LIBROS DEL AUTOR: patrick geary

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  • Roxie
    Patrick Geary
    Blue has never left the state of Maryland. Smith has never been in love. By the end of the next week, neither of these statements will still be true.Roxie alternates between Blue's story in urban Baltimore and Smith's in rural Mississippi, following the ten days that will transform their lives forever. Things have never really changed for Blue—same friends, same jobs, s...
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    14,20 €

  • Women at the Beginning
    Patrick J. Geary / Patrick JGeary
    In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as...
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    38,26 €

  • The Myth of Nations
    Patrick J. Geary
    Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a ...
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    43,44 €

  • Phantoms of Remembrance
    Patrick J. Geary / Patrick JGeary
    In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past ...
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    62,60 €

  • Furta Sacra
    Patrick J. Geary / Patrick JGeary
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ...
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    50,26 €