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Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse

France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus

By: Thomas Worcester

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Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse

France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus

By: Thomas Worcester

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110809729

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An Anthology of German Literature

By: Calvin Thomas

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An Anthology of German Literature

By: Calvin Thomas

Reproduction of the original.

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3732629058

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Through the Valley of the Deep Darkness

Holding Onto the Ancient Testimonies

By: Thomas Arner

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Through the Valley of the Deep Darkness

Holding Onto the Ancient Testimonies

By: Thomas Arner

Through the Valley of Deep Darkness was written at the suggestion of a grief counselor. She believed Reverend Arner's story of overcoming hatred, anger, and the desire for revenge and discovering rituals that lead to peace would be beneficial to others. The evil within Reverend Arner came to the fore when his one-year-old grandson died in a fire set by the child's father, and his daughter, the child's mother, suffered second- and third-degree burns over 70 percent of her body, requiring a six-week stay in the University of Virginia Trauma/Burn Unit; she was not expected to survive. Also part of this story of overcoming was the trial of the child's father on capital one murder. Arson and attempted murder changes. Reverend Arner shares the spiritual resources within a community of faithful relationships which enabled him and his wife to overcome, to come "through the valley of deepest darkness.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466955023

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9781466955028

Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation

By: Joseph Norbeck,Thomas Durbin,James Heffel,Michelle Montano

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Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation

By: Joseph Norbeck,Thomas Durbin,James Heffel,Michelle Montano

Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation provides background information on the advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen as a fuel, describes the current state of technology of hydrogen-fueled vehicles, and discusses the future requirements of the "hydrogen economy." Each chapter also includes reprints of noteworthy articles and technical papers on the subject.

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SAE International

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1560916842

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9781560916840

Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955

By: Thomas Mann

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Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955

By: Thomas Mann

Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego "Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego

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Univ of California Press

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0520069684

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9780520069688

Ladies in the Laboratory II

West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research

By: Mary R. S. Creese,Thomas M. Creese

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Ladies in the Laboratory II

West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research

By: Mary R. S. Creese,Thomas M. Creese

A survey of nineteenth-century women whose journal publications are listed in the 19 volume London Royal Society's Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900, comprising an author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, being the major index of scientific journal literature for the period.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810849798

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9780810849792

Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register

Vol. II. The Secular Clergy

By: Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B.

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Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register

Vol. II. The Secular Clergy

By: Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B.

This volume presents a biographical register of 460 members of the secular clergy licensed in theology at the University of Paris between 1373 and 1500. The register is preceded by a discussion of the sources used in its preparation and a list of all the clerics--religious as well as secular--licensed in Paris between 1373 and 1500. Appended to the register is an index listing all those licensed belonging to the secular clergy arranged according to their first names and an index of those licensed arranged according to college affiliation. The register is offered in service to historians of the medieval university, as well as those interested in the professoriate of the premier theological faculty of the day.

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BRILL

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9004202714

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9789004202719

The Foreign Debt of English Literature

By: Thomas George Tucker

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The Foreign Debt of English Literature

By: Thomas George Tucker

A just appreciation of any modern European literature is not to be derived from the study of that literature alone. Not one has grown up spontaneously and independently from the soil of the national genius. Some seeds at least have come from elsewhere. Often whole forms of writing have been transplanted bodily. We must particularly recognize these truths when dealing with English literature. The basis of the English mind is chiefly Teutonic, in some measure Celtic. If the English genius had been left to itself, to develop its spiritual and intellectual creations in its own way, English literature would have been a very different thing in both substance and form. But in reality English literary history is the story of the Teutonic and Celtic tendencies “corrected and clarified,” and the Teutonic and Celtic invention immensely assisted, by influences and ideas flowing in from other sources. There have been large ingraftings from other stocks, either partially kindred or altogether alien—from Greeks, Romans, Italians, French, Spaniards, Germans, as well as from Hebrews and other Orientals. All sound study is comparative. We must place other literatures beside our own, if we desire to appraise rightly our national genius, its capacities, and its creations. We find our English writers composing their works in certain forms, and giving expression to a certain range of ideas. How came they to employ these particular forms of creation? How did they arrive at these particular ideas? How is it with other nations? Have they built upon the same lines and with the same materials, or how is it with them? Have we borrowed from them, or they from us? If there have been borrowings, when and in what measure did they occur? Looking back over the changes of spirit and form which our poetry, for example, has undergone, we shall encourage altogether false notions of the causes of such changes, unless we see how, every now and then, a shower of new ideas, a stream of new light, has come in from abroad. Most readers know in some vague way that Chaucer avows or betrays his debts to France and Italy; that Shakespeare did not invent his own plots, but borrowed from Italians, from Plautus, from Plutarch, and others; that Milton was steeped in the Greek, Latin, and Italian classics. But we want to know more than this. We want to perceive with some definiteness how far the whole course of English literature has been enriched by tributary streams, and what sort of waters they brought. It would be instructive to draw a diagram of our literary history; to liken it to the course of a river, and to picture its various fountain-heads and tributaries pouring in their several quotas at their several times. In all modern literatures there is a large proportion which is unoriginal to them. Milton has been mentioned already. Those who read only English works find Milton full of nobility of thought and imagery. Yet, before Milton produced his greater poems, he had read, re-read, and deliberately steeped himself in, the literature of Greece, Rome, modern Italy, and France. Precisely how much of Milton is made up of Homer, Euripides, Virgil, Dante, Ariosto, and other predecessors, can only be known to such as have those authors at their finger-ends. Shelley, again, is commonly regarded as one of the most daringly original of English writers. Yet Shelley’s mind was an amalgam of himself, Homer, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, Dante, Calderon, Goethe; and this, once more, is but another way of saying that it had incorporated the genius of generations of Greeks, Romans, Spaniards, Italians, and Germans. We cannot therefore arrive at the true genius of Milton or of Shelley, or speak understandingly of their originality, until we have surveyed those other literatures and their relations with our own. Let us, indeed, claim with a proper national pride that the influence of English literature, of our Shakespeare, our Bacon, our Locke, our Byron, upon foreign writers has been profound. Her debt to modern literature has been repaid by England, and, at least in the influence of Shakespeare, more than repaid. But with that question we are not here concerned.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465594493

