The Traveler's Key to Medieval France
Author: John James
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
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The Traveler's Key to Jerusalem
Author: Martin Lev
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sixth in a series of guidebooks for the growing number of modern pilgrims is devoted to Jerusalem--the Holy City of the Jews, the Christians, and the Moslems. 36 halftones, 28 maps.
Guidebook Selected French Gothic Cathedrals and Churches
Author: Richard Moore
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2016-10-10
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1524644323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis substantive yet easy-to-use guide to selected French gothic churches and cathedrals provides profiles of fourteen important religious buildings. They are located in different parts of France, were constructed at different times and in different styles, and include both well-known and less well-known churches and cathedrals. They range from the tiny church of Saint Maclou in Rouenperhaps the best example of flamboyant designto the worlds most visited Gothic cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris. A second section of the book considers what a Gothic cathedral is as well as their medieval setting and the many architectural, artistic, and spiritual elements that comprise a Gothic cathedral. The guide is lavishly illustrated with photos and helpful images to help the readers derive the maximum benefit and pleasure from their Gothic church and cathedral visits.
Historical Dictionary of France
Author: Gino Raymond
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008-10-23
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0810862565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.
Sacred Earth
Author: Martin Gray
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781402747373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK... "Twenty years of photographs by photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray. Accompanying each photograph is commentary that takes us into the history, mythology and spiritual magnetism of the particular place ..."--Jacket.
Key Figures in Medieval Europe
Author: Richard K. Emmerson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 1136775188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, or the arts. Individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia are included as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. A thematic outline is included that lists people not only by categories, but also by regions. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
The Penguin Guide to France 1989
Author: Georgia Hesse
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1988-10
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780140199024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to provide reliable information, this guide to France contains sections on virtually everything the traveler would need to know from hotels to history, shopping and saving.
The Traveler's Handbook
Author: Melissa Shales
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalking to the Saints
Author: Anne McPherson
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2001-03
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780809140183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the time I was five years old I knew France to be an enchanting country, a place of dreams..". For Anne McPherson, this impression became more and more entrenched with the passing years. In Walking to the Saints, she visits time-honored sites along France's medieval pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela, reflecting on the architecture, the spiritual universe of medieval people, and the connections and contradictions between earlier theology and contemporary feminist thought. At the same time she discovers that each site, with its sainted patron and antique heroes, mirrors part of her own life's journey. With intelligence, freshness and wit, Anne McPherson invites readers to join her in walking to the saints. The text is complemented by original, evocative drawings by well-known Canadian artist Tony Urquhart.
Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
Author: Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 1579
ISBN-13: 1134268610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 1,125 entries and 170 contributors, this is the first encyclopedia on the history of classical archaeology. It focuses on Greek and Roman material, but also covers the prehistoric and semi-historical cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean, the Etruscans, and manifestations of Greek and Roman culture in Europe and Asia Minor. The Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology includes entries on individuals whose activities influenced the knowledge of sites and monuments in their own time; articles on famous monuments and sites as seen, changed, and interpreted through time; and entries on major works of art excavated from the Renaissance to the present day as well as works known in the Middle Ages. As the definitive source on a comparatively new discipline - the history of archaeology - these finely illustrated volumes will be useful to students and scholars in archaeology, the classics, history, topography, and art and architectural history.
