Magic And The Venetian Amulet
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Magic And The Venetian Amulet
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Author : Gale Gene
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-10-07
Magic And The Venetian Amulet written by Gale Gene and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Fiction categories.
Paul Wonder and Magic, his supernatural dog, find themselves on another adventure with his family in this exciting yet sometimes terrifying expedition to Italy where his father will be filming a tourism documentary. This time Paul and Magic are traveling with Noah-his father, his Aunt Ruthie and his two best friends since second grade, Jacob and Micah. Since Paul and Micah are fourteen and Jacob is fifteen, Noah decides to take them on the trip. Of course other teenagers will be accompanying their parents who are part of the filming crew, who Paul, Micah and Jacob will hook up with. While in Rome, Italy, the boys and Magic along with Noah and Ruthie, have an awesome time exploring gelato stands, the Coliseum and other amazing ruins. When they all get to Venice, Italy, they stay in an amazing hotel on the Grand Canal, which is the main canal in Venice, the city on the water. Coincidentally, a group of thieves, who have just pulled off a heist of a precious and magical, cursed artifact from a tomb in Egypt, stay at the same hotel as Paul, Magic, his family and friends. Somehow the eight teenagers and Magic cross paths with the thieves, and what ensues is an unbelievable quest involving the supernatural abilities of the stolen artifact and Magic’s powers. The teenagers are confronted with evil and have to battle their way through the vicious attacks they find themselves involved in. Again, family and friend’s bonds are made through the unifying battle of good versus evil.
Magic And The Terror At Loch Ness
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Author : Gale Gene
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-12-13
Magic And The Terror At Loch Ness written by Gale Gene and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Paul Wonder finds himself far from his safe beach community in Southern California and entrenched in a mystical thriller while on a filming expedition with his dad in Scotland. An innocent medieval experience develops into bizarre, unexplainable events that captivate and terrorizes everyone who comes in contact with Paul and his dog, Magic. With new teenage acquaintances, Paul and Magic embark on mysterious adventures to explore the medieval land of Scotland and Loch Ness, while witnessing gruesome forces of good and evil. While banding together, and fighting the terror that greets them around every corner, the newfound friends develop a bond that takes them to a realization of mortality and the supernatural.
Amulet And Alphabet
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Author : M Waegeman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1987
Amulet And Alphabet written by M Waegeman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
Knowledge Lost
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Author : Martin Mulsow
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
Knowledge Lost written by Martin Mulsow and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with History categories.
A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Until now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and institutions. The central narrative has been one of advancement, refinement, and expansion. Martin Mulsow tells a different story. Knowledge can be lost: manuscripts are burned, oral learning dies with its bearers, new ideas are suppressed by censors. Knowledge Lost is a history of efforts, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, to counter such loss. It describes how critics of ruling political and religious regimes developed tactics to preserve their views; how they buried their ideas in footnotes and allusions; how they circulated their tracts and treatises in handwritten copies; and how they commissioned younger scholars to spread their writings after death. Filled with exciting stories, Knowledge Lost follows the trail of precarious knowledge through a series of richly detailed episodes. It deals not with the major themes of metaphysics and epistemology, but rather with interpretations of the Bible, Orientalism, and such marginal zones as magic. And it focuses not on the usual major thinkers, but rather on forgotten or half-forgotten members of the “knowledge underclass,” such as Pietro della Vecchia, a libertine painter and intellectual; Charles-César Baudelot, an antiquarian and numismatist; and Johann Christoph Wolf, a pastor, Hebrew scholar, and witness to the persecution of heretics. Offering a fascinating new approach to the intellectual history of early modern Europe, Knowledge Lost is also an ambitious attempt to rethink the very concept of knowledge.
The Autobiography Of A Seventeenth Century Venetian Rabbi
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Author : Leone Modena
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-16
The Autobiography Of A Seventeenth Century Venetian Rabbi written by Leone Modena and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with History categories.
