Tag: Ages

Kannagi Through the Ages From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement


Free Download Prabha Rani, "Kannagi Through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement"
English | ISBN: 9354355315 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Kannagi and Silappatikaram are important parts of the cultural landscape of Tamil Nadu-the story has been told in many genres of literature and continues to be told. Every narrative, however, carries the imprint of the times it was released in. Kannagi through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement aims to understand the ways in which representations of Kannagi in the epic Silappatikaram differ in every new narrative. Looking at the portrayals of Kannagi in plays, commentaries and folk narratives, the book examines how representations of gender and culture have evolved over time. Focusing on the interrelationships between a text and a society as well as between society and the way it moulds the category of ‘woman’ at different times through symbols and icon, the author analyses the social, cultural and political processes that contributed to the emergence of Kannagi as an icon of Tamil culture and epitome of Tamil womanhood.

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Visualizing Jews Through the Ages Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism


Free Download Hannah Ewence, "Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism "
English | ISBN: 0367263807 | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management – the urge to shape, direct, authorize and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with those images – a strategy both consciously and unconsciously undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early modern German lands to late twentieth-century North London, late Antique Byzantium to the curation of contemporary Holocaust exhibitions.

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The Song of Songs Through the Ages Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres (Stu


Free Download Annette Schellenberg, "The Song of Songs Through the Ages: Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres (Stu"
English | ISBN: 311075066X | 2023 | 520 pages | PDF | 212 MB
The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.

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Authors of the Middle Ages. Volume I, Numbers 1-4 English Writers of the Late Middle Ages


Free Download Authors of the Middle Ages. Volume I, Numbers 1-4: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages By David C. Fowler; J. A. Burrow, Michael C. Seymour
2016 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1351956388 | PDF | 13 MB
Authors of the Middle Ages is a new series designed for research and reference. Each part, by an expert on the subject, gives an account of the facts known about a particular Author’s life and immediate historical context, together with a review of subsequent scholarship. This is supported by citation of all known contemporary references; a dated and classified list of manuscripts and editions; a bibliography of secondary sources; and appendices listing or printing the key literary and documentary sources. The aim is to combine, in one compact work, a bibliography of a medieval author with all the information needed for further research. Each will be available individually, or in a collection with three other contemporary Authors. Authors of the Middle Ages is divided into two sub-series, English Writers of the Late Middle Ages and historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West.

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The Book of Power The Greatest Works of the Ages on Attaining Mastery, Magnetism, and Personal Power [Audiobook]


Free Download The Book of Power: The Greatest Works of the Ages on Attaining Mastery, Magnetism, and Personal Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3J5SBL7 | 2023 | 17 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Mitch Horowitz
Narrator: Mitch Horowitz

Power Without Apologies. "I believe that the last thing the mature seeker needs in literature or talks today are chin-stroking ideas or ‘insights.’ The seeker requires power. Power-not force-to see through self-expressive wishes. Force dissipates and dies with its user. True power is generative: it creates and builds." With this trenchant introduction, scholar of esotericism Mitch Horowitz presents some of the most important and practical works, from history and today, on attaining and wielding ethical power. Here is a collection that brings methods and actionable ideas into focus for how to increase your command of life.

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Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367640724 | 209 Pages | PDF (True) | 12 MB
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world.

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Deep History and the Ages of Man


Free Download Mark H. Gaffney, "Deep History and the Ages of Man"
English | 2022 | pages: 340 | ASI: B09SP8JMMZ, B09SX9HZY1 | PDF | 18,3 mb
Did human civilization begin 5-6,000 years ago (as we are told) with Sumer and Egypt? Or is there more to the story? What was the actual purpose of Stonehenge? Why is the Great Pyramid aligned to true north? Is it possible that advanced civilizations predated the modern era by tens of thousands of years? If so, what happened to them? Today, Academia and Egyptology remain hamstrung by limiting beliefs, false assumptions and shallow readings of ancient texts. Mark H Gaffney’s book presents compelling new evidence in support of Charles Hapgood’s theory of crustal displacement, first introduced in the 1950s. Deep History and the Ages of Man introduces a new and exciting earth climate model that will challenge everything you thought you knew about ancient history.

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