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Like a particularly good detective story this richly textured book follows tantalizing clues in its hunt for a group of missing artistic masterpieces Susan Bell recounts both her long search for a series of sixteenthcentury tapestries that celebrated women and her efforts to understand their meaning for Queen Elizabeth I of England and the other powerful women who owned them Opening a new window on the lives of noblewomen in the Renaissance the brilliantly colored tapestries that were the ultimate artistic luxury of the day and the popular and influential fourteenthcentury writer Christine de Pizan Bell pursues a compelling tale that moves from centuries past to todayThe tapestries around which this story revolves are linked to Christine de Pizans Book of the City of Ladies 1405 orginally published six hundred years ago in 1405 The book is a tribute to women that honors two hundred female warriors scientists queens philosophers and builders of cities Though twentyfive manuscripts of the City of Ladies still exist references to tapestries based on the book are elusive Bell takes us along as she tracks down records of six sets of tapestries whose owners included Elizabeth I of England Margaret of Austria and Anne of Brittany Queen of France Bell examines the intriguing details of these womens livestheir arranged marriages their power their affairs of stateasking what interest they had in owning these particular tapestries Could the tapestries have represented their thinking As she reveals the historical linguistic and cultural aspects of this unique story Bell also gives a fascinating account of medieval and earlyRenaissance tapestry production and of Christine de Pizans remarkable life and legacy
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This book takes actual historical facts and builds real life around the events The chief protagonist is Marie des Neiges de St Denis youngest daughter of Louis Juchereau de St Denis native of Quebec who worked with native inhabitants from Mobile to Natchitoches first permanent settlement in the Louisiana Province He established a trade route deep into Texas and won the respect of the Spanish authorities although they feared his friendship with Indian tribes My story begins with the burial of that great statesman St Denis His youngest daughter is often viewed as a woman too outspoken for her time a womens libber of the 1700s But to know her whole story is to love and respect her She faced hardships beyond those of the average pioneer woman Her romance with the Spanish cavalry officer from nearby Los Adayes capital of Spanish New Spain at that time would seem doomed As Louisiana passed from French to Spanish then back to French and finally turned into an American province in 1803 the DeSoto family and their offspring carved out a life of faith and hard work in spite of roadblocks constantly arising in their lives
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including booklet 2018 release Loreena McKennitts first release of original material since 2006 Lost Souls is a rich and culturally eclectic recording which one has come to expect from this unique artist It is a rich tapestry of contemporary thoughts woven with threads from the Celts to the Bedouins stitched with the sounds of a diverse collection of musical voices including nyckelharpa oud kanoun a military band and flamenco guitar An exotic musical j
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In derelict Dresden a cultivated middleclass family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier surgeon nurse and publisher With evocative detail Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality retreated to nostalgia chose to conform or toed the perilous line between East and West Poetic heartfelt and dramatic The Tower vividly resurrects the sights scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989 Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden After completing his military service he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of political sabotage He was arrested in 1989 but went on to study medicine in Liepzig Dresden and New York later becoming a surgeon He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks In 2008 he won the German Book Prize for The Tower
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Tower Tales from a Lost sold at 23.14 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
In derelict Dresden a cultivated middleclass family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier surgeon nurse and publisher With evocative detail Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality retreated to nostalgia chose to conform or toed the perilous line between East and West Poetic heartfelt and dramatic The Tower vividly resurrects the sights scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled toward November 9 1989
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Discover information, advice, and prices for East of Time Format Paperback sold for 30.34 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Remaining human in the face of lifes greatest threatThis book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantments It unfolds in a succession of reminiscences that weave together a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world The setting is Lodz Poland in the years between the authors childhood and early maturity a period overtaken by the cataclysmic events of the 1930s and early 1940s The narrative approach presents a powerful personal testament and reflects the determination of an entire community to remain human in the face of its greatest peril even at the last frontier of lifeEast of Time received the 2006 New South Wales Premiers Award for the Best Book of NonFiction and was shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Literary Societys Gold Medal and the South Australia Arts Festival Award for Innovation in Literature
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Set in Egypt of the 14th century BCE and piecing together a mosaic of the reigns of the five Amarnan kings threaded through by the memories of princess BeketatenScarab a tapestry unfolds of the royal figures lost in the mists of antiquityA chance discovery in Syria reveals answers to the mystery of the ancient Egyptian sunking the heretic Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti Inscriptions in the tomb of his sister Beketaten otherwise known as Scarab tell a story of life and death intrigue and warfare in and around the golden court of the kings of the glorious 18th dynastyThe narrative of a young girl growing up at the centre of momentous eventsthe abolition of the gods foreign invasion and the fall of a oncegreat familyreveals who Tutankhamens parents really were what happened to Nefertiti and other events lost to history in the great destruction that followed the fall of the Aten heresy
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Writer Scott Snyder BATMAN SWAMP THING and artist Rafael Albuquerque bring together even more threads to the complex tapestry that is the world of AMERICAN VAMPIREWhen we last saw Pearl in the 1950s she had lost her love Henry in an attack on the vampire hunting organization VMS by a coven of Hollywood vampires that nearly wiped the organization off the face of the planetnbsp Devastated and alone Pearl is determained to leave California and all its painful memories behindWhen we meet Pearl again it is in 1960s Kansas an era fraught with fear of nuclear war angry demonstrations and vast social changenbsp What has changed in the years since the VMS attack and where is Skinner SweetCollects AMERICAN VAMPIRE CYCLE TWO 15
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on East of Time sold at 22.03 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Remaining human in the face of lifes greatest threatThis book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantments It unfolds in a succession of reminiscences that weave together a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world The setting is Lodz Poland in the years between the authors childhood and early maturity a period overtaken by the cataclysmic events of the 1930s and early 1940s The narrative approach presents a powerful personal testament and reflects the determination of an entire community to remain human in the face of its greatest peril even at the last frontier of lifeEast of Time received the 2006 New South Wales Premiers Award for the Best Book of NonFiction and was shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Literary Societys Gold Medal and the South Australia Arts Festival Award for Innovation in Literature
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