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Beyond The Blue Horizon

By: Alexander Frater

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In Beyond The Blue Horizon Alexander Frater reveals and relives the romance and breathtaking excitement of the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire service – the world’s longest and most adventurous scheduled air route. Written with an infectious passion, this is an extraordinarily original and genre-defining piece of travel writing by one of our most highly respected travel correspondents. ‘Whether being mown down by stampeding Baghdad-bound passengers in Cairo airport, or battling with Indian Airline staff (and failing) to reconfirm six vital going-on flights from Delhi, or being lured unwittingly into a souvenir shop selling pornographic wood carvings in Lombok, or hitting tropical cyclones Ferdinand in a 748 en route from Sumba to Bali, Frater rises above it all with humour, style and a wonderfully sharp eye’ Evening Standard

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Pan Macmillan

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0330542281

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9780330542289

Tales from the Torrid Zone

Travels in the Deep Tropics

By: Alexander Frater

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Tales from the Torrid Zone

Travels in the Deep Tropics

By: Alexander Frater

Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return again and again. Join him as he dines with the Queen of Tonga; makes his way through two civil wars; visits the spots where surfing and bungee jumping originated; and expresses his love for the region where he is at once a tourist, explorer, adventurer, and native son. From Tahiti to Thailand, Mexico to Mozambique, Frater gives us a richly described, endlessly surprising picture of this diverse, feverish, languorously beautiful world.

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505

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Vintage

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030779525X

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9780307795250

Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

By: William Alexander Abram

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Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

By: William Alexander Abram

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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166

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385460077

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9783385460072

Scyld and Scef

Expanding the Analogues

By: Alexander M. Bruce

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Scyld and Scef

Expanding the Analogues

By: Alexander M. Bruce

Scyld and Scef is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend, featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Edda. The authors argue that this duo represent a way that medieval Germanic peoples defined themselves in their literature. Divided into two sections, this volume explores the specific cultures from which Scyld and Scef rose and the forty-one manuscripts in which they appear.

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256

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Routledge

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1317944216

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9781317944218

The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Six Volumes. For the First Time Collected and Edited with Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, etc.

Vol. II

By: Alexander Balloch Grosart,Thomas Nash

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The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Six Volumes. For the First Time Collected and Edited with Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, etc.

Vol. II

By: Alexander Balloch Grosart,Thomas Nash

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385348226

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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

By: Alexander Murray

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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

By: Alexander Murray

A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part Suicide in the Middle Ages, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore –and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.

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OUP Oxford

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0191613991

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9780191613999

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

By: Alexander Murray

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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

By: Alexander Murray

The second volume in a three-part series, The Curse of Self-Murder explores the origins of the condemnation of suicide and provides a unique perspective on medieval culture and religion.

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Oxford University Press

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019820731X

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9780198207313

Kalendars of Scottish Saints

By: Alexander Penrose Forbes

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Kalendars of Scottish Saints

By: Alexander Penrose Forbes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382138409

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9783382138400

The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages

By: Fidora, Alexander,Hasselhoff, Görge

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The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages

By: Fidora, Alexander,Hasselhoff, Görge

The Christian discovery of the Babylonian Talmud is a significant landmark in the long and complex history of anti-Jewish polemic. While the Talmudic corpus developed in the same period as early Christianity, this post-biblical text was largely unknown to the Christians. Full awareness of the Talmud among Christian authors did not arise until the late 1230s, when the Jewish convert Nicholas Donin presented a Latin translation of Talmudic fragments to Pope Gregory IX. Though the Talmud was subsequently put on trial (1240) and burnt (1241/2) in Paris, the controversy surrounding it continued over the following years, as Pope Innocent IV called for a revision of its condemnation. The textual basis for this revision is the Extractiones de Talmud, that is, a Latin translation of 1.922 Talmudic fragments. The articles in this volume shed new light on this monumental translation and its historical context. They also offer critical editions of related texts, such as Donin’s anti-Talmudic polemic. Authors of the contributions are: Wout van Bekkum, Piero Capelli, Ulisse Cecini, Enric Cortès, Óscar de la Cruz Palma, Federico Dal Bo, Alexander Fidora, Görge K. Hasselhoff, Moisés Orfali, Ursula Ragacs and Eulàlia Vernet i Pons.

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Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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8449089468

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9788449089466

Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul. II

Text and Apparatus Criticus

By: Alexander Souter

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Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul. II

Text and Apparatus Criticus

By: Alexander Souter

Excerpt from Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul; I: Introduction A. Souter, 'the Commentary of Pelagius on the Epistles of St Paul' (the Expositor 1907 I pp. 455 (written May. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1592449026

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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

By: Jonathan James Graham Alexander

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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

By: Jonathan James Graham Alexander

Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied, or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period, Christian monasteries and churches were the main centers for the copying of manuscripts, and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the eleventh century, lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous, and by the thirteenth century, professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period, illuminators were able to travel in search of work and to acquire new ideas, they joined guilds with scribes or with artists in the cities, and their ranks included nuns and secular women. Work was regularly collaborative, and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. Alexander carefully analyzes surviving manuscripts and medieval treatises in order to explain the complex and time-consuming technical processes of illumination - its materials, methods, tools, choice of illustration, and execution. From rare surviving contracts, he deduces the preoccupation of patrons with materials and schedules. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from religious and secular manuscripts made all over Europe, Alexander recreates the astonishing variety and creativity ofmedieval illumination. His book will be a standard reference for years to come.

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Yale University Press

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0300060734

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9780300060737

A law dictionary and glossary

Vol. 1

By: Alexander M. Burrill

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A law dictionary and glossary

Vol. 1

By: Alexander M. Burrill

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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3368120336

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9783368120337

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Beyond The Blue Horizon

Beyond The Blue Horizon

Tales from the Torrid Zone

Tales from the Torrid Zone

Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

Scyld and Scef

Scyld and Scef

The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Six Volumes. For the First Time Collected and Edited with Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, etc.

The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Six Volumes. For the First Time Collected and Edited with Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, etc.

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder

Kalendars of Scottish Saints

Kalendars of Scottish Saints

The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages

The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages

Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul. II

Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul. II

Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

A law dictionary and glossary

A law dictionary and glossary

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