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Bishop's Stortford in the First World War

By: Sarah Turner,David Clare,Carolyn Downing

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Bishop's Stortford in the First World War

By: Sarah Turner,David Clare,Carolyn Downing

Learn about what life was really like for the people of Bishop's Stortford during the First World War

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445632810

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9781445632810

Flannery O'Connor

The Obedient Imagination

By: Sarah Gordon

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Flannery O'Connor

The Obedient Imagination

By: Sarah Gordon

Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O’Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O’Connor’s writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background. Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O’Connor’s Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New Criticism. As Gordon leads us through a world premised on expectations at odds with O’Connor’s strong and original imagination, she ranges across all of O’Connor’s fiction and many of her letters and essays. While acknowledging O’Connor’s singular situation, Gordon also gleans insights from the lives and works of other southern writers, Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, and Margaret Mitchell among them. Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination draws on Sarah Gordon’s thirty years of reading, teaching, and discussing one of our most complex and influential authors. It takes us closer than we have ever been to the creative struggles behind such literary masterpieces as Wise Blood and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325201

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9780820325200

Butler's Lives of the Saints

By: Alban Butler,Sarah Fawcett Thomas

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Butler's Lives of the Saints

By: Alban Butler,Sarah Fawcett Thomas

The 200-year-old Butler's Lives of the Saints has undergone a thorough revision and rewriting and is now presented as a 12-volume set categorized according to months of the year. This volume includes those saints commemorated in November.

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Liturgical Press

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0814623875

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9780814623879

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

By: Sarah Flew

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Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

By: Sarah Flew

The changing relationship between the church and its supporters is key to understanding changing religious and social attitudes in Victorian Britain. Using the records of the Anglican Church’s home-missionary organizations, Flew charts the decline in Christian philanthropy and its connection to the growing secularization of society.

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Routledge

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131731770X

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9781317317708

The Italian Boy

A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

By: Sarah Wise

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The Italian Boy

A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

By: Sarah Wise

A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men" Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil London's furtive trade in human corpses carried out by body-snatchers--or "resurrection men"--who killed to satisfy the first rule of the cadaver market: the fresher the body, the higher the price. Historian Sarah Wise reconstructs not only the boy's murder but the chaos and squalor of London that swallowed the fourteen-year-old vagrant long before his corpse appeared on the slab. In 1831, the city's poor were desperate and the wealthy were petrified, the population swelling so fast that old class borders could not possibly hold. All the while, early humanitarians were pushing legislation to protect the disenfranchised, the courts were establishing norms of punishment and execution, and doctors were pioneering the science of human anatomy. Vivid and intricate, The Italian Boy restores to history the lives of the very poorest Londoners and offers an unparalleled account of the sights, sounds, and smells of a city at the brink of a major transformation.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466867809

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9781466867802

No Man's Land

The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, 1868-1954

By: Kathryn A. Young,Sarah M. McKinnon

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No Man's Land

The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, 1868-1954

By: Kathryn A. Young,Sarah M. McKinnon

What force of will and circumstance drove a woman from a comfortable life painting china tea services to one of hardship and loneliness in the battle zones of France and Belgium following the Great War? For western Canadian artist Mary Riter Hamilton (1868-1954), art was her life’s passion. Her tale is one of tragedy and adventure, from homestead beginnings, to genteel drawing rooms in Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver, to Berlin and Parisian art schools, to Vimy and Ypres, and finally to illness and poverty in old age. No Man’s Land is the first biographical study of Hamilton, whose work can be found in galleries and art museums throughout Canada. Young and McKinnon’s meticulous research in unpublished private collections brings to light new correspondence between Hamilton and her friends, revealing the importance of female networks to an artist’s well being. Her letters from abroad, in particular, bring a woman’s perspective into the immediate post-war period and give voice to trying conditions. Hamilton’s career is situated within the context of her peers Florence Carlyle, Emily Carr, and Sophie Pemberton with whom she shared a Canadian and European experience.

