Relics Of The Past Reliques Du Pass
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Relics Of The Past Reliques Du Pass
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Author : Anna Ballian
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Relics Of The Past Reliques Du Pass written by Anna Ballian and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Art categories.
"90 religious objects, icons and vestments used to track the history of Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire. The treaty signed in 1923 between Greece and Turkey provides for the transfer of personal property by community members of both communities. In the case of Greek Christian populations of Asia Minor (Anatolia), Bridge (Black Sea) and Eastern Thrace, the property consisted of religious objects in silver, embroidery, icons, manuscripts and [liturgical] books, which formed the content of the sacristy in churches and monasteries. In a pre-modern society based on religious differentiation, church treasuries are also stories of local history and collective memory. The contribution of Constantinople/Istanbul is evident in the production and distribution of art. In the seventeenth century the Ottoman capital is exposed to the artistic currents of Western Europe. For the Christian populations of the empire, the lines of communication with the West also pass through Venice and the large Greek community there. Ecclesiastical silverware and other luxurious items also went[;] religious workshops provide the capital to close or remote communities of the empire. The objects produced by the refugees are a special blend of the Western and Christian Byzantine style that developed in the Ottoman cultural environment"--
The Tainted Relic
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Author : The Medieval Murderers
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-11-17
The Tainted Relic written by The Medieval Murderers 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 2008-11-17 with Fiction categories.
July, 1100. Jerusalem lies ransacked. Amidst the chaos, an English knight is entrusted with a valuable religious relic: a fragment of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. The relic is said to be cursed: anyone who touches it will meet an untimely and gruesome end. Several decades later, the Cross turns up in the possession of a dealer, robbed and murdered en route to Glastonbury. Investigating the death, Bernard Knight's protagonist, Crowner John learns of its dark history. In Oxford in 1269, the discovery of a decapitated monk leads Ian Morson's academic sleuth William Falconer to uncover a link to the relic. In 1323, in Exeter, Michael Jecks' Sir Baldwin has reason to suspect its involvement in at least five violent deaths. Thirty years later, several suspicious deaths occur in Cambridge - and, once again, the tainted relic has a crucial part to play. Finally, it's despatched to London, where Philip Gooden's Nick Revill will determine its ultimate fate.
Relic
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Author : Douglas Preston
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2007-11-27
Relic written by Douglas Preston and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-27 with Fiction categories.
From bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes Relic, the thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Relic
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Author : Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2023-04-21
The Relic written by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-21 with Fiction categories.
The Relic tells the story of an orphaned young man, Teodorico Raposo, who is brought to Lisbon from a provincial town in Portugal to live with his aunt, a rigid, stern—and oftentimes—forbidding Catholic. Her devout circle of acquaintances is made up almost entirely of priests, many of whom are more concerned with appearances than spirituality, and seeking her and their approval, Teodorico is driven to attend Mass, say rosaries, and frequent churches, all the while awakening to sensuality, women, and the material life in conflict with “Auntie’s” devotions, which are—inwardly—devoid of the charity preached by Christ. When Teodorico obtains a degree from the University of Coimbra, Auntie sends him to the Holy Land to search for a relic to cure her ills. He meets up with a learned German author and, after a sojourn to Egypt, the two make their way to the land trod by Jesus. It is there that Teodorico has the dream that takes up nearly one third of the novel: he witnesses the travails that lead to the Passion and Crucifixion, as well as the aftermath of Christ’s death. Faced now with his mission, Teodorico embarks on a search. He soon comes upon an item, a “true” relic authenticated by his German friend, the sanctity of which will send Auntie to the heights of spiritual bliss, so much so that she will make him her heir. But when Teodorico returns to Lisbon with it, deception awaits her as the result of a simple mistake that had been made, and disinheritance awaits him as a result of Auntie’s anger and vindictiveness.
A Relic Of The Rebellion
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Author : New York Herald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
A Relic Of The Rebellion written by New York Herald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Relic
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Author : Ed Simon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-01-11
Relic written by Ed Simon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion. The exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance. From Abraham Lincoln's death mask to Vladimir Lenin's embalmed corpse, Emily Dickinson's envelopes to Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Relic
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Author : William G Howell
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Relic written by William G Howell and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Political Science categories.
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding? In Relic, William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they created, with a parochial Congress at its center, is ill-equipped to address the serious social problems that arise in a complex, postindustrial nation. We are prisoners of the past, burdened with an antiquated government that cannot make effective policy, and often cannot do anything at all. The solution is to update the Constitution for modern times. This can be accomplished, Howell and Moe argue, through reforms that push Congress and all its pathologies to the periphery of the lawmaking process, and bring presidents -- whose concern for their legacy drives them to seek coherent policy solutions -- to the center of decision making. As Howell and Moe reveal, the key to effective government for modern America is a more powerful presidency. Relic is a provocative and essential book for our era of political dysfunction and popular despair. It sheds new light on what is wrong with our government and what can be done about it, challenging us to reconsider the very foundation of the American experiment.
The History Of The Buddha S Relic Shrine
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Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-14
The History Of The Buddha S Relic Shrine written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-14 with Religion categories.
Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption. The Sinhala Thūpavamsa, composed by Parakama Pandita in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, is an important example of a Buddhist chronicle written in the vernacular Sinhala language. Furthermore, it is among those works that inform public discussion and debate over the place of Buddhism in the Sri Lankan nation state and the role of Buddhist monks in contemporary politics. In this book Stephen Berkwitz offers the first complete English translation of the Sinhala Thūpavamsa. Composed in a literary dialect of Sinhala, it contains a richly descriptive account of how Buddhism spread outside of India, replete with poetic embellishments and interpolations not found in other accounts of those events. Aside from being an important literary work, the Sinhala Thūpavamsa. is a text of considerable historical and religious significance. It comprises several narrative strands that relate the life story of the Buddha and the manner in which Buddhist teachings and institutions were established on the island of Sri Lanka in ancient times. The central focus of this work concerns the variety of relics associated with the historical Buddha, particularly how the relics were acquired and the presumed benefits of venerating them. The text also relates the mythological history of the Buddha's previous lives as a bodhisattva and concludes with a prediction about the future Buddha Maitreya. Reflection on Buddhist ethics and instruction on the Dharma, or the Buddha's teaching, are found throughout the work, indicating that this historical narrative was meant both to recall the past and give rise to religious practice among contemporary readers and listeners. This new translation makes a significant work more widely accessible in the West and adds to our knowledge of how local Buddhist communities imagined and represented their religious and cultural heritages in written works.
Memoir On The History Of The Tooth Relic Of Ceylon
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Author : Joseph Gerson Cunha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Memoir On The History Of The Tooth Relic Of Ceylon written by Joseph Gerson Cunha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Buddhas categories.
The Relic Of Domremy
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Author : Joseph Michael Sepesy
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Relic Of Domremy written by Joseph Michael Sepesy and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Fiction categories.
Nearly five hundred years after the French village of Domremy experienced the horrors of warfare and the brutal death of Saint Joan of Arc, the atrocities of war are once again a reality. United States Army Lieutenant John Chaple is no stranger to trench warfare. The day before the signing of the armistice that ends The Great War, Chaple becomes part of the last battle at Domremy. After Chaple and Germany Army Captain Otto Dengler become unlikely allies, one discovers the sacred relic of St. Joan inside the ruins of a Domremy church. As the lives of the two enemy officers intertwine through fates that lead them from the Black Forest of Germany to Niagara Falls, each strives to attain salvation and inner peace. In this historical novel, two unlikely allies transporting a sacred relic found during World War I embark on separate journeys of self-discovery.
