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| Author | : Heinrich Fichtenau |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780271043746 |
The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.
| Author | : Jean-Louis Cazaux |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2017-10-17 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0786494271 |
With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world. The evolution of strategic board games, especially in India, China and Japan, is discussed in detail. Many more recent chess variants (board sizes, new pieces, 3-D, etc.) are fully covered. Instructions for play are provided, with historical context, for every game presented.
| Author | : Jean D'Ormesson |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2016-05-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 159017965X |
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
| Author | : Alice Isabella Sullivan |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9004538461 |
This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.
| Author | : Jean-Claude Pecker |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 606 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3662044412 |
The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. Richly illustrated, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period and then on to the golden age of astronomy, that of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Finally, Pecker concludes with modern theories of cosmology. Written with astronomy undergraduates in mind, this is a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.
| Author | : Abdus Salam |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9789971509460 |
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| Author | : DK |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2016-10-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0744034647 |
From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth. Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today. With stunning visual timelines and special CGI reconstructions, you can see history's greatest events. Look back to our origins in the stars, explore everything from the birth of the Sun to modern technology, and see what the future holds for humans. Weaving together multiple disciplines including physics and sociology, and with a foreword by TED speaker Professor David Christian, Big History is a truly unique look at the history of the world.
| Author | : Raymond Irwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2021-12-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000511340 |
Originally published in 1966, this book studied the background against which libraries in England have developed since classical times and the part they played in the formation of 20th Century bibliographic culture and bibliomania. Part 1 discusses the power of the written book in antiquity and follows the story from Greek and Roman times to Roman Britain and through Saxon and Medieval England to the Reformation. Part 2 traces the history of the Englishman’s study and his domestic library from its beginning to Victorian days and reveals how intimately it is related to our literature and culture. The spread of the art of reading in the 15th Century and its expansion among people of all classes in the 18th and 19th centuries are discussed in detail.
| Author | : Daniel Abdal Moore |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2010-12-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0578071452 |
In all the poems of a poet's work there's the impulse to get to the bottom of things, to the original energy pulse, the first cause as it manifests in the present tense, the spark off the main strike. As always, the title came to me first, and the poems followed, some faithful some astray from the theme, but always rebounding back again to resonate with that original strike, in these scattered sparks.
| Author | : Hrh Prince Michael of Albany |
| Publisher | : Weiser Books |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2006-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781578633463 |
For the first time ever, a source from within reveals the shocking truth that the roots of the Knights Templar, and thus those of Freemasonry, were actually more deeply linked to Islam than to Christianity. The Knights Templar of the Middle East breaks new ground in this well-tilled sphere and is guaranteed to stir more fires of controversy than any other book to date on Freemasonry and Templars. Prince Michael writes with sterling scholarship, making full use of his access to libraries of the secret orders of which he is a member. The book delves deep to examine the true roots of this worldwide society, revealing both historical events from Europe to the Middle East and the author's own deeply personal, perilous journey to research and expose this hidden history. Going against the accepted history of the Freemason society as evolved from a remnant of Knights Templar who settled in Scotland, The Knights Templar of the Middle East takes readers much farther back to the true historical biblical land, based in Western Arabia rather than Palestine. The true secret of the Inner Circle of the Order of the Templars was such that, had they revealed it, the knowledge would have rocked the cradle of Christian and Judaic beliefs.
