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Mysticism --- Apocalyptic literature --- Throne of God --- Judaism --- 296*64 --- -Apocalyptic literature --- God --- Merkava --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- 296*64 Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Throne --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Throne of God. --- Judaism.

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Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction-or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of his birthright, Giannino claims for himself the name Jean I, king of France, and sets out on a brave-if ultimately ruinous-quest that leads him across Europe to prove his identity. With the skill of a crime scene detective, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri digs up evidence in the historical record to follow the story of a life so incredible that it was long considered a literary invention of the Italian Renaissance. From Italy to Hungry, then through Germany and France, the would-be king's unique combination of guile and earnestness seems to command the aid of lords and soldiers, the indulgence of inn-keepers and merchants, and the collusion of priests and rogues along the way. The apparent absurdity of the tale allows Carpegna Falconieri to analyze late-medieval society, exploring questions of essence and appearance, being and belief, at a time when the divine right of kings confronted the rise of mercantile culture. Giannino's life represents a moment in which truth, lies, history, and memory combine to make us wonder where reality leaves off and fiction begins.

Impostors and imposture --- Charlatans --- Imposters --- Pretenders --- Crime --- Criminals --- Europe --- Kings and rulers. --- History --- italian renaissance, history, giannino di guccio, louis x, lost heir, pretender to the throne, monarchy, royalty, cardinal, hundred years war, france, politics, biography, territory, rome, dictator, switched at birth, merchant, birthright, king, identity, quest, italy, hungary, germany, mercantile culture, divine right, belief, essence, appearance, being, imposture, impostors, capetian line, genealogy, nonfiction.

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Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain; and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley's The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh appraisal of James Stuart's reign. Looking at both established and little-known plays and playwrights, Theatre and empire rewrites our understanding of the political and cultural context of the Jacobean stage.

Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Political plays, English --- Theater --- Politics and literature --- English drama --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- In literature. --- Historiography. --- Empire. --- England. --- English throne. --- Great Britain. --- Jacobean empire. --- Jacobean. --- King James VI. --- King James. --- London stages. --- Middleton. --- Rowley. --- Scotland. --- Shakespeare. --- Theatre. --- drama. --- dramatic material. --- early modern history. --- foreign policy. --- plays. --- political culture. --- public opinion. --- stage. --- theatre companies.

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Volume VIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Wild Gallant, Rival Ladies, and Indian Queen.

English drama --- English drama (Comedy) --- Dryden, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Dryden, John --- Drāydan, Jawn, --- Dryden, --- Author of Absalom & Achitophel, --- Author of Absalom and Achitophel, --- Absalom & Achitophel, Author of, --- Drydon, John, --- Bays, --- Bayes, --- Person of quality, --- D-n, --- Driden, John, --- Drajden, Džon, --- Драјден, Џон, --- aristocracy. --- arranged marriage. --- british literature. --- classic. --- courtship. --- cross dressing. --- drama. --- dramatic verse. --- family feud. --- fate. --- incest. --- indies. --- latin america. --- libertine. --- love triangle. --- love. --- lovers. --- marriage. --- mexico. --- mistaken identity. --- montezuma. --- passion. --- peru. --- play. --- political rivalry. --- prophet. --- rake. --- restoration comedy. --- ribald. --- rightful heir. --- romance. --- royalty. --- seduction. --- sex. --- sexual comedy. --- shipwreck. --- succession. --- suicide. --- theater. --- throne. --- tragicomedy. --- usurper.

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This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiʿur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.

Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Mysticism --- Merkava. --- Translations into Church Slavic --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- Apocalypse of Abraham --- Slavonic book of Enoch --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- -Mysticism --- -229*210 --- 229*224 --- 229*224 Apocalypse van Abraham --- Apocalypse van Abraham --- 229*210 II Henoch (Slavische Henoch) --- II Henoch (Slavische Henoch) --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Old Testament apocryphal books --- Pseudepigraphal books (Old Testament) --- Translations into Slavic --- -History and criticism. --- 2 Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Second Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Book of Enoch, --- Book of the secrets of Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Secrets of Enoch, Book of the --- Slavonic Enoch, Book of the --- Bible. --- 2nd Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Slavisches Henochbuch (Apocryphal book) --- Slawisches Henochbuch (Apocryphal book) --- Slavonic apocalypse of Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Livre des secrets d'Hénoch (Apocryphal book) --- Knigy otkrovlenii︠a︡ Avrami︠e︡ --- Abraham, Apocalypse of --- Merkava --- 229*210 --- Maʻaśeh merkavah (Jewish mysticism) --- Merkabah --- Merkavah --- Throne of God --- Translations into Church Slavic&delete& --- History and criticism --- Judaism --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Translations into Church Slavic - History and criticism. --- Mysticism - Judaism.