The Saint and the Count

The Saint and the Count

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  • Author: Leah Shopkow
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1487538235
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.


Saint and the Count

Saint and the Count

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  • Author: Leah Shopkow
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1487525869
  • Category : Christian hagiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.


The Comte de St Germain

The Comte de St Germain

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  • Author: Isabel Cooper Oakley
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Freemasonry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318


Madame Blavatsky on the Count de Saint-Germain

Madame Blavatsky on the Count de Saint-Germain

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  • Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Publisher: Philaletheians UK
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 19

Count de Saint-Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen in last centuries of the last millennium. He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such claim. He was a pupil of Indian and Egyptian hierophants, and proficient in the secret wisdom and arts of the East. Saint-Germain is, until this very time, a living mystery. And the Rosicrucian Thomas Vaughan, another one. Together with Mesmer, he belonged to the Lodge of the Philalethes. Like all great men, the Count was slandered and lied about. Saint-Germain was a “fifth rounder,” a rare case of abnormally precocious individual evolution. He was sent by Louis XV to England, in 1760, to negotiate peace between the two countries. Before and during the French Revolution, the Count puzzled and almost terrified every capital of Europe, and some crowned Heads. Saint-Germain predicted in every detail the social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. In fact, it was he who brought about the just outbreak among the paupers, and put an end to the selfish tyranny of the French kings. The Count’s temperamental affinity to the celestial science forced the Himalayan Adepts to come into personal relations with him. When True Magic has finally died out in Europe, Saint-Germain and Cagliostro, sought refuge from the frozen-hearted scepticism in their native land of the East.


The Great Secret Count St. Germain

The Great Secret Count St. Germain

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  • Author: Raymond Bernard
  • Publisher: Health Research Books
  • ISBN: 9780787300951
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 106

The Rosicrucian adept who preserved his youth for centuries. Was Francis Bacon the author of Shakespeare's plays; Editor of King James Version of the Bible; Count Saint-Germain founder of Freemasonry; heir to the English throne; Prince Rakoczy; foun.


Count on the Saint

Count on the Saint

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  • Author: Leslie Charteris
  • Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
  • ISBN: 9781477843086
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The Saint gets more than he bargained for when he tries to help a friendly pastor and he discovers murder when he aids Father Christmas.


Count de Castelneu; Or, Annette de St. Morin

Count de Castelneu; Or, Annette de St. Morin

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  • Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204


Ariadne

Ariadne

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  • Author: Jennifer Saint
  • Publisher: Flatiron Books
  • ISBN: 1250773571
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind? Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.


Italian Letters: The History of the Count de St. Julian

Italian Letters: The History of the Count de St. Julian

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  • Author: William Godwin
  • Publisher: Library of Alexandria
  • ISBN: 1465560157
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153


The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Index A to Eng

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Index A to Eng

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  • Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 994