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The Book of William

How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World

By: Paul Collins

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The Book of William

How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World

By: Paul Collins

A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.

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1596911956

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Education Now

How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future

By: Paul Theobald

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Education Now

How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future

By: Paul Theobald

Education Now is a clear and persuasive account of the way in which popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories about the human condition formed the basis for America's choices in the realms of politics, economics, and education. Theobald chronicles the fate of alternative, less popular ideas about the human condition-ideas that would have led to vastly different political, economic, and educational landscapes than those we experience today. This book exposes the flaws among prevalent theories and the strength of those alternatives that were dismissed or ignored. In so doing, Theobald points the way toward substantive changes across three dimensions ubiquitous to human life: politics, economics, and education.

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Routledge

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1317260708

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Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance

By: J. Gavin Paul

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Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance

By: J. Gavin Paul

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance—and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them—is a longstanding and contentious one. Most scholars agree that reading a printed play is a means of dramatic realization absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else beyond this premise is contestable: how much authority to assign to playwrights, the extent to which texts and readings determine performance, and the capability of printed plays to communicate the possibilities of performance. Without denying that printed plays distort and fragment performance practice, this book negotiates an intractable debate by shifting attention to the ways in which these inevitable distortions can nevertheless enrich a reader's awareness of a play's performance potentialities. As author J. Gavin Paul demonstrates, printed plays can be more meaningfully engaged with actual performance than is typically assumed, via specific editorial principles and strategies. Focusing on the long history of Shakespearean editing, he develops the concept of the performancescape: a textual representation of performance potential that gives relative shape and stability to what is dynamic and multifarious.

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Springer

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1137438444

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Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing

By: Paul Salzman

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Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing

By: Paul Salzman

Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles. While recent scholarship has offered a detailed account of how Shakespeare was edited in the eighteenth century, the parallel process of the 'exact' reproduction of his texts has been largely ignored. The author will explain how facsimiles moved during the eighteenth and nineteenth century from hand drawn, traced, and type facsimiles to the advent of photographical facsimiles in the mid nineteenth century. Facsimiles can be seen as a barometer of the reverence accorded to the idea of an authentic Shakespeare text, and also of the desire to possess, if not original texts, then reproductions of them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009228234

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Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale

A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms

By: Paul A. Fox

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Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale

A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms

By: Paul A. Fox

A new study of the heraldry, genealogy and history of the Canterbury Cathedral cloister, this book is the first comprehensive study of this monument ever undertaken. It provides a detailed chronology and details on the 856 heraldic shields, badges and devices, representing some 365 families, principalities, religious foundations and individuals.

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1789693322

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Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 2

By: Samiran Kumar Paul

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Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 2

By: Samiran Kumar Paul

Shakespeare at best answers the needs of a particular generation in one country or another. Those needs vary: directors and actors, audiences and common readers, scholar-teachers and students do not necessarily seek the same aids for understanding. Shakespeare is an international possession, transcending nations, languages and professions. More than the Bible, which competes with the Koran, and with Indian and Chinese religious writings, Shakespeare is unique in the world’s culture, not just in the world’s theatres. Shakespeare’s literary and cultural authority is now so unquestioned that it has taken on an aura of historical inevitability and has enshrined the figure of the solitary author as the standard bearer of literary production. It is all the more important, then, to suggest that Shakespeare had a genius for timing—managing to be born in exactly the right place and at the right time to nourish his particular form of greatness. He regularly demonstrates and celebrates the ideas and ideals of Renaissance humanism, often—even in his tragic plays—presenting characters that embody the principles and ideals of Renaissance humanism, or people of tremendous self-knowledge and wit that are capable of self-expression and the practice of individual freedom. Shakespeare himself can be understood as the ultimate product of Renaissance humanism; he was an artist who openly practised and celebrated with a deep understanding of humanity and an uncanny ability for self-expression.

