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It Doesn't Have to be Like this

Global Economics : a New Way Forward

By: Margaret Legum

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It Doesn't Have to be Like this

Global Economics : a New Way Forward

By: Margaret Legum

This title is aimed at those of us who feel instinctively that there is something badly wrong with our global system of trade and finance, where money for its own sake is valued over jobs and people's lives, but don't know how to start suggesting alternatives.

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Wild Goose Publications

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1901557766

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Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance

By: Margaret L King

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Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance

By: Margaret L King

In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400854342

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9781400854349

The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court

By: Margaret McGlynn

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The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court

By: Margaret McGlynn

Margaret McGlynn examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0511057377

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9780511057373

Love and War in the Middle English Romances

By: Margaret Adlum Gist

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Love and War in the Middle English Romances

By: Margaret Adlum Gist

This study examines Middle English romances to determine how accurately they reflect actual medieval attitudes and behavior in their treatment of relationships between the sexes and the theory and practice of warfare.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512816280

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From Kingston to Kenya

The Making of a Pan-Africanist Lawyer

By: Dudley Thompson,Margaret Cezair-Thompson,Margaret Cezair Thompson

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From Kingston to Kenya

The Making of a Pan-Africanist Lawyer

By: Dudley Thompson,Margaret Cezair-Thompson,Margaret Cezair Thompson

Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, Dudley Thompson won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in the 1950s, where he involved himself in the Pan-Africanist movement alongside such figures as George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah. Working in Kenya and Tanzania, he became a close friend of Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere, and was instrumental in obtaining the release of the former when he was arrested during Kenya's struggle for independence.

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The Majority Press

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0912469293

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9780912469294

The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

By: Margaret Bent

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The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

By: Margaret Bent

A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts, they simply require a different approach to preparation and listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both of words and music from other compositions, function, dating, structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of these original creations tease out a range of strategies, ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new material; the other half are substantially revised and updated versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions, provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval composers, and opens up many directions for future work.

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Oxford University Press

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0190063793

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9780190063795

Hell and its Afterlife

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Margaret Toscano

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Hell and its Afterlife

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Margaret Toscano

The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture. While the idea of an infernal region of punishment was largely developed in the context of early Jewish and Christian religious culture, it remains a central belief for some Christians in the modern world. Hell's reception (its 'afterlife') in the modern world has extended hell's meaning beyond the religious realm; hell has become a pervasive image and metaphor in political rhetoric, in popular culture, and in the media. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields to contribute to a wider understanding of this fascinating and important cultural idea, this book will appeal to readers from historical, religious, literary and cultural perspectives.

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Routledge

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1317122712

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James: An Introduction and Study Guide

Diaspora Rhetoric of a Friend of God

By: Margaret Aymer

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James: An Introduction and Study Guide

Diaspora Rhetoric of a Friend of God

By: Margaret Aymer

In this guide Margaret Aymer introduces the letter of James, countering arguments that it is of limited theological value and significance for early Christianity. Aymer focuses on James' theology of God's divine singularity and immutability, and of God's relationship to the community as father and benefactor. These are theological foundations for its emphasis on community actions of belief, humility and mutual care. Aymer introduces and examines the letter's stand against empire, not least in regard to wealth. Divine power is envisioned as an alternative power to that of the Romans, though in some respects it can seem equally brutal. Aymer concludes by focusing on those addressed by James's homily, the exiles in diaspora. Engaging the psychology of migration, she unpacks the migrant strategy underlying James's call to living 'unstained'. Finally, Aymer encourages student to ask what it might mean now for twenty-first-century people to take seriously a separatist migrant discourse not only as an interesting ancient writing but as a scripture, a lens through which its readers can glimpse the possibilities for how lives are to be lived, and how contemporary worlds can be interpreted and engaged?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350008842

