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Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past

By: Eric Gerald Stanley

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Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past

By: Eric Gerald Stanley

Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859915883

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9780859915885

Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

By: Gerald P. Dyson

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Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

By: Gerald P. Dyson

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783273666

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9781783273669

Studies in English Language & Literature

"doubt Wisely" : Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley

By: Eric Gerald Stanley

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Studies in English Language & Literature

"doubt Wisely" : Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley

By: Eric Gerald Stanley

This collection is in honour of E.G. Stanley. They apply Stanley's approach of 'wise scepticism' to provide new and exciting readings of difficult and rewarding fields, including Old English metre and verse and Beowulf.

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Psychology Press

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0415138485

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9780415138482

Slav Outposts in Central European History

The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

By: Gerald Stone

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Slav Outposts in Central European History

The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

By: Gerald Stone

While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline and gradual erosion of the Wends from the time when they occupied all the land between the River Elbe and the River Vistula around 800 AD to the present, where they still survive in tiny enclaves south of Berlin (the Wends and Sorbs) and west of Danzig (the Kashubs). Slav Outposts in Central European History - which also includes numerous images and maps - puts the story of the Wends, the Sorbs and the Kashubs in a wider European context in order to further sophisticate our understanding of how ethnic groups, societies, confessions and states have flourished or floundered in the region. It is an important book for all students and scholars of central European history and the history of European peoples and states more generally.

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409

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472592123

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9781472592125

The Meaning of Witchcraft

By: Gerald B. Gardner

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The Meaning of Witchcraft

By: Gerald B. Gardner

Those of us who use the word witch with all of the pride and fortification that it offers us do so thanks to Gardner’s lucid, liberating vision.”—Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power Often called the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner’s life and works were ground-breaking in opening the door for the modern revival of Wicca and neo-paganism. The Meaning of Witchcraft (originally published in 1959) was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. “The foundation of magical beliefs,” Gardner wrote, “of which witchcraft is a form, is that unseen Powers exist, and that by performing the right sort of ritual, these Powers can be contacted and either forced or persuaded to assist one in some way. People believed this in the Stone Age, and they believe it, consciously or not, today. It is now well known that most superstition is, in fact, broken-down ritual. The meaning of witchcraft is to be found not in strange religious theories about God and Satan but in the deepest levels of the human mind, the collective unconscious, and the earliest developments of human society.” The Meaning of Witchcraft is an enduring and invaluable source book for witches today. This Weiser Classics edition includes a new foreword by Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch. In it, Grossman revisits the historical role and mixed legacy that Gardner has played in the revival of witchcraft and magic in modern times.

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Weiser Books

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1633412784

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9781633412781

Strange Nation

Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe

By: J. Gerald Kennedy

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Strange Nation

Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe

By: J. Gerald Kennedy

After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.

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Oxford University Press

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0190491280

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9780190491284

Historic Texas from the Air

By: David Buisseret,Richard Francaviglia,Gerald Saxon,Jack W. Graves, Jr.

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Historic Texas from the Air

By: David Buisseret,Richard Francaviglia,Gerald Saxon,Jack W. Graves, Jr.

The extremely varied geography of Texas, ranging from lush piney woods to arid, mountainous deserts, has played a major role in the settlement and development of the state. To gain full perspective on the influence of the land on the people of Texas, you really have to take to the air—and the authors of Historic Texas from the Air have done just that. In this beautiful book, dramatic aerial photography provides a complete panorama of seventy-three historic sites from around the state, showing them in extensive geographic context and revealing details unavailable to a ground-based observer. Each site in Historic Texas from the Air appears in a full-page color photograph, accompanied by a concise description of the site's history and importance. Contemporary and historical photographs, vintage postcard images, and maps offer further visual information about the sites. The book opens with images of significant natural landforms, such as the Chisos Mountains and the Big Thicket, then shows the development of Texas history through Indian spiritual sites (including Caddo Mounds and Enchanted Rock), relics from the French and Spanish occupation (such as the wreck of the Belle and the Alamo), Anglo forts and methods of communication (including Fort Davis and Salado's Stagecoach Inn), nineteenth-century settlements and industries (such as Granbury's courthouse square and Kreische Brewery in La Grange), and significant twentieth-century locales, (including Spindletop, the LBJ Ranch, and the Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport). For anyone seeking a visual, vital overview of Texas history, Historic Texas from the Air is the perfect place to begin.

