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Author : Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott
Release : 1960
Genre : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Book Synopsis Friar Felix at Large by : Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott
Download or read book Friar Felix at Large written by Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott. This book was released on 1960. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott
Release : 1950-01-01
Genre : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Book Synopsis Friar Felix at Large by : Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott
Download or read book Friar Felix at Large written by Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott. This book was released on 1950-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. F. M. Prescott
Release : 1950
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Book Synopsis Friar Felix at Large, a Fifteenth Century Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. H. F. M. Prescott by : H. F. M. Prescott
Download or read book Friar Felix at Large, a Fifteenth Century Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. H. F. M. Prescott written by H. F. M. Prescott. This book was released on 1950. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Book Rating : 195/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Colloquies by : Desiderius Erasmus
Download or read book Colloquies written by Desiderius Erasmus. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.
Author : Sheri Holman
Release : 2008-07-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Stolen Tongue by : Sheri Holman
Download or read book A Stolen Tongue written by Sheri Holman. This book was released on 2008-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly). A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman’s literary career. In 1483, Father Felix Fabri sails from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria. But at each of the shrines he visits throughout Greece and Palestine, he finds that the remains of Katherine’s body are being stolen piece by piece: her hand, her ear, and then her tongue vanish from their holy resting places. Desperate to discover the thief and save his saint from such appalling desecration, Felix is thrust into a strange mystery that takes him across the desert and plumbs the depths of his soul. “Holman seduces you into a world of priests, rogues, saints, a world bright with horizon, wonder, piety. Her prose, tart, racy, and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.”—Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Angela’s Ashes “Holman tells a fascinating story. From the opening scene in Crete to the harrowing finale in the Sinai desert, she knows how to create suspense.”—The Washington Post Book World “Sheri Holman writes with extraordinary assurance and style.”—Miranda Seymour, author of Bugatti Queen “The best historical thriller I have read since Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose.”—Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love
