Alexandria Unveiled
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Alexandria Unveiled
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Author : Valerio Polidori
language : el
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-11-29
Alexandria Unveiled written by Valerio Polidori and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-29 with categories.
Alexandria was among the first and most significant centres of Christian dissemination. By the early 4th century, the city had evolved into a crucial hub for Christian culture, hosting a variety of liturgical traditions often in competition with each other. The recent discovery of an Ethiopian manuscript containing an ancient translation of the Liturgy of St. Mark now allows us, through comparison with other known sources, to reconstruct the form of this anaphora around the mid 4th century. The simplicity and elegance of this nearly forgotten liturgy take us back to a period of fervent theological debates and liturgical creativity. One distinctive aspect of this work is its rigorous philological approach, aiming to explain the ecdotical choices and align them with the historical context in which the reconstructed anaphora is situated. However, the essay remains accessible to non-specialists, presenting the texts in translation for a broader audience.
Victoria College A History Revealed
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Author : Sahar Hamouda
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2002
Victoria College A History Revealed written by Sahar Hamouda and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is at once the history of a remarkable and fascinating phenomenon--a British-style public school rooted in Egyptian soil boasting such alumni as King Hussein of Jordan, Omar Sharif, and Edward Said--and a reflection of the spirit of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century. Its publication in October 2002 is timed to coincide with the school's centenary. Victoria College, Alexandria, founded in October 1902, was named after the British queen Victoria, who had died the year before. It was the brainchild of a group of British businessmen who formed the nucleus of Alexandria's small British community. Deliberately fashioned as an independent, secular school, open to anyone who could afford its fees, it attracted the children both of the elite--royalty, diplomats, magnates, politicians, landowners--and of very ordinary people. Its pupils came not only from all over Egypt, but from the entire Middle East and beyond. This immensely readable history is, in the first place, a book about and for the Old Victorians. In a series of colorful sketches, backed by plentiful quotation from documents in the school archives, a series of engaging and distinguished characters come to life, not least Victoria's first two headmasters, C.R. Lias and his successor R.W.G. Reed--the two men whose enlightened vision and skillful leadership made the school what it was. Yet at the same time, this is a book whose appeal extends far beyond its immediate subject matter. In the process of putting together the story of a school, the authors have uncovered a wealth of material that will interest Middle East and postcolonial scholars as well as educationists, social historians, and students of human nature.
Alexandria
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Author : Islam Issa
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-01-02
Alexandria written by Islam Issa and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-02 with History categories.
An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day. Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library. And Alexandria is no ordinary city. Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an authoritative history of a city that has shaped our modern world. Soon after being founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria became the crucible of cultural exchange between East and West for millennia and the undisputed global capital of knowledge. It was at the forefront of human progress, but it also witnessed brutal natural disasters, plagues, crusades and violence. Major empires fought over Alexandria, from the Greeks and Romans to the Arabs, Ottomans, French, and British. Key figures shaped the city from its eponymous founder to Aristotle, Cleopatra, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Napoleon Bonaparte and many others, each putting their own stamp on its identity and its fortunes. And millions of people have lived in this bustling seaport on the Mediterranean. From its humble origins to its dizzy heights and its latest incarnation, Islam Issa tells us the rich and gripping story of a city that changed the world.
Farewell Alexandria
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Author : Derek Adie Flower
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Farewell Alexandria written by Derek Adie Flower and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
In a story spanning eighty years of a family that changed world history, flashbacks, fast-forwards and multiple plots intersect each other while innocent romance, steamy sex, noble sentiments, treachery and a whodunit- style mystery keeps the reader turning the pages. Set against a changing backdrop of pre-war Egypt, of Paris, London and New York in the sixties and seventies, terrorism in the Middle East and famine in Ethiopia, all the aspects of human strengths and frailties are brought to life in this three generation saga where a dramatic climax re-dimensions a man's destiny.
A Nearly Infallible History Of Christianity
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Author : Nick Page
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-10
A Nearly Infallible History Of Christianity written by Nick Page and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Religion categories.
From Abelard to Zwingli, via a multitude of saints and sinners, Nick Page guides us through the creeds, the councils, the buildings and the background of the Christian church in an illuminating, and perhaps ever so slightly irreverent way. Well-known as a writer, speaker, unlicensed historian and general information-monger, Nick Page combines in-depth research, historical analysis and cutting-edge guesswork to explore how on earth the Christian church has survived all that 2,000 years of heroes, villains and misfits could throw at it (mostly from the inside) to remain one of the most influential forces in the world today. 'I was predestined to read this.' John Calvin. 'I felt my heart strangely warmed. Or it could have been indigestion.' John Wesley.
Alexandria Real And Imagined
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Author : Anthony Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Alexandria Real And Imagined written by Anthony Hirst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the twentieth-century Arabic novel.
The Books Lost To Fire In The Library Of Alexandria Revealed Gate
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Author : David Daniels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Books Lost To Fire In The Library Of Alexandria Revealed Gate written by David Daniels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Histories Of The Jews Of Egypt
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Author : Dario Miccoli
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-24
Histories Of The Jews Of Egypt written by Dario Miccoli and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-24 with History categories.
Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt – mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country. Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "an imagined bourgeoisie". It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a resilient bourgeois imaginary developed and influenced the lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Cairo lycée français to Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers – this book explains how this imaginary was characterised by a great capacity to adapt to the evolutions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt, but later deteriorated alongside increasingly strong Arab nationalism and the political upheavals that the country experienced from the 1940s onwards. Offering a novel perspective on the history of modern Egypt and its Jews, and unravelling too often forgotten episodes and personalities which contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively Jewish diaspora at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, this book is of interest to scholars of Modern Egypt, Jewish History and of Mediterranean History.
School Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
School Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Education categories.
Confederate Veteran
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Confederate Veteran written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Confederate States of America categories.