Heroism And Genius

Author : William J Slattery
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681497884

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Heroism and Genius by William J Slattery Pdf

"Every chancellery in Europe, every court in Europe, was ruled by these learned, trained and accomplished men the priesthood of that great and dominant body." — President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom With stubborn facts historians have given their verdict: from the cultures of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Germanic peoples, the Catholic Church built a new and original civilization, embodying within its structures the Christian vision of God and man, time and eternity. The construction and maintenance of Western civilization, amid attrition and cultural earthquakes, is a saga spread over sixteen hundred years. During this period, Catholic priests, because they numbered so many men of heroism and genius in their ranks, and also due to their leadership positions, became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of Christian culture and sociopolitical order. Heroism and Genius presents some of these formidable men: fathers of chivalry and free-enterprise economics; statesmen and defiers of tyrants; composers, educators, and architects of some of the world's loveliest buildings; and, paradoxically, revolutionary defenders of romantic love.

Author : William J. Slattery, Ph.D., S.T.L.,
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621640141

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Heroism and Genius by William J. Slattery, Ph.D., S.T.L., Pdf

"Every chancellery in Europe, every court in Europe, was ruled by these learned, trained and accomplished men the priesthood of that great and dominant body." — President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom With stubborn facts historians have given their verdict: from the cultures of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Germanic peoples, the Catholic Church built a new and original civilization, embodying within its structures the Christian vision of God and man, time and eternity. The construction and maintenance of Western civilization, amid attrition and cultural earthquakes, is a saga spread over sixteen hundred years. During this period, Catholic priests, because they numbered so many men of heroism and genius in their ranks, and also due to their leadership positions, became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of Christian culture and sociopolitical order. Heroism and Genius presents some of these formidable men: fathers of chivalry and free-enterprise economics; statesmen and defiers of tyrants; composers, educators, and architects of some of the world's loveliest buildings; and, paradoxically, revolutionary defenders of romantic love.

Author : David Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134309016

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Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine by David Higgins Pdf

In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness of their middle-class readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses. Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that transcended the realms of politics and economics. David Higgins, however, shows in this text that representations of genius played an important role in ideological and commercial conflicts within early nineteenth-century literary culture. Furthermore, Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine bridges the gap between Romantic and Victorian literary history by considering the ways in which Romanticism was understood and sometimes challenged by writers in the 1830s. It not only discusses a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors, but also examines the various structures in which these authors had to operate, making it an interesting and important book for anyone working on Romantic literature.

Author : Chris Keith,Anthony Le Donne
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567499554

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Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity by Chris Keith,Anthony Le Donne Pdf

This volume discusses the new approaches regarding the criteria of authenticity and their relevance in the quest for the historical Jesus studies.

Author : Eva Giloi,Martin Kohlrausch,Heikki Lempa,Heidi Mehrkens,Philipp Nielsen,Kevin Rogan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110574012

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Staging Authority by Eva Giloi,Martin Kohlrausch,Heikki Lempa,Heidi Mehrkens,Philipp Nielsen,Kevin Rogan Pdf

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook’s fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.

Author : Henry Bleby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Methodists
ISBN : OXFORD:590093208

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Female heroism, and tales of the western world by Henry Bleby Pdf

Author : John Jolliffe
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571294787

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Neglected Genius by John Jolliffe Pdf

The journal of Benjamin Haydon was, Max Beerbohm reported to Siegfried Sassoon, the best diary Beerbohm had ever read. Harold Acton declared Haydon 'a more exciting figure than Ruskin.' H.H. Asquith compared him favourably with Rousseau, while Aldous Huxley declared that 'Never was anyone more clearly cut out to be an author.' Today Haydon's portraits and monumental historical paintings hang in almost all Britain's major collections. However in his own time (1786-1846) his reputation was less secure. Although an intimate of Wordsworth and Walter Scott, on friendly terms with lords and politicians, Haydon was also well acquainted with debtor's prison. Still he remained throughout a witty, brilliant diarist, vividly evidenced by this volume, expertly edited by John Jolliffe, which gathers opinions on everything from the Elgin Marbles and Turner's landscapes to Napoleon's digestion and Queen Victoria's complexion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172107976005

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The Millennial Harbinger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Lydia Ward
Publisher : New York : T. Y. Crowell
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Citations anglaises
ISBN : UOM:39015030127719

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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose by Anna Lydia Ward Pdf

Author : Bernard Howells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351199339

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Baudelaire by Bernard Howells Pdf

"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle, Joseph de Maistre, Giuseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chevreul."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:HW29CP

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The Gentleman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015013730653

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Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019606075

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Saturday Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bartholomew Gough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Temperance
ISBN : OXFORD:600013912

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Sunlight and shadow; or, Gleanings from my life-work by John Bartholomew Gough Pdf

Author : Douglas Johnston,W. Michael Reisman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047423935

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The Historical Foundations of World Order by Douglas Johnston,W. Michael Reisman Pdf

In The Historical Foundations of World Order: the Tower and the Arena, Douglas M. Johnston has drawn on a 45 year career as one of the world’s most prolific academics in the development of international law and public policy and 5 years of exhaustive research to produce a comprehensive and highly nuanced examination of the historical precursors, intellectual developments, and philosophical frameworks that have guided the progress of world order through recorded history and across the globe, from pre-classical antiquity to the present day. By illuminating the personalities and identifying the controversies behind the great advancements in international legal thought and weaving this into the context of more conventionally known history, Johnston presents a unique understanding of how peoples and nations have sought regularity, justice and order across the ages. This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from lawyers interested in the historical background of familiar concepts, to curriculum developers for law schools and history faculties, to general interest readers wanting a wider perspective on the history of civilization. Winner 2009 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship