By exploring the elaborate structures of their power, this monograph reveals an intricate nexus of dynamic personal and political relations, as well as larger socio-historical processes that transformed this family from junior nobility of the Angevin Naples into independent elite ruling a region on the crossroads between the Byzantine East and the Latin West. In doing so, this saga of the Tocco nobility, power and migration gives a critical overview of the early-modern and modern scholarship dealing with this family, cross-examining, at the same time, a most extensive pool of primary sources: Latin and Greek narratives, family documents and genealogies until now largely unpublished or little known to the scholarship, legal sources and diplomatic correspondence, commercial books and archeological reports.

Carolus Clusius
Carolus Clusius

Author: Florike Egmond

Publisher: Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13:

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Carolus Clusius (Arras 1526-Leiden 1609) was one of the most eminent botanists of the European Renaissance. His name is closely connected with the introduction of many exotic plants in Europe, in particular the tulip. In this volume a group of distinguished scholars explore his role in both the botanical renaissance and the genesis of botany as a field of study. Clusius’ wide-ranging correspondence provides a rich source of information and documents the formation of the European community of naturalists. These interdisciplinary essays will fascinate anyone interested in natural history, the history of science, and Renaissance culture.