Antiquities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antiquities write by Cynthia Ozick. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Antiquities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity write by Dirk Rohmann. This book was released on 2016-07-25. Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.
The Reception of Antiquity in Bohemian Book Culture from the Beginning of Printing Until 1547
The Reception of Antiquity in Bohemian Book Culture from the Beginning of Printing Until 1547 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of Antiquity in Bohemian Book Culture from the Beginning of Printing Until 1547 write by Kamil Boldan. This book was released on 2014. The Reception of Antiquity in Bohemian Book Culture from the Beginning of Printing Until 1547 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the historical development and important personalities of the time of transition from manuscript book culture to book printing in the years 1450-1550. The first part of the volume contains a thorough description of historical, social and technical background influencing the development of book printing in Bohemia and Moravia and the impact of book printing production on the contemporary Czech society. The authors described the specific historical conditions in the Kingdom of Bohemia after the pre-reformation Hussite movement. The newly emerged Utraquist confession spread in important parts of Bohemia which led to decrease of social and economic contacts between the Kingdom of Bohemia and Catholic states in Europe. Apart from that the decreased activity of Prague University had negative impact on literacy in Bohemia. These two main reasons were detrimental to the development of book printing in Bohemia. The low quality of first prints was not attractive for educated readers who rather chose better equipped foreign books, mainly in Latin. Book printing in Bohemia soon became a matter of closed Czech speaking public. One of the important consequences of this process was weak reception of humanism and classical antiquity in Czech culture, although the former was partly embraced in Bohemia in previous centuries anyway. The second part of the book presents the first printers and editors of printed books before 1550 with a summary of their publishing activities.
Blacks in Antiquity
Blacks in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blacks in Antiquity write by Frank M. Snowden. This book was released on 1970. Blacks in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Elder Gods of Antiquity
Elder Gods of Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elder Gods of Antiquity write by M. Don Schorn. This book was released on 2008. Elder Gods of Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evolution.
