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The volume Paradigms of Pilgrimage: FromDevotional Journey to (Religious)Tourism endeavours to present someinsights into the multi-layered significance of pilgrimage, starting from a theoretical approach and then addressing specific situations. The first two parts deal chronologically with instances of traditional images of pilgrimage and the last two parts move towards analysing modern and post-modern examples of journeys with a spiritual purpose. Each chapter is independent and provides an original rendering of the concept of pilgrimage. The authors use various approaches to discuss the notion of pilgrimage and the images interconnect creating an irregular, but harmonious mosaic. Le volume Paradigmes du pèlerinage : du voyage dévotionnel au tourisme (religieux) vise à présenter les différentes facettes du pèlerinage, en partant d'une approche théorique et en proposant ensuite des situations spéciiques. Les deux premières parti esexaminent, chronologiquement, les exemples d'images traditionnelles de pèlerinage tandis que les deux dernières parties s'orientent vers l'analyse d'exemples modernes et postmodernes des voyages à travers la spiritualité. Chaque chapitre est indépendant et montre une interprétation originale de la notion de pèlerinage. Les auteurs utilisent diverses approches pour discuter de la notion de pèlerinage et les images s'interconnectent en créant une mosaı̈que irrégulière, mais harmonieuse.
This fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special attention to the story of the vanquished, to the situation of women, to the behavior of the Military Orders toward captives, and to the image of the captive in Crusader literature, in the context of making war and peace.
Yvonne Vineuil (Yvonne Sée), écrivain à la fois rigoureux et lyrique, s’exprime dans sa poésie - publiée généralement par GLM - et dans ses pièces de théâtre, illustrant en particulier la mythologie grecque et hindoue, et qui furent jouées à Gretz et à Paris. Elle représente la Ligue Internationale de Femmes pour la Paix et la Liberté auprès de l’Unesco. C’est par admiration pour l’œuvre de Shakespeare, qu’Yvonne Vineuil a voulu extraire des trente-sept pièces du grand auteur, les passages qui lui paraissaient présenter un intérêt universel. Elle les a groupés sous des titres qui évoquent, à ses yeux, les thèmes majeurs des préoccupations shakespeariennes. L’originalité de ce livre réside dans le fait que son auteur, au long de sa cueillette élective, a su dégager de l’œuvre de Shakespeare, une humanité essentielle, actuelle, vivante, propre à émouvoir nos sensibilités qui se reconnaissent en elle. Ce travail est un acte d’amour pour ces textes admirables, et aussi pour le public, qu’il soit lycéen, étudiant, amoureux du théâtre de Shakespeare ou humaniste. Yvonne Vineuil souhaite que le lecteur partage, à lire cet ouvrage, la joie qu’elle a eue à le rédiger.
Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collaborate with her father, she also spent her extraordinary life putting his ideas into practice as a labour organizer, feminist radical, and Marxist theorist. The outstanding exception to the omission of Eleanor Marx from history is Yvonne Kapp's highly acclaimed biography. First published at the height of feminist organizing in the 1970s, Kapp's work brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanor's spirit, from a lively child opining on the world's affairs, to the new woman, aspiring to the stage, earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead England's unskilled workers at the height of the new unionism; being always more than, yet at the same time inescapably, Karl Marx's daughter. It is also, inevitably, an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of the Marx circle, and of Friedrich Engels, the family's extraordinary mentor. During today's resurgence of feminist writing, organizing, and protesting, Kapp's foundational single-volume biography serves as a crucial corrective to a narrative that puts feminists and marxists on opposing sides of radical history.
With more than 20,000 culturally diverse names, their origins, a pronunciation guide, meanings, tips, and trivia, this is the hippest, most comprehensive baby name guide on the market today.
Contains information on Latin America's physical geography, history, and cultures. Explores the countries of Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America. Also includes special activites, maps, and charts, graphs and tables.
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