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Notion Press

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1649518692

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9781649518699

Murder Most Holy

A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 3

By: Paul Doherty

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Murder Most Holy

A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 3

By: Paul Doherty

Summer, 1379. Sir John Cranston, coroner of the city of London, is trapped into a wager with Signor Gian Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, when challenged to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona’s manors. They have no mark upon them; they have neither drunk nor eaten poison; there are no secret passageways or entrances to the room. And they all have an awful expression of terror upon their faces. Realising his reputation and future wealth rest upon the solving of this mystery, Cranston seeks the help of his faithful secretarius, Brother Athelstan.

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1448300355

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Microbe Hunters

By: Paul De Kruif

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Microbe Hunters

By: Paul De Kruif

Presents twelve stories of the men who pioneered the study of bacteriology.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156027771

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A Moral Art

Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence

By: Paul F. Gehl

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A Moral Art

Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence

By: Paul F. Gehl

Focusing on one distinctive element of the early Renaissance reading public—boys who studied Latin grammar in Florence—Paul F. Gehl sheds new light on the history of schooling in the West. Far from advancing the cause of humanism, he shows, the elementary grammar masters of fourteenth-century Florence worked against it in the name of morality.

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Cornell University Press

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150173539X

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Short Pulse Laser Interactions With Matter: An Introduction

An Introduction

By: Paul Gibbon

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Short Pulse Laser Interactions With Matter: An Introduction

An Introduction

By: Paul Gibbon

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions.Femtosecond lasers have undergone dramatic technological advances over the last fifteen years, generating a whole host of new research activities under the theme of “ultrafast science”. The focused light from these devices is so intense that ordinary matter is torn apart within a few laser cycles. This book takes a close-up look at the exotic physical phenomena which arise as a result of this new form of “light-matter” interaction, covering a diverse set of topics including multiphoton ionization, rapid heatwaves, fast particle generation and relativistic self-channeling. These processes are central to a number of exciting new applications in other fields, such as microholography, optical particle accelerators and photonuclear physics.Repository for numerical models described in Chapter 6 can be found at www.fz-juelich.de/zam/cams/plasma/SPLIM/./a

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World Scientific

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1911298844

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The Book of Shadows (Kathryn Swinbrooke Mysteries, Book 4)

Magic and murder abound in an unputdownable medieval mystery

By: Paul Doherty

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The Book of Shadows (Kathryn Swinbrooke Mysteries, Book 4)

Magic and murder abound in an unputdownable medieval mystery

By: Paul Doherty

What do you do when everyone is a suspect? Paul Doherty writes a medieval mystery shrouded in secrets in The Book of Shadows, the fourth novel to feature physician and sleuth Kathryn Swinbrooke. Perfect for fans of Susanna Gregory and Michael Jecks. The year is 1471. Shortly after the murderous takeover of the throne by Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, blackmailers thrive by challenging detractors of the new king. The ugliest threat to the people of Canterbury is the magus Tenebrae, who controls the Book of Shadows - a grimoire of spells and magic containing secrets about the dead and the living. When Tenebrae is murdered, physician and apothecary Kathryn Swinbrooke is summoned to solve the crime, or else risk the transfer of her love, Colum Murtagh, far away to London. However, the secrets stretch all the way to the King and Queen themselves, and everyone is a suspect - especially Tenebrae's last visitors, a nervous group of goldsmiths from London. Tenebrae is dead but the Book of Shadows still exerts his power, and its new owners will die for it. As the suspects fall victim, one by one, to violent deaths, Swinbrooke most solve the mystery before the Book of Shadows closes on them all. What readers are saying about The Book of Shadows: 'The sense of menace, depth of characterization and interesting cast of characters make this book, and the series, a brilliant read' 'Twists and turns throughout [with] interesting, colourful characters' 'Excellent story, couldn't put it down. Kept me guessing right to the end

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French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797–1798

The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George

By: Paul L Dawson

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French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797–1798

