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The Catholicisms of Coutances is a richly detailed account of France from the Hundred Years' War to the French revolution. Coining the word "catholicisms" to denote the complex varieties of religious beliefs and practices within the Church, J. Michael Hayden presents a detailed analysis of the diocese of Coutances - chosen because of the unusually large number of records available - to shed light on the many ways in which religion developed and affected life in early modern France. Opening with a geographical and chronological sketch of the diocese, Hayden describes the catholicisms of mid-fourteenth century Coutances, discussing their evolution and effects over four hundred years. Employing a wide array of primary sources, the book provides a meticulous study that includes qualitative analyses of papal and diocesan documents and synodal statutes, a quantitative analysis of ordination and pastoral visit records, and a combination of both forms of analysis of the cahiers prepared for the Estates General of 1789. The Catholicisms of Coutances is an innovative contribution to contemporary understandings of Catholic beliefs and practices in the early modern period and their profound effect on the people of a diocese.
History --- aCatholic Church. --- Coutances (France) --- Religion. --- Church history.
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For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. 'Play to the edge' was Hayden's guiding principle when he ran the National Security Agency, and it remained so when he ran CIA. How did American intelligence respond to terrorism, a major war and the most sweeping technological revolution in the last 500 years ? What was NSA before 9/11 and how did it change in its aftermath ? Why did NSA begin the controversial terrorist surveillance program that included the acquisition of domestic phone records ? What else was set in motion during this period that formed the backdrop for the infamous Snowden revelations in 2013 ? As Director of the CIA in the last three years of the Bush administration, Hayden had to deal with the rendition, detention, and interrogation program as bequeathed to him by his predecessors. He also had to ramp up the agency to support its role in the targeted killing program that began to dramatically increase in July 2008. Hayden freely acknowledges that the CIA helped turn the American security establishment into the most effective killing machine in the history of armed conflict. General Hayden's goals are in writing this book are simple and unwavering : No apologies. No excuses. Just what happened. And why.
Polemology --- United States --- PolemologyUnited States --- United States of America
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Education --- Historians --- Historiens --- Biography --- Biographies --- Neatby, Hilda, --- Canada --- Intellectual life --- History --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire
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Making use of the only records available - pastoral visits and synodal statutes - the authors introduce fresh evidence and interpretations. They shed new light on the medieval origins of the Catholic Reformation and the nature of the reform movement in the sixteenth century. Their work shows the importance of French bishops in starting the early-modern reform and their subsequent role in preparing the Catholic Church to weather the French Revolution. They also explore both the role of the French monarchy in the creation and collapse of the Catholic Reformation, and the changing attitude of peasants and the proto-proletariat toward official religion.
Church renewal --- Bishops --- Christianity --- Church --- Church reform --- Reform of the church --- Renewal of the church --- Religious awakening --- Archbishops --- Clergy --- Major orders --- Metropolitans --- Orders, Major --- Chaplains, Bishops' --- Episcopacy --- History. --- Catholic Church --- Renewal --- Reform --- France --- Church history. --- 27 <44> "13/17" --- Catholic Church&delete& --- History --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--?"13/17" --- Renouveau de l'Église --- Évêques --- Histoire. --- Église catholique --- Histoire religieuse. --- Christian church history --- History of France --- anno 1200-1799 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교
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Civilization is often equated with the story of human advancement and progress. Yet it is also the story of human oppression, exploitation, war, and empire. In our own time, modern global civilization has brought us to the brink of planetary destruction. By offering an understanding of our past, this book aims to provide a stimulus to considering a different future. Our Shadowed World considers how we have been brought to this point. It describes how the fragmented and conflicted state of humanity has "progressed" from the earliest city-states to the devastation of world war and holocaust--how civilization has brought its own form of savagery. What beliefs have underlain and motivated human action? How have humans tried to understand their world? Driven by the relentless quest for power, by greed, and by extreme beliefs, the human enterprise today has placed the very idea of civilization under threat, the subject of radical questioning. Despite a new ecological awareness dedicated to saving the planet from civilization's carelessness, and a preoccupation with the nature of apocalyptic thinking, a question mark looms over the very survival of humanity in its present state--a question mark that now overshadows the world. --
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Medical genetics. --- Genetics, Medical --- Examination questions.
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Genetics, Medical --- Genetics, Medical --- Medical genetics. --- Examination questions. --- Outlines.
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Travel demand modelling is an essential process to facilitate the decisions of transportation planners. This is typically performed through either the traditional four-step model or activity-based models. However, both of these models require the acquisition of household travel surveys, which can be costly to implement, and other socioeconomic data. Furthermore, trip-based models in particular rely on aggregate data, which has several associated shortcomings. This master’s thesis proposes an alternative methodology for determining travel demand within a region. This framework relies on open-source data, in particular from OpenStreetMap.com, and is therefore far less costly to implement. The data also allows for prior assumptions to be updated or checked, when information pertinent to those assumptions is available. To achieve this, a system of extracting useful points of interest from the plethora of data available on OpenStreetMap is proposed. Afterwards, based on data from key-figures, a method for producing a synthetic population of trips through rejection sampling is proposed. Both the benefits and disadvantages of this model over the traditional four-step model and activity-based models are discussed. An attempt to implement the model for the region of Leuven, Belgium is then performed. Firstly, a layer of points of interest is extracted using the proposed methodology, utilising QGIS as the software of choice. Afterwards, production and attraction factors are estimated based on key figures for Flanders, and a crude approximation of production and attraction is performed. Errors in both the POI layer extraction, and production and attraction estimates are discussed. At the time of writing, the goal of creating a sample population which can be compared to existing data has not come to fruition.
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