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Humanism, Venice, and Women

Essays on the Italian Renaissance

By: Margaret L. King

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Humanism, Venice, and Women

Essays on the Italian Renaissance

By: Margaret L. King

Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. King's distinct but interlocking scholarly interests: humanism and Venice; women and humanism; and women of the Italian Renaissance. The first part focuses on defining the key characteristics of Venetian as opposed to other Italian humanisms, with an analysis of Gramscian theory about the historical role of intellectuals as an aid to understanding humanism in Venice, followed by essays on three Venetian humanists who wrote about family relationships (or the need to avoid them). The third section introduces the major Renaissance women humanists and analyzes the relation of their work to that of male humanists, along with an essay on Renaissance mothers of sons, in Italy and beyond. Crossing boundaries of region and gender, and the subdisciplines of intellectual and social history, these essays are provocative in themselves while demonstrating how shifting historiographical contexts encourage scholars to view the historical record in new and fruitful ways.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000949648

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9781000949643

Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought

By: Margaret MESERVE,Margaret Meserve

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Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought

By: Margaret MESERVE,Margaret Meserve

Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from—and contributed to—contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

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Harvard University Press

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0674040953

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Book I

By: R. G. M. Nisbet,Margaret Hubbard

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Book I

By: R. G. M. Nisbet,Margaret Hubbard

Horace's Odes are among the most popular, and the most misunderstood, of ancient writings. The present work is written in the belief that they are learned poems, which demand some knowledge of conventional forms and topics. Each ode is provided with an introduction which sets it against its Greek and Roman literary background. This edition may be used in conjunction with the Oxford Classical Text edited by E. C. Wickham. The commentary includes a large number of parallel passages, chosen to show how Horace plays new variations on old themes; it is hoped that these may prove useful to commentators on other ancient poets. The book also contains sections on chronology and metre, and a select bibliography is attached to each ode.

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Oxford University Press

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0191656984

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Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium

By: Margaret Mullett

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Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium

By: Margaret Mullett

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.

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1000941647

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The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello

By: Margaret L. King

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The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello

By: Margaret L. King

Margaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises, and poems. In these documents, we find a firsthand account, richly colored by humanist conventions and expectations, of the life of the fifteenth-century boy, the passionate devotion of his father, the feelings of his brothers and sisters, the striking absence of his mother. The father's story is here as well: the career of a Venetian nobleman and scholar, patron and soldier, a participant in Venice's struggle for dominion in the north of Italy. Through these sources also King traces the cultural trends that made Marcello's century famous. Her work enlarges our view of the literature of consolation, which had a distinctive tradition in Venice, and shifting attitudes toward death from the late Middle Ages onward. For the depth and acuity of its insights into political, cultural, and private life in fifteenth-century Venice, this book will be essential reading for students of the Renaissance. For the grace and drama of its storytelling, it will be savored by anyone who wishes to look into life and death in a palace, and a city, long ago.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226436276

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9780226436272

Ten African Heroes

The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa

By: Thomas Patrick Melady,Margaret Badum Melady

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Ten African Heroes

The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa

By: Thomas Patrick Melady,Margaret Badum Melady

This title tells the story of the African leaders who ignited independence in black Africa during the 1960s through the eyes of two Americans who knew them well.

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Orbis Books

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1608330168

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9781608330164

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Isaiah

By: Margaret Barker

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Isaiah

By: Margaret Barker

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Barker’s introduction to and concise commentary on Isaiah. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

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1467453781

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Laud's Laboratory, the Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early Seventeenth Century

By: Margaret Stieg Dalton

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Laud's Laboratory, the Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early Seventeenth Century

By: Margaret Stieg Dalton

A reexamination of English history from a local point of view. The author attempts to show how the Established Church impinged on the lives of ordinary people in the diocese of Bath and Wells in the period preceding the Civil War. Illustrated.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838750192

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Jesus and the Empire of God

Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in the Gospel of Mark

By: Margaret Froelich

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Jesus and the Empire of God

Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in the Gospel of Mark

By: Margaret Froelich

Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies, following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does not represent an entirely new way of thinking about empire or cosmic structures, but rather exhibits concepts and structures with which the author and his audience are already familiar in order to promote the Kingdom of God as a better version of the encroaching Roman Empire. Froelich consequently understands Mark as a response to the physical, ideological, and cultural displacement of the first Roman/Judean War. By looking to Greek, Roman, and Jewish texts to determine how first-century authors thought of conquest and expansion, Froelich situates the Gospel directly in a historical and socio-political context, rather than treating that context as a mere backdrop; concluding that the Gospel portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering empire with Jesus as its victorious general and client king.

