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Prester John: The Legend and its Sources

Prester John: The Legend and its Sources

The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts spanning a time period from the Crusades to the Enlightenment are presented in their original languages and in English translation (for many it is the first time they have been available in English). The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John ruler of a land teeming with marvels who may come to the aid of Christians in the Levant held an intense grip on the medieval mind from the first references in twelfth-century Crusader literature and into the early-modern period. But Prester John was a man of shifting identity being at different times and for different reasons associated with Chingis Khan and the Mongols with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia with China Tibet South Africa and West Africa. In order to orient the reader each of these iterations is explained in the comprehensive introduction and in the introductions to texts and sections. The introduction also raises a thorny question not often considered: whether or not medieval audiences believed in the reality of Prester John and the Prester John Letter. The book is completed with three valuable appendices: a list of all known references to Prester John in medieval and early modern sources a thorough description of the manuscript traditions of the all-important Prester John Letter and a brief description of Prester John in the history of cartography. | Prester John: The Legend and its Sources

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John Henry Newman: Theology &

John Henry Newman: Theology &

This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one hundred years ago his influence on today’s thinking is still strong. Like Sir Thomas More with his Utopia Newman put forward an ideal of society and life which has a recognizable relation to the lasting possibilities open to humankind. First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. | John Henry Newman: Theology &

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John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis (1616-1703) was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg the Secretary of the Royal Society Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory the building of organs the phenomena of resonance and other musical topics. | John Wallis: Writings on Music

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The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

John Donne (1572-1631) is firmly fixed in the canon of English literature. No man is an island and For whom the bell tolls are just two of his phrases known by virtually everyone. The Poems of John Donne is a two volume edition of Donne’s poems based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne’s output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to change his writing according to context and occasion. This edition presents the text of all his known poems from the epigrams songs and satires written for fellow young men about town to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. Volume One contains the Epigrams Verse Letters to Friends Love Lyrics Love Elegies and Satires. | The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

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John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

John Hick is considered to be one of the greatest living philosophers of religion. Hick's philosophical journey has culminated in the grand proposal that we should see all the major world religions as equally valid responses to the same ultimate reality (the 'Real'). This book presents a critical introduction to John Hick's speculative theology and philosophy. The book begins where Hick began with the problems of religious language and ends where Hick is now exploring the questions of religious plurality. Incorporating early aspects that Hick himself would now wish to qualify as well as explanations that reflect Hick's present focus Cheetham offers some speculative reflections of his own on key topics highlighting Hick's influence on contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. All those studying the work of this great philosopher and theologian will find this new introduction offers an invaluable overview along with fresh critical insight. | John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

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John Cage's Theatre Pieces

John Cage's Theatre Pieces

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion prepared piano and electronic music but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is a blurring of the distinctions between music dance literature art and everyday life. Here William Fetterman examines the majority of those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952 and continuing through 1992. Much of the information in this study comes from previously undocumented material discovered among the unpublished scores and notes of Cage and his frequent collaborator David Tudor as well as author's interviews with Cage and with individuals closely associated with his work including David Tudor Merce Cunningham Bonnie Bird Mary Caroline Richards and Ellsworth Snyder. | John Cage's Theatre Pieces

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John of Damascus New Studies on his Life and Works

John of Damascus New Studies on his Life and Works

For more than five hundred years the life and work of John of Damascus (c. 655-c. 745) have been the subject of a very extensive literature scholarly and popular in which it is often difficult to get one’s bearings. Through the studies included here (of which 6 appear in a translation into English made specially for this volume) Vassa Kontouma provides a critical review of this literature and attempts to answer several open questions: the author and date of composition of the official Life of John the philosophical significance of the Dialectica (a study which has its first publication here) the original structure of the Exposition of the Orthodox faith the identity of ps. Cyril the authenticity of the Letter on Great Lent and questions of Mariology. She also opens new vistas for research along four main lines: the life of John of Damascus and its sources Neochalcedonian philosophy systematic theology in Byzantium and Christian practices under the Umayyads. | John of Damascus New Studies on his Life and Works

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John Crowne His Life and Dramatic Works

John Crowne His Life and Dramatic Works

Originally published in 1922 this book gives an account of the life and dramatic works of the now little known and less studied Restoration playwright John Crowne. The study consists of three parts. In the first the author has traced the life of Crowne more minutely than has hitherto been attempted. In the second discusses Crowne's plays' the date of production and publication the circumstances connected with the writing the sources and the manner in which they are used. Finally the third part is a critical summary of Crowne's tragedies and comedies and an estimate of his importance as a playwright. | John Crowne His Life and Dramatic Works

