Author: Edward Blair MichellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Falco
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Art and Practice of Hawking
Author: Edward Blair MichellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Falco
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Courtly Love
Author: Jean MarkalePublisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A comprehensive examination of the rituals and philosophies that created and sustained medieval troubadour culture • Debunks the myth of the platonic nature of courtly love, showing the many sexual similarities to the Tantric practices of India • Reveals how the roots of courtly love go back to the matriarchal cultures of neolithic times The widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these was a new way of looking at love and the place held by women in society. The Christian-inspired tradition that at best viewed women with contempt--and often with outright fear and loathing--was replaced by a new perspective, one in which women enjoyed a central role as the inspiration for all male action. For several hundred years courtly love, with its emphasis on adultery, carnal pleasures, and the power of the feminine, dominated European culture despite its flouting of conventional Christian morality. Medieval historians by and large have tended to regard courtly love as a sterile parlor game for the upper classes. To the contrary, Jean Markale shows that the stakes were much higher: the roots of the ritual re-created here go all the way back to the great mother goddess. In addition, the platonic nature attributed to these relationships is based on a misunderstanding of courtly love; underneath the refined poetry of the troubadours' verses flourished a system of sexual initiation that rivaled Indian Tantra.
Hawke
Author: Blanche D'AlpugetPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522858511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this record is a meticulous portrait of wily and brilliant Australian politician, Bob Hawke. Candid and detailed, this account underscores Hawke’s achievements, such as his victory over Labor leader Bill Hayden, his appointment as prime minister, and his involvement in the precarious game of international politics in the last days the Cold War. Rich with intrigue and drama, this reference also includes an in-depth analysis of how power is deployed and how elections are won in Australia.
Bob Hawke
Author: Blanche d'AlpugetPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1760853267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
To mark Bob Hawke’s extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a champion of workers, a folk hero recognised throughout the country, a dynamic politician who was elected four times as Australia’s Prime Minister - and transformed his country. He was our longest serving Labor Prime Minister and considered by many our greatest. By the early 1980s Australia was on the road to becoming ‘the poor white trash of Asia’. Hawke as prime minister, with Paul Keating as treasurer, changed all that. Australia became a forward-looking and humane country whose voice commanded respect on the international stage. Hawke was an environmentalist before it was fashionable, he loathed racism, helped end apartheid in South Africa, sent ministers to end the war in Cambodia, foresaw that China would become a great world power and established the first Chinese investment in an iron ore mine in Australia. His journey from the manse of a small South Australian country town to the palaces of Europe, Asia and the United States is the odyssey of a leader it is hard to imagine we will ever see the like of again - a man of towering passions and commitment to causes, and an unshakeable love of humanity.
The Ornithology of Shakespeare
Author: James Edmund HartingPublisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The birds of Shakespeare
Author: James Edmund HartingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Birds of Shakespeare
Author: James Edmund HartingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382125943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Learned Summary upon the famous poeme (the First and Second Weeke) of William of Saluste Lord of Bartas. ... Translated out of French by T. L. D. M. P. [i.e. Thomas Lodge.]
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Author: Guillaume de SALUSTE DU BARTASPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Riders Dictionarie, corrected and augmented ... Whereunto is joyned a Dictionarie Etymologicall ... Now newly corrected and much augmented by Francis Holy-Oke
Author: John RIDER (Bishop of Killaloe.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Author: William Shakespeare