Barbarians From The Isle

Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613823241
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarians From The Isle written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Lord of Magnus, Thomas must risk all in war against invading Scots. He soon learns survival is only one of his dilemmas -- barbarian rituals begin plaguing his army almost as soon as it marches north. Worse, his every move seems anticipated by masters of a dark conspiracy, and he soon doubts those closest to him. As a circle of evil closes around Thomas, he is given an ultimatum by the false sorcerers -- join their secret group, or lose his lordship and castle. Meanwhile, the God he has tried to ignore is patiently beckoning.

Author : Michael Armstrong-Roche
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691158
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cervantes' Epic Novel written by Michael Armstrong-Roche and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solemn ambition could coexist with Cervantes evident urge to delight. Grounded in the novel's multiple contexts - literature, history and politics, philosophy and theology - and in close reading of the text, Michael Armstrong-Roche aims to reshape our understanding of Persiles within the history of prose fiction and to take part in the ongoing conversation about the relationship between literary and non-literary cultural forms. Ultimately he reveals how Cervantes recast the prose epic, expanding it in new directions to accommodate the great epic themes - politics, love, and religion - to the most urgent concerns of his day.

Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : Chariot Victor Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780896931169
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarians from the Isle written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Lord of Magnus, Thomas must risk all in war against invading Scots. He soon learns survival is only one of his dilemmas -- barbarian rituals begin plaguing his army almost as soon as it marches north. Worse, his every move seems anticipated by masters of a dark conspiracy, and he soon doubts those closest to him. As a circle of evil closes around Thomas, he is given an ultimatum by the false sorcerers -- join their secret group, or lose his lordship and castle. Meanwhile, the God he has tried to ignore is patiently beckoning.

Author : Randolph B. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473954
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome, China, and the Barbarians written by Randolph B. Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of ethnological thought in Greece, Rome, and China and its articulation during 'barbarian' invasion and conquest.

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Barbarian written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent Serventy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbarians of Barrow Island written by Vincent Serventy and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jakub J. Grygiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108671497
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Barbarians written by Jakub J. Grygiel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reality in groups such as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIL. Return of the Barbarians re-examines the threat of violent non-state actors throughout history, revealing key lessons that are applicable today. From the Roman Empire and its barbarian challenge on the Danube and Rhine, Russia and the steppes to the nineteenth-century Comanches, Jakub J. Grygiel shows how these groups have presented peculiar, long-term problems that could rarely be solved with a finite war or clearly demarcated diplomacy. To succeed and survive, states were often forced to alter their own internal structure, giving greater power and responsibility to the communities most directly affected by the barbarian menace. Understanding the barbarian challenge, and strategies employed to confront it, offers new insights into the contemporary security threats facing the Western world.

Author : Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108988857
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Barbarians written by Daniel Bonilla Maldonado and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel and unorthodox historical analysis of modern comparative law, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado explores the connections between modern comparative law and the identity of the modern legal subject. Narratives created by modern comparative law shed light on the role played by law in the construction of modern individual and collective identities. This study first examines the relationship between identity, law, and narrative. Second, it explores the moments of emergence and transformation of this area of law: instrumental comparative studies, comparative legislative studies, and comparative law as an autonomous discipline. Finally, it analyzes the theoretical perspectives that question the narrative created by modern comparative law: Third World Approaches to International Law, postcolonial studies of law, and critical comparative law. For lawyers and legal scholars, this study brings a nuanced understanding of the connections between the theory of modern comparative law and contemporary practical legal and political issues.

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244269
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by Kostas Vlassopoulos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.

Author : Edward James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868242
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600 written by Edward James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be treated with caution. Only archaeology allows us to see beyond Roman prejudices - and yet these records are often as difficult to interpret as historical ones. Expertly guiding the reader through such historiographical complexities, Edward James traces the history of the barbarians from the height of Roman power through to AD 600, by which time they had settled in most parts of imperial territory in Europe. His book is the first to look at all Europe's barbarians: the Picts and the Scots in the far north-west; the Franks, Goths and Slavic-speaking peoples; and relative newcomers such as the Huns and Alans from the Asiatic steppes. How did whole barbarian peoples migrate across Europe? What were their relations with the Romans? And why did they convert to Christianity? Drawing on the latest scholarly research, this book rejects easy generalisations to provide a clear, nuanced and comprehensive account of the barbarians and the tumultuous period they lived through.