The Short Chronicle

Author : Jeanne de Jussie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226417073

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The Short Chronicle by Jeanne de Jussie Pdf

Jeanne de Jussie (1503–61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent—devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women’s roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares’ faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns’ arduous journey by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy. First published in French in 1611, Jussie’s Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.

Author : Jeanne de Jussie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226417069

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The Short Chronicle by Jeanne de Jussie Pdf

Jeanne de Jussie (1503–61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent—devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women’s roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares’ faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns’ arduous journey by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy. First published in French in 1611, Jussie’s Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.

Author : William Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Syriac literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858007553369

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A Short History of Syriac Literature by William Wright Pdf

Author : James P. Carley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0859915727

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Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition by James P. Carley Pdf

The essays in this volume, some reprinted in their original form and some extensively revised, are concerned with the Arthurian traditions associated with Glastonbury Abbey. Certain of the essays are analytic and others provide editions of hitherto unknown texts. They all examine ways in which legendary materials and historical facts interconnected in the process by which Glastonbury Abbey came to present itself, nationally and internationally, as the custodian of King Arthur's relics and the burial place of Joseph of Arimathea, and the importance, political and ecclesiastical, that it derived from the connection. Professor JAMES CARLEY is the author of Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous and a past editor of Arthurian Literature. Topics: Glastonbury Legends (WATKIN, GRANSDEN), Legend of St Joseph of Glastonbury (LAGORIO), Guinevere at Glastonbury (WOOD), Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (BARBER, LAPIDGE), Was Mordred buried at Glastonbury? (BARBER), Glastonbury in Welsh Vernacular Tradition (LLOYD-MORGAN), Second Exhumation of Arthur's Remains, 1278 (PARSONS), Abbey Memorial Plate (GOODALL), Arthur's Epitaph/s (CARLEY, BROWN, WRIGHT, WITHRINGTON), Hardyng and Holy Grail (KENNEDY, RIDDY), Henry V and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones, Holy Cross of Waltham at Montacute, Excavation of Arthur's Grave (CARLEY), Perlesvaus (Wells fragment), Quedam Narracio de nobili rege Arthuro, De Origine Gigantum (CARLEY, CRICK, EVANS), Glastonbury tablets (KROCHALIS), Relics in 14th Century (CARLEY, HOWLEY).

Author : Nasir al-Ka'bi,Naṣīr ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Kaʻbī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Iran
ISBN : 1463205635

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A Short Chronicle on the End of the Sasanian Empire and Early Islam 590-660 A.D. by Nasir al-Ka'bi,Naṣīr ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Kaʻbī Pdf

The Short Chronicle is an eyewitness report on the demise of the Sasanian and Byzantines Empires and the beginning of the Islamic period. It uses official Sasanian sources and Syriac church documents and mentions for the first time new Arab cities, including Mosul, Kufa, and Baosra.

Author : John Richard Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2F33

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A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green Pdf

A Short History of the English People is a book written by English historian John Richard Green. Originally published in 1874, "it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People." Green began work on the book in 1869, having been given only six months to live after being hit hard by disease that had plagued him throughout his life. Only having around 800 pages to write on, he had to leave out much of what he wanted to include. Green intentionally left out the battles of England feeling they did not play a big role in the formation of the nation, saying that historians "too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow men." His new ideas, and omission of information that others felt important, meant Green was criticized by other historians as well as the people close to him. Others thought highly of the book, including Francis Adams, who used quotations from the book in his poem 'The Peasants' Revolt'.--Wikipedia (accessed 28 October 2022).

Author : Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00129414

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A Short History of the English People by Green Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : English essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126935316

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Garlick
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781039125759

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The Principal Chronicles by David Garlick Pdf

The Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man’s life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction—or, to be precise, of semi-autobiographical, pseudo-non-fictional memoir—have been refined by many years of telling and re-telling to David Garlick’s friends, family and, especially, to fellow educators. Some stories, such as “You’ve Got to Eat a Pound of Dirt Before You Die” depict childhood and teenage hijinks. Others, such as “Elvis Presley and My Second Teaching Report,” deal with Garlick’s years in the classroom. Many stories, bearing such salient titles as “I Hate High School Swimming Pools” and “Sometimes—in Fact, Almost Always—They Grow Up,” detail his years as a high school vice-principal and principal. Garlick spins lively, engaging tales about the funny situations in which he has so often found himself, from his earliest years all the way to retirement and beyond. By turns candid, poignant, insightful, and surprising, and always gently humorous, these stories invite readers to laugh about humanity’s quirks and appreciate the many large and small ways that people show each other kindness every day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488519

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The Medieval Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

In the summer of 1996 the first international conference was held on the medieval chronicle, a genre which until then had received but scant attention from historians or specialists in literary history or art history. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an international conference. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. It is the aim of the present volume to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004857830

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Celtic Scotland by William Forbes Skene Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678192

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

Author : Alexander Mallett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004690127

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Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades by Alexander Mallett Pdf

Building upon previous volumes by the same editor, this book contains studies of nine of the most important writers of Arabic-language textual sources for the Crusades and the Frankish presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the period 1097-1291.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10741577

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The numismatic chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Malcolm Vale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350145634

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A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe by Malcolm Vale Pdf

The concept of a 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture North of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic definitions of the European 'Renaissance' during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries have seen it as what was in effect an Italian import into the Gothic North. Yet there were certainly differences, divergences and dichotomies between North and South which have to be addressed. Here, Malcolm Vale argues for a Northern Renaissance which, while cognisant of Italian developments, displayed strong continuities with the indigenous cultures of northern Europe. But it also contributed novelties and innovations which often tended to stem from, and build upon, those continuities. A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe – while in no way ignoring or diminishing the importance of the Hellenic and Roman legacy – seeks other sources, and different uses of classical antiquity, for a rather different kind of 'Renaissance', if such it was, in the North.