Author: Margaret Hodges
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780703131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
Saint George and the Dragon
Author: Margaret Hodges
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780703131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780703131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Author: Gabriel Banat
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576471098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576471098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.
The St. George Hotel Bar
Author: Said K. Aburish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747502210
Category : Beirut
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Until its destruction in 1975, the luxurious St George Hotel was the cosmopolitan centre of Beirut, a meeting place for spies, including Kim Philby, CIA men such as Miles Copeland, diplomats, journalists, politicians and oil sheikhs. The author examines the plots and counterplots, stretching over a quarter of a century, which were formulated at the hotel. Incidents which helped to shape Middle Eastern history are related, such as an attempt to overthrow King Hussein and the assassination of a Syrian president.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747502210
Category : Beirut
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Until its destruction in 1975, the luxurious St George Hotel was the cosmopolitan centre of Beirut, a meeting place for spies, including Kim Philby, CIA men such as Miles Copeland, diplomats, journalists, politicians and oil sheikhs. The author examines the plots and counterplots, stretching over a quarter of a century, which were formulated at the hotel. Incidents which helped to shape Middle Eastern history are related, such as an attempt to overthrow King Hussein and the assassination of a Syrian president.
The Saint of Dragons
Author: Jason Hightman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061997315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into human society. Now one lonely schoolboy is about to learn where the dragons have gone ... Educated at boarding schools, Simon St. George has never met his parents. When a ragged-looking man shows up claiming to be his father, Simon is skeptical, and when the man kidnaps him, he's indignant to say the least. Then the man claims to be a descendant of England's Saint George and a career dragon fighter. Why should Simon believe any of this nonsense? But what if the man is telling the truth? What if the dragons know he's out there? Rich with the dragon lore of legend, the saint of dragons continues and enlarges on the tale of the centuries-old conflict between dragons and humans that rages even today.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061997315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into human society. Now one lonely schoolboy is about to learn where the dragons have gone ... Educated at boarding schools, Simon St. George has never met his parents. When a ragged-looking man shows up claiming to be his father, Simon is skeptical, and when the man kidnaps him, he's indignant to say the least. Then the man claims to be a descendant of England's Saint George and a career dragon fighter. Why should Simon believe any of this nonsense? But what if the man is telling the truth? What if the dragons know he's out there? Rich with the dragon lore of legend, the saint of dragons continues and enlarges on the tale of the centuries-old conflict between dragons and humans that rages even today.
British Dragons
Author: Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840225075
Category : Dragons
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The notion that witchcraft faded away with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. This text stands in the grand tradition of writing and witchcraft and suggests that magic was alive and well in 19th-century Scotland, as contemporary newspaper reports confirm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840225075
Category : Dragons
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The notion that witchcraft faded away with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. This text stands in the grand tradition of writing and witchcraft and suggests that magic was alive and well in 19th-century Scotland, as contemporary newspaper reports confirm.
The Golden Legend
Author: Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Baal, St. George, and Khidr
Author: Robert D. Miller II
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646020235
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr (“Green One”), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these complicated connections and reveals how, especially in his Middle Eastern guise, St. George is a reincarnation of the Canaanite storm god Baal, another “Green One” who in Ugaritic texts slays dragons. Combining art history, theology, and archeology, this multidisciplinary study demystifies the identity of St. George in his various incarnations, laying bare the processes by which these identifications merged and diverged. Miller traces the origins of this figure in Arabic and Latin texts and explores the possibility that Middle Eastern shrines to St. George lie on top of ancient shrines of the Canaanite storm god Baal. Miller examines these holy places, particularly in modern Israel and around Mount Hermon on the Syrian-Lebanese-Israeli border, and makes the convincing case that direct continuity exists from the Baal of antiquity to the St. George/Khidr of Christian lore. Convincingly argued and thoroughly researched, this study makes a unique contribution to such diverse areas as ancient Near Eastern studies, Roman history and religion, Christian hagiography and iconography, Quranic studies, and Arab folk religion.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646020235
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr (“Green One”), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these complicated connections and reveals how, especially in his Middle Eastern guise, St. George is a reincarnation of the Canaanite storm god Baal, another “Green One” who in Ugaritic texts slays dragons. Combining art history, theology, and archeology, this multidisciplinary study demystifies the identity of St. George in his various incarnations, laying bare the processes by which these identifications merged and diverged. Miller traces the origins of this figure in Arabic and Latin texts and explores the possibility that Middle Eastern shrines to St. George lie on top of ancient shrines of the Canaanite storm god Baal. Miller examines these holy places, particularly in modern Israel and around Mount Hermon on the Syrian-Lebanese-Israeli border, and makes the convincing case that direct continuity exists from the Baal of antiquity to the St. George/Khidr of Christian lore. Convincingly argued and thoroughly researched, this study makes a unique contribution to such diverse areas as ancient Near Eastern studies, Roman history and religion, Christian hagiography and iconography, Quranic studies, and Arab folk religion.
A Short History of the Methodists
Author: Jesse Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Old and New London: a Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places
Author: George Walter Thornbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
History of St. George's Church in the City of New York, 1752-1811-1911
Author: Henry Anstice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description