Hour Of Reckoning
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Author | : Victoria Shorr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 132400147X |
Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but Midnight finds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. Joan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved—and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.
Author | : Beda (Venerabilis.) |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0853236933 |
From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.
Author | : Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1996-06-15 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780226155104 |
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Author | : Tage Lindbom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
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Author | : George Edward Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Chemical engineering |
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Author | : Amanda Lee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101544007 |
Cupid's arrow is making its way to Tallulah Falls, Oregon, bringing lots of business to Marcy Singer's embroidery specialty shop-like the bride who wants her mother's dress embellished with jewels. But someone wants to squash all the romance-and in this case they'll go as far as murder...
Author | : Paul Glennie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2009-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199278202 |
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004436251 |
Time in the Eternal City is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome.
Author | : Charles Ozanne |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467003611 |
In this work the whole panorama of Bible Chronology has been subjected to close examination from the creation of Adam to the end of Acts. The aim has been to open up that system of dating which commends itself as most probably correct from the biblical perspective. Having done that he has looked for ways to harmonise the resultant scheme with the contradictory dates derived from the Assyrian Eponym Canon, and would like to think that he has succeeded in some measure in explaining how the discrepancies arose.
Author | : New Zealand. Department of Labour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Arbitration and award |
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