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Stow

By: Lewis Halprin,Barbara Sipler,Stow Historical Society

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By: Lewis Halprin,Barbara Sipler,Stow Historical Society

Welcome to Stow, a picturesque New England village preparing to face the new millennium while keeping its roots firmly planted in 300 years of history. Primarily a farming community for much of its existence, Stows country-like character is still evident in its open spaces, most of which are now apple orchards, golf courses, and conservation lands. Within these pages, you will discover the classic charm of Stows village center, with its pristine white church, town hall, library, and its one and only traffic light. Take a leisurely stroll past row upon row of apple trees, and learn how early settlers utilized the power of the areas small brooks and rivers. Here golfers enjoy the relaxation of four beautifully kept golf courses and nature lovers spend hours exploring Stows many hiking trails.

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1439637555

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A Survey of London

By: John Stow

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A Survey of London

By: John Stow

A unique book on London, published in 1603 and reissued here in the two-volume 1908 version edited by C. L. Kingsford.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108082440

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Stow and Munroe Falls

By: Beth E. Daugherty,Beth E. Daugherty on behalf of Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

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Stow and Munroe Falls

By: Beth E. Daugherty,Beth E. Daugherty on behalf of Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

The communities of Stow and Munroe Falls were settled as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve lands laid out in townships in what is now Northeast Ohio. Named after Joshua Stow of Connecticut, Stow Township consisted of rolling hills, dales, and lakes, with the Cuyahoga River running through the southwest corner. The first large party of pioneers arrived in Stow Township in 1804 with William Wetmore. A second group arrived with William Stow (cousin of Joshua) in 1809. By the end of the 19th century, the citizens of Stow and Munroe Falls had turned the wilderness into two villages with schools, churches, businesses, and social activities. The collection of images in this book showcases the connection between the two communities as they grew from rural villages to cities entering the 21st century.

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Stow

By: Lewis Halprin,Barbara Sipler

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Stow

By: Lewis Halprin,Barbara Sipler

Welcome to Stow, a picturesque New England village preparing to face the new millennium while keeping its roots firmly planted in 300 years of history. Primarily a farming community for much of its existence, Stow's country-like character is still evident in its open spaces, most of which are now apple orchards, golf courses, and conservation lands. Within these pages, you will discover the classic charm of Stow's village center, with its pristine white church, town hall, library, and its one and only traffic light. Take a leisurely stroll past row upon row of apple trees, and learn how early settlers utilized the power of the area's small brooks and rivers. Here golfers enjoy the relaxation of four beautifully kept golf courses and nature lovers spend hours exploring Stow's many hiking trails.

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0738565601

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Alienated Minority

The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe

By: Kenneth Stow

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Alienated Minority

The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe

By: Kenneth Stow

This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era. Alienated Minority shows us what it meant to be a Jew in Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century, when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish community and the centrality of emerging concepts of representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking; constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life. Analyzing policies of Church and State in the Middle Ages, Stow argues that a firmly defined legal and constitutional position of the Jewish minority in the earlier period gave way to a legal status created expressly for Jews, who in the later period were seen as inimical to the common good. It was this special status that paved the way for the royal expulsions of Jews that began at the end of the thirteenth century.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044053

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9780674044050

Darwin's Mentor

John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861

By: S. M. Walters,E. A. Stow

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Darwin's Mentor

John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861

By: S. M. Walters,E. A. Stow

John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance 'which influenced my career more than any other'. As Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, Henslow was Darwin's teacher and eventual lifelong friend, but what of the man himself? In this biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully sifted and selected to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable and unusually likeable academic. The time in 1829-31 when Darwin 'walked with Henslow' in and around Cambridge was followed directly by Darwin's voyage around the world. The gradually changing relationship between teacher and pupil over the course of time is revealed through their correspondence, illuminating a remarkable friendship which persisted, in spite of Darwin's eventual atheism and Henslow's never-failing liberal Christian belief, to the end of Henslow's life.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521591465

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9780521591461

Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages

Confrontation and Response

By: Kenneth Stow

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Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages

Confrontation and Response

By: Kenneth Stow

The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried, in observing the canons and the principles announced by St Paul - that Jews were to be a permanent, if disturbing, part of Christian life - helped balance the anxiety felt by members of the Church. Clerics especially feared what they called Jewish pollution. These themes are the focus of the studies in the first part of this volume. Those in the second part explore aspects of Jewish society and family life, as both were shaped by medieval realities.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951111

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9781000951110

Republic of Readers?

