Jon Snow/Theories. From A Wiki of Ice and Fire One of the unresolved issues in A Song of Ice and Fire is the identity of Jon Snow's mother. Jon Snow has the following thoughts on his mother in A Game of Thrones: Ashara Dayne Another theory claims Jon's mother was Ashara Dayne, his father being likely Eddard Stark, who was in love with her, or his older brother Brandon Stark. Lady Dayne was said to be with both of them during the Tourney at Harrenhal. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, one of the Starks bedded her at the tournament and got her with child. It was also known by many that she was pregnant before she killed herself by jumping from the tower of Starfall, also called the Palestone Sword, a tower on Starfall's cliff by the sea. Though Ser Barristan believes the bastard child of Lady Dayne was a stillborn girl, some still believe Ashara Dayne to be the mother of Jon Snow.
Wylla Wylla, the wet nurse at Starfall, is another possible mother. Lord Edric Dayne tells Arya Stark that Wylla is Jon's mother. 14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch. BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books... Hugo Award Winning Novels (1946-2012, in Chronological Order) BBC's The Big Read - Best Loved Novels of All Time. English Student Book Challenge. 25 Books That Define Cool. Let’s abandon the childish notion that reading isn’t cool. We’re grown men here and reading happens to be one of the many ways we enjoy spending a bit of our free time. Of course, sitting down with just any book doesn’t always make for a great experience. We want to read something with wit, masculinity, and a pervading sense of effortless cool. Here are 25 books that fit that description perfectly. 1. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) This list could easily include just about everything Papa Hemingway wrote. 2.
Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War is still as important today as it was for warriors back then. 3. Honestly, you could put just about every book from the good doctor on this list – Hell’s Angels and The Rum Diary come to mind – but if you had to pick one, you have to go with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and all its drug-fueled insanity. 4. 5. You’ve probably seen the movie, but have you read the book it was based on?
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Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press.
Because of his republicanism, Milton has been the subject of centuries of British partisanship.[4][when?] Biography[edit] The phases of Milton's life parallel the major historical and political divisions in Stuart Britain. Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange, reviewed. Illustration by Rem Broo The effects of smartphone use on everyday life—parenting, friendship, walking, driving, wayfinding—are both scientifically measurable and anecdotally visible. Many people will ruefully acknowledge that they’ve forgotten how to read a map, or how to wait in line without checking Twitter. The smartphone’s sudden omnipresence makes it a great device for science fiction. What, writers have begun to ask, will our phones offer to do for us next? And how will we react? Alena Graedon’s dazzling but unsatisfying debut novel The Word Exchange sketches a smartphone hater’s worst nightmare. The Meme—the smartphone that seems to have annexed all of the market share in this version of New York—can dispense medicine, hail you a cab, pay your taxes, scan you through the turnstile in the subway, manage traffic, and call 911 when you’re in trouble.
Rebecca Onion, who runs Slate’s history blog The Vault, is a writer and academic living in Ohio. It’s harder now to write this. A Warm Fuzzy Tale. Do you want to read this story in Hungarian? French? German? Spanish? Italian? Do you have any other language translations? (Click here if you want to see some of the pages of the new illustrations) by Claude M. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived two happy people called Tim and Maggie with their two children, John and Lucy. Back to Home Page? You see in those happy days everyone was given a small, soft Fuzzy Bag when born. In those days it was very easy to get Warm Fuzzies.
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32 Books That Will Actually Change Your Life. 11 Book Sequels You Probably Didn't Know Existed. We get frustrated with Hollywood's propensity for weird sequels that seem to have little or nothing to do with the original, but it just so happens that the practice is older than filmmaking itself. Several classic stories have strange follow-ups you've never heard of, like... 1. The Starlight Barking In case you're unaware, Disney's 101 Dalmatians was actually based on a novel, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, by Dodie Smith.
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The mentioned states managed to achieve the stability required for economic growth and to consolidate their power which resulted in the territorial expansion. The Spanish kingdoms were established on the ruins of the declining power of the Moors, while the German kings and dukes constantly carried out pressure on territories eastern from the rivers Oder and Elbe. The Scandinavians extended their rule over Iceland and established their settlement in Greenland and North America. England which was invaded by Normans eventually subdued Wales, Ireland and Scotland. However, European expansion in the High Middle Ages was mostly directed to the south – the Mediterranean. The High Middle Ages also saw the first European expansions out of Europe. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade: Susan Wise Bauer: 9780393059755: Amazon.com. PDFs/Lynch Simoniacal/10.pdf. Medieval Legal Process. This volume discusses fifteen cases of medieval legal processes, ranging from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, and from England to Galician Rus’.
