Sacred Britain

Author : Martin Symington
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841623636
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Britain written by Martin Symington and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is packed with places to visit that can be called 'sacred'. Many are tourist sites, such as Iona, Lindisfarne and Stonehenge. Many more are out-of-the-way pilgrimage destinations, druidic circles, holy wells or obscure islands that few people would find without this book. Some are only recognised as 'sacred' by people with a special interest: Karl Marx's tomb in Highgate cemetery or the island on Althorp where Princess Diana is buried. This book journeys from pilgrimage sites with tombs of martyrs and scenes of medieval miracles to the remote islands of Iona, Bardsey and Lindisfarne, as well as to modern Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic shrines. It visits pre-historic stone circles and ancient chalk hill carvings such as the phallic Cerne Abbas giant. As well as sites of myth, legend, and apparition it covers shrines to philosophers and locations revered for their connections with art, music, literature, sport and crime.

Author : Martin Palmer
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780749918033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Britain written by Martin Palmer and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Britain is a unique guidebook to the sacred sites of England, Scotland and Wales. It takes you on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps you to discover and explore our rich and mysterious heritage of ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, special churches, great cathedrals, sacred cities, holy wells and rivers, ancient yew trees and symbolic plants. Book jacket.

Author : Martin Palmer
Publisher : Hidden Spring
ISBN 13 : 9781587680021
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Martin Palmer and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique guide book that takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and much more.

Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350019267
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914 written by John Wolffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.

Author : Janet Bord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Waters written by Janet Bord and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350019283
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914 written by John Wolffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.

Author : Miranda Aldhouse-green
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050025222X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Britannia written by Miranda Aldhouse-green and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new account of religion in Roman Britain, weaving together the latest archaeological research and a new analysis of ancient literature to illuminate parallels between past and present Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world—Britain. The expeditions of Julius Caesar and the Claudian invasion of 43 CE, up to the traditional end of Roman Britain in the fifth century CE, brought fundamental and lasting changes to the island. Not least among these was a pantheon of new classical deities and religious systems, along with a clutch of exotic eastern cults, including Christianity. But what homegrown deities, cults, and cosmologies did the Romans encounter in Britain, and how did the British react to the changes? Under Roman rule, the old gods and their adherents were challenged, adopted, adapted, absorbed, and reconfigured. Miranda Aldhouse- Green balances literary, archaeological, and iconographic evidence (and scrutinizes the shortcomings of each) to illuminate the complexity of religion and belief in Roman Britain. She examines the two-way traffic of cultural exchange and the interplay between imported and indigenous factions to reveal how this period on the cusp between prehistory and history knew many of the same tensions, ideologies, and issues of identity still relevant today.

Author : James Wayland Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Sacred Synods written by James Wayland Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Lewis S
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136761616
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred to Female Patriotism written by Judith Lewis S and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sou

Author : Jason Nice
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316274
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred History and National Identity written by Jason Nice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. This book uses Brittany and Wales' responses to unification to describe a comparative history of national identity during the early modern period.