Описание: A fascinating reappraisal of Britain`s `oldest ally`, the House of Braganza.
Автор: Newitt, Zane Название: Arthuriad songs one ISBN: 1912655888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912655885 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1150.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The bards of old recorded the histories of Cymru through epic poetry, arcane dialogues and divinely inspired prose called Songs. Using this method, the diminishing tribes of the Blessed Isles were able to encapsulate not just shallow facts about battle sites and headstones but the thoughts, emotions, perspectives and motives of the heroes... and sometimes villains... of the Age of Arthur.
But what of THE VILLAIN - the traitor Mordred? Must he who brought about the demise of so great a kingdom be memorialized by such sacred approach, such wondrous script? God forbid
Yet Taliesin, the Chief Bard, would have it so; for truth must not be limited to that which is comely, and the record not just to that which is delightful. And so Taliesin sings the Song of Mordred, the devil who deserves no song.
Are monsters born so? Or made by circumstance and rearing? Nature? Nurture? Trauma?
And what of free will and personal responsibility?
Or is that peculiar creation, Man, more complicated than the vain deductions of the philosophers...?
By use of the Awen, or Divine Inspiration, Taliesin yokes with the memories, feelings, the very mind of the Traitor. Through his journey into the dark heart, empathy wrestles justice, and grace is challenged by righteous judgement, the Chief Bard learning more about himself than his miserable and misunderstood subject.
Автор: Newitt Zane Название: The Arthuriad Volume One: The Mystery of Merlin ISBN: 1913662179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913662172 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3231.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The great Silure War King, Arthur Pendragon, and his Round Table Companions are but one epic battle from ending the Saxon Wars and at last forging an era of peace, a golden age - the Summer Kingdom. Merlin is the chief strategist and architect of the plan that will bring the ultimate victory. He is also at the center of the conflict between the Roman Church, the Church of the Britons, and the people who cling to the old gods. Merlin is Arthur's friend and mentor, and the only person who could temper the tension between Arthur and his sister, Gwyar.
But Merlin is missing.
Follow Merlin in his absence from the great battle and reluctant departure from his young king's side to face the confluence of great changes, great peril and sinister forces that will shape the future of Cymru, and all mankind, as at last the Mystery of Merlin is manifested.
The first volume of the Arthuriad is a beautiful and often dark interweaving of political, spiritual and relational conflicts, tragedies and quests that reintroduces us to the beloved figures of Arthurian history, literature and romance.
Автор: Newitt Zane Название: The Arthuriad Volume One: The Mystery Of Merlin ISBN: 1911569252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911569251 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
