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Author: Christine Lambden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0985701609 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Back in the 70's when Bonnie Pearce was a teenager and perky slogans abounded, she thought this was the dumbest one of all. Now, she's having a day that really does seem like the first day of the rest of her life. Fed up with her job and her arrogant boss, Bonnie has decided it's time for her to live happily ever after. She's chosen the small Texas town of Cambridge as the site of her newly rehabilitated life and, with the help of some new friends and her extremely involved family, she'll give it her best shot. Can a battle-hardened veteran of the technology wars slow down to the pace of a small-town factory? Or will the factory and the town have to change their pace to keep up with her? Cambridge Knights (in Shining Armor?) is the tale of what happens when a modern-day princess gets a good look at her knight in shining armor and starts to wonder if she was right to let him carry her away on his white horse.
Author: Christine Lambden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0985701609 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Back in the 70's when Bonnie Pearce was a teenager and perky slogans abounded, she thought this was the dumbest one of all. Now, she's having a day that really does seem like the first day of the rest of her life. Fed up with her job and her arrogant boss, Bonnie has decided it's time for her to live happily ever after. She's chosen the small Texas town of Cambridge as the site of her newly rehabilitated life and, with the help of some new friends and her extremely involved family, she'll give it her best shot. Can a battle-hardened veteran of the technology wars slow down to the pace of a small-town factory? Or will the factory and the town have to change their pace to keep up with her? Cambridge Knights (in Shining Armor?) is the tale of what happens when a modern-day princess gets a good look at her knight in shining armor and starts to wonder if she was right to let him carry her away on his white horse.
Author: S. D. Church Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521553199 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. English government, in both peace and war, was conducted through the royal household, amongst whom the most important men were the king's knights: socially elite, militarily pre-eminent, and indispensable for the workings of English medieval government. It is with these men during the reign of King John that this work is concerned.
Author: Sam Zeno Conedera Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 082326596X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 355
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“Warrior monks”—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors animated by ideals and spiritual currents endorsed by the church hierarchy—author Sam Zeno Conedera presents a groundbreaking study of how these orders brought the seemingly incongruous combination of monastic devotion and the practice of warfare into a single way of life. Providing a detailed study of the military-religious vocation as it was lived out in the Orders of Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara in Leon-Castile during the first century, Ecclesiastical Knights provides a valuable window into medieval Iberia. Filling a gap in the historiography of the medieval military orders, Conedera defines, categorizes, and explains these orders, from their foundations until their spiritual decline in the early fourteenth century, arguing that that the best way to understand their spirituality is as a particular kind of consecrated knighthood. Because these Iberian military orders were belligerents in the Reconquest, Ecclesiastical Knights informs important discussions about the relations between Western Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages. Conedera examines how the military orders fit into the religious landscape of medieval Europe through the prism of knighthood, and how their unique conceptual character informed the orders and spiritual self-perception. The religious observances of all three orders were remarkably alike, except that the Cistercian-affiliated orders were more demanding and their members could not marry. Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara shared the same essential mission and purpose: the defense and expansion of Christendom understood as an act of charity, expressed primarily through fighting and secondarily through the care of the sick and the ransoming of captives. Their prayers were simple and their penances were aimed at knightly vices and the preservation of military discipline. Above all, the orders valued obedience. They never drank from the deep wellsprings of monasticism, nor were they ever meant to. Offering an entirely fresh perspective on two difficult and closely related problems concerning the military orders—namely, definition and spirituality—author Sam Zeno Conedera illuminates the religious life of the orders, previously eclipsed by their military activities.
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