Tag: Angels

The Anger of Angels


Free Download Sherryl Jordan, "The Anger of Angels"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1525286250 | EPUB | pages: 372 | 1.0 mb
”Words hold a terrible power. They can break a heart, or give it a reason to live. They can grant freedom – or begin a war.” In a world where it is a crime to speak against injustice, a jester dares to perform a play that enrages a powerful tyrant prince. The jester’s daughter, Giovanna, must journey into the heart of danger to turn back the terrible consequences unleashed by her father’s words – and becomes entangled in a treacherous Description to overthrow the prince. She alone holds a secret which, if made public, will end the prince’s reign and liberate his oppressed people. But when to openly denounce him brings certain death, will Giovanna have the courage to speak out?

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The Envy of Angels Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200


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2013 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0812200306 | PDF | 30 MB
Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "letters and manners" (litterae et mores), which asserts a pedagogic program as broad as the modern "letters and science." The main instrument of what C. Stephen Jaeger calls "charismatic pedagogy" was the master’s personality, his physical presence radiating a transforming force to his students. In The Envy of Angels, Jaeger explores this intriguing chapter in the history of ideas and higher learning and opens a new view of intellectual and social life in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Europe.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul Angels and the Miraculous 101 Inspirational Stories of Faith, Miracles and Answered Prayers


Free Download Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and the Miraculous: 101 Inspirational Stories of Faith, Miracles and Answered Prayers by Amy Newmark
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 161159104X | 368 pages | PDF | 7.10 Mb
These true stories of angels and miracles will strengthen your faith and remind you that good things do happen to good people!

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Milton’s Angels The Early-Modern Imagination


Free Download Joad Raymond, "Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination"
English | 2013 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 0199657718, 0199560501 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Milton’s Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton’s narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background.

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