The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George

By: Paul L Dawson

Not since 1066 – at least in popular myth – has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and like-minded radicals in England. The scene was set for the most dangerous period in British history since William the Conqueror. Irish dreams of independence, and of Revolutionary France’s goal of securing her borders against the monarchies of Europe, coalesced. What better way of keeping Britain out of a war if her troops were tied down in Ireland? If the French could support an Irish Revolution, this would ensure the British Crown would be more focused on internal security than fighting overseas. The French, with a network of secret agents in Ireland and England, made their preparations for invasion The invasion plan had been prepared by the English-born American political activist, philosopher, theorist and revolutionary Thomas Paine, whose writings had helped inspire the Americans to fight for independence from Britain. Paine sought to seize on discontent in England against the government of William Pitt and the increasing radicalism fostered by Wolfe Tone in Ireland for home rule, to topple the government, and bring about an Irish and English Republic. A network of spies spread out across the England, Scotland and Ireland gathering information for the French and arming radical groups. Everything was set for an invasion. Mad King George’s throne was set to be toppled, Charles James Fox installed as leader of the embryonic English Republic, while Ireland, under Wolfe Tone, would have home rule – so too Scotland. But it took six years for the French to finally mount their attacks upon Britain. And when the invasions were eventually launched, they crumbled into chaos. This book seeks to charts the events that led up to the French invasion of Ireland in 1798, and how the invasion was foiled by William Pitt’s own web of secret agents. William Huskisson, best known for being killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, led a dangerous life as a spy master, whose agents foiled the French at every step. Drawing on documents in the French Army Archives, as well as the records of the French Foreign Ministry and The National Archives in London, the largely forgotten story of the last invasion of Britain in 1797, as well as the final act of 1798, is revealed. Key documents are the campaign diary of the French commander from 1798, General Humbert, which has never been published in French or English. This, then, is the complete untold story of the French invasions and their sabotage, told for the first time in some 200 years.

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Frontline Books

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1399068105

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Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 1

By: Samiran Kumar Paul

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Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 1

By: Samiran Kumar Paul

Dramas and Sonnets of William Shakespeare Vol. 1 is helpful to every learner of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who, doubtless, saw himself as merely another professional man of the theatre who moved almost casually from play-acting to playwriting. And indeed he was very much a man of his time, a man of the Elizabethan theatre, who learnt to exploit brilliantly the stagecraft, the acting, and the pub¬lic taste of his day. It happens very rarely in the history of literature that a craftsman who has acquired perfect control of his medium, masterly ease in handling the techniques and conventions of his day, is also a universal genius of the highest order, combining with his technical proficiency a unique ability to render experience in poetic language and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of hu¬man psychology. Man of the theatre, poet and expert in the human passions, Shakespeare has appealed equally to those who admire the art with which he renders a story in terms of the acted drama or the insight with which he presents states of mind and complex¬ities of attitude or the unsurpassed brilliance he shows in giving conviction and a new dimension to the utterances of his characters through the poetic speech he puts in their mouths. It is a remark¬able combination of qualities. Yet he was no poetic genius descending on the theatre from above, but a working dramatist who found himself in catering for the public theatre of his day. Unquestionably the greatest poetic dramatist of Europe, he was also Marlowe’s successor, the heir to a tradition of playwriting, which we saw developing in the preceding chapter. His contemporaries saw him as one dramatist among others—a good one, and a popular one, but no transcendent genius who left all others far behind—and to the end of his active life he showed no reluctance to collaborate with other playwrights.

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1649518676

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9781649518675

Butler's Saint for the Day

By: Alban Butler,Paul Burns

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Butler's Saint for the Day

By: Alban Butler,Paul Burns

Adapted into a single volume for daily devotional reading, "Butler's Saint for the Day" features the life of one saint or blessed for each day of the year. Originally published as the "New Concise Edition of Butler's," this revision puts much more emphasis on 20th century figures and reflects the late John Paul II's attention to holy men and women throughout the world, especially the Americas.

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Vantage Press, Inc

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0814618367

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Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

Contact, Myth and History

By: Caroline Brett,Fiona Edmonds,Paul Russell

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Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

Contact, Myth and History

By: Caroline Brett,Fiona Edmonds,Paul Russell

Brittany is rich in arch ...