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887555233

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9780887555237

The Practice of Penance, 900-1050

By: Sarah Hamilton

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The Practice of Penance, 900-1050

By: Sarah Hamilton

Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources. This study examines all forms of penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire under the Ottonian and Salian Reich, c.900 - c.1050. This crucial period in the history of penance, falling between the Carolingians' codification of public and private penance, and the promotion of the practice of confession in the thirteenth century, has largely been ignored by historians. Tracing the varieties of penitential practice recorded in church law, the liturgy, monastic practice, narrative and documentary sources, Dr Hamilton's book argues that many of the changes previously attributed to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries can be found earlier in the tenth and early eleventh centuries. Whilst acknowledging that there was a degree of continuity from the Carolingian period, she asserts that the period should be seen as having its own dynamic. Investigating the sources for penitential practice by genre, sheacknowledges the prescriptive bias of many of them and points ways around the problem in order to establish the reality of practice in this area at this time. This book thus studies the Church in action in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the reality of relations between churchmen, and between churchmen and the laity, as well as the nature of clerical aspirations. It examines the legacy left by the Carolingian reformers and contributes to our understanding of pre-Gregorian mentalities in the period before the late eleventh-century reforms. SARAH HAMILTON teaches in the Department of History, University of Exeter.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0861932501

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9780861932504

The Amish Christmas Letters

By: Patricia Davids,Sarah Price,Jennifer Beckstrand

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The Amish Christmas Letters

By: Patricia Davids,Sarah Price,Jennifer Beckstrand

In this Amish romance anthology, three cousins in different states share holiday cheer and tales of new love through a delightful letter-writing tradition. Marybeth's Circle Letter by Patricia Davids To win a friendly competition, matchmaker Marybeth Martin must bring one more couple together by Christmas. Her only prospect is a man more interested in a nanny than a wife—until his little girl shows him the light. Love Delivered by Sarah Price Struggling farmer's daughter Katie Mae Kauffman discovers that she and a local widower can harvest more crops—and profits—by working together. But she'll have to put pride aside to make room for unexpected love. Sealed with a Kiss by Jennifer Beckstrand Corralling an unruly brood of seven is not babysitter Carolyn Yutzy's first choice for celebrating the season—but the sparks between her and their handsome uncle may be the best gift either has received.

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Kensington Books

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1496717643

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Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200

By: Sarah Hamilton

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Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200

By: Sarah Hamilton

During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution. It is impossible to understand the medieval world without understanding the religious vision of the time, and this new textbook offers an approach which explores the meaning of this in day-to-day life, as well as the theory behind it. Church and People in the Medieval West gets to the root of belief in the Middle Ages, covering topics including pastoral reform, popular religion, monasticism, heresy and much more, throughout the central middle ages from 900-1200. Suitable for undergraduate courses in medieval history, and those returning to or approaching the subject for the first time.

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Routledge

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131732532X

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Barbara Hammer

Pushing Out of the Frame

By: Sarah Keller

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Barbara Hammer

Pushing Out of the Frame

By: Sarah Keller

Surveys the boundary-pushing career of pioneering filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer. Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frameby Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a series of films representing lesbian subjects and subjectivity. Over the five decades that followed, she made almost a hundred films and solidified her position as a pioneer of queer experimental cinema and art. In the first chapter, Keller covers Hammer's late 1960s–1970s work and explores the tensions between the representation of women's bodies and contemporary feminist theory. In the second chapter, Keller charts the filmmaker's physical move from the Bay Area to New York City, resulting in shifts in her artistic mode. The third chapter turns to Hammer's primarily documentary work of the 1990s and how it engages with the places she travels, the people she meets, and the histories she explores. In the fourth chapter, Keller then considers Hammer's legacy, both through the final films of her career—which combine the methods and ideas of the earlier decades—and her efforts to solidify and shape the ways in which the work would be remembered. In the final chapter, excerpts from the author's interviews with Hammer during the last three years of her life offer intimate perspectives and reflections on her work from the filmmaker herself. Hammer's full body of work as a case study allows readers to see why a much broader notion of feminist production and artistic process is necessary to understand art made by women in the past half century. Hammer's work—classically queer and politically feminist—presses at the edges of each of those notions, pushing beyond the frames that would not contain her dynamic artistic endeavors. Keller's survey of Hammer's work is a vital text for students and scholars of film, queer studies, and art history.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814348602