The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis

By: Simon Stow

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Republic of Readers?

The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis

By: Simon Stow

2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title What is the proper role for literature in political thought and analysis? Can reading novels make us better citizens of a liberal democratic society? What is the status of argument and reason in an academy dominated by readings and redescriptions? Simon Stow identifies a potentially detrimental literary turn in the contemporary academy, arguing that the study of literature and the study of politics have become somewhat indistinguishable enterprises. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Terry Eagleton, Martha Nussbaum, and Richard Rorty, he examines the problematic claims, circular reasoning, and misplaced assumptions that underpin this disciplinary merging, and seeks to defend political philosophy and social science against the rival claims of literature and literary criticism as sources of political insight and construction.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480194

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9780791480199

Essential Barbados

By: AAA Publishing (Firm),Lee Karen Stow

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Essential Barbados

By: AAA Publishing (Firm),Lee Karen Stow

This Barbados travel guide provides valuable information in an easy-to-use format. Pocket-sized and packed with information, it takes travelers from planning to arrival to return home! This guide is full-color throughout with vivid photographs, graphs, charts and maps.

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1595081593

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9781595081599

The Jews in Rome, Volume 1 (1536-1551)

Documentary History of the Jews in Italy

By: Kenneth Stow

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The Jews in Rome, Volume 1 (1536-1551)

Documentary History of the Jews in Italy

By: Kenneth Stow

This volume recreates through a register and apt citation the first thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the twenty years prior to the establishment of the Roman ghetto by Paul IV in 1555. A lengthy introduction reveals these acts as a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.

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BRILL

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9004509496

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9789004509498

Theater of Acculturation

The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century

By: Kenneth R. Stow

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Theater of Acculturation

The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century

By: Kenneth R. Stow

Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the best restaurants in the city. This was the site of the Ghetto, within whose walls the Jews of Rome were compelled to live from 1555 until 1870. Kenneth Stow, leading authority on Italian Jews, probes Jewish life in Rome in the early years of the Ghetto. Jews had been residents of Rome since before the days of Julius Caesar, but the 16th century brought great challenges to their identity and survival in the form of Ghettoization. Intended to expedite conversion and cultural dissolution, the Ghetto in fact had an opposite effect. The Jews of Rome developed a subculture, or microculture, that ensured continuity. In particular, they developed a remarkably effective legal network of rabbinic notaries, who drew public documents such as contracts, took testimony, and arranged for disputes to go to arbitration. The ability to settle disputes relating to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other internal matters gave Jews the illusion that they, rather than the papal vicar, were running their own affairs. Stow applies his concept of “social theater” to illuminate the role-playing that Jews adopted as a means of survival within the dominant Christian environment. He also touches briefly on Jewish culture in post-Emancipation Rome, elsewhere in Europe, and in America, and points the way toward a comparison with the acculturational strategies of other minorities, especially African Americans.

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University of Washington Press

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0295997532

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9780295997537

Anna and Tranquillo

Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions

By: Kenneth R. Stow

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Anna and Tranquillo

Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions

By: Kenneth R. Stow

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Diary -- 2. Crises -- 3. The Roman Ghetto -- 4. The Confessional State -- 5. Conversion and the State -- 6. Under Papal Rule -- 7. Legal Obstacles -- 8. The Jews' Defenders -- 9. Jewish and Christian Awareness -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Glossary -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- I -- N -- T -- P -- R -- S -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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Yale University Press

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0300219040

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9780300219043

Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome

Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life

By: Kenneth Stow

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Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome

Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life

By: Kenneth Stow

The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the eye of the Pope. Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers. They spoke (Roman) Italian, ate and dressed as did other Romans, and their marital practices reflected Roman noble usage. Rome's Jews were called cives, but unequal ones, and to resolve this anomaly, Paul IV closed them within ghetto walls in 1555; the rest of Europe would resolve this crux in the late eighteenth century, through civil Emancipation. In its essence, the ghetto was a limbo, from which only conversion, promoted through "disciplining" par excellence, offered an exit. Nonetheless, though increasingly impoverished, Rome's Jews preserved culture and reinforced family life, even many women's rights. A system of consensual arbitration enabled a modicum of self-governance. Yet Rome's Jews also came to realize that they had been expelled into the ghetto: nostro ghet, a document of divorce, as they called it. There they would remain, segregated, so long as they remained Jews. Such are the themes that the author examines in these essays.

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Routledge

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1351154982

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9781351154987

Feeding the Eternal City

Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto

By: Kenneth R. Stow

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Feeding the Eternal City

Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto

By: Kenneth R. Stow

Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome's ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat. But Jewish butchers found ways to circumvent canon law by working with their Christian counterparts. Kenneth Stow describes this complex collaboration, which enabled Jews to maintain their traditions in a hostile city.

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Harvard University Press

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0674297393

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9780674297395

Levi's Vindication

The 1007 Anonymous 'as It Really Is'

By: Kenneth R. Stow

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Levi's Vindication

The 1007 Anonymous 'as It Really Is'

By: Kenneth R. Stow

The "1007 Anonymous," an imaginative, brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relations between Jews and their lay rulers and the pope. The pope, consistent in applying laws that both restricted and protected Jews, is seen as a just ruler. Kings and dukes, by contrast, were inconsistent and capricious, threatening Jewish life. This message had to be conveyed indirectly, and the "1007's" vehicle for doing so was a fictional story of murderous attack and forced conversion known as "The Terrible Event of the Year 1007." Yet, by examining the details of this story-which include a direct borrowing from The Quest of the Grail composed in 1221, and a reference to coinage that could only have been made during the early thirteenth century-the actual time-and the purpose-of the 1007's composition is revealed. Claims that the veracity of the story and the actuality of the supposed massacre are demonstrated thorough a comparison with the chronicles of Raoul Glaber and Ademar of Chabannes are shown to be incorrect, as part of Stow's larger discussion of the correct approach to reading medieval Hebrew texts. Students of the 1007 have in fact inverted the order, using the 1007 to give credence to the fantasies of the two Christian writers. That the 1007 was not substantiable by such comparisons was demonstrated by the great French scholar Israel Levi at the turn of the twentieth century. No one, however, paid him heed-regrettably, for he was absolutely correct. Appropriately, this book is titled Levi's Vindication.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0822983117

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9780822983118

Jewish Dogs

An Image and Its Interpreters

By: Kenneth Stow

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Jewish Dogs

An Image and Its Interpreters

By: Kenneth Stow

This book is a study of Catholic teachings on purity, and the anxiety these teachings have generated with respect to relations with the Jews since the time of St. Paul.

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Stanford University Press

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0804767890

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Stow and Munroe Falls

By: Beth E. Daugherty,Beth E. Daugherty on behalf of Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

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By: Beth E. Daugherty,Beth E. Daugherty on behalf of Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

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The Jews in Rome 2

By: K. R. Stow

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The Jews in Rome 2

By: K. R. Stow

This volume, the sequel to "Jews in Rome 1," recreates through a register and apt citation the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the years 1551-1557. They form a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.

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9004108068

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9789004108066

The Jews in Rome, Volume 2 (1551-1557)

By: Kenneth Stow

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The Jews in Rome, Volume 2 (1551-1557)

By: Kenneth Stow

This volume, the sequel to Jews in Rome 1, recreates through a register and apt citation the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the years 1551-1557. They form a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.

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9004509518

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9789004509511

London's Chronicler

By: Georgie Stow

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London's Chronicler

By: Georgie Stow

Work of historical fiction based on John Stow's (1525-1605) Chronicle of London. Religous, economic and social history of 16th century London in the environs of the Tower of London.

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1300036230

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9781300036234

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