Relics and Rituals 2
Author | : White Wolf Games Studio |
Publisher | : White Wolf Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : Dungeons and Dragons (Game) |
ISBN | : 9781588461827 |
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Author | : White Wolf Games Studio |
Publisher | : White Wolf Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : Dungeons and Dragons (Game) |
ISBN | : 9781588461827 |
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Author | : Sword & Sorcery Studio |
Publisher | : White Wolf Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781588461599 |
Using the same D20 game system as the 3rd Edition fantasy roleplaying rules, sword & sorcery books provide fantasy gamers with a host of new core rulebooks, campaign sourcebooks, challenging adventures and game accessories. Sword & sorcery is the largest independent publisher of D20 material, with authors such as the father of fantasy himself Gary Gygax, and Monte cook, the co-creator of 3rd Edition and author of the 3rd Edition DMG. Sword & Sorcery Studio's most popular and critically acclaimed core rulebook to date. Relics & Rituals explores a host of campaign source material valuable to players and DM's alike. With seven new prestige classes; hundreds of new spells for bards, clerics, druids, paladins, rangers, sorcerers and wizards; over a hundred new magic items from minor trinkets to major artifacts; new rules and spells for powerful ritual magic; and new rules for magical tattoos, this volume offers you a wealth of excellent campaign material. Gary Gygax himself says '"this work is one you can't pass up."
Author | : Brannon Wheeler |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226888045 |
Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.
Author | : Cynthia Jean Hahn |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271050780 |
"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Sword & Sorcery Studio |
Publisher | : White Wolf Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2000-10-30 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781565044876 |
"Over 200 new monsters for 3rd edition rules from the horrible Wrack Dragons to the intoxicating Brewer Gnomes, from the colossal Mithril Golem to the tiny Bottle Imp, here is a host of new creatures for use in your 3rd edition campaign"--Cover. P. [4]
Author | : Leanne Shapton |
Publisher | : Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2009-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429958618 |
A love story told in the form of an auction catalog. Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person -- their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In Leanne Shapton's marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the couple's personal effects -- the usual auction items (jewelry, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks) -- the story of a failed love affair vividly (and cleverly) emerges. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate. In an earlier work, Was She Pretty?, Shapton, a talented artist and illustrator, subtly explored the seemingly simple yet powerfully complicated nature of sexual jealousy. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris—a very different yet equally original book—she invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.
Author | : Charles Freeman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300166591 |
Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman takes readers on a vivid, fast-paced journey from Constantinople to the northern Isles of Scotland over the course of a millennium.In "Holy Bones, Holy Dust," Freeman illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary people across a darkened Europe under threat of political upheavals, disease, and hellfire. But relics were not only venerated--they were traded, collected, lost, stolen, duplicated, and destroyed. They were bargaining chips, good business and good propaganda, politically appropriated across Europe, and even used to wield military power. Freeman examines an expansive array of relics, showing how the mania for these objects deepens our understanding of the medieval world and why these relics continue to capture our imagination.
Author | : John S. Strong |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691188114 |
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, declared such practices to be superstitious and fraudulent, and far from the true essence of Buddhism. John Strong's book, by contrast, argues that relic veneration has played a serious and integral role in Buddhist traditions in South and Southeast Asia-and that it is in no way foreign to Buddhism. The book is structured around the life story of the Buddha, starting with traditions about relics of previous buddhas and relics from the past lives of the Buddha Sakyamuni. It then considers the death of the Buddha, the collection of his bodily relics after his cremation, and stories of their spread to different parts of Asia. The book ends with a consideration of the legend of the future parinirvana (extinction) of the relics prior to the advent of the next Buddha, Maitreya. Throughout, the author does not hesitate to explore the many versions of these legends and to relate them to their ritual, doctrinal, artistic, and social contexts.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004390502 |
The Shroud at the Court analyses the ties between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, when rituals, ceremonies, and images made the relic an essential source of legitimacy and propaganda for the Savoy dynasty.
Author | : David Germano |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791484408 |
Embodying the Dharma explores the centrality of relic veneration in Asian Buddhist cultures. Long disregarded by Western scholars as a superstitious practice reflecting the popularization of "original" Buddhism, relic veneration has emerged as a topic of vital interest in the last two decades with the increased attention to Buddhist ritual practice and material culture. This volume includes studies of relic traditions in India, Japan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, as well as broader comparative analyses, including comparisons of Buddhist and Christian relic veneration.