The Perfect Servant - 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 Perfect Servant write by Kathryn M. Ringrose. This book was released on 2007-11-01. The Perfect Servant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.
Beauty's Daughter
Beauty's Daughter - 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 Beauty's Daughter write by Eustacia Tan. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Beauty's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when your ‘Happily Ever After’ is a lie? Queen Beauty and King Charming lived happily ever after. At least, until the birth of their daughter. Despite their invitations, none of the fairies show up to give the princess a name-blessing, something Beauty is determined her daughter should receive. Rashly, she decrees that her daughter will either have a name-blessing or no name at all. With that one decision, she unwittingly casts a dark shadow over the land. Growing up, the princess shared her mother's dream of getting a name-blessing, but that's the only thing that they have in common. For everything else, there's the Lady in the Mirror. The Lady listens to her, and unlike her father, isn't afraid to criticise her mother, Beauty. After many years of waiting, the fairies are finally coming, and the princess will do anything to get her name-blessing. Anything
Servant of Beauty
Servant of Beauty - 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 Servant of Beauty write by Sarah Cheney Watson. This book was released on 1999. Servant of Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Life of the Servant
The Life of the Servant - 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 Life of the Servant write by Henry Suso. This book was released on 2014-05-29. The Life of the Servant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'If this is not heaven, I do not know what heaven is, for all the suffering that can ever be put into words, could not enable anyone to earn such a reward and for ever possess it.' A central figure in Christian mystical literature, the Dominican Prior Henry Suso was the author of the seminal work The Life of the Servant. Transcribed by an enlightened amanuensis without his explicit consent, Suso began burning the manuscript until a heavenly missive from God decreed that the text should be spared further desecration. The remaining fragments of that conflagration are vividly resurrected in this volume, elegantly translated by James M. Clark. Suso's subjective account of the spiritual and invisible world, told in prose of unsurpassed poetic beauty, is reflective of the ardent spirituality of his devotion. Informed by severe mortifications, visions, ecstasies and revelations, this canonical text endures as a sublime cultural artefact. Resonating profoundly with contemporary concerns about austerity and materialism, this classic text of mysticism is once again accessible to a new generation of readers and to those existing admirers seeking to re-evaluate its many virtues.
The Servant of All
The Servant of All - 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 Servant of All write by Mrs. Russell Barrington. This book was released on 1927. The Servant of All available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