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Power and Pleasure

Court Life under King John, 1199-1216

By: Hugh M. Thomas

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Power and Pleasure

Court Life under King John, 1199-1216

By: Hugh M. Thomas

Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs life at the court of King John and explores how his court produced both pleasure and soft power. Much work exists on courts of the late medieval and early modern periods, but the jump in record keeping under John allows a detailed reconstruction of court life for an earlier period. Power and Pleasure: Court Life under King John, 1199-1216 examines the many facets of John's court, exploring hunting, feasting, castles, landscapes, material luxury, chivalry, sexual coercion, and religious activities. It explains how John mishandled his use of soft power, just as he failed to exploit his financial and military advantages, and why he received so little political benefit from his magnificent court. John's court is viewed in comparison to other courts of the time, and in previous and subsequent centuries.

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Oxford University Press

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0192523414

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Protestant Politics

Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation

By: Brady Jr.

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Protestant Politics

Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation

By: Brady Jr.

Protestant Politics is a new treatment of religion and politics in the German Reformation, ca. 1520 to 1550. It is based on the career of a leading urban politician, Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg.

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9004618686

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Princelie Majestie

The Court of James V of Scotland 1528-1542

By: Andrea Thomas

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Princelie Majestie

The Court of James V of Scotland 1528-1542

By: Andrea Thomas

The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless itinerary and occasional public pageants, provided the framework for cultural activity in its widest possible sense. Fine art, architecture, scholarship, literature, music and piety jostled for attention alongside hunting, feasting, jousting, politics, diplomacy and war. Emerging defiantly from a long and turbulent minority, the adult James V managed to create for Scotland an exuberant and cosmopolitan court, which imitated in miniature those of France, England and the Netherlands, and which carried important political messages. His ambitious programme of royal patronage combined humanist scholarship, neo-classical and imperial imagery, the cult of chivalry and medieval traditions in a blend which sought to galvanise Scottish national identity and enhance the status of the House of Stewart. For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie reveals that he was an energetic and innovative patron, who in a brief fourteen years created a court culture of remarkable quality and diversity. Princelie Majestie was originally published by Tuckwell Press.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857907786

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Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, and sheds light on the economic and social history of failure and resilience in early modern Europe. Carefully tracing the chronology of the family’s rise, fall and transformation, it moves from the micro- to the macro-level, making comparisons with other mercantile families of the time to draw conclusions and suggest insights into such issues as social mobility, capitalist organization, business techniques, market practices and economic institutions. The result is a microhistory that offers macro-conclusions about the lived experience of early capitalism and capitalistic practices. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of economic, financial and business history, legal history and early modern European history.

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Routledge

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042964793X

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Technology and Rationality

By: Thomas Krogh

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Technology and Rationality

By: Thomas Krogh

First published in 1998, this volume deals with the position and role that the technology of modern society has traditionally had and ought to have within modern social philosophy and social theory. These two considerations are by no means one and the same. This selectivity is expressed both by Thomas Krogh’s choice of historical writers and in the systematic orientation towards a discussion of the way in which technology is treated in social philosophy or social theories that have been inspired by and reflect philosophy, and that move on a relatively high level of abstraction. These include those proposed by Gehlen, Marx, Sartre, Habermas and Luhmann.

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0429684843

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Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

By: Thomas Adam

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Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

By: Thomas Adam

Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" presents a collection of compelling case studies in the areas of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. The chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequency of intercultural transfer, but also reveal specific aspects of the intercultural transfer of phenomena, the role of agents of intercultural transfer and the transformations of ideas transferred between cultures thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of intercultural transfers.

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Anthem Press

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1785271679

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Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

By: Robert Thomas Hampson

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Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

By: Robert Thomas Hampson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

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Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation

Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation

Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955

Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955

Ladies in the Laboratory II

Ladies in the Laboratory II

Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register

Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register

The Foreign Debt of English Literature

The Foreign Debt of English Literature

Power and Pleasure

Power and Pleasure

Protestant Politics

Protestant Politics

Princelie Majestie

Princelie Majestie

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Technology and Rationality

Technology and Rationality

Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

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