Book Description
A collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles.
Author : Dom David Knowles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521088411
A collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles.
Author : Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075951383X
The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0374709378
What is “character”? Since at least Aristotle’s time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, “character” derives from a word for engraving or stamping, yet over time, it has come to mean a moral idea, a type, a literary persona, and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self-help books. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession, Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today, omnipresent in discussions of politics, ethics, gender, morality, and the psyche. References to character flaws, character issues, and character assassination and allegations of “bad” and “good” character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does “character” in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be “formed” or taught in schools, in scouting, in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill, from Shakespeare to Darwin, from Theophrastus to Freud, from nineteenth-century phrenology to twenty-first-century brain scans, the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us. Today, with the meaning and the value of this term in question, no issue is more important, and no topic more vital, surprising, and fascinating. With her distinctive verve, humor, and vast erudition, Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations, confusions, and heritages, from ancient Greece to the present day.
Author : J.T. McNeill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1967-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199727996
A comprehensive history of the Calvinist movement.
Author : Nieves Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300064414
In 1621 Bacon fell from power as Lord Chancellor, the highest position in the land. Charged with accepting bribes, he was convicted, fined, imprisoned and exiled from the Court. He died five years later, disgraced and deeply in debt.
Author : John Hobart Caunter
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0525427899
The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in America's history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the civil rights movement to the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation's existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age and Great Depression to the present day, and how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them.
Author : Lisa Tendrich Frank
Publisher :
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813036908
"Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural--not monolithic--nature of the South"--
Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1859
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Drake
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN :