Author: Richard BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Achmet's Feast
Author: Richard BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The Never-ending Feast
Author: Kaori O'ConnorPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847889271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
Achmet's Feast, and Other Poems
Author: Richard BirdPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356254262
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Achmet's Feast, and Other Poems
Author: Richard Bird (B.A. Cantab.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Achmet's Feast, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
Author: Richard BirdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483552920
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Excerpt from Achmet's Feast, and Other Poems Thy smile to me was hope; thy shrine My worship; from those lips of thine, First did I hear the notes of love, Speak to me of a God above. And in my simple Childhood's prayer, Sweet mother, kneeling at thy chair, My lisping voice would faltering raise, The infant's fluttering notes of praise. Who told thy wondering child of death And the great Lord of Nazareth, Who suffered on the cross, to save The soul of man beyond the grave? I listen'd, and my little brain, Reverberated thy words again. I could not think that smiling eye, That kindly loving face could die, And every glowing feature set Clammy and cold; I knew not yet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History of the Character and Achievements of the So-called Christopher Columbus
Author: Aaron GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS;
Author: HENRY HOWEAchievements of the Class of 1902, Yale College
Author: Yale University. Class of 1902Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey
Author: Anne CurryPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277173
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Ground-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time.
An American Family Cooks
Author: Judith ChoatePublisher: Welcome Books
ISBN: 159962124X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"From a chocolate cake you will never forget to a Thanksgiving everyone can master"--Cover.