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John McDowell

John McDowell

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years. His engagement with a philosophy of language mind and ethics and with philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Hegel and Gadamer make him one of the most original and outstanding philosophical thinkers of the post-war period. In this clear and engaging book Tim Thornton introduces and examines the full range of McDowell's thought. After a helpful introduction setting out McDowell's general view of philosophy Thornton introduces and explains the following topics: Wittgenstein on philosophy normativity and understanding; value judgements; theories of meaning and sense; singular thought and Cartesianism; perceptual experience and knowledge disjunctivism and openness to the world; Mind and World the content of perceptual experience and idealism; action and the debate with Hubert Dreyfus on conceptual content and skilled coping. This second edition has been significantly revised and expanded to include new sections on: McDowell's work on disjunctivism and criticisms of it; a new chapter on McDowell's modification of his account of perceptual experience and conceptual content and criticisms by Charles Travis; and a new chapter on action and McDowell's engagement with Hubert Dreyfus and the debate concerning skilled coping and mindedness. The addition of a glossary and suggestions for further reading makes John McDowell second edition essential reading for those studying McDowell philosophy of language philosophy of mind ethics and epistemology as well as for students of the recent history of analytical philosophy generally.

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Two Discourses of the Navy 1638 and 1659 by John Hollond

Two Discourses of the Navy 1638 and 1659 by John Hollond

John Hollond had a chequered career as a naval administrator punctuated by his charges of corruption against his colleagues circulated in these two manuscripts and their counter-charges against him but his Discourses are uniquely informative. There is also printed Sir Robert Slyngesbie’s Discourse of the Navy written in 1660 when he had just become Controller for the information of Charles II and a number of other documents which amplify or explain Hollond’s narrative. | Two Discourses of the Navy 1638 and 1659 by John Hollond

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The Music of John Ireland

The Music of John Ireland

This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization in part because it is linked so closely to specific events places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism paganism the countryside the city love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual struggling with his religious beliefs his sexuality and an uncertainty as to his success. His music often an expression of a state of mind is given for the first time the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.

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The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career using the idea of exorcism to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what why and how we build which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the phenomenology found in architectural experiences. Three distinct eras in his architectural career are applied to analogies of outlines apparitions and angels throughout the book across seven chapters. Using these thematic examples the author investigates the progression of thought and depth inside the architect’s imagination by studying key projects such as the Texas houses Wall House Architectural Masques and his final works. Featuring comments by Gloria Fiorentino Hejduk Stanley Tigerman Steven Holl Zaha Hadid Charles Jencks Phyllis Lambert Juhani Pallasmaa Toshiko Mori and others this book brings to life the intricacies in the mind of John Hejduk and would be beneficial for those interested in architecture and design in the 20th century. | The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

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John II Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium In the Shadow of Father and Son

John II Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium In the Shadow of Father and Son

The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century Constantinople. What else do we know about John’s rule and its period? This volume opens up new perspectives on John’s reign and clearly demonstrates that many innovations generally attributed to the genius of Manuel Komnenos had already been fostered during the reign of the second great Komnenos. Leading experts on twelfth-century Byzantium (Jeffreys Magdalino Ousterhout) are joined by representatives of a new generation of Byzantinists to produce a timely and invaluable study of the unjustly neglected figure of John Komnenos. | John II Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium In the Shadow of Father and Son

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Trauma and Loss Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive

Trauma and Loss Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive

During his lifetime John Bowlby the founder of attachment theory was unable to publish as he wished due to strong opposition to his ideas. Now with the support of the Bowlby family several complete and near-complete works from the John Bowlby Archive at the Wellcome Collection are published for the first time. The collection spans Bowlby’s thinking from his early ideas to later reflections and is split into four parts. Part 1 includes essays on the topic of loss mourning and depression outlining his thoughts on the role of defence mechanisms. Part 2 covers Bowlby’s ideas around anxiety guilt and identification including reflections on his observations of and work with evacuated children. Part 3 features three seminars on the subject of conflict in which Bowlby relates clinical concepts to both political philosophy and psychoanalysis in innovative ways. Part 4 consists of Bowlby’s later reflections on trauma and loss and on his own work as a therapist. This remarkable collection not only clarifies Bowlby’s relationship with psychoanalysis but features his elaboration of key concepts in attachment theory and important moments of self-criticism. It will be essential reading for clinicians researchers and others interested in human development relationships and adversity. | Trauma and Loss Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive

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The Reformation of England's Past John Foxe and the Revision of History in the Late Sixteenth Century

The Reformation of England's Past John Foxe and the Revision of History in the Late Sixteenth Century

This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources helps us to better understand what it was that Foxe was trying to do and how he came to achieve his aims. A focus on sources also highlights the collaborative circle in which Foxe worked recognizing the essential role of other scholars and clerics such as John Bale and Matthew Parker. | The Reformation of England's Past John Foxe and the Revision of History in the Late Sixteenth Century

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Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics Essays in Honor of John V. Krutilla

Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics Essays in Honor of John V. Krutilla

This book first published in 1988 provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems and theoretical issues and resource policies and the practice of applied welfare economics. This title will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies. | Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics Essays in Honor of John V. Krutilla

