Wild Men and Holy Places
Author | : Daphne Brooke |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Daphne Brooke |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daphne Brooke |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Dixon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Author | : William Hepworth Dixon |
Publisher | : London : Chapman and Hall |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Eretz Israel |
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Author | : Robert Spence Hardy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Robert Spence Hardy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Frank Welsh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300093742 |
"In The Four Nations, Frank Welsh offers a lively narrative history of the four component parts of the British Isles - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Moving from the Roman period, which first defined many of the current internal boundaries, through the present day, Welsh describes the history of each nation, their interactions, and the impacts of crises ranging from the Norman Invasion to the Protestant Reformation to the two world wars of the twentieth century. Along the way, Welsh questions many cherished illusions and poses some awkward questions: to what extent were Scotland, Ireland, and Wales victims of predatory English aggression? How serious is the frequently invoked specter of national fragmentation?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Michael Brown |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788854365 |
During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the physical protectors of the hero-king's legacy. But others saw the power of these lords and earls of Douglas in a different light. To their critics the Douglases were a force for disorder in the kingdom, lawless, arrogant and violent, whose power rested on coercion and whose defiance of kings and guardians ultimately provoked James II into slaying the Douglas earl with his own hand. Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of this family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s. Alongside this study of the accumulation and loss of power by one of the great noble houses, The Black Douglases includes a series of thematic examinations of the nature of aristocratic power. In particular these emphasise the link between warfare and political power in southern Scotland during the fourteenth century. For the Black Douglases, war was not just a patriotic duty but the means to power and fame in Scotland and across Europe.
Author | : Julie Kerr |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786833190 |
This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.
Author | : Tobias Schneebaum |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2003-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299193438 |
Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, Wild Man tracks Tobias Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story, from his earliest contemplation of homoerotic desire through his life in Peru, Borneo, and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was, in actuality, living for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a way of being that was strange, primitive, and powerfully attractive to him. This longing to find the "wild man" in other cultures—and in himself—eventually led him on an odyssey through South America, India, Tibet, Africa, Borneo, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. He lived among isolated forest peoples, including headhunters and cannibals, in regions where few, if any, white men had ever been.