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Roasting the Pig
A Vision of Cluny, Cockaigne and the Treatise of Garci ...
by Morris, Paul N.
This thesis, examining the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo, explores the connection between the legend of Cockaigne and its connection with the powerful monastic foundation of Cluny. The Treatise was wr ...
Calomel in America
Mercurial Panacea, War, Song and Ghosts
by Swiderski, Richard M.
Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew into a primary gesture, both medical and commercial, ...
Late Mamluk Patronage
Qansuh al-Ghuri's Waqfs and His Foundations in Cairo
by Alhamzah, Khaled A.
This book attempts to look at the structure and functions of the constituent elements of the Ghuriyya complex through the medium of contemporary sources --in particular its waqfiyya--and in doi ...
Commissar and Mullah
Soviet-Muslim Policy from 1917 to 1924
by Roberts, Glenn L.
During the revolutionary period the Soviets came into political and cultural conflict with Russia’s Muslims. Despite indications that the majority of Muslims desired political unification based on t ...
Terranova
The Spanish Cod Fishery on the Grand Banks of Newfound ...
by García-Orellán, Rosa
Terranova is the story of Spain’s twentieth-century industrial cod fishery on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. It combines oral history (including interviews with over 300 participants in the f ...
Kul'tura Kosmosa
The Russian Popular Culture of Space Exploration
by Thomas, Andrew
This thesis argues that there is a popular culture of space exploration characteristic of a wider Russia; its roots lie in pagan times and it grew through Orthodox Christianity and Soviet Communism to ...
Custer's Bugler
The Life of John Martin (Giovanni Martino)
by Solimine, Leo
Custer's Bugler is an examination into the life of John Martin (born Giovanni Martino). Abandoned as a baby, he marched with Garibaldi before coming to America; within 3 years, Martino (now Mar ...
X-Ray Vision
A Way of Looking
by Swiderski, Richard M.
X-ray vision at first was the revival of the phantasmagoria and ground-penetrating sight of earlier centuries attached to the new technology of X-rays in the early twentieth century. The image-idea ...
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