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The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor president educator philosopher should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History American Religion Reformed Theology and Calvinism as well as Scottish and American history more generally. | The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

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Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

The educational writings of John Macmurray one of the finest 20th century philosophers of his generation have a special relevance for us today. In similar circumstances of international crisis he argued for the central importance of education addressing fundamental issues of human purpose - how we lead good lives together the emphasis on wisdom rather than knowledge alone the advancement of a truly democratic culture and the overriding importance of community in human flourishing. This remarkable collection of articles from leading international scholars includes the hitherto unpublished John Macmurray lecture – Learning to be Human – and brings together invited contributions from a range of fields and disciplines (e. g. philosophy of education moral philosophy care ethics history of education theology religious education future studies and learning technologies) and a number of countries across the world (e. g. Australia the UK and the USA). Countering overemphasis on technique and its typical separation from wider human purposes emblematic of much of our current malaise this book asks what it might mean to take the education of persons seriously and how such a perspective helps us to form judgments about the nature and worth of contemporary education policy and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education. | Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

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The Building of an American Catholic Church The Episcopacy of John Carroll

The Building of an American Catholic Church The Episcopacy of John Carroll

Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in the English speaking new world. But the Catholic Church could not take advantage of this opportunity unless it shook off some of its old world characteristics and became accustomed to the American environment. This study attempts to analyse the very nature of American Catholicism by investigating the impact of the American environment on the development of the Catholic Church in American during the episcopacy of John Carroll. This title will be of interest to students of history and religious studies. | The Building of an American Catholic Church The Episcopacy of John Carroll

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John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies gender science and visual studies this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores Ruskin’s different ideologies such as the adorned wall veil which were instrumental in bringing focus to structures that were previously unconsidered. John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture examines the ways in which Ruskin perceives the evolution of architecture through the idea that architecture is surface. The creative act in architecture analogous to the divine act of creation was viewed as a form of dressing. By adding highly aesthetic features to designs taking inspiration from the 'veil' of women’s clothing Ruskin believed that buildings could be transformed into meaningful architecture. This volume discusses the importance of Ruskin’s surface theory and the myth of feminine architecture and additionally presents a competing theory of textile analogy in architecture based on morality and gender to counter Gottfried Semper’s historicist perspective. This book would be beneficial to students and academics of architectural history and theory gender studies and visual studies who wish to delve into Ruskin’s theories and to further understand his capacity for thinking beyond the historical methods. The book will also be of interest to architectural practitioners particularly Ruskin’s theory of surface architecture.

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John Williams: Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar Performance perception education and construction

John Williams: Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar Performance perception education and construction

This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams. Beginning with an examination of Andrés Segovia and his influence upon Williams’ life’s work a further three incisive chapters cover key areas such as performance perception education and construction considering social and cultural contexts of the guitar over the past century. A final chapter on new directions in classical guitar examines the change in reception of the instrument from the mid-1970s to the present day and Williams’ impact upon what might be termed ‘standard classical guitar repertoire’. With in-depth discussion of the cultural and perceptual impact of Williams’ more daring crossover projects and numerous musical examples this is an informative reference for all classical guitar practitioners as well as scholars and researchers of guitar studies reception studies cultural musicology and performance studies. An online lecture by the author and a transcript of the author’s interview with John Williams are also available as e-resources. | John Williams: Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar Performance perception education and construction

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All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

This book uses original resources to uncover the valuable help given to Britain’s leaders and her elite by the Scot John Drummond of Quarrel. It reveals why he proved indispensable as a special consultant and counsellor to statesmen nobles and businessmen shows his devotion to the 1707 Union and how he fed expansion of Britain’s Empire while spying on her enemies. His professionalism learned from the renascent culture of his beloved Scotland benefitted commercial society in Britain and Holland. The volume argues that his contribution to a momentous much discussed era was extraordinary and his activities boosted exchange of global knowledge to the particular benefit of Scotland. | All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

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The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake Vol. II

The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake Vol. II

Leake (1656-1720) was one of the most prominent flag officers of King William and Queen Anne’ s wars. He played a leading part in the relief of Londonderry in 1689 fought at Bantry Bay Beachy Head La Hogue and Malaga twice relieved Gibraltar captured Cartagena Alicante Ibiza Majorca Minorca and Sardinia was five times Admiral of the Fleet and in the end declined to be First Lord of the Admiralty. This life was written by the admiral’s nephew Stephen Martin-Leake Garter King of Arms whose life of his father (Vol 5) was originally appended to it. This continues his Mediterranean command in Barcelona Cartagena Mallorca Ibiza and proceedings at Alicante. There are then his activities in command of the fleet in the Channel in 1707 and the trial of Sir Thomas Hardy. In 1713 he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet for the 4th time and was subsequently to be appointed for the 5th time. With death of Queen Anne and the accession of King George ‘Sir John was removed from all his places’. He retired and lived privately until his death in 1720. | The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake Vol. II

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