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts. This complete translation, based on Modena's autograph manuscript, makes available in English a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, crime and punishment, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. The translator, Mark R. Cohen, and four other distinguished scholars add commentary that places the work in historical and literary context. Modena describes his fascination with the astrology and alchemy that were important parts of the Jewish and general culture of the seventeenth century. He also portrays his struggle against poverty and against compulsive gambling, which, cleverly punning on a biblical verse, he called the "sin of Judah." In addition, the book contains accounts of Modena's sorrow over his three sons: the death of the eldest from the poisonous fumes of his own alchemical laboratory, the brutal murder of the youngest, and the exile of the remaining son. The introductory essay by Mark R. Cohen and Theodore K. Rabb highlights the significance of the work for early modern Jewish and general European history. Howard E. Adelman presents an up-to-date biographical sketch of the author and points the way toward a new assessment of his place in Jewish history. Natalie Z. Davis places Modena's work in the context of European autobiography, both Christian and Jewish, and especially explores the implications of the Jewish status as outsider for the privileged exploration of the self. A set of historical notes, compiled by Howard Adelman and Benjamin C. I. Ravid, elucidates the text.
Jews And Magic In Medici Florence
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Author : Edward L. Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-08-06
Jews And Magic In Medici Florence written by Edward L. Goldberg and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-06 with History categories.
In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty—sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth—especially historical truth—can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved.
The Enchanted Amulet
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Author : Christian Ainley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2009-06-19
The Enchanted Amulet written by Christian Ainley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Tormented by his adoptive mother and three school bullies, thirteen-year-old Danny Perkins wonders if his life can possibly get any worse. One day, however, his luck begins to change. His kind old grandfather gives him a magic amulet, which opens a doorway to another world... Danny soon befriends all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures; but all is not what it seems. A dark magician is on the loose, infecting the weak and vulnerable with his odious schemes. Can Danny summon the courage to defeat this ancient evil? Or will he, like countless others, succumb to a fate worse than death!
The Venetian Glass Nephew
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Author : Elinor Wylie
language : en
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Release Date : 1984
The Venetian Glass Nephew written by Elinor Wylie and has been published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
In this charming fantasy set in the Renaissance, the Archbishop wants a nephew, but a perfect one-so an artisan fashions one for him of Venetian glass. Problems arise when the glass nephew falls in love with a flesh-and-blood woman. A subtle, sensitively written allegory of life and art, with humour.
All The Names Of The Lord
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Author : Valentina Izmirlieva
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
All The Names Of The Lord written by Valentina Izmirlieva and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Religion categories.
Christians face a conundrum when it comes to naming God, for if God is unnamable, as theologians maintain, he can also be called by every name. His proper name is thus an open-ended, all-encompassing list, a mystery the Church embraces in its rhetoric, but which many Christians have found difficult to accept. To explore this conflict, Valentina Izmirlieva examines two lists of God’s names: one from The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, and the other from The 72 Names of the Lord, an amulet whose history binds together Kabbalah and Christianity, Jews and Slavs, Palestine, Provence, and the Balkans. This unexpected juxtaposition of a theological treatise and a magical amulet allows Izmirlieva to reveal lists’ rhetorical potential to create order and to function as both tools of knowledge and of power. Despite the two different visions of order represented by each list, Izmirlieva finds that their uses in Christian practice point to a complementary relationship between the existential need for God’s protection and the metaphysical desire to submit to his infinite majesty—a compelling claim sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields.
Textual Amulets From Antiquity To Early Modern Times
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Author : Christoffer Theis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Textual Amulets From Antiquity To Early Modern Times written by Christoffer Theis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Religion categories.
Comparing amulets over time and space, this volume focuses on the function of written words on these fascinating artefacts. Ranging from Roman Egypt to the Middle Ages and the Modern period, this book provides an overview on these artefacts in the Mediterranean world and beyond, including Europe, Iran, and Turkey. A deep analysis of the textuality of amulets provides comparative information on themes and structures of the religious traditions examined. A strong emphasis is placed on the material features of the amulets and their connections to ritual purposes. The textual content, as well as other characteristics, is examined systematically, in order to establish patterns of influence and diffusion. The question of production, which includes the relationships that linked professional magicians, artists and craftsmen to their clientele, is also discussed, as well as the sacred and cultural economies involved.
