Golden Ages

Author : Eleanor Janega
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785785924

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The Middle Ages by Eleanor Janega Pdf

A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other' - women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics. Join historian Eleanor Janega and illustrator Neil Max Emmanuel on a romp across continents and kingdoms as we discover the Middle Ages to be a time of huge change, inquiry and development - not unlike our own.

Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429915601

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The Golden Age by John C. Wright Pdf

The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new writer in the genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jay O'Brien,William Roseberry
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520327443

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Golden Ages, Dark Ages by Jay O'Brien,William Roseberry Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author : Christopher Star
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421441634

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Apocalypse and Golden Age by Christopher Star Pdf

"This book investigates the various ways that ancient Greek and Roman authors envisioned the end of the world and the role they gave to global catastrophes, both past and future, in shaping human history"--

Author : Dagomar Degroot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108419314

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The Frigid Golden Age by Dagomar Degroot Pdf

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

Author : Alf J. Mapp
Publisher : Madison Books
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461735984

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Three Golden Ages by Alf J. Mapp Pdf

In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?

Author : Elizabeth Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Golden age (Mythology)
ISBN : 1443889067

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The Golden Age by Elizabeth Rogers Pdf

This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term The Golden Age. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term Golden Age typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, as many nostalgic sentiments are not idealised, and may indeed be dark, ironic or self-aware. There are, of course, many other ways to characterise the relationship between the Golden Age and nostalgia, and the tension between the two can produce myths and romantic idylls, or, in religious terms, images of pre-lapsarian innocence, or dogmas relating to values associated with childhood. The Golden Age is also often used to refer to specific, respected periods of cultural production in all kinds of literature and visual media. Indeed, nearly every period, genre, nation, and cultural form has some kind of mythic, often illusory, Golden Age against which it is defined, and in which nostalgia often plays a part. This collection interrogates the notion of the Golden Age and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image. It will interest scholars working on the subject of the Golden Age/nostalgia, particularly in English literature, film studies, comics studies, history, and the fine arts.

Author : Kenneth Grahame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame Pdf

Author : Meredith E. Safran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474440868

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Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith E. Safran Pdf

Analyses of Rancière's philosophy and its potential for understanding the conversation between contemporary politics and art cinema.

Author : Amelia Gere Mason
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387303193

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Woman In The Golden Ages by Amelia Gere Mason Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Charles D. Benn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195176650

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China's Golden Age by Charles D. Benn Pdf

In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.

Author : Lene Bøgh Rønberg,Kasper Monrad,Ragni Linnet,Marie Baarspul,W. Th Kloek,Nanna Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Painting, Danish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113018100

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Two Golden Ages by Lene Bøgh Rønberg,Kasper Monrad,Ragni Linnet,Marie Baarspul,W. Th Kloek,Nanna Larsen Pdf

Author : Clare O'Halloran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000092776396

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Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations by Clare O'Halloran Pdf

This analysis of Irish antiquarian writings and activities in the late 18th century shows the extent to which views of the pre-colonial Irish past were shaped by contemporary political debates, particularly the Catholic Question, but also the debate as to the relative civility or barbarity of the native Irish.

Author : Joshua Noble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695840

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Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35 by Joshua Noble Pdf

Joshua Noble focuses on the rapid appearance and disappearance in Acts 2 and 4 of the motif that early believers hold all their property in common, and argues that these descriptions function as allusions to the Golden Age myth. Noble suggests Luke's claims that the believers “had all things in common” and that “no one claimed private ownership of any possessions”-a motif that does not appear in any biblical source- rather calls to mind Greek and Roman traditions that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions, when “no one ... possessed any private property, but all things were common.” By analyzing sources from Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian traditions, and reading Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35 as Golden Age allusions, Noble illustrates how Luke's use of the motif of common property is significant for understanding his attitude toward the Roman Empire. Noble suggests that Luke's appeal to this myth accomplishes two things: it characterizes the coming of the Spirit as marking the beginning of a new age, the start of a “universal restoration” that will find its completion at the Second Coming of Christ; and it creates a contrast between Christ, who has actually brought about this restoration, and the emperors of Rome, who were serially credited with inaugurating a new Golden Age.

Author : Asko Nivala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351797276

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The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History by Asko Nivala Pdf

The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Romantic idea of Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of Friedrich Schlegel’s works. Interestingly, Schlegel argued that the concept of a past Golden Age in the beginning of history was itself a product of antiquity, imagined without any historical ground. The Golden Age was not bygone for Schlegel, but to be produced in the future. His utopian vision of the Kingdom of God was related to the millenarian expectations of perpetual peace aroused by the revolutionary wars. Schlegel understood current era through the kairos concept, which emphasized the present possibilities for public agency. Thus history could not be reduced to any kind of pre-established pattern of redemption, for the future was determined only by the opportunities manifested in the present time.