Author: Adrian Hastings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198263996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
Author: Adrian Hastings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198263996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198263996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
The Suffering of Women Who Didn't Fit
Author: David J. Vaughan
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526732300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep's clothing, labels that have cast her as the fragile species and destroyer of Man.This book reveals attitudes, ideas and responses on what was to be done with 'mad women' in Britain.Journey back into the unenlightened Middle Ages to find demonic possession, turbulent humours and the wandering womb. In the Puritan Age, when the mad were called witches and scolds ducked for their nagging. The age of Austen and a sense and sensibility created from her fragile nerves. Then descend into Victorian horrors of wrongful confinement and merciless surgeons, before arriving, just half a century past, to the Viennese couch and an obligation to talk.At the heart of her suffering lay her gynaecological make-up, driving her mad every month and at every stage of her life. Terms such as menstrual madness, puerperal insanity and 'Old Maid's Insanity' poison history's pages.An inescapable truth is now shared: that so much, if not all, was a male creation. Though not every medic was male, nor every male a fiend, misogynist thought shaped our understanding of women, set down expectations and 'corrected' the flawed.The book exposes the agonies of life for the 'second class' gender; from misdiagnosis to brutal oppression, seen as in league with the Devil or the volatile wretch. Touching no less than six centuries, it recalls how, for a woman, being labelled as mad was much less a risk, more her inevitable burden.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526732300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep's clothing, labels that have cast her as the fragile species and destroyer of Man.This book reveals attitudes, ideas and responses on what was to be done with 'mad women' in Britain.Journey back into the unenlightened Middle Ages to find demonic possession, turbulent humours and the wandering womb. In the Puritan Age, when the mad were called witches and scolds ducked for their nagging. The age of Austen and a sense and sensibility created from her fragile nerves. Then descend into Victorian horrors of wrongful confinement and merciless surgeons, before arriving, just half a century past, to the Viennese couch and an obligation to talk.At the heart of her suffering lay her gynaecological make-up, driving her mad every month and at every stage of her life. Terms such as menstrual madness, puerperal insanity and 'Old Maid's Insanity' poison history's pages.An inescapable truth is now shared: that so much, if not all, was a male creation. Though not every medic was male, nor every male a fiend, misogynist thought shaped our understanding of women, set down expectations and 'corrected' the flawed.The book exposes the agonies of life for the 'second class' gender; from misdiagnosis to brutal oppression, seen as in league with the Devil or the volatile wretch. Touching no less than six centuries, it recalls how, for a woman, being labelled as mad was much less a risk, more her inevitable burden.
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
Author: Adrian Hastings
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191520551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
"I can merely admire his courage in tackling so complex and difficult a subject; he should succeed in stimulating a fresh generation of research... this well-written, intelligent and lively study will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it." Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ehtiopia Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerousm 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of coversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comprable development of Islam in Africa.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191520551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
"I can merely admire his courage in tackling so complex and difficult a subject; he should succeed in stimulating a fresh generation of research... this well-written, intelligent and lively study will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it." Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ehtiopia Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerousm 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of coversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comprable development of Islam in Africa.
1450-1950 [i.e. Fourteen Fifty-nineteen Fifty
Author: Bob Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Soil Report
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Soil Report
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Coming of the Book
Author: Lucien Febvre
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841082
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841082
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
Water Resources of Tennessee
Author: Warren Raymond King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Geological Series
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description