In The Convent A Frances Yates Mystery

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647023485

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In the Convent: A Frances Yates Mystery by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

In the Convent: A Frances Yates Mystery By: Marjorie G. Jones In the sequel to In the Cards, Hermetic scholar Dame Francis Yates is invited by a former student Juan Carlos Ortiz to Mexico City with the intent to speak in the convent of seventeenth century feminist nun, Sor Juana de la Cruz. When a murder occurs in the convent, her fascination with Mexico’s food, spiritual significance, and margaritas quickly shifts to the boldly feminist nuns. She wonders whether the forces of the Inquisition could still be alive in modern-day Mexico.

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639373055

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In the Château by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

In the Château: A Frances Yates Mystery By: Marjorie G. Jones “Quirky, erudite and witty, In the Chateau follows the dastardly – and sometimes sexy – doings of professional plagiarists in the shadow of a fascinating feminist conference examining women’s spirituality in centuries gone by. Marjorie Jones here offers a stimulating ode to Quebec City and French Canada and provides an atmospheric narrative as rich and delicious as a serving of Québec’s famous poutine.” - Stephen O’Shea, author The Perfect Heresy “London, Mexico City, Philadelphia, and now in Québec City – with In the Chateau we renew our acquaintance with the indomitable Dame Frances Yates and her cadre of fellow amateur detectives. And again we encounter a love of books, historical and feminist religious insights, architectural wonders, mouth-watering food, and last but not least: murder most foul. This book, as are the others in the series, is a delight for armchair travelers with a penchant for the darker side of academia. PS: Graduate students beware of the perils of plagiarism.” - Maria Enrico, BMCC / City University of New York When renowned British historian Dame Frances Yates is invited to deliver a talk regarding the Hermetic Tradition at a conference of women religious of the Americas at the historic Ursuline Convent in Québec, she uncovers a ring of plagiarists thriving in the local institutions of higher learning. Once again, during her visit, Dame Frances savors culinary delights and admires historic sites, illustrating the complex history of Canada.

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649137883

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In the Meeting by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

In the Meeting: A Frances Yates Mystery By: Marjorie G. Jones “In real life Dame Frances, at first glance, might strike an acquaintance as a lookalike for Miss Marple and Margaret Rutherford. Possessed of similar skills, here plied in the old world confines of Philadelphia, Dame Frances must delve into an unlikely criminal nest implanted amid Quakers, Unitarians and a motley crew of seekers and the dispossessed. Not surprisingly, her sleuthing more than excels at the task.” Margaret Jacob “Marjorie Jones’ latest Frances Yates’ mystery “In the Meeting,” transports the reader into Philadelphia’s world of special collection libraries and religious institutions. Unbeknownst to Frances, her visit to Philadelphia set in motion a series of events resulting a murder and large scale theft. As Frances and her hosts tour the city, the reader is introduced to talented women who make these places function and a group of women religious challenging long held ideas about women’s place in organized religion. The unfolding of this mystery holds the reader’s attention to the last page.” Cynthia Little, Philadelphia Invited to speak at the esteemed Athenaeum in Philadelphia, renowned British scholar Dame Frances Yates intends to explore the shared spiritual ideals of the Hermetic and Quaker traditions. But along the way, while savoring the attractions of historic Philadelphia, she encounters murder In the Meeting and uncovers a ring of thieves plundering books and treasures from libraries and houses of worship throughout the city.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421425559

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Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan J. Wolfson Pdf

Haunting’s consequences for the literary imagination. Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading. Framed by an introductory chapter on writing and apparition and an afterword on haunted reading, the book includes chapters of sustained, revelatory close attention to the particular, often peculiar, literary imaginations of William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. B. Yeats, and John Keats. Wolfson also explores the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a self-confessed Ghost-Theorist), Mary Shelley, and other writers of the Long Romantic era, canonical as well as less familiar. All are encountered in freshly pointed ways on an arc of investigation that builds with generative force. Romantic Shades and Shadows is written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to general readers, and with a critical sophistication and scholarly expertise that will engage advanced students, critics, and professional peers.

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812215575

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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Karma Lochrie Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780892545667

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Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

This is the first full-length biography of British historian Frances Yates, author of such acclaimed works as Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition and The Art of Memory, one of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Jones’s book explores Yates’ remarkable life and career and her interest in the mysterious figure of Giordano Bruno and the influence of the Hermetic tradition on the culture of the Renaissance. Her revolutionary way of viewing history, literature, art, and the theater as integral parts of the cultural picture of the time period did much to shape modern interdisciplinary approaches to history and literary criticism. Jones focuses not only on the particulars of Yates’ life, but also sheds light on the tradition of female historians of her time and their contributions to Renaissance scholarship. In addition to her insightful commentary on Yates’ academic work, Jones quotes from Frances’ diaries and the writings of those who were close to her, to shed light on Yates’ private life. This biography is significant for those with an interest in literary criticism, women’s history, scientific history, or the intellectual atmosphere of post-war Britain, as well as those interested in the Hermetic tradition.

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780892546787

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In the Cards by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

In collaboration with a Scotland Yard detective, who is also a Freemason, Frances Yates, eminent historian of Renaissance spirituality and proponent of martyred priest Giordano Bruno, employs her unique scholarship to solve a murder and the theft of a rare volume in the renowned musty library of ancient philosophical traditions, where she has long been a resident scholar. While immersed in an article regarding the significance of mysterious tarot cards, Yates comes to realize that the recurring images of the cards illustrate universal life stages and character traits that may provide clues to the identity of the murderer. Along the way, she encounters more recent scholarship regarding feminist theology that, together with the tarot, prompts her to reconsider her own patriarchal spiritual worldview.

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804182529

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Culture by Martin Puchner Pdf

Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how contact between different peoples has driven artistic innovation in every era - whilst cultural policing and purism have more often undermined the very societies they tried to protect. Travelling through Classical Greece, Ashoka's India, Tang dynasty China, and many other epochs, this triumphal new history reveals the crossing points which have not only inspired the humanities, but which have made us human.

Author : Frances A Yates
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781448104130

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The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates Pdf

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.

Author : Tara Hamling,Richard Lindsey Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131681335

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Art Re-formed by Tara Hamling,Richard Lindsey Williams Pdf

This text fundamentally reassesses traditional understandings of the impact of the Reformation on the visual arts in Britain. It brings together the work of leading authorities in the fields of art history, Reformation history and literary studies, together with research by younger scholars.

Author : George Augustus Sala,Edmund Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015009224471

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Temple Bar by George Augustus Sala,Edmund Yates Pdf

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466895843

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Giordano Bruno by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the "magic Prague" of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth—and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno's wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. An incisive, independent thinker just when natural philosophy was transformed into modern science, he was also a writer of sublime talent. His eloquence and his courage inspired thinkers across Europe, finding expression in the work of Shakespeare and Galileo. Giordano Bruno allows us to encounter a legendary European figure as if for the first time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1626 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015053237890

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate O'Brien
Publisher : Virago
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349008806

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The Land Of Spices by Kate O'Brien Pdf

Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has, for some time, been experiencing grave doubts about her vocation. But when she meets Anna Murphy, the youngest-ever boarder, the little girl's solemn, poetic nature captivates her and she feels 'a storm break in her hollow heart'. Between them an unspoken allegiance is formed that will sustain each through the years as the Reverend Mother seeks to combat her growing spiritual aridity and as Anna develops the strength to resist the conventional demands of her background.

Author : Edmund Yates,E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw,Walter Sichel,Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081662516

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Time by Edmund Yates,E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw,Walter Sichel,Ernest Belfort Bax Pdf