Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Truce of God" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : George Henry Miles
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
'The Truce of God' is a historical fiction novel written by George Henry Miles. Set in the Middle Ages, the story unfolds during a time of chaos and violence after the fall of the Roman Empire. The barbarian invasions threatened to bring about a new era of cruelty, with the sword as the only source of power. But, due to the regenerating influence of Christianity, a few warrior kings, such as Theodoric, Charlemagne, and Luitprand, emerged who used the sword for just and decent purposes, intending to bring some peace to the world.
Author : Thomas Head
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501725564
During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.
Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1596056916
"If I should lie in a manger all night," she said, standing with her feet well apart and looking up at him, "would I become a boy?" The Bishop tugged at his beard. "A boy, little maid! Would you give up your blue eyes and your soft skin to be a roystering lad?" "My father wishes for a son," she had replied and the cloud that was over the Castle shadowed the Bishop's eyes. "It would not be well," he replied, "to tamper with the works of the Almighty. Pray rather for this miracle, that your father's heart be turned toward you and toward the lady, your mother." -from The Truce of God Mary Roberts Rinehart's popular fiction-about nurses who solve crimes and adventurous spinsters-made her one of the most popular novelists and short-story writers of the early 20th century, a feminist, comic Raymond Chandler. The Truce of God, written during the era of her more serious writing, is a medieval Christmas fairy tale about Lord Charles the Fair and his young daughter, Clotilde, who longs for something more than her gender is typically allowed in these dark times. Grimly charming, The Truce of God-here in a replica of the beautiful 1920 edition-is an excellent example of the engaging storytelling that first captivated Rinehart's readers. American author MARY ROBERTS RINEHART (1876-1958) wrote some of the earliest classics of pulp fiction, including The Man in Lower Ten (1906) and The Circular Staircase (1907). Among her many novels of comedy, mystery, and romance are The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), and The Swimming Pool (1952).
Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 882645261X
A Classic Christmas short story set in medieval times with a courageous young girl who affects the peace the world so badly needs. This book was written during the era of Rinehart’s serious writing. It is a medieval Christmas fairy tale about Lord Charles the Fair and his young daughter, Clotilde, who longs for something more than her gender allows at that period in time. This is not such an unusual wish as between the 5th C. and the 15th C. there are no less than 105 women recorded as taking up arms to fight alongside their male counterparts. However this was not as easily achieved as one might think, if only because of the differences in a women’s upper-body shape to men which made the shaping of armour more difficult, not to mention more cumbersome in battle. =============== Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it", although she did not actually use the phrase herself, and also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries.
Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802827906
In this powerful meditation, Williams probes words such as "reconciliation" to reveal the profound realism of the concepts of peace and violence as understood in the Bible and in latter Christian tradition.
Author : Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Explores the role of the nobility and analogous traditional elites in contemporary society.
Author : Dominique Barthélemy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Chivalry
ISBN : 9780801475603
Dominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.
Author : Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN :
A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830827226
Peter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.
