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Frantic Francis
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ISBN: 1282423789 9786612423789 0803226179 9780803226173 9780803218949 080321894X Year: 2009 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press

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This book tells the little-known story of the man who forever changed the way football is played-and whose coaching lineage can be traced to such current names as Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Mike Holmgren. Frantic Francis offers an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric character whose paranoid, manic, brusque, and profane ways shocked and confused even his players, but whose speedy, deceptive, and imaginative plays remade the sport of football. Although Schmidt's mania eventually sabotaged his career, his legacy was secure and the style he introduced continues to make football one of the most p


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Manières de penser dans l'antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale : mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 9789004175181 9004175180 9786612602481 9047428633 1282602489 9789047428633 Year: 2009 Volume: 134 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Francis Schmidt's works in various fields of religious studies (mainly ancient Judaism), can be characterized by three words: historiography, anthropological history, and comparatism. In that respect he placed himself in the continuation of previous French scholars, such as Maurice Halbwachs or Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Francis Schmidt also played an essential role in transmitting to a new generation of scholars the complex issues and debates concerning the Dead Sea scrolls and Qumranic research. The papers offered in this volume share all the same interest in ancient religions and the methodological devices previously mentioned. They offer a rare example of a large comparatism between Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian approaches of some essential social or intellectual issues, by some of the most competent specialists in each field

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