Using historical evidence and personal accounts, Davis examines the reality of conditions for ordinary actresses, their working environments, employment patterns, and the reasons why acting continued a popular, though insecure, profession.
This is a collection of sermons based on simple yet profound understanding of spiritual themes. It combines intellect and poetry in order to make lessons more memorable and stimulating.
The Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) was one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern era, resulting in a repressive and brutal military dictatorship which lasted for almost forty years.
Jerome Carcopino was born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, France, in 1881. He was a lecturer at the University of Algiers in Algeria before his career was interrupted by World War I. Lecturing at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1920 to 1937, he later became the Director of the French School in Rome. From 1941 to 1942, he was the Minister of National Education and Youth in Vichy France. He died in 1970.
Maude Petre (1864-1942) was an English woman who is best known for her involvement in the movement known as Roman Catholic Modernism, and particularly for her role as literary executor for the well-known 'modernist, ' George Tyrrell. However, this is only part of Maude Petre's story. She herself wrote a number of books and articles on religious and political topics. She worked out her own theology and spirituality at a time when few Catholic l...
This book shows that T.S. Eliot, working in the romantic tradition, deliberately uses ambiguity in language to manifest the realm of ultimate reality. He maintains this technique first to create moments of unmediated experience in his early poetry and, in his later poetry, to express the transcendent in time.
Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem - just a linguistic confusion' that did not actually require a solution. Bruce Aune argues that they are wrong. He casts doubt on the generally accepted reasons for putting the problem aside and proposes an entirely new approach. By considering the history of the prob...
Examining the characteristics of the 19th-century aristocracy, middle class and working classes, this book shows how the late Victorians became politically active. The author also analyzes the moral and religious beliefs of the people of late Victorian Britain.
Late medieval cartulary containing a multitude of deeds relating to Clare and its neighbourhood including the endowment of the friary, begging limits and the violation of the rights of sanctuary.
Joan Cassell is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology of Washington University and the editor of "Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences" (Temple).