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0567700879

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9780567700872

The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at-Leeds

By: Margaret Pullan,Elizabeth Fisher

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The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at-Leeds

By: Margaret Pullan,Elizabeth Fisher

The Parish Church has not only played a significant part in the life of Leeds, it captures within it the history of the great events and people who together have shaped that city through the centuries. Hundreds of monuments and memorials dating from the Middle Ages to the present day encrust its walls and floors, telling as they do, the part Leeds people have played in that story. Here we see memorials to members of the Leeds Volunteers, formed to offset Napoleon's threatened invasion, and to the men from the city who fought in the Crimea, in South Africa and in two World Wars. Here also we find tributes to hundreds of local men, women and children who lived out their lives in the town; some now forgotten, others nationally famous, like Richard Oastler the 'Factory King'. Now for the first time, those memorials have been captured in Margaret Pullan's pioneering publication, the product of years of devoted research. The range of information offered includes records of births, marriages, and deaths, full inscriptions, background histories explaining why the deceased were buried in the Parish Church and the artistic merits of their tombs. Architectural, ecclesiastical and local historians will find this an invaluable contribution in their respective fields of work whilst the general public will find it gives a fascinating view of the people of Leeds who lived through the years as the old town grew into a major city.

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Routledge

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1000107094

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This England, That Shakespeare

New Angles on Englishness and the Bard

By: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

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This England, That Shakespeare

New Angles on Englishness and the Bard

By: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this question, first through explorations of his plays, principally though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England, as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part One examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of 'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of national identities in a time of transition.

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1317010566

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The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards

Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

By: Margaret C. Jones

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The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards

Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

By: Margaret C. Jones

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated historian, bringing fresh understanding of the world of Ancient Egypt to a fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (Society). This new biography uses previously overlooked sources to tell the story of her fascinating and unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism - as well as touching on her occasionally problematic views on race. In appreciation of a figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights societies as well as revealing new insights into Edwards' loving same-sex relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. In doing so, it reveals a versatile, creative, witty, independent woman, and a true pioneer of her time.

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1350293997

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9781350293991

TWILIGHT HUNGER 1

Harlequin Comics

By: Margaret Benson,Kei Kosaki

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TWILIGHT HUNGER 1

Harlequin Comics

By: Margaret Benson,Kei Kosaki

The world turns its back on Morgan when her director father and Hollywood starlet mother die in a car crash. She seeks refuge in a oceanfront mansion to recover, and continues working toward her dream as a screenwriter until one day, she finds a stack of old diaries. She's entranced by their author, a young man named Dante, and his mysterious and beautiful adventures. Using his words as inspiration, she turns his stories into a screenplay, and slowly begins to truly feel his presence in the house, until one night, he seems to appear...?

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4596683670

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Theophylact of Ochrid

Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop

By: Margaret Mullett

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Theophylact of Ochrid

Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop

By: Margaret Mullett

Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and also within the empire as a whole. These letters are of great importance from the point of view of local economic or ecclesiastical history, relations with the Slavs, the arrival of the First Crusade, but have not hitherto been studied as an example of Byzantine letter writing. This was a genre taken seriously by Byzantines, offering us unique insight into the mentality of the Byzantine elite, but also into what the Byzantines regarded as literature. This book is important as an attempt to raise the status of the study of Byzantine literature, and of letters within that literature. It is a first attempt to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts; its aim, too, is to probe the reliability of any rhetorical text for straightforward biography especially at the time of the revival fiction in Byzantium. At the heart of the book is an analysis of the personal network of Theophylact, as presented in the collection, with further methodological discussion of network analysis in medieval texts.

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1351879820

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9781351879828

Famine and Disease in Ireland

By: E Margaret Crawford

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Famine and Disease in Ireland

By: E Margaret Crawford

This collection contains Five volumes of reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" and similar publications.

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