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  • Last of the Autumn Rain
    Diana Louise Webb
    AWARD-WINNING AUTHORAn engrossing tale of an uncanny and sometimes frightening life. -Kirkus ReviewsIt was Friday night, September 2, 1983. Julie Cromwell will never forget that shocking day when she lost her best friend, Candice Wentworth, in an upscale oyster bar. No, Candice had not disappeared. She had died when the club’s suspended dance floor gave way, a sudden and seemin...
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    13,44 €

  • Patrons and Defenders
    Diana Webb
    The Cult of the Saints played a vital role in the political life of Italian city states in the Middle Ages. The saints were a unifying force for a city, and brought prestige and power to its rulers, therefore the Cult of the Saints was bound up with the civic agenda, and worship was politically charged. Laymen - able men of affairs, orthodox and 'kirchentreu', increasingly assu...
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    54,50 €

  • Elf Dust To Excellence
    Diana Webb
    The colossal Sistine Chapel features Michelangelo’s stunning masterpieces. His fresco of The Last Judgment serves as a reminder that mankind’s obligation to life is not for personal advantage. No man should ever be used as a means to an end. It is no secret that every living being has a dark secret in the closet-be it living a lie, addiction, betrayal, commission of an undetect...
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  • The Anglo-Florentines
    Diana Webb / Tony Webb
    This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many...
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    43,10 €

  • The Butterfly Cometh
    Diana Webb
    Christel’s WisdomWe live in a world of many wars. Not only pitting brother against brother in a blood battle, we also are living amidst a war on drugs, a war on global warming, a war on Internet crimes, a war on inflating costs and a war within ourselves. But truth tells us that a bullet never trumps a principle, be it a nuclear warhead or pulling a Judas. Socrates said, 'Kn...
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    17,44 €

  • Pilgrimage in Medieval England
    Diana Webb
    The men and women who gathered at the Tabard Inn in Southwark in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are only the most famous of the tens of thousands of English pilgrims, from kings to peasants, who set off to the shrines of saints and the sites of miracles in the middle ages. As they travelled along well-established routes in the hope of a cure or a blessing, to fulfil a vow or to see...
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    66,30 €

  • Saints and cities in medieval Italy
    Diana Webb
    The saints’ Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Here translated into English and in full for the first time, they shed light on the ways in which both lay men and women sought God in the urban environment, and how they were understood and described by contemporaries. Only one of these saints (Homobonus of Cremona) was formally...
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    44,19 €

  • Medieval European Pilgrimage, C.700 - C.1500
    Diana Webb
    This book introduces the reader to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. It sheds light on the varied reasons for which men and women of all classes undertook journeys, which might be long (to Rome, Jerusalem and Compostela) or short (to innumer...
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    68,33 €

  • Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West
    Diana Webb
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    41,68 €