Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book PDF Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553562738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

Aššur is King! Aššur is King!

Aššur is King! Aššur is King! PDF Author: Steven Winford Holloway
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004123281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 634

Book Description
Through sustained analysis of texts and visual sources, this volume traces the checkered career of Neo-Assyrian religious interaction with subject polities of Western Asia through both punitive measures and calculated diplomatic patronage.

The Doomsday Book of Animals

The Doomsday Book of Animals PDF Author: David Day
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
A descriptive account of the extinction of nearly 300 species and subspecies between 1680 and 1980, profusely illustrated with drawings and watercolor paintings.

Domesday Studies

Domesday Studies PDF Author: J. C. Holt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851152639
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
A scholarly feast... a milestone in the history and historiography of medieval England. Its essays are without exception authoritative and well-written and it indicates not only the progress made in Domesday studies in the last hundred years but also the continuing significance of the pioneer work of the great Domesday scholars such as Maitland and Galbraith.' PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY An enduring contribution to historical scholarship.' AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW name studies, palaeography and topography.

Slavery in Early Mediaeval England

Slavery in Early Mediaeval England PDF Author: David Anthony Edgell Pelteret
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851158297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
This important study seeks to assemble the evidence, drawn from a variety of sources in Old English and Latin, to convey a picture of slaves and slavery in England, viewed against the background of English society as a whole. At last a major topic in early medieval English history has found its author, who deals with it comprehensively and systematically.ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW "A landmark teatment...immensely enriches the debate about early medieval working classes." SPECULUM Slaves were part of the fabric of English society throughout the Anglo-Saxon era and the twelfth century, but as the base of the social pyramid, they have left no known written records;there are, however, extensive references to them throughout the documents and writings of the period. This important study seeks to assemble the evidence, drawn from a variety of sources in Old English and Latin, to convey a picture of slaves and slavery in England, viewed against the background of English society as a whole. An extensive appendix on the vernacular terminology of slavery reveals the concepts of enslavement to be embedded in the religiousimagery of the period. DAVID PELTERET is Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, King's College London.
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