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Isidore of Seville

De Ecclesiasticis Officiis

By: Knoebel, Thomas L.

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Isidore of Seville

De Ecclesiasticis Officiis

By: Knoebel, Thomas L.

This is the first complete English translation of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis (DEO) of St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636), considered the last Latin father of the church. The work is an invaluable source of information about liturgical practice and church offices.

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Paulist Press

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1616439114

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Rivers of Gold

The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

By: Hugh Thomas

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Rivers of Gold

The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

By: Hugh Thomas

From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem. The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims. Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives. Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.

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Random House

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0804152144

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9780804152143

The Slave Trade

The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

By: Hugh Thomas

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The Slave Trade

The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

By: Hugh Thomas

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time, but to answer controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476737452

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9781476737454

The Pocket Guide for Europe. A Practical Hand-book for Travelers on the Continent and the British Isles, and Through Northern Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land

By: Thomas Wallace Knox

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The Pocket Guide for Europe. A Practical Hand-book for Travelers on the Continent and the British Isles, and Through Northern Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land

By: Thomas Wallace Knox

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385404304

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9783385404304

The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins

By: Thomas Eakins

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The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins

By: Thomas Eakins

The young Thomas Eakins's most revealing letters—published here for the first time The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time; in fact, this is the first edition of Eakins's correspondence from the period. Edited and annotated by Eakins authority William Innes Homer, this book provides a treasure trove of new information, revealing previously hidden facets of Eakins's personality, providing a much richer picture of his artistic development, and casting fresh light on his debated psychosexual makeup. The book is illustrated with the small, gemlike drawings Eakins included in his correspondence, as well as photographs and paintings. In these letters, Eakins speaks openly and frankly about human relationships, male companionship, marriage, and women. In vivid, charming, and sometimes comic detail, he describes his impressions of Paris--from the training he received in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme to the museums, concerts, and popular entertainments that captured his imagination. And he discusses with great insight contemporary aesthetic and scientific theories, as well as such unexpected subjects as language structure, musical composition, and ice-skating technique. Also published here for the first time are the letters and notebook Eakins wrote in Spain following his Paris sojourn. This long-overdue volume provides an indispensable portrait of a great American artist as a young man.

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Princeton University Press

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1400831792

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9781400831791

The Cadillac Story

The Postwar Years

By: Thomas E. Bonsall

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The Cadillac Story

The Postwar Years

By: Thomas E. Bonsall

The Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself—which, as much as any industry, drove America’s growth in the twentieth century and defined who we are as a people. For generations of Americans, Cadillac epitomized expansive prosperity. This illustrated history of Cadillac presents all the triumphs and failures of the marque’s last sixty years; from the good times, through the disastrous 1980s, and up to the current reconstitution of the brand.

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Stanford University Press

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0804749426

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9780804749428

The History of Modern Europe

Vol. 3

By: Thomas Henry Dyer

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The History of Modern Europe

Vol. 3

By: Thomas Henry Dyer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the close of the Crimean war in 1857. In four volumes.

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3752585404

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9783752585407

Amazing Benefits in Traveling on Someone Else's Dime

By: Thomas A. Butts Jr.

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Amazing Benefits in Traveling on Someone Else's Dime

By: Thomas A. Butts Jr.

This autobiography talks about the author's life starting with his early childhood and into his adult life. He tells how he became a licensed pilot at the young age of sixteen and flew several different aircraft at that age. Furthermore, this book speaks about how the author survived a major fire aboard an aircraft carrier and how he has survived prostate cancer for sixteen years. The author has traveled to 13 countries and he gives a quick glimpse of travel to foreign and exotic places. Moreover, he gives a little history about each country visited, and include several pictures that may encourage the reader to visit some of the places mentioned. Approximately, ninety-five percent of the author's travel was on Someone Else's Dime, namely, the Department of the Navy.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490728384

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9781490728384

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

By: Thomas M. McCoog,S.J.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

By: Thomas M. McCoog,S.J.