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University of Texas Press

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0292719272

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9780292719279

Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition

Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria

By: Gerald Bonner

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Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition

Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria

By: Gerald Bonner

The articles in this volume complement and continue work brought together on the author's previous collection, God's Decree and Man's Destiny. The first part, focusing on Augustine, is largely devoted to the Pelagian controversy, but also includes an examination of Augustine's concept of deification and other aspects of his theology. The following essays deal with early Christianity in Britain, and in particular with the work of St Cuthbert and Bede, and the patristic traditions on which they drew, while the final ones present reflections on the history of the Church in Late Antiquity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244874

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9781040244876

A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

By: Gerald A. Hodgett

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A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

By: Gerald A. Hodgett

This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of the New World. After outlining the trends in demography, prices, rent, and wages and in the patterns of settlement and cultivation, the author also summarizes the basic research done in the last twenty-five years in many aspects of the social and economic history of medieval Europe, citing French, German and Italian works as well as English. Significantly, this study surveys the present state of discussion on a number of on unresolved issues and controversies, and in some areas suggests common sense answers. Some of the problems of economic growth, or the lack of it, are looked at in the light of current theories in sociology and economic thought. This classic text, first published in 1972, makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.

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Routledge

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1136583076

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9781136583070

Beowulf

By: Gerald J. Davis

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Beowulf

By: Gerald J. Davis

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, in his famous 1936 lecture, BEOWULF: THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS, said, ""BEOWULF is among my most valued sources. It is a work of genius, rare and surprising in the period, and it is worth studying. In BEOWULF we have an historical story about the pagan past. BEOWULF is not an actual picture of historic Denmark or Geatland or Sweden about A.D. 500. But it is, on a general view, a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. BEOWULF is, indeed, the most successful Old English heroic elegy.

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Lulu.com

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1304304914

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9781304304919

The Great Disorder

Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924

By: Gerald D. Feldman

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The Great Disorder

Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924

By: Gerald D. Feldman

This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation as a strategy of social pacification and economic reconstruction and as a mechanism for escaping domestic and international indebtedness. The Great Disorder is a study of German society under the tension of inflation and hyperinflation, and it explores the ways in which Germany's hyperinflation and stabilization were linked to the Great Depression and the rise of National Socialism. This wide-ranging study sets German inflation within the broader issues of maintaining economic stability, social peace, and democracy and thus contributes to the general history of the twentieth century and has important implications for existing and emerging market economies facing the temptation or reality of inflation.

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Oxford University Press

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0195101146

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9780195101140

Reflections on Law and Armed Conflicts

The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor Colonel G.I.A.D. Draper, Obe

By: Gerald Irving Anthony Dare Draper

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Reflections on Law and Armed Conflicts

The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor Colonel G.I.A.D. Draper, Obe

By: Gerald Irving Anthony Dare Draper

CHAPTER 5: WAR CRIMINALITY.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9041105573

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9789041105578

Memphis Ribs

By: Gerald Duff

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Memphis Ribs

By: Gerald Duff

In the midst of the International Barbecue Contest and the Cotton Carnival, J.W. Ragsdale has to investigate two murders and a case of "mass market bad barbecue."--Cover.

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0966452011

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Book's by Gerald Saxon

Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past

Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past

Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Studies in English Language & Literature

Studies in English Language & Literature

Slav Outposts in Central European History

Slav Outposts in Central European History

The Meaning of Witchcraft

The Meaning of Witchcraft

Strange Nation

Strange Nation

Historic Texas from the Air

Historic Texas from the Air

Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition

Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition

A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

Beowulf

Beowulf

The Great Disorder

The Great Disorder

Reflections on Law and Armed Conflicts

Reflections on Law and Armed Conflicts

Memphis Ribs

Memphis Ribs

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