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486517

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The Mentelles

Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky

By: Randolph Paul Runyon

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The Mentelles

Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky

By: Randolph Paul Runyon

Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky—a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years, the cultured Parisian couple often reinvented themselves out of necessity, but their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students from around the region and greatly influenced its most well-known pupil, Mary Todd Lincoln. Drawing on newly translated materials and previously overlooked primary sources, Randolph Paul Runyon explores the life and times of the important but understudied pair in this intriguing dual biography. He illustrates how the Mentelles' origins and education gave them access to the higher strata of Bluegrass society even as their views on religion, politics, and culture kept them from feeling at home in America. They were intimates of statesman Henry Clay, and one of their daughters married into the Clay family, but like other immigrant families in the region, they struggled to survive. Throughout, Runyon reveals the Mentelles as eloquent chroniclers of crucial moments in Ohio and Kentucky history, from the turn of the nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. They rankled at the baleful influence of conservative religion on the local college, the influence of whiskey on the local population, and the scandal of slavery in the land of liberty. This study sheds new light on the lives of a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history, but also had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and their community.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813175399

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The Origins of the Trust

By: Gilbert Paul Verbit

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The Origins of the Trust

By: Gilbert Paul Verbit

Frederic W. Maitland, the pre-eminent Anglo-American legal historian, said that the trust "perhaps forms the most distinctive achievement of English lawyers. It seems to us almost essential to civilization and yet there is nothing quite like it in foreign law." This book is an updating of Maitlands work, first looking at his suggested foreign sources for the trust -- Roman law, German (Salic) law, and Franciscan law. It then considers a source Maitland did not Islamic law and finds that the Islamic waqf is not only quite like the trust, but predated it by at least five hundred years.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462807682

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King John and Religion

By: Paul Webster

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King John and Religion

By: Paul Webster

A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783270292

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Science and Empire

East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal

By: Paul F. Cranefield

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Science and Empire

East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal

By: Paul F. Cranefield

The story of East Coast fever, a lethal disease of cattle, and its scientific study.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521524490

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9780521524490

Alexander Pope

By: Paul Baines

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Alexander Pope

By: Paul Baines

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Alexander Pope is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide which: * offers information on Pope's life, contexts and works * outline the major critical issues surrounding his works, from the time they were written to the present *explains the full range of different critical views and interpretations * offers guides to further reading in each area discussed.

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Routledge

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1134632622

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Butler's Lives of the Saints

By: Alban Butler,Paul Burns

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Butler's Lives of the Saints

By: Alban Butler,Paul Burns

For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.

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A&C Black

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0860122611

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9780860122616

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

By: Paul Baines,Julian Ferraro,Pat Rogers

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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

By: Paul Baines,Julian Ferraro,Pat Rogers

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444390082

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The Politics of Everyday Life

Making Choices, Changing Lives

By: Paul Ginsborg,Professor Paul Ginsborg

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The Politics of Everyday Life

Making Choices, Changing Lives

By: Paul Ginsborg,Professor Paul Ginsborg

Ginsborg is never judgemental, though he is devastatingly thorough and occasionally mischievously witty." Times Literary Supplement

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Yale University Press

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030010748X

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9780300107487

Left Americana

By: Paul Le Blanc

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Left Americana

By: Paul Le Blanc

From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing individuals, whose unstoppable energies generated remarkable transformations. Left Americana considers both the limitations and successes of Christian socialists, Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, and the "New Left" activists of the sixties and seventies in creating profound social and political change. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Award–winning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.

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160846752X

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The Knights Templar at War, 1120–1312

By: Paul Hill

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The Knights Templar at War, 1120–1312

By: Paul Hill

A look at the famed medieval Catholic order, with an emphasis on military history—includes numerous illustrations. There are many books about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order which played a key role in the crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Iberian peninsula, and elsewhere in Europe. What is seldom explored is the military context in which they operated. This book focuses on how this military order prosecuted its wars. The order was founded as a response to attacks on pilgrims in the Holy Land, and it was involved in countless battles and sieges, always at the forefront of crusading warfare. This absorbing study examines why they were such an important aspect of medieval warfare on the frontiers of Christendom for nearly two hundred years. The author shows how they were funded and supplied, how they organized their forces on campaign and on the battlefield, and the strategies and tactics they employed in the various theaters of warfare in which they fought. Templar leadership and command and control are examined, and sections cover their battles and campaigns, fortifications, and castles.