English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a critical period between the unsuccessful armadas of 1588 and 1597, a period during which the mission was threatened as much by internal Catholic conflict as it was by the crown. To address properly events in England, the study fully engages with the situation in Ireland, Scotland and the continent so as to contextualize the ambitions, methods and effects of the Jesuit mission. For England felt threatened not only by the military might of Spain but also by any assistance King Philip II might provide to Catholics earls and a vindictive James VI in Scotland, powerful nobles in Ireland, and English Catholics at home and abroad. However, it is the particular role of the Jesuits that occupies central place in the narrative, highlighting the way in which the Society of Jesus typified all that Elizabethan England feared about the Church of Rome. Through an exhaustive study of the many facets of the Jesuit mission to England between 1589 and 1597, this book provides a fascinating insight not only into Catholic efforts to bring England back into the Roman Church, but also the simmering tensions, and disagreements on how this should be achieved, as well as debates concerning the very nature and structure of English Catholicism. A second volume, The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598-1606 will continue the story through to the early years of James VI & I's reign.

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Routledge

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1317015436

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9781317015437

The Lincoln Story

The Postwar Years

By: Thomas E. Bonsall

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The Lincoln Story

The Postwar Years

By: Thomas E. Bonsall

Lincoln's heritage is as rich as that of any car built anywhere in the world, and more impressive than all but a few. Generations of Americans have known it as the Car of Presidents; since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, the White House has exhibited a marked preference for Lincolns. This comprehensive, illustrated history describes in detail the successes and failures of the Lincoln from World War II up to the present-day Aviator. It discusses the forces in the market and in Ford Motor Company that have affected the Lincoln, and is a must read for anyone interested in this classic marque.

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Stanford University Press

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0804749418

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World Without End

Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire

By: Hugh Thomas

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World Without End

Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire

By: Hugh Thomas

Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire and building on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” (The New York Times Book Review). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the dramatic human story of the extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told—until now. In World Without End, Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called “the arbiter of the world.” Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. His forty-two-year reign changed the face of the globe forever. Alongside Philip we find the entitled descendants of New Spain’s original explorers—men who, like their king, came into possession of land they never conquered and wielded supremacy they never sought. Here too are the Roman Catholic religious leaders of the Americas, whose internecine struggles created possibilities that the emerging Jesuit order was well-positioned to fill. With the sublime stories of arms and armadas, kings and conquistadors come tales of the ridiculous: the opulent parties of New Spain’s wealthy hedonists and the unexpected movement to encourage Philip II to conquer China. Finally, Hugh Thomas unearths the first indictments of imperial Spain’s labor rights abuses in the Americas—and the early attempts by its more enlightened rulers and planters to address them. Written in the brisk, flowing narrative style that has come to define Hugh Thomas’s work, the final volume of this acclaimed trilogy stands alone as a history of an empire making the transition from conquest to inheritance—a history that Thomas reveals through the fascinating lives of the people who made it. Praise for World Without End “Readers will not find a more reliable guide to the maturing Spanish Empire. . . . World Without End reminds us that the far-flung Spanish Empire was the work of many minds and hands, and by the end their myriad stories carry a cumulative charge.”—The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, encyclopedic history of the arrogance, ambition, and ideology that fueled the quest for empire.”—Kirkus Reviews “Literary power is a vital part of a great historian’s armoury. As in his earlier books, Thomas demonstrates here that he has this in abundance.”—Financial Times “A vivid climax to Hugh Thomas’s three-volume history of imperial Spain.”—The Telegraph “Thomas clearly excels in the Spanish history of religion, politics, and culture, [and] successfully shows that Spain’s global ambition knew no bounds.”—Publishers Weekly

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Random House

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081299812X

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9780812998122

Mission to a Suffering People

Irish Jesuits 1596 to 1696

By: Thomas J Morrissey

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Mission to a Suffering People

Irish Jesuits 1596 to 1696

By: Thomas J Morrissey

In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people’s struggle to survive. In that struggle the country’s links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, with their international roots, played an important role. Among them were the Irish Jesuits, who adapted to a variety of situations – from quiet work in Irish towns to serving as an emissary for Hugh O’Neill in the south of Ireland and in the courts of Rome and Spain, and then founding seminary colleges in Spain and Portugal from which young Irishmen returned to keep faith and hope alive. In the seventeenth century persecution was more haphazard. There were opportunities for preaching and teaching and, at time, especially during the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s, for the open celebration of one’s religion. This freedom gave way to the savage persecution under Cromwell, which resulted in the killing of some Jesuits and others being forced to find shelter in caves, sepulchres, and bogs, the Jesuit superior dying alone in a shepherd’s hut on an island off Galway. There followed a time of more relaxed laws during which Irish Jesuits publicly ran schools in New Ross and, for Oliver Plunkett, in Drogheda, but persecution soon resumed and Oliver Plunkett was arrested and martyred. At the end of the century, as the forces of King James II were finally defeated, some Jesuits lived and worked through the sieges of Limerick and then nerved themselves to face the Penal Laws in the new century.

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Messenger Publications

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1788123433

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How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World

By: Thomas J. Craughwell

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How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World

By: Thomas J. Craughwell

Veteran author Thomas J. Craughwell reveals the fascinating tales of how the barbarian rampages across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- killing, plundering, and destroying whole kingdoms and empires -- actually created the modern nations of England, France, Russia, and China.

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Fair Winds

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1616734329

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9781616734329

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

By: Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin

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Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

By: Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin

Often misleadingly called the Dark Ages, the period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance was a time of great creativity. The Middle Ages gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential literary works, including Dante's Commedia, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and a large body of Arthurian lore and legend. This reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written between 500 and 1500. While the volume is primarily devoted to the early literature of England, it also includes entries for historical persons and subjects of cultural relevance which would have been discussed in literary works or which might have affected their creation. Multicultural in scope, the book also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and culture of the Middle Ages. Longer entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors such as Chaucer and Malory, and of entire genres, such as drama, lyric, ballad, debate, saga, chronicle, and hagiography. Shorter entries examine particular literary works; significant kings, artists, explorers, and religious leaders; important themes, such as courtly love and chivalry; and major historical events, such as the Crusades. The entries are written by scholars and each entry concludes with a brief bibliography. The volume closes with a list of the most valuable general works for further reading.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069506

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9780313069505

Enemies in the Plaza

Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 146-1492

By: Thomas Devaney

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Enemies in the Plaza

Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 146-1492

By: Thomas Devaney

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious tolerance. People living in frontier cities bore much of the cost of war against Granada and faced the greatest risk of retaliation, but had to reconcile an ideology of holy war with the genuine admiration many felt for individual members of other religious groups. After a century of near-continuous truces, a series of political transformations in Castile—including those brought about by the civil wars of Enrique IV's reign, the final war with Granada, and Fernando and Isabel's efforts to reestablish royal authority—incited a broad reaction against religious minorities. As Thomas Devaney shows, this active hostility was triggered by public spectacles that emphasized the foreignness of Muslims, Jews, and recent converts to Christianity. Enemies in the Plaza traces the changing attitudes toward religious minorities as manifested in public spectacles ranging from knightly tournaments, to religious processions, to popular festivals. Drawing on contemporary chronicles and municipal records as well as literary and architectural evidence, Devaney explores how public pageantry originally served to dissipate the anxieties fostered by the give-and-take of frontier culture and how this tradition of pageantry ultimately contributed to the rejection of these compromises. Through vivid depictions of frontier personalities, cities, and performances, Enemies in the Plaza provides an account of how public spectacle served to negotiate and articulate the boundaries between communities as well as to help Castilian nobles transform the frontier's religious ambivalence into holy war.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812291344

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Isidore of Seville

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Rivers of Gold

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The Pocket Guide for Europe. A Practical Hand-book for Travelers on the Continent and the British Isles, and Through Northern Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land

The Pocket Guide for Europe. A Practical Hand-book for Travelers on the Continent and the British Isles, and Through Northern Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land

The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins

The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins

The Cadillac Story

The Cadillac Story

The History of Modern Europe

The History of Modern Europe

Amazing Benefits in Traveling on Someone Else's Dime

Amazing Benefits in Traveling on Someone Else's Dime

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

The Lincoln Story

The Lincoln Story

World Without End

World Without End

Mission to a Suffering People

Mission to a Suffering People

How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World

How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Enemies in the Plaza

Enemies in the Plaza

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