Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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2016
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Women--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Red Pope. A Biography of Cardinal Willem Van Rossum C.Ss.R. (1854–1932)
Vefie Poels;Vefie Poels
Arriving in Rome from the Netherlands in 1895, the Catholic priest and Redemptorist Wi...
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Red Pope. A Biography of Cardinal Willem Van Rossum C.Ss.R. (1854–1932)
2023
Arriving in Rome from the Netherlands in 1895, the Catholic priest and Redemptorist Willem van Rossum (1854–1932) rose quickly through the ranks of the curia. In many ways an outsider, he made a resounding success of his career. His zeal in the fight against the ‘virus of modernism'earned him a cardinal's hat in 1911, and he was appointed prefect of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in 1918. As ‘red pope'or head of the Vatican's mission department, Van Rossum led a hard-fought and ultimately successful campaign to separate missionary policy, fundraising and staffing from Western nationalism, and concentrate control over the worldwide missionary project at supranational level in Rome. He was the driving force behind two programmatic documents on the missions by Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI, which promoted the building up of indigenous churches and the educating of native clergy, thus helping to create a favourable position for the Catholic church during the subsequent wave of decolonisation. In the meantime, Van Rossum continued to decry Italian dominance in the church as well as the curia's inefficiencies, for instance in a vituperative pamphlet that he wrote shortly before his death. This scholarly biography of Willem van Rossum rescues this great strategist behind the ‘popes of the missions'from oblivion, and throws fascinating light on the history of the Catholic church and the Roman curia from the late nineteenth century until far into the twentieth.
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Cardinals--Netherlands--BiographyContent provider:
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A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American
Kathleen Sprows Cummings;Kathleen Sprows Cummings
What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more t...
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A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American
2019
What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this panoramic, passionate chronicle of American sanctity. Catholics had another reason for petitioning the Vatican to acknowledge an American holy hero. A home-grown saint would serve as a mediator between heaven and earth, yes, but also between Catholicism and American culture. Throughout much of U.S. history, the making of a saint was also about the ways in which the members of a minority religious group defined, defended, and celebrated their identities as Americans . Their fascinatingly diverse causes for canonization—from Kateri Tekakwitha and Elizabeth Ann Seton to many others that are failed, forgotten, or still under way—represented evolving national values as Catholics made themselves at home. Cummings's vision of American sanctity shows just how much Catholics had at stake in cultivating devotion to men and women perched at the nexus of holiness and American history—until they finally felt little need to prove that they belonged.
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Canonization - Catholics--Religious identity--United StatesContent provider:
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Thomas Galoppin;Elodie Guillon;Max Luaces;Asuman Lätzer-Lasar;Sylvain Lebre...
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understandi...
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
2022
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
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Gods--History--To 1500Content provider:
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A Bridge Between : Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia
Katharine Massam;Katharine Massam
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Wester...
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A Bridge Between : Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia
2020
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A Bridge Between is a model of how religious history, in its broader bearings, can be written.— Graeme Davison, Monash UniversityWith great insight and care, A Bridge Between presents a sympathetic but not uncritical history of the lives of individuals who have often been invisible. The story of the nuns at New Norcia is a timely contribution to Australia's religious history. Given the findings of the Royal Commission, it will be widely read both within and beyond the academy. History is, here, a spiritual discipline, and an exercise in hope and reconciliation.— Laura Rademaker, The Australian National UniversityA Bridge Between is the first account of the Benedictine women who worked at New Norcia and the first book-length exploration of twentieth-century life in the Western Australian mission town. From the founding of a grand school intended for'nativas', through links to Mexico and Paraguay then Ireland, India and Belgium, as well as to their house in the Kimberley, and a network of villages near Burgos in the north of Spain, this is a complex international history. A Bridge Between gathers a powerful, fragmented story from the margins of the archive, recalling the Aboriginal women who joined the community in the 1950s and the compelling reunion of missionaries and former students in 2001. By tracing the all-but-forgotten story of the community of Benedictine women who were central to the experience of the mission for many Aboriginal families in the twentieth century, this book lays a foundation for further work.
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Missions--Australia--Western Australia--HistoryContent provider:
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Our Beloved Kin : A New History of King Philip’s War
Lisa Brooks;Lisa Brooks
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to col...
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Our Beloved Kin : A New History of King Philip’s War
2018
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England, reading the actions of actors during the seventeenth century alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history.
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Indian captivities - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750Content provider:
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Coming of Age in Byzantium : Adolescence and Society
Despoina Ariantzi;Despoina Ariantzi
Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen w...
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Coming of Age in Byzantium : Adolescence and Society
2018; Vol. 00069
Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Fächerspektrum: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie historische, theologische und philosophische, und die Millennium-Studien bieten gleichermaßen Raum für Arbeiten zu den lateinischen und griechischen wie zu den orientalischen Kulturen. In die Studien finden einschlägige Monographien und Sammelwerke aus dem gesamten Themenspektrum Aufnahme, zudem Kommentare und Editionen. Publikationssprachen sind vornehmlich Deutsch und Englisch; die Aufnahme französischer, italienischer und spanischer Arbeiten ist möglich. Falls Sie ein Manuskript für die Studien einreichen möchten, bitte wir Sie, sich an den fachnächsten Herausgeber zu wenden: Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt (Byzantinistik und Frühes Mittelalter): brandes@rg.mpg.de Peter von Möllendorff, Gießen (Gräzistik): peter.v.moellendorff@klassphil.uni-giessen.de Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latinistik): dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg (Alte Geschichte): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de Karla Pollmann, Bristol (Frühes Christentum und Patristik): K.F.L.Pollmann@bristol.ac.uk Alle Manuskripte werden von dem jeweiligen Herausgeber und von einem externen Gutachter beurteilt. Dabei gilt das Single-blind peer review-Verfahren.
