[PDF] Sepulchre eBook

Author : Kate Mosse
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440634955

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews) In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Léonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds... More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-le- Bains while researching the life of Claude Debussy. Haunted by a Tarot reading she had in Paris-and possessing the mysterious deck of cards-she checks into a grand old hotel built on the site of a famous mountain estate destroyed by fire in 1896. There, the pack of Tarot cards and a piece of 19th-century music known as Sepulchre 1891 hold the key to her fate-just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier.

Author : Martin Biddle
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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More than 250 full-color photographs complement a fascinating look at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the most popular pilgrimage site in Christiandom, in a study that explores the Church's history, the various Christian communities associated with it, and its rich architectural developmen

Author : James Herbert
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330376266

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There is a house that holds a dreadful secret. The Keeper, the psychic and the secret serve a force which threatens mankind itself.

Author : Colin Morris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191520608

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The tomb of Christ at Jerusalem was a vital influence in the making of Western Europe. Pilgrimage there influenced the development of society and its structures. The desire to 'bring the Sepulchre to the West' in copies or memorials shaped art and religion, while the ambition to control Christ's tomb was a central objective of the crusades. Western Europe responded to the loss of Jerusalem by creating a new pilgrimage to the East, by making kingdoms 'holy lands' for their subjects, and by creating new pilgrim centres at home. This book brings together social, political, and religious themes often considered in isolation.

Author : Cristina Dondi
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College, London under the title: The liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (XII-XVI centuries).

Author : Justin L. Kelley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789690579

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This book studies the archaeological record of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, surveying past excavations as well as recent research carried out within the church over the past three decades. An archaeological survey provides historical context for the second part of the book—a collection of primary sources pertinent to the history of the church.

Author : Mel Starr
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782643079

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'Sir Hugh is in top form tracking down the wily killer of local clerics while eating his way through a feast of mediaeval dishes. A delightful mystery with an authentic historical touch.' Fiona Veitch Smith, author and scriptwriter 'Time-travel from the safety of your armchair - with a murderous twist. Mel Starr's eagerly awaited new Hugh de Singleton medieval mystery doesn't disappoint his fans. Join everyone's favourite physician-cum-bailiff as he endeavours to solve more dire fourteenth-century crimes. ' Toni Mount, author of the Sebastian Foxley murder mystery series Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is considered a privilege. So, it is shocking when it is discovered that Odo, the priest's clerk, has abandoned his post in the middle of the night. But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, panic rises. At first light Bampton's bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is roused from his bed. It is Hugh that ingeniously finds the clue that leads all to fear for the life of the missing man... The question is, will Hugh be called to investigate another murder, or will he find the man hale and hearty? But if the latter, where has the blood come from?

Author : P.-A. Absil
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2009-04-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1400830249

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Many problems in the sciences and engineering can be rephrased as optimization problems on matrix search spaces endowed with a so-called manifold structure. This book shows how to exploit the special structure of such problems to develop efficient numerical algorithms. It places careful emphasis on both the numerical formulation of the algorithm and its differential geometric abstraction--illustrating how good algorithms draw equally from the insights of differential geometry, optimization, and numerical analysis. Two more theoretical chapters provide readers with the background in differential geometry necessary to algorithmic development. In the other chapters, several well-known optimization methods such as steepest descent and conjugate gradients are generalized to abstract manifolds. The book provides a generic development of each of these methods, building upon the material of the geometric chapters. It then guides readers through the calculations that turn these geometrically formulated methods into concrete numerical algorithms. The state-of-the-art algorithms given as examples are competitive with the best existing algorithms for a selection of eigenspace problems in numerical linear algebra. Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds offers techniques with broad applications in linear algebra, signal processing, data mining, computer vision, and statistical analysis. It can serve as a graduate-level textbook and will be of interest to applied mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists.