The Book of Kells - 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 Book of Kells write by Barbara Crooker. This book was released on 2018-12-13. The Book of Kells available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbara Crooker's eighth book of poetry, The Book of Kells, focuses on the illuminated medieval manuscript with a series of meditations on its various aspects, from the ink and pigments used by the scribes and illustrators to the various plants, animals, and figures depicted on its pages, including the punctuation and use of decoration in the capital letters. It also contains poems on the flora and fauna of Ireland (swans, hares, magpies, fuchsia, gorse, crocosmia, etc.) that Crooker encountered during writing residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan. The third thread in this volume is a series of glosas, a fifteenth-century Spanish form that incorporates a quatrain from other poems; here, Irish writers (Yeats, Heaney, O'Driscoll) provide the embedded lines. In her work, Crooker considers the struggle to pin lines to the page, to tie experience to the written word, to wrestle between faith and doubt, to accept the aging body as it tries to be fully alive in the world. Crooker contrasts the age of faith, when the Book of Kells was created, to our modern age of doubt, and uses as her foundation the old stones of Irish myth and lore from pre-Christian times. She juxtaposes a time when the written word was laborious and sacred against our electronic world, where communication by pixel is easy and brief. Above all, she captures the awe that the word inspired in preliterate times: “The world was the Book of God. The alphabet shimmered and buzzed with beauty.”
The Book of Kells
The Book of Kells - 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 Book of Kells write by Ben Mackworth-Praed. This book was released on 2008. The Book of Kells available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Book of Kells' is a richly illustrated medieval manuscript version of the four Gospels, now held in Trinity College in Dublin. This text presents a selection of pages from the book, with explanatory notes placing the pages in context.
Royal Witches
Royal Witches - 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 Royal Witches write by Gemma Hollman. This book was released on 2019-10-07. Royal Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces
Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces - 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 Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces write by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore Europe's top 100 works of art with America's most trusted travel authority, Rick Steves. Travel through time and discover Europe's most iconic paintings, sculptures, and historic buildings. From Venus to Versailles, Apollo to David, and Mona Lisa to The Thinker, Rick and co-author Gene Openshaw will have you marveling, learning, and laughing, one masterpiece at a time. Whether you're traveling to Europe or just dreaming about it, this book both stokes your wanderlust and kindles a greater appreciation of art, with historical context and information on where to see it for yourself. With Rick's trusted insight and gorgeous, full-color photos throughout, Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces celebrates nearly 20,000 years of unforgettable art.
1641 Depositions
1641 Depositions - 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 1641 Depositions write by Aidan Clarke. This book was released on 2014. 1641 Depositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies, mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity, and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents. This body of material is unparalleled anywhere in early modern Europe. It provides a unique source of information for the causes and events surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth- century Ireland, England and Scotland. In total, 19,010 manuscript pages in 31 bound volumes held at Trinity College Dublin have been transcribed and are arranged for publication in 12 volumes from 2014 onwards. The depositions are available online at www.1641.tcd.ie ."--Provided by publisher.