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Teenagers--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--Congresses - Families--Byzantine Empire--CongressesContent provider:
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Dynamics of Religion : Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions
Christoph Bochinger;Jörg Rüpke;Christoph Bochinger;Jörg Rüpke
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in co...
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Dynamics of Religion : Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions
2017; Vol. 00067
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today's Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.
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Judaism and culture - Shinto and state--Japan - Imperialism--Religious aspects - Religion and culture - Apartheid--South Africa--Religious aspects - Buddhism--Japan - Fuxi (Legendary character) - Islamic fundamentalism - Established churches - Cultural pluralismContent provider:
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The correspondence of W. E. B . Du Bois. Vol. 1, Selections, 1877-1934
Du Bois, W. E. B.;Aptheker, Herbert;Du Bois, W. E. B.;Aptheker, Herbert
The correspondence of W. E. B . Du Bois. Vol. 1, Selections, 1877-1934
1973; Vol. 00001
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African Americans--Correspondence - Intellectuals--United States--Correspondence - Civil rights workers--United States--CorrespondenceContent provider:
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 : A Critical Anthology
Mary Ellis Gibson;Mary Ellis Gibson
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible ...
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 : A Critical Anthology
2011
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna Maria” and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siècle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore's Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.
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Indic poetry (English)--History and criticism - Indic poetry (English)--18th century - Indic poetry (English) - Indic poetry (English)--19th centuryContent provider:
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Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Realm
Susan M. Johns;Susan M. Johns
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Realm
2003
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. Asserts the importance of the life-cycle in determining the power of aristocratic women. Demonstrates that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.
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Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--To 1500 - Women--Great Britain--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500 - Power (Social sciences)--Great Britain--History--To 1500 - Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--History--To 1500 - Nobility--Great Britain--History--To 1500 - Normans--Great BritainContent provider:
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Old Calabria.
Douglas, Norman
Presents the complete text of "Old Calabria" by Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952.
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Old Calabria.
Old Calabria. 3/1/2006, p1. 208p.
Presents the complete text of "Old Calabria" by Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952.
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Travel - Project Gutenberg (Organization) - Electronic publications - Electronic books - Open access publishingContent provider:
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Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life
Hoagstrom, Carl W.;Hoagstrom, Carl W.
Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life
2002
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Zoology--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
Richard F. Thomas;Richard F. Thomas
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments...
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
2001
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the'Augustan'Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.
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Latin language - Latin poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc - Latin language--Translating into EnglishContent provider:
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The Oxford companion to the mind
Gregory, R. L.;Zangwill, O. L.;Gregory, R. L.;Zangwill, O. L.
The long-awaited second edition to the highly acclaimed and immensely successful Oxfor...
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The Oxford companion to the mind
1987
The long-awaited second edition to the highly acclaimed and immensely successful Oxford Companion to the Mind includes 900 articles on every aspect of the brain and consciousness and over 300 contributors from the worldʼs leading scholars. Cultural as well as scientific in its approach, it combines authoritative description and analysis with lightness, wit, and a personal touch. New entries include artificial life, attachment theory, caffeine, conjuring, cruelty, drama, extra-terrestrial intelligence, face-to-face communication, genetics of mental illness, imagination, lying, puzzles and twins It features three new mini symposia - on consciousness, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence - with contributions from a range of specialists, representing the variety of approaches to these major subjects in a balanced but lively and personal way Includes Roger Penrose and Steven Rose on consciousness; Beryl Bainbridge on construction of fiction; Raj Persaud on depression; Richard Gregory on facial expression, illusions of vision and consciousness, Ted Honderich on free will and Noam Chomsky on language. New to this edition: three new mini symposia - on consciousness, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence - with contributions from a range of specialists, representing the variety of approaches to these major subjects in a balanced but lively and personal way.
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Philosophy - Psychology - Neurophysiology - Psychology--Dictionaries - Neurophysiology--Dictionaries - Philosophy--DictionariesContent provider:
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The Returns of Odysseus : Colonization and Ethnicity
Irad Malkin;Irad Malkin
This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an origin...
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The Returns of Odysseus : Colonization and Ethnicity
1998
This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods. Synthesizing a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and literary sources, this exceptionally learned book strengthens our understanding of early Greek exploration and city-founding along the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, reconceptualizes the role of myth in ancient societies, and revitalizes our understanding of ethnicity in antiquity.Malkin shows how the figure of Odysseus became a proto-colonial hero whose influence transcended the Greek-speaking world. The return-myths constituted a generative mythology, giving rise to oral poems, stories, iconographic imagery, rituals, historiographical interpretation, and the articulation of ethnic identities. Reassessing the role of Homer and alternative return-myths, the book argues for the active historical function of myth and collective representations and traces their changing roles through a spectrum of colonial perceptions—from the proto-colonial, through justifications of expansion and annexation, and up to decolonization.
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Civilization, Homeric - Heroes in literature - Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism - Colonies in literature - Literature and society--Greece - Trojan War--Literature and the war - Ethnicity in literatureContent provider:
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