Sacred Plunder

Author : David M. Perry
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271066830
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Plunder written by David M. Perry and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.

Author : David M. Perry
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271066814
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Plunder written by David M. Perry and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.

Author : Edward Porter Humphrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.C4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law written by Edward Porter Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elisabeth Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000391361
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent written by Elisabeth Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.

Author : Lucinda Schroeder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015443
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plunder of the Ancients written by Lucinda Schroeder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunder of the Ancients is a rare look inside an undercover investigation in which special agent Lucinda Schroeder reveals the details of her case in which she was assigned to expose Indian Art thieves and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who out of unmitigated greed, were exploiting sacred artifacts for huge sums of money. Her final task was to bring the criminals to justice; recover the sacred artifacts and return them to their rightful people. Plunder of the Ancients takes readers along on a dangerous and unprecedented assignment as Schroeder battles betrayal, evil spirits, and shape shifters for a cause she strongly believes in. Learn more at www.lucindaschroeder.com

Author : Washington Gladden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools and the Man written by Washington Gladden and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sidney Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849832080
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Holy Relics written by Sidney Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. This is the true-life Indiana Jones story of a college professor turned Army sleuth who foils a Nazi plot to preserve these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. Author Sidney Kirkpatrick draws on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents, including interrogation and intelligence reports, diaries and correspondence, as well as on interviews with all remaining living participants involved with the case, to re-create this thrilling true-life story.

Author : Bereket H. Selassie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728373190
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desecrators of the Sacred Trust written by Bereket H. Selassie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two different leaders, with more contrasting characteristics. Comparing the two leaders from two countries with striking contrast in size, history and government structure may seem strange. America is a democratic republic with a constitution two hundred and thirty years old; Eritrea is a dictatorship ruled by an unelected former guerrilla leader who suppressed a ratified constitution and rules by decree. However, both leaders are dedicated to the destruction of, or at the very least, the demeaning of the primary values of the democratic epoch, namely, democracy and rule of law.

Author : Rutherford Hamilton Towner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Civilization written by Rutherford Hamilton Towner and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Jacques Burlamaqui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Natural and Politic Law... written by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: