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From the Sands of Dorne A Feast of Ice & Fire Companion Cookbook


Free Download Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, "From the Sands of Dorne: A Feast of Ice & Fire Companion Cookbook"
English | 2015 | pages: 47 | ASIN: B00R04ME8K | EPUB | 6,2 mb
Prepare your palette for more than a dozen all-new recipes in this eBook-exclusive companion to the official Game of Thrones cookbook! Discover the tastes of Dorne, including one dish from The Winds of Winter, the highly anticipated next chapter of George R. R. Martin’s beloved series, A Song of Ice and Fire.

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Sacred Folly A New History of the Feast of Fools


Free Download Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools by Max Harris
English | March 17, 2014 | ISBN: 0801479495 | 336 pages | PDF | 2.26 Mb
For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women’s clothes, sang obscene songs, swung censers that gave off foul-smelling smoke, played dice at the altar, and otherwise parodied the liturgy of the church. Afterward, they would take to the streets, howling, issuing mock indulgences, hurling manure at bystanders, and staging scurrilous plays. The problem with this popular account―intriguing as it may be―is that it is wrong.

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