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Author: Branka Arsic
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Published: 2016-01-04
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674088474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBranka Arsi shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother s death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau s more idiosyncratic habits and obsessions."
Author: Christopher de Hamel
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0141994258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Becket. In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine: the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which he cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury, and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated and published to coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artefacts of medieval England.
Author: John Weyland
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-10-30
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1504949269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains 115 essays. They are all meant to say something new about the subject dealt with.
Author: Katherine Henn
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press ; [Philadelphia] : American Theological Library Association
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Heather Terrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2024-11-26
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1504097408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover a new dark age—and the one girl wielding the light of truth—in a tale “with threads from The Hunger Games, The Giver, and other dystopian novels” (Booklist). For more than a hundred years, no maiden from Aerie has competed in the arduous Testing, but after Eva’s twin brother dies, she is determined to fulfill his dream of participating in the all-male competition, and enters despite her parents’ wishes. With the help of Lukas, her family’s servant from the Boundary lands, Eva learns the ways of the outcasts who live in the brutal and icy world beyond Aerie. She discovers the secrets of the blinding white landscape, the dogs who pull her sled, and the chasms that house the strange relics once worshipped by a godless humanity. This knowledge is exactly what she needs to survive—and win—the harsh trials of the Testing. Leaving the safety of Aerie behind gives Eva a chance to realize how strong she can be in the face of adversity—and how brave she’ll have to become in a society built on the shifting snows of lies . . . “Heather Terrell excavates a richly realized and adventurous world from the iced-over wreck of our own.” —William Alexander, National Book Award–winning author of Goblin Secrets “Part post-apocalyptic fiction and part high fantasy . . . Delicately weaving in elements of Inuit culture as well as elements you might find in Game of Thrones, Heather Terrell creates a world that is as intricate as it is icy . . . A page-turner.” —E. Kristen Anderson, editor of Dear Teen Me
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 2204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Teresa Barnett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 022605974X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington’s hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past—often called “association items”—may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people and events in American history. Kept in museum collections large and small across the United States, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past. She traces the relic-collecting tradition back to eighteenth-century England, then on to articles belonging to the founding fathers and through the mass collecting of artifacts that followed the Civil War. Ultimately, Barnett shows how we can trace our own historical collecting from the nineteenth century’s assemblages of the material possessions of great men and women.
Author: Scott M. Kenworthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0199736138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.
Author: Garth Walpole
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1476627126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own--photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London. This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.
