From Noah To Hercules

Author : Brian Forbes
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617394287

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From Noah to Hercules by Brian Forbes Pdf

How far back does history go? What did the inventers of writing say about where people come from? How could anyone believe in the pagan gods? Why do so many cultures have a seven-day week? Does history repeat itself? What could we read to find this stuff out? And what about those gods of Greece? Who thought of them, and what made their beliefs strong enough to spend vast sums to honor them, even across language barriers? What about Noah and his flood? What about Babel? How do they all fit together? In From Noah to Hercules, Brian Forbes answers these questions by investigating various accounts of the origins of mankind. Forbes draws on Scripture, history, and science to argue that many gods and mythical figures from civilizations past were actually historic figures. Forbes goes on to conclude that many mythological stories are historically accurate if you remove some of the more fantastic elements. Forbes offers a fascinating account of early man based on ancient history and mythology. He will change the way you think about our history and our ancestors.

Author : Jed Z. Buchwald,Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154787

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Newton and the Origin of Civilization by Jed Z. Buchwald,Mordechai Feingold Pdf

Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics

Author : Ross Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387711871

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Noah's Ark and the Genesis 10 Patriarchs by Ross Marshall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2600031391

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Etudes rabelaisiennes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812218978

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Isabel the Queen by Peggy K. Liss Pdf

Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this sweeping biography, newly revised and annotated to coincide with the five-hundredth anniversary of Isabel's death, Peggy K. Liss draws upon a rich array of sources to untangle the facts, legends, and fiercely held opinions about this influential queen and her decisive role in the tumultuous politics of early modern Spain. Isabel the Queen reveals a monarch who was a woman of ruthless determination and strong religious beliefs, a devoted wife and mother, and a formidable leader. As Liss shows, Isabel's piety and political ambition motivated her throughout her life, from her earliest struggles to claim her crown to her secret marriage to King Fernando of Aragn, a union that brought success in civil war, consolidated Christian hegemony over the Iberian peninsula, and set the stage for Spain to become a world empire.

Author : Larry Silver
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691245898

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Marketing Maximilian by Larry Silver Pdf

Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority and spread their ideology. Born just decades after Gutenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, Larry Silver argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. Marketing Maximilian explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts to shape his image, achieve what Max Weber calls "the routinization of charisma," strengthen the power of the Hapsburg dynasty, and help establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A fascinating study of the self-fashioning of an early modern ruler who was as much image-maker as emperor, Marketing Maximilian shows why Maximilian remains one of the most remarkable, innovative, and self-aggrandizing royal art patrons in European history. Silver describes how Maximilian--lacking a real capital or court center, the ability to tax, and an easily manageable territory--undertook a vast and expensive visual-media campaign to forward his extravagant claims to imperial rank, noble blood, perfect virtues, and military success. To press these claims, Maximilian patronized and often personally supervised and collaborated with the best printers, craftsmen, and artists of his time (among them no less than Albrecht Dürer) to plan and produce illustrated books, medals, heralds, armor, and an ambitious tomb monument.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555038482

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The Monthly review. New and improved ser by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJGAW

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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082491204

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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged by Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths Pdf

Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.

Author : Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79231471

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Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal by Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths Pdf

Author : Chris Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350105027

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Blockbusters and the Ancient World by Chris Davies Pdf

Following the release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of the 1950s-60s, including Ben-Hur, Spartacus and The Robe, this original study explores the current cycle of ancient world epics in cinema within the social and political climate created by September 11th 2001. Examining films produced against the backdrop of the War on Terror and subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, this book assesses the relationship between mainstream cinema and American society through depictions of the ancient world, conflict and faith. Davies explores how these films evoke depictions of the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the Western in portraying warfare in the ancient world, as well as discussing the influence of genre hybridisation, narration and reception theory. He questions the extent to which ancient world epics utilise allegory, analogy and allusion to parallel past and present in an industry often dictated by market forces. Featuring analysis of Alexander, Troy, 300, Centurion, The Eagle, The Passion of the Christ and more, this book offers new insight on the continued evolution of the ancient world epic in cinema.

