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Author : Kate Walker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408915547
Three proud, fiery Sicilian men who won’t be denied! Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed Bride Kate Walker
Author : G. A. Loud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107320000
First published in 2007, this was the first significant study of the incorporation of the Church in southern Italy into the mainstream of Latin Christianity during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor G. A. Loud examines the relationship between Norman rulers, south Italian churchmen and the external influence of the new 'papal monarchy'. He discusses the impact of the creation of the new kingdom of Sicily in 1130; the tensions that arose from the papal schism of that era; and the religious policy and patronage of the new monarchs. He also explores the internal structures of the Church, both secular and monastic, and the extent and process of Latinisation within the Graecophone areas of the mainland and on the island of Sicily, where at the time of the Norman conquest the majority of the population was Muslim. This is a major contribution to the political, religious and cultural history of the Central Middle Ages.
Author : Chambers's journal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031693
Author : Mario Puzo
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345480743
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption—and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano. Praise for The Sicilian “Puzo is a master storyteller.”—USA Today “The Balzac of the mafia.”—Time “An accomplished and imaginative writer.”—Los Angeles Times
Author : Martha C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806164144
Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454–c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides’s narrative: the Sicilian Expedition (books 6–8.1), which resulted in a major defeat for Athens. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, Martha C. Taylor’s student-friendly text is the first single volume in more than a century to focus on the expedition and the first to include the Melian Dialogue (5.84–116), considered the “prelude” to the invasion. Many beginning readers of Thucydides require assistance with the author’s often difficult constructions. In her notes to the text, Taylor breaks down Thucydides’s convoluted sentences and explains them piece by piece. Her notes also explain the author’s many historical and literary references. In her in-depth introduction, Taylor provides students with all the information they need to begin reading Thucydides. She discusses what we know about the Greek author—and what we do not—and she analyzes his unique language and style. To place the Sicilian Expedition in historical context, she summarizes the events leading up to and following the Sicilian Expedition, and she examines important aspects of Athenian democracy, including Thucydides’s presentation of the Athenian boule, the city’s advisory citizen council. In addition to textual and historical commentary, this volume includes three maps; an appendix addressing the epitaph of Perikles (2.65.5–13), in which Thucydides appears to contradict his later presentation of the Sicilian Expedition; source suggestions for student term papers on relevant topics; and a general bibliography. Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition is designed for use with the Oxford Classical Text of Thucydides, which is available online.
Author : Richard Huscroft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000873511
Examining the developments in the political and religious landscape of Western Europe between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, Power and Faith explores the origins of dominant nation Sates and religious institutions in the West emerged out of the fractured and fragmented post-Carolingian world. As a foundational text for those new to the period, the book offers a clear chronological framework for understanding and analysing the emerging polities of Western Europe and an examination of the influence of the Papacy and the Crusades across Christian life and culture. Mixed with careful consideration of major social and economic themes including urbanisation, rural revolution, and the role of women in politics, religion, and society, the book gives a uniquely comprehensive overview of political and religious developments in Western Europe during a neglected yet fundamentally significant period. The book is divided into six parts, part one sets out the scope and aims of the book and discusses the sources used. Parts two and six provide overviews of the political and religious states of affairs in Europe at the start and end of the period respectively. Framed by these sections, the book is divided into three chronologically-ordered parts each containing three chapters, the first offers a brief account of the main historiography of the period concerned, the second provides a thorough account and analysis of the main political developments across Europe during it and the third explores the main religious changes. Power and Faith is an essential introductory guide for students and researchers interested in politics, religion, and society in Western Europe during the middle ages.
Author : Michael Buonanno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476615004
This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment upon, critique--perhaps even negotiate--the relationships among the major classes of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the people, the clergy and the Mafia. The lynchpin of the repertoire is the Carolingian Cycle and, in particular, a contemporary version of The Song of Roland known in Sicily as The Death of the Paladins, a text which illustrates the means by which the Carolingian heroes--Charlemagne, Roland, Renaud, Ganelon, and Angelica--augment saints, bandits, Biblical figures and Sicilian folk heroes to provide the marionette theater its rhetorical function: the articulation and dissemination of the tools of Sicilian identity.
Author : Anita Bestler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658393106
This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics. In the process, readers [also] gain an interesting insight into the complicated political development of Italy from the founding of the state to the present, as well as an answer as to why Italians have a different political mindset.
Author : Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Church history
ISBN : NLI:2938825-20
Author : Johann Lorenz von MOSHEIM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026918354
Author : Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Church history
ISBN : UOM:39015070185171
Author : Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Church history
ISBN : UCAL:B3947590
Author : Colin De La Rue,Charles B Anderson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317375821
The first edition of this book was quickly acclaimed as the new leading text worldwide on the law and practice of pollution from ships. The second edition deals with a variety of developments since then in this fast-moving subject: the Erika and the Prestige; changes in international law on maritime safety and compensation; latest decisions on claims for compensation; analysis of the SCOPIC regime; new material on ports of refuge, transboundary movements, and pollution from offshore craft; latest cases and regulatory changes in the US; and enlarged chapters on enforcement of laws and criminal sanctions. Like its predecessor, the second edition is superbly indexed and written clearly with the needs in mind of a wide international readership.
Author : Joshua R Hall
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473885417
The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name. While narrative histories of the Punic wars (especially the second) and biographies of Hannibal abound, there have been few studies dedicated to detailed analysis of Carthaginian armies and warfare throughout the city-state's entire existence. Joshua Hall puts that right with this in-depth study of their tactics, equipment, unit organization, army composition and operational effectiveness. Importantly, while the Second Punic War is rightly given prominence, this is not at the expense of the many earlier wars Carthage waged as she built and then defended her empire. Drawing on all the available archaeological and literary evidence, the author shows the development of Carthage's forces and methods of warfare from the ninth century BC to the city's demise. The result is the most in-depth portrait of the Carthaginian military available in English.
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555035366
