Author: British Museum (Londen)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
British Museum
Author: British Museum (Londen)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryGeneral catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Playground of Europe
Author: Leslie StephenThe Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Author: Rodney D. HuddlestonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521527613
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
This grammar for the 21st century combines clear grammatical principles with non-technical explanations of all terms and concepts used.
The Renaissance Bible
Author: Debora K. ShugerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520213876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The book treats the Protestant cultures of northern Europe, particularly England, examining biblical commentaries, plays, poems, sermons, and treatises, as well as the often startling negotiations between these texts and other cultural discourses. In Shuger's hands, these biblical materials serve to illuminate, and often radically reinterpret, the dominant issues in contemporary Renaissance studies: gender, the body, colonialism, subjectivity, desire, law, and history. Her work forcefully demonstrates the cultural centrality of Renaissance religion.
The Phoenix
Author: Joseph NiggPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022619552X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly
Life of John Milton
Author: Richard GarnettPublisher: London : W. Scott
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally published in 1890 as part of the "Great Writers" series. Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum and also wrote biographies of Carlyle, Emerson, Gibbon and Coleridge.