A Centre Of Wonders

Author : Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717635

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A Centre of Wonders by Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter Pdf

Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.

Author : Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0801487390

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A Centre of Wonders by Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter Pdf

The American past of transcendentalism, utilitarianism, utopianism, and spiritual freedom here has its necessary counter or complement in this corporal history of early America providing "the historical importance of sentience and materiality in early American societies.. ." While the materialism of early Americans may be less than revelatory in an age of slavery, tribal genocide, and the more or less extreme proscription of women's activity, the approach is nonetheless useful to detail the interactions between, and conceptions about, bodies classified as white, black, red, male and female. Contributors, primarily professors of history, American studies, English, and religious studies, utilize the founding body (of) theories of Foucault, Mary Douglas, Elaine Scarry, Judith Butler, and Helene Cixous to examine American materialism from 1600-1830, primarily east of the Mississippi. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Lerner Books [UK]
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780761343271

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Seven Wonders of Ancient Africa by Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods Pdf

Take a new look at ancient history through the seven wonders of a geographical or cultural region. Each book in this series explains the qualities that makes something a 'wonder', with information about how the wonders were constructed, how they were discovered or preserved, how they are studied, and if and how they are used in modern times.

Author : Aaron Millar
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781785781254

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The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World by Aaron Millar Pdf

Machu Picchu, the Acropolis, the Great Rift Valley: these are some of the most beautiful, mysterious and awe-inspiring places on the planet. Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them. From where to catch the perfect sunrise over the Grand Canyon to how to swim up to the very edge of the Victoria Falls, this is a road map for discovering the greatest experiences of your life. There are wonders of our future too: the Large Hadron Collider, the most complicated machine ever built; the International Space Station, the greatest international peacetime collaboration in history; the Rio Carnival, the biggest party on the planet. The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World reminds us how fantastically inspiring our planet really is, and how we're a part of it.

Author : Nathaniel Wanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Characters and characteristics
ISBN : OSU:32435016670986

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The Wonders of the Little World by Nathaniel Wanley Pdf

Author : Keagan Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317430353

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Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages by Keagan Brewer Pdf

Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more often than not supported belief, there were still a great many who disbelieved, most notably scholastic philosophers who began a polemical programme against belief in marvels. Keagan Brewer reevaluates the Middle Ages’ reputation as an era of credulity by considering the evidence for incidences of marvels, miracles and the supernatural and demonstrating the reasons people did and did not believe in such things. Using an array of contemporary sources, he shows that medieval responders sought evidence in the commonality of a report, similarity of one event to another, theological explanations and from people with status to show that those who believed in marvels and miracles did so only because the wonders had passed evidentiary testing. In particular, he examines both emotional and rational reactions to wondrous phenomena, and why some were readily accepted and others rejected. This book is an important contribution to the history of emotions and belief in the Middle Ages.

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593686164

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes Pdf

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history “This fascinating book is brimming with stories of people and places, all told with Bettany’s natural sense of wonder and adventure.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The World For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising, revelatory history. Guiding us through it is historian Bettany Hughes, who has traveled to each of the sites to uncover the latest archaeological discoveries and bring these monuments and the distinct cultures that built them back to breathtaking life. Spellbinding, richly illustrated, and full of insight, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a journey into the indomitable ambition and creativity of the human spirit.

Author : Robert Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : NYPL:33433000981971

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The Wonders of the World, in Nature, Art, and Mind ... by Robert Sears Pdf

Author : James McNamara,Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350241756

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Tacitus’ Wonders by James McNamara,Victoria Emma Pagán Pdf

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective. Scholarship on Tacitus has to date remained largely marked by a divide between the search for veracity – as validated by modern historiographical standards – and literary approaches, and as a result wonders have either been ignored as unfit for an account of history or have been deprived of their force by being interpreted as valid only within the text. While the modern ideal of historiographical objectivity tends to result in striving for consistent heuristic and methodological frameworks, works as varied as Tacitus' Histories, Annals and opera minora can hardly be prefaced with a statement of methodology broad enough to escape misrepresenting their diversity. In our age of specialization a streamlined methodological framework is a virtue, but it should not be assumed that Tacitus had similar priorities, and indeed the Histories and Annals deserve to be approached with openness towards the variety of perspectives that a tradition as rich as Latin historiographical prose can include within its scope. This collection proposes ways to reconcile the divide between history and historiography by exploring contestable moments in the text that challenge readers to judge and interpret for themselves, with individual chapters drawing on a range of interpretive approaches that mirror the wealth of authorial and reader-specific responses in play.

Author : Christian Mieves,Irene Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317517931

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Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice by Christian Mieves,Irene Brown Pdf

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020422974

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The Wonders of Nature and Art, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Foster
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781626257894

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The Wonder of Being by Jeff Foster Pdf

A combined and fully revised edition of Jeff Foster's first two books Life Without a Centre and Beyond Awakening. What if life is infinitely simpler than you ever imagined? We spend our lives seeking wealth, success, love, fulfilment, and even "spiritual enlightenment" in the future. Yet right at the heart of life there is an intimacy, a simplicity, a wholeness that is totally beyond words—and which cannot be reached through any kind of effort. In our attempts to change, to improve ourselves, or become "enlightened," we end up ignoring this wordless intimacy which is our birthright and our true home. The Wonder of Being points to the eternal freedom which exists beyond the seeker and the sought, and shows us the hidden assumptions that underlie our seeking activities. With great humour, compassion and clarity, Jeff Foster reminds us of something we have always known—that life, as it is, is a miracle... and beyond our thoughts, we are already free.

Author : Sir Richard PHILLIPS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025691041

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The Wonders of the Heavens Displayed, Etc. L.P. by Sir Richard PHILLIPS Pdf

Author : mason bigelow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326407360

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Isles of Wonder: the cover story by mason bigelow Pdf

Author : Priest-Monk Silouan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780983586722

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Wisdom and Wonder by Priest-Monk Silouan Pdf

'Wisdom and Wonder' is a book of wisdom chapters in two 'Centuries, ' an ancient monastic wisdom genre much loved by the desert fathers. For these elders, wonder is the root and crown of wisdom, not only its origin. In these meditations, the mysteries of glorification and deification are explored from within the Orthodox tradition of wisdom and wonder. Priest-monk Silouan lives in the Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert, a hermitage within the Romanian jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church, high up in the south-west Shropshire hills. Fr. Silouan lives alone under the Shepherd's rock on the eastern slopes of the Stiperstones, in an old miner's cottage on a small-holding of twenty acres of pasture and woodland. He lives a life of prayer, silence, liturgy and work in the ancient tradition of orthodox monasticism.