Описание: Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole languages and indigenized Portuguese culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries these were joined by millions of economic migrants who established Portuguese settlements in Europe, North America, Venezuela and South Africa - and in less likely places, including Bermuda, Guyana and Hawaii. Interwoven within this global history of the diaspora are stories of the Portuguese who left mainland Portugal and the islands, the lives of the Sephardic Jews, the African slaves imported into the Atlantic Islands and Brazil and the Goans who later spread along the imperial highways of Portugal and Britain. Much of Portugal's contribution to science and the arts, as well as its influence in the modern world, can be attributed to the members of these widely scattered Portuguese communities, and these are given their due in Newitt's engrossing volume
Автор: Newitt Zane Название: The Arthuriad Volume Two: The Madness of Maelgwn ISBN: 1911569627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911569626 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2924.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Saxon conquest of the Blessed Isles has failed. The enemy without is decimated, its fighting-aged men annihilated; twenty years of peace born of the blood-bathed blade Excalibur, wielded in glory and honor by the sandy-haired Silure sovereign.
The Golden Age of King Arthur.
Not since David of the Hebrews and not to be again until the End of Ages is the Summer Kingdom of the Cymry. A flicker of freedom and a light of liberty in a dark world. Justice, love and equal opportunity for every individual reigns.
But no good thing long endures, and all things end...
The second volume of the Arthuriad continues to weave and guide us through the dark and complex journey that is the Arthurian saga from the time of Mynydd Baeden to the brink of Civil War, giving us healthy portions of Morgaine of the Faeries, Lancelot, and Taliesin, along with hints and shadows of Cups and Perfect Knights, and supposedly long dead wizard along the way.
