On Virginity ; Against Remarriage

On Virginity ; Against Remarriage
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This is an English translation of these treatises. The work is also introduced by Elizabeth Clark, who sets forth the context of the treatises and makes an extended comparison between John's teaching and that of Paul in 1 Corinthians.

Satirae

Satirae
Author: Juvenal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1882
Genre:
ISBN:

The Cult of Elizabeth

The Cult of Elizabeth
Author: Roy C. Strong
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520058408

No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.