A Death In The Venetian Quarter

Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466823105

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A Death in the Venetian Quarter by Alan Gordon Pdf

In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city. The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant. But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : Susannah Carson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307743404

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Living with Shakespeare by Susannah Carson Pdf

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture. We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the plays to actors, F. Murray Abraham on gaining an audience’s sympathy for Shylock, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare’s ideas through performance, Germaine Greer on the playwright’s home life, Dame Harriet Walter on the complexity of his heroines, Brian Cox on social conflict in his time and ours, Jane Smiley on transposing King Lear to Iowa in A Thousand Acres, and Sir Antony Sher on feeling at home in Shakespeare’s language. Together these essays provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeare’s works as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and embraced by creative professionals and lay enthusiasts alike. F. Murray Abraham ● Isabel Allende ● Cicely Berry ● Eve Best ● Eleanor Brown ● Stanley Cavell ● Karin Coonrod ● Brian Cox ● Peter David ● Margaret Drabble ● Dominic Dromgoole ● David Farr ● Fiasco Theater ● Ralph Fiennes ● Angus Fletcher ● James Franco ● Alan Gordon ● Germaine Greer ● Barry John ● James Earl Jones ● Sir Ben Kingsley ● Maxine Hong Kingston ● Rory Kinnear ● J. D. McClatchy ● Conor McCreery ● Tobias Menzies ● Joyce Carol Oates ● Camille Paglia ● James Prosek ● Richard Scholar ● Sir Antony Sher ● Jane Smiley ● Matt Sturges ● Julie Taymor ● Eamonn Walker ● Dame Harriet Walter ● Bill Willingham ● Jess Winfield

Author : James F. McEaney
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 159033180X

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The Crusades by James F. McEaney Pdf

Crusades A Bibliography With Indexes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000066661443

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Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Christianity
ISBN : IND:30000080764230

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The British Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alessandra Bucossi,Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317110712

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John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium by Alessandra Bucossi,Alex Rodriguez Suarez Pdf

The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century Constantinople. What else do we know about John’s rule and its period? This volume opens up new perspectives on John’s reign and clearly demonstrates that many innovations generally attributed to the genius of Manuel Komnenos had already been fostered during the reign of the second great Komnenos. Leading experts on twelfth-century Byzantium (Jeffreys, Magdalino, Ousterhout) are joined by representatives of a new generation of Byzantinists to produce a timely and invaluable study of the unjustly neglected figure of John Komnenos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA001711232

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The Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,Sir William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle,George Walter Prothero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015984656

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The Quarterly Review by William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,Sir William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle,George Walter Prothero Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z252728808

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“The” Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : John George Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023611

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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]. by John George Cochrane Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:555022513

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Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3RGX

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The London Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000014119859

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London Quarterly and Holborn Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr Marwan Nader
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479499

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Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099–1325) by Dr Marwan Nader Pdf

This is the first book devoted to the study of burgesses in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099–1325). It offers a comprehensive assessment of the contributions made by the non-feudal class to the development of legal and commercial institutions in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Dispensing with the commonly held view that burgesses had only marginal influence, evidence is presented to illustrate how the existence of a 'middle class' was essential to the ambitions of the kingdoms' leaders. A systematic examination of all relevant contemporary source material – charters, law-books and narrative accounts – sheds light on how serfs and freemen, originating from diverse regions of Europe, were able to organise themselves into a class whose status set them apart from non-Latin Christians and Muslims. The study considers at length the different ways in which burgess legislation was formulated; traces the gradual development of the Cour des Bourgeois, the court of burgesses, in terms of its composition and competence; describes in detail the burgess laws of Acre and Nicosia which related, for example, to marriage and inheritance; and defines the special characteristics of a type of property known as a borgesie which was mostly but not exclusively in the hands of burgesses. Dr Nader's research, furthermore, reveals the complexity of burgess jurisdiction and legislation in the East, and advocates the theory that secular courts established by ecclesiastical institutions exercised authority over burgesses and borgesies in matters which went beyond the parameters of purely ecclesiastical jurisdiction.