Author : Kay Lee
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Charming Victorian drawings, engravings, and paintings garnish a day-by-day tour of the year replete with exotic facts, recipes, verses, and words of advice.
Author : Sally Fox
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Diaries (Blank-books)
ISBN : 9780821215876
Author : Gregory K. Cameron
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 178622268X
An Advent Book of Days tells the stories of all the characters and creatures that make up the Christmas story, with daily prayers and reflections based on their experiences. Fully illustrated in colour, this rich seasonal companion combines the bible, history, art and legend to explore the story of the incarnation. For each day of Advent, we meet a character caught up in the drama of the nativity, from the archangel Gabriel to the ox and ass in the stable. We discover what their portrayal in scripture reveals about them, how they have been understood in history, what folk legends have accrued around them, and what their stories offer for faith and devotion today. This is a book to engage all the senses and the imagination, to be enjoyed slowly and to shed new light on the most famous and familiar story of all.
Author : Sally Fox
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780821217009
Following in the extraordinary success of The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Book of Days, the author presents an address book sumptuously decorated with illuminations from late medieval manuscripts depicting women in a variety of roles. 40 color illustrations.
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307433838
THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: “Beautifully paced and sometimes blood-soaked. . . . A very tangible sense of evil.”—The Guardian “Subtle menace and power.”—The Independent “Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue.”—The Bookseller
Author : Erica Orloff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101552891
Some loves are not made to last . . . Like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard were doomed from the start, and their romance was destined to pass into history. Yet when sixteen-year-old Callie Martin discovers a diary hidden within an antique book, their story - and hers - takes on another life. For the diary leads Callie to the brilliant and handsome August, who is just as mysterious as the secret the diary hides. Their attraction is undeniable. As the two hunt down the truth behind the diary - and that of Heloise and Abelard's ancient romance - their romance becomes all-consuming. But Callie knows it can't last . . . love never does. Will their love that burns as bright as a shooting star flame out, or will these star-crossed lovers be able to defy history?
Author : Mary Ann Winkowski
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307452441
The criminal underworld meets the spiritual otherworld in this thrilling debut collaboration between the inspiration for television's The Ghost Whisperer and an award-winning writer/director. Anza O'Malley is in most ways a typical single mom. She lives a happy, busy life with her five-year-old son in Cambridge, Massachusetts, juggling the joys and challenges of life as a doting parent and a freelance bookbinder. But there is more to Anza than meets the "ungifted" eye: she can see and speak with ghosts. Although she's been solving cold cases for the police for years, Anza has been hoping to focus her energies on her son and her bookbinding career. But when an exquisite and priceless illuminated manuscript is stolen from the Boston Athenaeum, and when its desecration spurs the appearance of some very unhappy spirits, Anza can neither look nor walk away. With an unlikely trio of ghosts by her side–a charming butler and two medieval monks–Anza leads us on an urgent journey through Boston's winding, cobbled streets to uncover a trail of deceit, danger, and ghoulish intrigue.
Author : Nina Rowe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300247044
A look into an enchanting, underexplored genre of illustrated manuscripts that reveals new insights into urban life in the Middle Ages In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a curious genre of illustrated book that gained popularity among the newly emergent middle class of late medieval cities. These illuminated World Chronicles, produced in the Bavarian and Austrian regions from around 1330 to 1430, were the popular histories of their day, telling tales from the Bible, ancient mythology, and the lives of emperors in animated, vernacular verse, enhanced by dynamic images. Rowe’s appraisal of these understudied books presents a rich world of storytelling modes, offering unprecedented insight into the non-noble social strata in a transformative epoch. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Rowe also shows how illuminated World Chronicles challenge the commonly held view of the Middle Ages as socially stagnant and homogeneously pious. Beautifully illustrated and backed by abundant and accessible analyses of social, economic, and political conditions, this book highlights the engaging character of secular literature during the late medieval era and the relationship of illustrated books to a socially diverse and vibrant urban sphere.
Author : Marty Noble
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486488756
Recapture the historic grandeur of medieval art with lovingly detailed reproductions ranging from the creation of Eve to the Hundred Years' War. Thirty images include Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and secular sources.