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1473874947

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A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

By: Paul Barolsky

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A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

By: Paul Barolsky

In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book demonstrates that the modern idea of the artist has deep roots in the image of the epic poet, from Homer to Ovid to Dante. Barolsky’s major claim is that the history of the artist is inseparable from historical fiction about the artist and that fiction is essential to the reality of the artist’s imagination.

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0271073756

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The Templars

The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

By: Piers Paul Read

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The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

By: Piers Paul Read

The internationally best-selling author of Alive explores the rise, the catastrophic fall, and the far-reaching legacy of Knights of the Temple of Solomon. In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic Caliphate for over four-hundred years, fell to an army of European knights intent on restoring the Cross to the Holy Lands. From the ranks of these holy warriors emerged an order of monks trained in both scripture and the military arts, an order that would protect and administer Christendom's prized conquest for almost a century: the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, or the Templars. In this articulate and engaging history, Piers Paul Read explores the rise, the catastrophic fall, and the far-reaching legacy of these knights who took, and briefly held, the most bitterly contested citadel in the monotheistic West. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, and writing with authority and candor, Read chronicles the history of the blood-splattered monks who still infiltrate modernity in literature, as the inspiration for secret societies, and in the backyard fantasies of any child with access to a stick and a garbage can lid. More than armed holy men, the Templars also represented the first uniformed standing army in the Western world. Sustaining their military order required vast sums of money, and, to that end, a powerful multinational corporation formed. The prosperity that European financiers enjoyed, from the efficient management of Levantine possessions and from pioneering developments in the field of international banking, would help jump-start Europe's long-slumbering Dark Age economy. In 1307, the French king, Philip IV, expropriated Templar lands, unleashing a wave of repression that would crest five years later. After Templar leaders broke down and confessed, under torture, to blasphemy, heresy, and sodomy, Pope Clement V suppressed the Order in 1312. Was it guilty as charged? And what relevance has the story to our own times? In this remarkable history, Piers Paul Read explores the Crusades and the individual biographies of the many colorful characters that fought them.

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1466875259

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A Haunt of Murder (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 6)

A ghostly tale of love and death in medieval England

By: Paul Doherty

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A Haunt of Murder (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 6)

A ghostly tale of love and death in medieval England

By: Paul Doherty

A murderer lurks among a group of friends... Paul Doherty relates the Clerk of Oxford's tale in A Haunt of Murder - a tale of mystery and murder as he goes on pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregory. As the sun sets, Chaucer's pilgrims find themselves lost in a Kent forest rumoured to be haunted. Huddled around the fire, trying to ignore the cries of screech owls and other, more frightening sounds of the night, the Clerk of Oxford agrees to tell a ghostly tale of love and death that will chill the blood. It's 1381 and Beatrice Arrowner is on her way to Ravenscroft Castle on the outskirts of Maldon. Beatrice is meeting clerk Ralph Mortimer for a feast on the green. Nothing can dampen Beatrice's mood as she and Ralph gather with their friends. But the sinister events of the last few days soon cast a cloud over the festivities. Phoebe, a castle maid, has been horribly murdered. Soon there is another death and it seems that the evil spirits which haunt the Midnight Tower are doing their worst. Certain there is a connection between these events and his own search for the legendary Brythnoth's jewelled cross, Ralph knows that this own life is in danger and that the murderer must be one of his close friends. But he can only hunt down the killer with the help of Beatrice - who learns that death is not necessarily the end of existence... What readers are saying about the Canterbury Tales Mysteries: 'An intriguing tale which keeps one entertained up to the last page' 'Spellbinding' 'I found it a brilliant, mystifying tale and was hooked from beginning to end

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