Cunegonde S Kidnapping

Author : Benjamin J. Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189971

Get Book

Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Benjamin J. Kaplan Pdf

In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde’s Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes, and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a “rise of toleration.”

Author : Benjamin J. Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300187366

Get Book

Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Benjamin J. Kaplan Pdf

How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde's Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes, and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, award-winning historian Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a "rise of toleration."

Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810883253

Get Book

Operas in English by Margaret Ross Griffel Pdf

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.

Author : Mark Moberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415699990

Get Book

Engaging Anthropological Theory by Mark Moberg Pdf

This text offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Anthropological ideas about human diversity have always been rooted in the socio-political conditions in which they arose, and exploring them in context helps students understand how and why they evolved, and how theory relates to life and society.

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674076478

Get Book

Blessings in Disguise, Or, The Morality of Evil by Jean Starobinski Pdf

It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".

Author : Kenneth LaFave
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442235441

Get Book

Experiencing Leonard Bernstein by Kenneth LaFave Pdf

Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies, choral works, chamber music pieces, art songs, and piano works. In Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener’s Companion, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernstein’s famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after Plato’s Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage. Perhaps the most famous American classical musician born in the twentieth century, Bernstein divided his time between c

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393617481

Get Book

Candide (Third International Edition) by Voltaire Pdf

Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations, and warnings. The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams’s superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · A full introduction by Nicholas Cronk. · Six background studies of Enlightenment ideas and themes (by Richard Holmes, Adam Gopnik, W. H. Barber, Dennis Fletcher, Haydn Mason, and Nicholas Cronk), five of these new to the Third Edition. · Seven critical essays—five of them new to this edition—representing a wide range of approaches to Candide. Contributors include J. G. Weightman, Robin Howells, James J. Lynch, Philip Stewart, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Starobinski. · A revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

Author : Earl Of Harwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781446490754

Get Book

The New Pocket Kobbé's Opera Book by Earl Of Harwood Pdf

The New Pocket Kobbe's Complete Opera Book is the world's leading reference work on opera, and (in the words of Bernard Levin) 'no single-volume operatic guide can possibly compare with it'. Kobbe is the only book which summaries the libretti of the world's opera, describes their music and gives a history of their performance within a single volume. But it is a large and relatively expensive book. The new pocket edition, at a price accessible to the huge new audience for opera, has been redesigned and extended, existing entries have been rewritten, and new operas included. The total number of works covered is now over 200, including important new works like John Adams Nixon in China, Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain and Thomas Ades's Powder Her Face, and a number of half-forgotten works that are now undergoing revival. Unlike the previous edition, it is now simply arranged, alphabetically by composer. Lord Harewood's strongly individual commentaries, together with his unparalleled knowledge of and enthusiasm for opera, make the New Pocket Kobbe a book no opera-goer can afford to be without.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Candide (憨第德) by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015070679546

Get Book

Bernstein on Broadway by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

(P/V/G Composer Collection). 30 songs from Leonard Bernstein's revered Broadway shows, including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan , and more, with plot notes, insightful facts, quotes from Bernstein and a bio. Includes a foreword by conductor John Mauceri, and the hits: America * I Feel Pretty * Lonely Town * Maria * New York, New York * Ohio * One Hand, One Heart * Somewhere * Tonight * and more.

Author : Grace Hamlin
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0141001526

Get Book

The Penguin Classic Baby Name Book by Grace Hamlin Pdf

Presents alphabetical listings of over two thousand names for boys and girls found in works of classic literature, each with information on origin and meaning, variations, and literary namesakes.

Author : Katsumi Fukasawa,Benjamin J. Kaplan,Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351722162

Get Book

Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World by Katsumi Fukasawa,Benjamin J. Kaplan,Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire Pdf

The religious histories of Christian and Muslim countries in Europe and Western Asia are often treated in isolation from one another. This can lead to a limited and simplistic understanding of the international and interreligious interactions currently taking place. This edited collection brings these national and religious narratives into conversation with each other, helping readers to formulate a more sophisticated comprehension of the social and cultural factors involved in the tolerance and intolerance that has taken place in these areas, and continues today. Part One of this volume examines the history of relations between people of different Christian confessions in western and central Europe. Part Two then looks at the relations between Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the vast area that extends around the Mediterranean from the Iberian Peninsula to western Asia. Each Part ends with a Conclusion that considers the wider implications of the preceding essays and points the way toward future research. Bringing together scholars from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America this volume embodies an international collaboration of unusual range. Its comparative approach will be of interest to scholars of Religion and History, particularly those with an emphasis on interreligious relations and religious tolerance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0030387566

Get Book

Elements of Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Joe Johnson
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1883479428

Get Book

Once There Were Two True Friends, Or, Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment by Edward Joe Johnson Pdf

Author : Benjamin Marschke,Daniel Riches,Sara Smart,Alexander Schunka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805394891

Get Book

Religious Plurality at Princely Courts by Benjamin Marschke,Daniel Riches,Sara Smart,Alexander Schunka Pdf

Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion where ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the official confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessionalization paradigm commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely Courts explores the reverberations of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at courts on dynastic, symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels addressing a significant neglected understanding of interreligious dialogue, religious change, and confessional blending. Incorporating perspectives across European studies such as domestic and international politics, dynastic strategies, the history of ideas, women’s and gender history, and material culture, the contributions to this volume highlight the intersections of religious plurality at court.