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Meet David Shapsdale. An entertainer with high class. A maven of fine wines. A lover of English literature. A charming intellectual. And a man with a shadowy past in a faraway country. On a cold winter’s night in his adopted homeland, as David hosts a lavish party for many powerful friends, a mysterious yet familiar guest arrives. David happily welcomes the young man, believing that he comes as an old friend who, to his pleasant surprise, has survived what the popular society figure calls “the greatest inevitability.” In reality, the plans of the unexpected figure prove to be something greater and more terrifying than anything that David could have anticipated. The Second Greatest Inevitability takes the reader through a twisted road of past and present, of objective reality and distorted propaganda. As the world dwells in darkness and violence, something hopeful comes as a thief in the night.
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. It focuses on a figure little-studied in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. Visual and material culture, relics and texts track the gradual social and ideological transformation of Byzantium from early Christianity until the fifteenth century. This book not ...
Enth. S.1 - 29: The violin and bow - origins and development / John Dilworth
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