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Author: Leah Shopkow Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487525869 Category : Christian hagiography Languages : en Pages : 217
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In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.
Author: Leah Shopkow Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487538235 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.
Author: Leah Shopkow Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487525869 Category : Christian hagiography Languages : en Pages : 217
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In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Publisher: Philaletheians UK ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 19
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Count de Saint-Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen in last centuries of the last millennium. He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such claim. He was a pupil of Indian and Egyptian hierophants, and proficient in the secret wisdom and arts of the East. Saint-Germain is, until this very time, a living mystery. And the Rosicrucian Thomas Vaughan, another one. Together with Mesmer, he belonged to the Lodge of the Philalethes. Like all great men, the Count was slandered and lied about. Saint-Germain was a “fifth rounder,” a rare case of abnormally precocious individual evolution. He was sent by Louis XV to England, in 1760, to negotiate peace between the two countries. Before and during the French Revolution, the Count puzzled and almost terrified every capital of Europe, and some crowned Heads. Saint-Germain predicted in every detail the social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. In fact, it was he who brought about the just outbreak among the paupers, and put an end to the selfish tyranny of the French kings. The Count’s temperamental affinity to the celestial science forced the Himalayan Adepts to come into personal relations with him. When True Magic has finally died out in Europe, Saint-Germain and Cagliostro, sought refuge from the frozen-hearted scepticism in their native land of the East.
Author: Raymond Bernard Publisher: Health Research Books ISBN: 9780787300951 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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The Rosicrucian adept who preserved his youth for centuries. Was Francis Bacon the author of Shakespeare's plays; Editor of King James Version of the Bible; Count Saint-Germain founder of Freemasonry; heir to the English throne; Prince Rakoczy; foun.
Author: Leslie Charteris Publisher: Thomas & Mercer ISBN: 9781477843086 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Saint gets more than he bargained for when he tries to help a friendly pastor and he discovers murder when he aids Father Christmas.
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312890261 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 468
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Three thousand years ago, amidst the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt, they called him Demon. Today he is known as the Count Saint-Germain--a man of great power and greater mystery. For over 15 years, readers and critics have praised Yarbro's novels of Saint-Germain. Now, the secrets of his mysterious past--and distant nights along the shores of the Nile--are revealed.
Author: Jennifer Saint Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250773571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 298
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A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind? Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.
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