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The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Laura Ackerman Smoller, "The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
English | ISBN: 0801452171 | 2014 | 368 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became the subject of widespread devotion, ranging from the saint's tomb in Brittany to cult centers in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Latin America, where Vincent is still venerated today. Along the way, Smoller traces the long and sometimes contentious process of establishing a stable image of a new saint.

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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367420880 | 393 Pages | PDF (True) | 20 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced. While such operations may be largely invisible to the average reader or viewer, the interface properties of books, screens, and stages profoundly mediate our cognitive engagement with Shakespeare.

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The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Robert Stern, "The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit "
English | ISBN: 0415664462 | 2013 | 276 pages | AZW3 | 880 KB
The Phenomenology of Spirit is arguably Hegel's most influential and important work, and is considered to be essential in understanding Hegel's philosophical system and his contribution to western philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit introduces the major themes in Hegel's great book and aids the reader in understanding this key work, examining:

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The Risk of Water Conflicts in Aotearoa-New Zealand Emergence and Intensification

The Risk of Water Conflicts in Aotearoa-New Zealand Emergence and Intensification
The Risk of Water Conflicts in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Emergence and Intensification by Adan E. Suazo
English | EPUB | 2022 | 135 Pages | ISBN : 3031066596 | 4.8 MB
This book focuses on water disputes in New Zealand: a country where such conflicts are assumed to be non-existing. Rarely are water disputes examined in areas where water resources abound, and where the political framework that governs their access and use is strong.

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The Populism Interviews A Dialogue with Leading Experts

The Populism Interviews A Dialogue with Leading Experts
The Populism Interviews: A Dialogue with Leading Experts
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103216266X | 205 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
Populism is a widely debated topic, and it generates interest across the globe. As a result, a burgeoning literature deals with many aspects of populism and its links to pressing issues such as media freedom, minority rights and separation of powers. To make sense of such a complex subject, this book presents interviews with some of the leading experts on populism at the international level. Through a dialogue with important figures, this book offers the possibility to make sense of a global phenomenon in a complete and accessible way. The first section presents different theories on what populism is and is not, highlighting the differences but also the points of contact between different approaches. The second part offers an overview of the evolution of populism through history and across continents, detailing its causes and consequences. The third part deals with issues and topics connected to populism, such as environmentalism, welfare, religion, social movements and the media. Bridging theoretical approaches and empirical studies, while considering cases across space and over time, this book offers an insightful and accessible guide to the study of populism.

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The Persian Alexander The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnama

The Persian Alexander The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnama
The Persian Alexander: The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnama edited and translated by Evangelos Venetis
English | December 30, 2017 | ISBN: 1784538795 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 8 MB
Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was to capture the imagination of his contemporaries and future generations. His image abounds in various cultures and literatures - Eastern and Western - and spread around the globe through oral and literary media at an astonishing rate during late antiquity and the early Islamic period.

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The Ornament of Histories A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041

The Ornament of Histories A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041
The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041: The Persian Text of Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi edited and translated by Clifford Edmund Bosworth
English | February 28, 2011 | ISBN: 184885353X, 1788311124 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.8 MB
Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent.

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The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain An Edwardian Cricket Murder

The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain An Edwardian Cricket Murder
Gideon Haigh, "The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09ZP2DNSJ | EPUB | 13.2 MB
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes ...

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