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The Church in the Dark Ages

Book by H. Daniel-Rops, Audrey Butler; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1959

Subjects:

Church History--Middle Ages

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...she tried to act. Homicide, that plague of the Dark Ages, in which human life counted for...founded the grandeur of the Middle Ages-- the Peace and Truce of God...Never perhaps in the history of this age did Mother Church reveal herself...
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

Book by Christine M. Boeckl; Truman State University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

Collections: Entire Library

...associated with the Davidian Plague. Darts and arrows falling...Gregory-often indicated plague.83 At times the shower...fanat- ics tried to stop plagues by appeasing God through...Death as a metaphor for plague was popular in medieval...iconography. In the Middle Ages, and in later periods...plague iconog- raphy. Dark clouds, indicating pestilential...
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Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present

Book by D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund; Berg, 2010

Subjects:

Environmentally Induced Diseases, Epidemics--History, Famines--History, Plague--History

Collections: Entire Library

...attitudes, Searle talked to people without TB but of the same age, gender, and income level as her participants with TB (Searle...theyd think, oh you know, its something they did in the dark ages, but theyre not, theyre still very conscious of TB (Searle...
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Pictish Sourcebook: Documents of Medieval Legend and Dark Age History

Book by J. M. P. Calise; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Ethnology--Scotland--Sources, Manuscripts, Medieval--Scotland, Picts--Sources, Scotland--History--To 1057--Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

...swimming. Adomnan also mentions that the presence of Columba and his monasteries twice protected the Picts and the Scots from plague. Columba had a foster-father named Cruithnechan. Interestingly, this is also a name applied to Pictish ancestor Cruithne...
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The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered the Land, Pioneered in It, and Created Great Classical Civilizations, How They Were Plunged into a Dark Age by Invasion and Conquest, and How They Are Reviving

Book by Francis Jennings; W. W. Norton, 1993

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Brownings Hamelin town, with no Pied Piper for relief. Among other contributions, the rats brought fleas that brought bubonic plague, which is still latent in the rodent populations of the American West. Fish abounded in American waters generally and still...

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The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body

Journal article by Elana Gomel; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

Subjects:

Apocalyptic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Epidemics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Plague in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...all signs of sex, age, race: As the bed...quickens, and a dark shiny waterfall of...identity. The body of a plague victim is denuded...that inaugurates the age of fantastic pandemics...fantasy The Scarlet Plague, Jack London wrote...even in the golden age of eugenics that...loosing "a score of plagues" (112) that successfully...
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Guido Reni's Pallione del Voto and the Plague of 1630

Journal article by Catherine R. Puglisi; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995

Subjects:

Art, Art criticism, Art history, Italy, Plague, Reni, Guido (1575-1642)

Collections: Entire Library

...saints in darker hues. But...composition by its dark, monochromatic...marked the plagues incursion...only in his plague banner but...Petronius embodied age-old civic...Appearing against dark storm clouds...Altarpiece of the plague) in the modern...outbreaks of plague, see E...Late Middle Ages, ed. H...
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"Grown Sick with Hope Deferred": Christina Rossetti's Darker Musings

Journal article by Brad Sullivan; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 32, 1996

Subjects:

English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rossetti, Christina--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...her "devotional" poems, many of her darker lyrics suggest that her waiting for heavenly...examines our inner life. It suggests the dark and rich undercurrents of the self...Dead Hope" are typical of Rossettis darker vision; they undermine the confident...Dead Hope" (1875) another of the dark lyrics about hopelessness, supports...faith, as Mayberry implies. When the darker vision of these poems is provided as...
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Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages

Journal article by William MacLehose; Medical History, Vol. 54, 2010

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages by William MacLehose Peregrine...antiquity to the later Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies...topic from the Justinianic plague to late medieval and early...dragons and saints in the Dark Ages is a good example...or the geography of plague outbreaks. Horden is...
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The Dark Room Collective and Post-Soul Poetics

Journal article by Brian Reed; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Post-aesthetic movement

Collections: Entire Library

...responds that while the Dark Room poets might refuse...simple answers to "the age-old debate about...all members of the Dark Room Collective belong...Neals "postall soul" age cohort, and their...crossroads where all ways, ages, and worlds meet. One could say the Dark Room poets stand at...

