The Eleven Thousand

The Eleven Thousand
Author: Marla Fair
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1329451503

James Parkington, Alec McCain, and Mathias Martin are insurgents and secret operatives - their commander, the Marquis de Lafayette. Troubled by the events in The Flowering Thorn, James Parkington undertakes a secret mission to explore the prisons of New York to discover the conditions under which rebel prisoners are held. Things do not go as planned and soon, instead of observing, James is thrust into a secret world where Colonial soldiers are systematically exterminated by cruelty and neglect and the need to survive turns once honest men into monsters. The Eleven Thousand is based on true accounts of the horrifying truth of the British prison ships of New York's Wallabout Bay.

St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne

St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Author: Scott Bradford Montgomery
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783039118526

The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe. The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of corporate cohesion that characterized the cult. Though the primacy of St. Ursula as the leader of this holy band was established by the tenth century, she was conceived as the head of a corporate body. Innumerable inventories and liturgical texts attest to the fact that this cult was commemorated and referenced as a collective mass - Undecim millium virginum. This group identity informed, and was formulated by, the presentation of their relics, as well as much of the imagery associated with this cult. This book explores the visual, textual, performative, and perceptual aspects of this phenomenon, with particular emphasis on painting and sculpture in late medieval Cologne. Examining the ways in which both texts and images worked as vestments, garbing the true core of relics which formed the body of the cult, the book examines the cult from the core outward, seeking to understand hagiographic texts and images in terms of their role in articulating relic cults.

The Eleven Thousand Rods

The Eleven Thousand Rods
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908694165

In Guillaume Apollinaire's THE ELEVEN THOUSAND RODS (Les Onze Mille Verges), debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Published in 1907 after Apollinaire's researches at the Enfer section of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, in which he encountered the suppressed "pornographic” work of such authors as de Sade, Restif de la Bretonne and Andrea de Nerciat, THE ELEVEN THOUSAND RODS is a startling modernist response to those "old masters” of erotica, purposefully expanding and detonating the extremes of obscenity as far as the human imagination will allow. This special centenary edition is the only uncensored version available, in a new modern translation by Alexis Lykiard, complete with introduction and notes.

The Lady in the Watch

The Lady in the Watch
Author: Norm Wilson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2009-06-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1440150915

Dennis Fleetwood appeared in court effectively and frequently. Time and time again the lawyer for the other side was John Eldridge. During a meeting in Johns office Dennis noticed a picture of a woman he thought he recognized. It was Johns mother, a mother whom John never knew. She, strangely, had placed him in a boarding school in Great Britain. Later Dennis discovered that the womans picture was in an antique watch that had been hidden in his briefcase during his flight from Harvard to California. The discovery of that watch, and Dennis naive attempt to use the law to help John Eldridge find his mother, led Dennis down a path that threatened, not only his career, but his life. He was no match for the violent responses that resulted from that guileless attempt to help John.

The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins
Author: Jane Cartwright
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783168684

The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.

The Cloister and the Hearth

The Cloister and the Hearth
Author: Charles Reade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1902
Genre: Europe
ISBN:

Historical novel depicting life in Europe during the 15th century. The interest centers in the love story of Erasmus's parents.