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Author : Anthony Ryan
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316430791

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The Martyr by Anthony Ryan Pdf

Deadly feuds and ancient secrets spell war in the second novel of The Covenant of Steel, an epic series of action, intrigue, and magic from Anthony Ryan, a master storyteller who has taken the fantasy world by storm. "Ryan again showcases his gift for epic fantasy in his excellent sequel to The Pariah . . . . Ryan's evocative prose enhances the suspenseful, intricate story . . . .This fires on all cylinders." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Times have changed for Alwyn Scribe. Once an outlaw, he’s now a spymaster and sworn protector of Lady Evadine Courlain, whose visions of a demonic apocalypse have earned her the fanatical devotion of the faithful. Yet Evadine’s growing fame has put her at odds with both Crown and Covenant. As trouble brews in the kingdom, both seek to exploit her position for their own ends. Sent to the Duchy of Alundia to put down a rebellion, Alwyn must rely on old instincts to fight for his new cause. Deadly feuds and ancient secrets are laid bare as war erupts, a war that will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Albermaine and, perhaps, prevent the coming of the prophesied Second Scourge. "A gritty, heart-pounding tale of betrayal and bloody vengeance. I loved every single word." — John Gwynne on The Pariah For more from Anthony Ryan, check out: The Covenant of Steel The Pariah The Martyr Raven's Shadow Trilogy Blood Song Tower Lord Queen of Fire Raven's Blade Duology The Wolf's Call The Black Song The Draconis Memoria Trilogy The Waking Fire The Legion of Flame The Empire of Ashes

Author : Elizabeth Anne Castelli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0231129866

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Martyrdom and Memory by Elizabeth Anne Castelli Pdf

Utilising a wide range of early sources, this title identifies the roots of the concept of Christian martyrdom, as lloking at how it has been expressed in events such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

Author : I. D. Gaur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843313489

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Martyr as Bridegroom by I. D. Gaur Pdf

Bhagat Singh, 1907-1931, Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter.

Author : Marvin J. Newell
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802494399

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A Martyr's Grace by Marvin J. Newell Pdf

"Have you grace to be a martyr?" D.L. Moody was once asked. "No," he replied, "I have not. But if God wanted me to be one, he would give me a martyr's grace." They came from around the world. Administrators, teachers, doctors and nurses, church planters and pilots. Regular people in the prime of life. In A Martyr’s Grace, Marvin Newell tells the individual stories of these faithful men and women who made a difference in the places they served. He also describes—in many cases for the very first time—how Jesus called them home. Their legacies live on in the rainforests, villages, churches, and cities where they died. What is it that compels ordinary people to sacrifice their lives in this way? Only Christ. They didn’t go expecting to die. But they went—having already given their lives.

Author : Bryan M. Litfin
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441220073

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Early Christian Martyr Stories by Bryan M. Litfin Pdf

Personal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives are not readily available and are often written in intimidating prose, making them largely inaccessible for the average reader. This introductory text brings together key early Christian martyrdom stories in a single volume, offering new, easy-to-read translations and expert commentary. An introduction and explanatory notes accompany each translation. The book not only provides a vivid window into the world of early Christianity but also offers spiritual encouragement and inspiration for Christian life today.

Author : Richard Charles Coxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : English poetry
ISBN : BL:A0026946495

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Leda Tanah. The Martyr's Child. Derwent Bank by Richard Charles Coxe Pdf

Author : George Whitfield PEPPER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023147721

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Ireland. Liberty springs from her Martyr's Blood. An address ... delivered at Raleigh, North Carolina, December 20th, 1867 by George Whitfield PEPPER Pdf

Author : Christian Di Spigna
Publisher : Crown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553419344

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Founding Martyr by Christian Di Spigna Pdf

A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna’s definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna’s thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation’s dramatic beginnings.

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Saints
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAJLJ

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752557404

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author : Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110682632

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Desiring Martyrs by Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner Pdf

Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.

Author : David B. Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520303461

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Caravan of Martyrs by David B. Edwards Pdf

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the pathology of the "terrorist mind" or the "brainwashing" practices of terrorist organizations. In Caravan of Martyrs, David Edwards argues that we need to understand the rise of suicide bombing in relation to the cultural beliefs and ritual practices associated with sacrifice. Before the war in Afghanistan began, the sacrificial killing of a sheep demonstrated a tribe's desire for peace. After the Soviet invasion of 1979, as thousands of people were killed, sacrifice took on new meanings. The dead were venerated as martyrs, but this informal conferral of status on the casualties of war soon became the foundation for a cult of martyrs exploited by political leaders for their own advantage. This first repurposing of the machinery of sacrifice set in motion a process of mutation that would lead nineteen Arabs who had received their training in Afghanistan to hijack airplanes on September 11 and that would in time transform what began as a cult of martyrs created by a small group of Afghan jihadis into the transnational scattering of suicide bombers that haunts our world today. Drawing on years of research in the region, Edwards traces the transformation of sacrifice using a wide range of sources, including the early poetry of jihad, illustrated martyr magazines, school primers and legal handbooks, martyr hagiographies, videos produced by suicide bombers, the manual of ritual instructions used by the 9/11 hijackers, and Facebook posts through which contemporary "Talifans" promote the virtues of self-destruction.

Author : John N. King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139460699

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Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture by John N. King Pdf

This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English book of its time, it recounted in detail the experiences of hundreds of people who were burned alive for their religious beliefs. John N. King offers the most comprehensive investigation yet of the compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception of the Book of Martyrs. He charts its reception across different editions by learned and unlearned, sympathetic and antagonistic readers. The many illustrations included here introduce readers to the visual features of early printed books and general printing practices both in England and continental Europe, and enhance this important contribution to early modern literary studies, cultural and religious history, and the history of the Book.

Author : Danie Ware,Alec Worley,Phil Kelly
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1800261063

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The Book of Martyrs by Danie Ware,Alec Worley,Phil Kelly Pdf

Fantastic portmanteu featuring the stoic warriors of the Adepta Sororitas. To die in the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind is to live eternal, and none are more willing to bleed in His name than the Adepta Sororitas – the Sisters of Battle. The Book of Martyrs charts the deaths of these exemplars. Sister Ishani of the Orders Hospitaller, serving alongside the death-obsessed Valorous Heart, tends to her Ecclesiarchy charges as something inhuman hunts the fields. Sister Anarchia of the Order of Our Martyred Lady, taken captive by the vile T’au Empire, seeks to teach her interrogators what it truly means to be one of the faithful. On a regressed Imperial world, Sister Superior Laurelyn of the Order of the Bloody Rose reinforces the beleaguered defenders against a familiar foe turned anew by the Great Rift. And in the age of the Indomitus Crusade, with the galaxy split in two, only one thing is certain – there will be no shortage of martyrs to fill the pages of this ancient tome.

Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501711572

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Virgin Martyrs by Karen A. Winstead Pdf

Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot—the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.