Exemplary lives [[electronic resource] ] : selected sermons on the saints, from Rheinau / / edited and translated, with an introduction, by James C. Wilkinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451987703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milwaukee, WI, : Marquette University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-87462-393-6; 1-4356-1060-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Collana: Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Series Theology and piety ; ; vol. 3
• Altri autori (Persone): WilkinsonJames C <1954-> (James Chris)
• Disciplina: 282.092/2; B
• Soggetti: Christian saints; Sermons, German; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: title page; copyright page; table of contents; Preface; Foreword; dedication; Introduction; Texts; Saint Andrew; Saint Nicholas; Saint Thomas; Saint Stephen; Candlemas; Saint Benedict; The Feast of the Annunciation; Saint Mark; Saints Peter & Paul; Saint Mary Magdalene; The Feast of the Assumption; The Feast of All Saints; The Feast of All Souls; Saint Catherine; Selected Blbliography & Indices; Selected Bibliography; Index; Scripture Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Located on an island in the Rhine River in Switzerland, near Schaffhausen, Rheinau was the site of a Benedictine abbey with the original patrons St. Mary and St. Peter, and, at a later date, St. Catherine. Rheinau Abbey was founded around 780 AD, with monastic activities of varying degrees of intensity continuing there until 1862. The abbey's scriptorium flourished in the twelfth century. In a fifteenth-century Swiss-German manuscript there is a collection of sermons associated with Rheinau Abbey entitled Die Rheinauer Predigtsammlung. As it is stated in 50 of the Dogmatic Constitution on the

A shark going inland is my chief [[electronic resource] ] : the island civilization of ancient Hawaiʻi / / Patrick Vinton Kirch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462272903321
• Autore: Kirch Patrick Vinton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-282-23392-0; 9786613811660; 0-520-95383-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 996.9/02
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; Electronic books.; Hawaii Civilization; Hawaii Antiquities; Hawaii History To 1893; Hawaii Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Voyages -- pt. 2. In Pele's islands -- pt. 3. The reign of the feathered gods.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago.This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook's encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader ; historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.