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Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (Kramer Johanna)(Pevná vazba)

From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saints' Lives flourished. The Latin narratives followed specific forms, dramatizing a virgin's heroic resolve or a martyr's unwavering faith under torture

Holy Shocking Saints - The Extraordinary Lives of Twelve Irish Saints (Quinn Sine)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable

The Old English Poems of Cynewulf (Cynewulf)(Pevná vazba)

The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth centuries, are unusual because most vernacular poems in this period are anonymous. Other than the name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even the most basic facts of where or when he

The Lives of Saints (Bardugo Leigh)(Pevná vazba)

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone. As seen in the show, bring home this artifact from the world, complete with stunning full-color illustrations alongside stories of the Grishaverse's most infamous saints, including Sankta Alina of the Fold, The

New English Hymnal Words Edition (English Hymnal Co)(Pevná vazba)

Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms, and a new English folk mass

Old Testament Narratives (Anlezark Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet tragic Eve, to Moses

Lives of Saints: As seen in the Netflix original series, Shadow and Bone (Bardugo Leigh)(Pevná vazba)

Enter the world of the Grishaverse and Shadow and Bone, soon to be a Netflix original series! Dive into the epic world of international bestselling author Leigh Bardugo with this beautifully illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt'ya, featuring tales of saints drawn from the

Hebrew-English Interlinear Old Testament-ESV (Blair Thom)(Pevná vazba)

The Hebrew-English Interlinear ESV Old Testament is an essential volume for all who study the Old Testament in the original Hebrew. On each page the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Hebrew text is laid out word-by-word above an English gloss showing the basic meaning and morphology of each

How Do You Live? (Yoshino Genzaburo)(Pevná vazba)

The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over two million copies and inspired anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, The Boy and the Heron), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You

Pear of Hope (Shurety Wenda)(Pevná vazba)

Anna loves the old pear tree that lives at the bottom of the garden. When she becomes seriously ill, her relationship with the tree provides comfort and peace on her journey, particularly when she plants a seed from one of the tree's pears.Pear of Hope is the story of a little girl with cancer and

The Complete Old English Poems (Williamson Craig)(Pevná vazba)

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve,

Septuagint with Apocrypha-PR-Greek/English (Brenton Lancelot C. L.)(Pevná vazba)

This edition of 'The Septuagint with Apocrypha' (the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament and the apocryphal books of the same linguistic origin) gives the complete Greek text along with a parallel English translation by Brenton.From the PrefaceThis edition of the Septuagint,

Flavours of England: English Breakfast (Davies Gilli)(Pevná vazba)

The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints (De Voragine Jacobus)(Paperback)

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose

Tattooed Beauties: The World's Most Beautiful Tattoo Models: English Edition (Saint Christian)(Pevná vazba)

Tattooed Beauties - star photographer Christian Saint's best book yet. Perfect photos, masterfully produced with 50 of the world's most beautiful tattoo models. The photo book shows lots of naked flesh, together with the most ingenious tattoos. Five stars each for the best photographer, most

All Natural Beauties: English Edition (Koons Adam)(Pevná vazba)

We'd rather grow old ungracefully 'Why should we women grow old gracefully? Better to stay young ungracefully.' (Olga Chekhova). That's what 'All Natural Beauties' is all about. Pretty, fresh, natural Graces - free and wild as nature created them. Fully aware of their seductive beauty, they

Schooldays: Best Days of Our Lives (Phinn Gervase)(Pevná vazba)

A Dictionary of Hiberno English (Dolan Terence)(Pevná vazba)

The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English - the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects the spoken and the written language, and is a unique national dictionary that bears witness to Irish history, struggles and the creative identities found

Hummingbird (Hughes Tristan)(Pevná vazba)

Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen year old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely and isolated life with his father. His only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, and an expert in

Book of Wonders - The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements (Wardhaugh Benjamin)(Pevná vazba)

Ich Sehe: (English / German Edition) (Kruse Kthe)(Pevná vazba)

Headlines and Soundtracks K the Kruse (born 1958 in B nde; lives and works in Berlin) was a member of the legendary avant-garde artist group Die T dliche Doris or TheDeadly Doris. Based on music from West Berlin and situated there in the 1980s, the collective occupied all branches of art such as