Author : Steven Nightingale
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781619025066

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Granada by Steven Nightingale Pdf

Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain's greatest lyric poet. Perhaps most importantly, Andalusia is home to the city of Granada, where a hybrid culture composed of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and its surrounding countryside, finding there a lavish story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, and finally anguish. Part of that region in southern Spain named by its Islamic rulers "Al–Andalus," medieval Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry in several languages, the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, the birth of algebra, and the construction of architectural masterpieces such as the Alhambra and the Generalife. Yet with Ferdinand and Isabella's sack of Granada in 1492, regarded as the culmination of the Reconquista, which sought to reclaim Spain for the Vatican, a Catholic mythology of Spain began to erode Granada's centuries–old reputation as an artistically vital haven for multiple ethnic and religious groups. Linking the disastrous afterlife of the Reconquista to the Catholic nationalism of the Franco regime—whose execution of Granadan poet Federico Garcia Lorca symbolizes the suppression of Andalusia's cultural heritage—Nightingale demonstrates the extent to which this Catholic triumphalism also obscured the source of much cultural wealth bequeathed by Al–Andalus to Christian Europe. Nightingale's own account of the region's medieval zenith recovers the intellectual pageantry and aesthetic splendor of this astounding period in Western history and the marvelous city that was its cultural center.

Author : Anthony Adolph
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781783376490

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Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors by Anthony Adolph Pdf

Do you believe you are descended from the aristocracy, or even from royalty? Or do you have a line of descent from a blue-blooded family, but want to know more? How far back do noble and royal lines go? How do coats of arms work, and how can heraldic records tell you more? How can genetics help you find your aristocratic origins?In Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors leading British genealogist, Anthony Adolph explains how to decode family stories, to find the truth and prove your descent from blue-blooded forebears. His book shows you how to expand your aristocratic pedigree sideways and backwards, incorporating heraldic records and printed pedigrees such as those in Burkes Peerage. In a series of concise, fact-filled chapters he explains how to find out about and prove aristocratic ancestry, defines who is blue-blooded, and describes all the sources that researchers can use to explore this fascinating subject. Under Adolphs guidance, you will travel back into the distant past, using cutting-edge DNA technology and arcane genealogies, back to the evolution of the human race, and the point where real ancestors fade into mythical ones Adam and Eve, the heroes of old and, ultimately, the very gods themselves.

Author : Walter Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Folklore in literature
ISBN : IND:39000006122605

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Giants in Those Days by Walter Stephens Pdf

"'Traditional' (i.e. medieval) gigantology, both scholarly and - to the extent that it existed - popular, was rooted in biblical and classical texts, and portrayed giants as depraved, evil, and godless: very different from what we see in Rabelais. Dante developed them as denizens of Hell. Giants were primarily antediluvian, and were generally understood as a race distinct from (or debased from) humanity. Key biblical giants included the nephilim (offspring of the 'sons of God and daughters of men' in Genesis 6) and the anakim (indigenous opposition to the settlement of Canaan in Numbers and Deuteronomy).

Author : Charla Jean Morris
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781463436445

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From the First Rising Sun by Charla Jean Morris Pdf

While in medical school (which I did not have the privilege of completing), once a week we had a small group discussion class called Focus On Problems. Each group had a leader, a member of the medical school staff or someone closely associated with the school, usually an MD or Ph.D. Our group leader was Dean of the Medical School, H. David Wilson, MD. One class period focused on working with patients of different ethnic backgrounds. Dr. Wilson asked me what were some of the traditions of my tribe in regard to medicine that would be helpful for a doctor to know. My reply was that I had been raised like a white, that I had grown up learning about various herbal and natural remedies, but that I knew nothing about the specific medical traditions, ceremonial or secular, of my people.I had always longed to know of the traditions of my people before that, but circumstances of my family history had not allowed it. That question in the Focus On Problems class caused that longing to intensify into a sharp pang of longing that would not be satisfied until many years later. While in the first two years of medical school as a nontraditional student, I was in an environment that encouraged the development of the knowledge of Native American traditions. We had Native American speakers that came and elaborated on Native American traditions. One area that was lacking was tribal histories, but what academics label prehistory. I commented to her that when white man came, they did all they could to destroy our social and religious fabric, so the old traditions were not passed down to most of the remaining members of the tribes. Now we know nothing of our old history. There is nothing left. The white side of my family history is easy to know, but not my Cherokee and Choctaw side. She replied by saying that, yes, many of our peoples have lost their old traditions, and it is sad.