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The Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology

Magazine article by David Ehrenfeld; Tikkun, Vol. 14, January 1999

Subjects:

Economic policy, Environment, Future, Globalization, Information technology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology by David...Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology A little...preserve it through a dark age." The book would be...monasteries did in the Dark Ages, the book would help...acceleration of obsolescence is a plague afflicting all users of...
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Teen-Age Pregnancy: The Case for National Action

Magazine article by Faye Wattleton, Marian Wright Edelman; The Nation, Vol. 249, July 24, 1989

Subjects:

African American teenage mothers--Social aspects, Pregnant girls--Services, Pregnant teenagers--Services, Teenage pregnancy--Case studies

Collections: Entire Library

...saying no prevents teen-age pregnancy the way "Have...black male youths, who by age and temperament are most...glowing in their beautiful dark eyes. Then you realize...possibility of organizing teen-age mothers into political...the other "isms" that plague humankind. Given our...be better. Through the ages, people have been capable...
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Maps That Changed the Shape of Great Britain: Geography and Maps Are as Inseparable as History and Dates. over the Past Year, Nicholas Crane Has Been Working on Mapman, an Eight-Part BBC2 Television Series That Explores 'Masterpiece Maps' of Britain. Part One of His Exclusive Feature for Geographical Takes Us from the Middle Ages to a 17th-Century Coastal Chart

Magazine article by Nicholas Crane; Geographical, Vol. 76, October 2004

Subjects:

Cartography--History, Early maps--Analysis, Maps (Geography)--Design and construction, Maps (Geography)--History, Maps, Early--Analysis, Maps--Design and construction, Maps--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Geographical Takes Us from the Middle Ages to a 17th-Century Coastal...occurred during the Middle Ages, when maps recorded remembered...brought Britain into the modern age. One of the most enigmatic...wracked by incipient revolt and plague. One third of the population...British settlements in the darkest days of the long-awaited...that made these wetlands and dark-soiled levels so prosperous...
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Company Man

Magazine article by Terry Eagleton; The Nation, Vol. 278, March 1, 2004

Subjects:

Age of Shakespeare (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...politics and religion of the age, along with some shrewd...shortage to another. The Age of Shakespeare is particularly...that he was living in the Dark Ages. Shakespeare seems to...smallpox, malaria, bubonic plague and a positive rash...of Pat Robertson. The Age of Shakespeare is a marvelously...
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And Is the Way We Live Now So Much Better? the BBC's Trollope Serialisation Leads John Sutherland to Draw Some Parallels between Victorian and Blairite Britain

Magazine article by John Sutherland; New Statesman, Vol. 130, December 17, 2001

Subjects:

Civilization, Modern--20th century, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Life style--Analysis, Trollope, Anthony--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...reforms", as Trollopes age would have called them...certain insider cachet as "dark" Trollope (we cognoscenti all liked the "dark" side of great Victorian...take a horsewhip to his age. Daviess TV adaptation...todays young as the bubonic plague. The population, as...

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The Dark Ages? They Were Quite Enlightened

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Dark Ages? They Were Quite Enlightened. THE Dark Ages are often looked upon as a grim era of plague, poverty and famine. But the centuries which followed the Romans departure are also renowned for their poetry and exquisite jewellery. The...
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Vanished Civilisation; Chris Upton Digs into a Roman Enclave in the Midlands That Survived the Collapse of the Empire and the Ruin of the Dark Ages

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 17, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Empire and the Ruin of the Dark Ages. Byline: Chris Upton...to a shuddering halt. Plague and recession followed...the students, for the Dark Ages. Such was the implosion...given the darkness of the Dark Ages its not easy to disprove...
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From That Spiteful 50p Tax to Harriet's Mad Sex War, Labour Is Blasting Britain Back to the Dark Ages

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2009

Subjects:

Harman, Harriet

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Labour Is Blasting Britain Back to the Dark Ages. Byline: THE Melanie Phillips COLUMN...which is blasting us back to the dark ages of state control and economic paralysis...Labour previously avoided like the plague to make itself electable, the Government...
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PLAGUE! It Could Hit Britain Any Time and Kill Millions. This Week Experts Revealed That a Deadly New Flu Virus Had Passed between Humans for the First Time. So Why Is the Government Doing Nothing to Prevent an Epidemic?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 29, 2005

Subjects:

Oxford, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PLAGUE! It Could Hit Britain...halt the spread of a plague that could devastate...believe. Living in an age of astonishing scientific...assumed that devastating plagues had been consigned to the dark ages. But while the worlds...huge bomb of the pending plague was the threat that most...
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CHEER UP! at Least Today You Won't Get Clubbed by a Caveman, Die of the Plague or Be Forced into the Navy; MODERN LIFE GETTING YOU DOWN?

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...a Caveman, Die of the Plague or Be Forced into the...which claims that in Stone Age Britain, the average...and sister to bed? The Dark Ages? My how lovely it must...to avoid 1 the bubonic plague, dodging human stools...rear a child past the age of one fail. If it was...

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Rat

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...black rat was common in Europe in the Middle Ages and was responsible for the spreading of plague. It has since been largely displaced in cooler...of the brown rat. The black rat is commonly dark gray. It reaches a maximum length of 8 in...

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