Barbarians From The Isle
Title | Barbarians From The Isle PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Brouwer |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780613823241 |
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.
Barbarians from the Isle
Title | Barbarians from the Isle PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Brouwer |
Publisher | Chariot Victor Publishing |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780896931169 |
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.
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Title | Cervantes' Epic Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Armstrong-Roche |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2009-05-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442691158 |
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.
The Barbarians of Barrow Island
Title | The Barbarians of Barrow Island PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Serventy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Title | Rome, China, and the Barbarians PDF eBook |
Author | Randolph B. Ford |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2020-04-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108473954 |
An exploration of ethnological thought in Greece, Rome, and China and its articulation during 'barbarian' invasion and conquest.
Return of the Barbarians
Title | Return of the Barbarians PDF eBook |
Author | Jakub J. Grygiel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2018-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110868887X |
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.
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Title | Terry Jones' Barbarians PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Ereira |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2009-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1409070425 |
Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire. This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda and opens our eyes to who really established the civilized world. Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the impressive cultural and technological achievements of the Celts, Goths, Persians and Vandals. In this paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years of history on three continents, bringing wit, irreverence, passion and scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire and the creation of the modern world.