In medieval legal transactions the use of the written word was only one of many ways of conducting business. Important roles were played by the spoken word and by the ‘action’ of ritual. The relationship between ‘rituals’ and literacy has been the focus of much recent research. Medieval societies which made extensive use of written instruments in legal transactions have been shown to employ rituals as well.
This has led to investigation of the respective functions of written instruments and legal rituals. What is the nature of legal rituals? Preface Abbreviations Introduction - MARCO MOSTERT Action, Speech and Writing in Early Frankish Legal Proceedings - PAUL S. Writing Charters as a Public Activity: The Example of the Carolingian Charters of St. Rhetoric and Ritual in Late Anglo-Saxon Charters - CHARLES INSLEY. Medieval Sumptuary Laws - Legislation of the Middle Ages regarding excessive expenditure.
The medieval world wasn't all drab clothing, flavorless food, and dark, drafty castles. Medieval folk knew how to enjoy themselves, and those who could afford it indulged in dazzling displays of wealth -- sometimes to excess. Sumptuary laws originated to address this excess. The Lavish Life of the Nobility The upper classes took particular pleasure and pride in garbing themselves in luxurious finery. The exclusivity of their status symbols was assured by the excessive cost of their garments. It was expected of the lord of the manor or castle to throw great feasts on special occasions, and nobles vied with each other to see who could offer the most exotic and abundant foodstuffs.
And anyone who could afford to build or hold a castle could also afford to make it warm and welcoming, with opulent tapestries, colorful draperies, and plush furnishings. These ostentatious displays of riches concerned the clergy and the more pious secular rulers. The History of Sumptuary Laws in Europe. Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages: I. The Divine Right of Kings and the Right of Resistance in the Early Middle Ages. II. Law and Constitution in ... S.B. Chrimes (Studies in Mediaeval History): Fritz Kern, S.B. Chrimes (Introduction & Translator): 9781. The MindHut 2014 Spring Reading List. BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books...
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Vlad Chituc: Why This Atheist is Observing Lent. Lent note: HuffPost Religion invites you to share your Lent reflections, experiences, stories and photos with us. Send them to religion@huffingtonpost.com and check out our Lent liveblog. This is my second year practicing Lent. It's not that I've recently converted to Catholicism, or that I'm only now reflecting on the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert, fasting and resisting temptation from the Devil. I don't actually believe in much, if any, of that--I'm as much an atheist now as I've ever been. But I find something really compelling and human in the practice of Lent, and I think it's something a lot of other atheists, if they'd like, can find enrichment from. Atheists talk an awful lot about abstract intellectual values like Logic or Reason, and, insofar as these words mean something above simply denoting vague and feel-good smart-person-signifiers that We have and They (believers) don't, these values are certainly important.
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The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) and journalist Bill Moyers. Background[edit] The interviews in the first 5 episodes were filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in California, with the 6th interview conducted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, during the final two summers of Campbell's life (the series was broadcast on television a year after his death). In these discussions, Campbell presents his ideas about comparative mythology and the ongoing role of myth in human society. These talks include excerpts from Campbell's seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The documentary[edit] The documentary, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth has six episodes: Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure (first broadcast June 21, 1988 on PBS) The book[edit] Star Wars[edit] Book:
(10) Mythistory and the Reinvention of the People | Aleks Farrugia. Mythistory and the Reinvention of the People - Aleks Farrugia • In that classical work of his, The Commentary On the Gallic War , Julius Caesar identified his ‘barbarian’ foes by the singular appellative of ‘Gauls’; that is, the people of Gaul. However, the Gauls as such never existed. The peoples thus identified by Caesar,regardless of whatever affinities they might have had with each other, did not percievethemselves as being one nor did they share some form of common identity. The Gaulswere a fiction, created by Caesar in order to present his Roman readership with the imageof an enemy: the barbarians who lived beyond the borders of civilisation, ready to beconquered.
Sign In. Myth in History, History in Myth. Biographical note Laura Cruz, Ph.D. (2001) in History, University of California at Berkeley, is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. She has published works on Dutch political and economic culture, including The Paradox of Prosperity (Oak Knoll, 2008). Willem Frijhoff (1942), studied history and social anthropology in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. degree at Tilburg University (1981).
He is a honorary professor of early modern history at the VU-University, Amsterdam. He published extensively on religious history and history of education in early modern Europe and colonial America. His latest book is Fulfilling God's Mission. The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus 1607-1647 (Brill, 2007). Readership All those interested in the social and cultural history, history and anthropology, history of the Low Countries, the study of myths and mythologies, art history and early modern European history. Reviews "...considerable erudition and impressive scholarship. " The Sociology of Religion: Max Weber, Ephraim Fischoff: 0046442042055: Amazon.com. Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography: Joseph Mali: 9780226502625: Amazon.com. Carl L. Becker. Constructing the Past: Introductory Remarks.
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