The Plow, the Pen and the Sword
Title | The Plow, the Pen and the Sword PDF eBook |
Author | Rudi Künzel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2017-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317079663 |
This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social groups looked at themselves as a group, and how they looked at the other groups. Image and self-image could differ radically. The results of this research are specified and tested in four case studies on the interaction between group cultures, focusing respectively on the influence of oral and written traditions on a literary work, rituals as a means of conflict management in weakly centralized societies, stories as an expression of an urban group mentality, and beliefs on death and the afterlife.
Poetical Pen-pictures of the War
Title | Poetical Pen-pictures of the War PDF eBook |
Author | John Henry Hayward |
Publisher | Gale Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | American poetry |
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Modern Missions on the Spanish Main
Title | Modern Missions on the Spanish Main PDF eBook |
Author | William Reginald Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 410 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Missions |
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Fountain of Light
Title | Fountain of Light PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 842 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | |
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White Magic
Title | White Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Lothar Müller |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-02-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0745681859 |
Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nineteenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul Valéry. Müller writes not only about books, however: he also writes about pamphlets, playing cards, papercutting and legal pads. We think we understand the ?Gutenberg era?, but we can understand it better when we explore the world that underpinned it: the paper age. Today, with the proliferation of digital devices, paper may seem to be a residue of the past, but Müller shows that the humble technology of paper is in many ways the most fundamental medium of the modern world.
Poetry and Prophecy
Title | Poetry and Prophecy PDF eBook |
Author | Reʼuven Shoham |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789004127395 |
This book contributes to the study of a major trend in Modern Hebrew literature, the prophetic mode and the image of the poet as a prophet-hero and artist, following the Romantic and the Symbolist movements in Europe and unique Jewish history in ancient and modern times.
Vertical Farming
Title | Vertical Farming PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 556 |
Release | 1915 |
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