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Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226034379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."

Author: Joseph Grafton Milne
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Louis Moreri
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Alfred R. Bellinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258761004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson
Publisher: Other
ISBN: 9780415015912
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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A chronological account which forms a descriptive and detailed expostion of coinage in the Roman empire setting them in their historical background.

Author: David Moore Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907650536
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future

Author: Dorothy Hannah Cox
Publisher:
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Category : Kourion (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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