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9780814348604

Civilizing Habits

Women Missionaries and the Revival of French Empire

By: Sarah A. Curtis

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Civilizing Habits

Women Missionaries and the Revival of French Empire

By: Sarah A. Curtis

Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evangelize far from France's shores. In so doing, they helped France reestablish a global empire after the dislocation of the Revolution and the fall of Napoleon. They also pioneered a new missionary era in which the educational, charity, and health care services provided by women became valuable tools for spreading Catholic influence across the globe. Philippine Duchesne traveled to former French territory in Missouri in 1818 to proselytize among Native Americans. Thwarted by the American policy of removing tribes even further west, she turned her attention to girls' education on the frontier. Emilie de Vialar followed French troops to Algeria after its conquest and opened missions throughout the Mediterranean basin in the mid-nineteenth century. Prevented from direct evangelization, she developed strategies and subterfuges for working among Muslim populations. Anne-Marie Javouhey evangelized among Africans in the French slave colonies, including a utopian settlement in the wilds of French Guiana. She became a rare Catholic proponent of the abolition of slavery and a woman designated a "great man" by the French king. Paradoxically, through embracing religious institutions designed to shield their femininity, these women gained increased authority to travel outside France, challenge church power, and evangelize among non-Christians, all roles more commonly ascribed to male missionaries. Their stories teach us about the life paths open to religious women in the nineteenth century and how both church and state benefitted from their initiative to expand the boundaries of faith and nation.

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Oxford University Press

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0199780269

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9780199780266

A Church of Her Own

What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit

By: Sarah Sentilles

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A Church of Her Own

What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit

By: Sarah Sentilles

Thirty years after the first group of women was ordained by the Episcopal Church, women are among some of the most vital and successful ministers in all Protestant denominations, even as churches struggle to hold on to their members. Sarah Sentilles enters the lives of female ministers women of various ages and races, in a range of churches to paint the first real portrait of what it's like to serve as a woman of faith today. Sometimes triumphant, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful, their stories take us from their calls to the pulpit through their ordinations and service in congregations. These women show us how the church can be more welcoming to the women who are its lifeblood. And in their inspiring determination to perform the ministry to which they are called, no matter what the obstacles, we might well see the future of the church itself.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156033321

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9780156033329

Becoming Alien

The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction's Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise

By: Sarah Welch-Larson

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Becoming Alien

The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction's Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise

By: Sarah Welch-Larson

The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that bind together these films are strong and undeniable. The series is a model of Catherine Keller's cosmology as a cycle of order out of chaos, an illustration of her concept of evil as discreation. When viewed through the lens of Keller's Face of the Deep, the Alien films resolve into a cohesive whole. The series becomes six views of the idea of evil-as-exploitation, its origins, and its consequences. Each film expands on the concept of evil set forth by its predecessors, complicating that conception, and retroactively enriching readings of the films that came before.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725283018

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9781725283015

Demonic Possession and Exorcism

In Early Modern France

By: Sarah Ferber

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Demonic Possession and Exorcism

In Early Modern France

By: Sarah Ferber

In this highly original study of possession by demons and their exorcism, Sarah Ferber offers a challenging study of one of the most intriguing phenomenon of early modern Europe. Looking also at the present day, she argues that early modern.

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1134615205

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From Subjects to Citizens

Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854

By: Sarah C. Chambers

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From Subjects to Citizens

Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854

By: Sarah C. Chambers

Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in this process. Honor, underpinning the legitimacy of Spanish rule and a social hierarchy based on race and class during the colonial era, came to be an important source of resistance by ordinary citizens to repressive action by republican authorities fearful of disorder. Claiming the protection of their civil liberties as guaranteed by the constitution, these &"honorable&" citizens cited their hard work and respectable conduct in justification of their rights, in this way contributing to the shaping of republican discourse. Prominent politicians from Arequipa, familiar with these arguments made in courtrooms where they served as jurists, promoted at the national level a form of liberalism that emphasized not only discipline but also individual liberties and praise for the honest working man. But the protection of men's public reputations and their patriarchal authority, the author argues, came at the expense of women, who suffered further oppression from increasing public scrutiny of their sexual behavior through the definition of female virtue as private morality, which also justified their exclusion from politics. The advent of political liberalism was thus not associated with greater freedom, social or political, for women.

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Penn State Press

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0271042575

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9780271042572

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Bishop's Stortford in the First World War

Bishop's Stortford in the First World War

Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Butler's Lives of the Saints

Butler's Lives of the Saints

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

The Italian Boy

The Italian Boy

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

The Practice of Penance, 900-1050

The Practice of Penance, 900-1050

The Amish Christmas Letters

The Amish Christmas Letters

Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200

Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200

Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer

Civilizing Habits

Civilizing Habits

A Church of Her Own

A Church of Her Own

Becoming Alien

Becoming Alien

Demonic Possession and Exorcism

Demonic Possession and Exorcism

From Subjects to Citizens

From Subjects to Citizens

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