Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575087978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factions - the power-holders of the ReUnited Nations, the rebels who secretly oppose their power, and the Religious Witnesses - all see advantages to be gained. But what awesome technology started the star on its journey half a million years ago - and why?
Eternal Light
Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575087978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factions - the power-holders of the ReUnited Nations, the rebels who secretly oppose their power, and the Religious Witnesses - all see advantages to be gained. But what awesome technology started the star on its journey half a million years ago - and why?
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575087978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factions - the power-holders of the ReUnited Nations, the rebels who secretly oppose their power, and the Religious Witnesses - all see advantages to be gained. But what awesome technology started the star on its journey half a million years ago - and why?
Eternal Light of the Crypts
Author: Alan Van't Land
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987970289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
890 AD France. The last imperial heir of Charlemagne is dead, and every duke is proclaiming himself king. Egilolf, a former soldier, could care less. He needs to steal bones. A saint's bones. With the prospect of a large payout, he recruits the scribe Aristeus, a refugee fleeing Viking invasions. Perhaps he should have told his new companion the true reason he's pilfering saints. Together the thief and scribe must dodge bandits, Vikings, and warring lords-not to mention their own lies-only to find unearthing bones the easiest step. Yet Egilolf's fiercest battle is the one within. How can defending the weak be just, when God abandons him when he has to kill? And when Vikings become more than a faceless enemy to Aristeus, will he, like the ancient martyrs he's always extolling, risk death to convert them?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987970289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
890 AD France. The last imperial heir of Charlemagne is dead, and every duke is proclaiming himself king. Egilolf, a former soldier, could care less. He needs to steal bones. A saint's bones. With the prospect of a large payout, he recruits the scribe Aristeus, a refugee fleeing Viking invasions. Perhaps he should have told his new companion the true reason he's pilfering saints. Together the thief and scribe must dodge bandits, Vikings, and warring lords-not to mention their own lies-only to find unearthing bones the easiest step. Yet Egilolf's fiercest battle is the one within. How can defending the weak be just, when God abandons him when he has to kill? And when Vikings become more than a faceless enemy to Aristeus, will he, like the ancient martyrs he's always extolling, risk death to convert them?
The Eternal Light of Egypt
Author: Sarite Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Sanders' images are neither descriptive nor picturesque--they are intellectually demanding and uncompromising witnesses of a 'here-and-now' experience of ancient Egypt. --Dorothea Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Sanders' images are neither descriptive nor picturesque--they are intellectually demanding and uncompromising witnesses of a 'here-and-now' experience of ancient Egypt. --Dorothea Arnold
Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns
Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Artes Liberales
ISBN: 9781784993016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
Publisher: Artes Liberales
ISBN: 9781784993016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
Myths of Light
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 9781577314035
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This previously unpublished title shows Campbell's remarkable mind engaged with a favorite topic, the myths and metaphors of Asian religions. The book collects seven lectures and articles ranging from the ancient Hindu Vedas to Zen koans, Tantric yoga, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Campbell conveys complex insights through warm, accessible storytelling, revealing the intricacies and secrets of his subjects with his typical enthusiasm.--From publisher description.
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 9781577314035
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This previously unpublished title shows Campbell's remarkable mind engaged with a favorite topic, the myths and metaphors of Asian religions. The book collects seven lectures and articles ranging from the ancient Hindu Vedas to Zen koans, Tantric yoga, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Campbell conveys complex insights through warm, accessible storytelling, revealing the intricacies and secrets of his subjects with his typical enthusiasm.--From publisher description.
Eternal Light
Author: Catherine Shotick
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The authors present the first volume to focus exclusively on Tiffany's renowned ecclesiastical windows and the ideas and stories behind them.
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The authors present the first volume to focus exclusively on Tiffany's renowned ecclesiastical windows and the ideas and stories behind them.
Reflecting the Eternal
Author: Marsha Daigle-Williamson
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1619706652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis's novels reveal everywhere the modern writer' admiration for Dante's Divine Comedy. Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante's medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims growing toward God. Dante's portrayal of sin and sanctification, of human frailty and divine revelation, are evident in all of Lewis's best work. Readers will see how a modern author can make astonishingly creative use of a predecessor's material - in this case, the way Lewis imitated and adapted medieval ideas about spiritual life for the benefit of his modern audience. Nine chapters cover all of Lewis's novels, from Pilgrim's Regress and his science-fiction to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Readers will gain new insight into the sources of Lewis's literary imagination that represented theological and spiritual principles in his clever, compelling, humorous, and thoroughly human stories.
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1619706652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis's novels reveal everywhere the modern writer' admiration for Dante's Divine Comedy. Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante's medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims growing toward God. Dante's portrayal of sin and sanctification, of human frailty and divine revelation, are evident in all of Lewis's best work. Readers will see how a modern author can make astonishingly creative use of a predecessor's material - in this case, the way Lewis imitated and adapted medieval ideas about spiritual life for the benefit of his modern audience. Nine chapters cover all of Lewis's novels, from Pilgrim's Regress and his science-fiction to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Readers will gain new insight into the sources of Lewis's literary imagination that represented theological and spiritual principles in his clever, compelling, humorous, and thoroughly human stories.
Changing Light
Author: J. Ruth Gendler
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 9780060924478
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this moving and provocative anthology, the bestselling author of The Book of Qualities presents poems, myths, and prayers celebrating the fundamental cycle of life--night into day, sun and moon, and dark into light. Embellished with Gendler's own evocative and brilliantly vivid art.
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 9780060924478
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this moving and provocative anthology, the bestselling author of The Book of Qualities presents poems, myths, and prayers celebrating the fundamental cycle of life--night into day, sun and moon, and dark into light. Embellished with Gendler's own evocative and brilliantly vivid art.
Midnight
Author: Arlene Gottfried
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"The photographs make me sad because I know what a warm, gentle, intelligent soul Midnight is, and I also know how he suffered."
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"The photographs make me sad because I know what a warm, gentle, intelligent soul Midnight is, and I also know how he suffered."
The Eternal Light
Author: Morton Wishengrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description