Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of the role of ...

Manufacturer: Boydell Press

The 750-year epic tale of the extraordinary Backenroth family, this is at the same time an engaging, scrupulously researched narrative history of Jewish life since the Middle Ages. Throughout this time span, the Backenroths could be found at some of the most important events in Jewish history: the migration of their community from western to eastern Europe, the creation of the Hasidic movement, ...

Manufacturer: Wiley
Written By: Michael Karpin

"The largest inland city in Florida, Orlando, also known as "the City Beautiful

Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
Written By: Donald D. Spencer

Do you want to know exactly who your ancestors were: where they lived; what they did for a living; whether that story of highwaymen, criminals and corrupt relatives is factual, or a figment of Grandma's over-active imagination? Genealogy - defined as 'an account of the descent of a person or family through an ancestral line', is a high faluting description of what, to the rest of us, is ...

Manufacturer: CompTel Services, Inc.

The Almanac of New York City is an innovative companion for urban enthusiasts. Nowhere else will you find the name of the city's first comptroller (Selah Strong) and Staten Island's most recently designated historic district (Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto) next to the city's best-attended cultural institution (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with five million visitors annually) and ...

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

The ""classic"" introduction to the study of German personal names is now re-available in a completely revised and updated version. It provides a popular overview of the variety of aspects, questions and research findings in the field and opens up perspectives for further research. This introductory work is aimed at students and teachers in higher education, but is also of interest to school ...

Manufacturer: Walter de Gruyter
Written By: Seibicke, Wilfried

Assistant Surgeon James A. Black takes the reader on a seldom traveled journey--a fourteen hundred sixty-one day excursion--as he participates in the American Civil War. During his sojourn the Union soldier openly shares his observations, his joys, his concerns, and his frustrations, as he provides the reader with tremendous insight into the daily lives of soldiers in their camps and on their ...

Manufacturer: AuthorHouse

The narrative follows one line of descendants of Michael Bacon, the Puritan, for eight generations in America. Here are the stories of the thirty-eight families they married into, including Chamberlain, Fairbanks and Dudley. Facinating fellows, all. Their daily lives wrote our American history. Their exertions built our unique country. They wrote the first laws, fought the indians, lived in ...

Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
Written By: LaDonna Gulley Warrick

Medieval records give evidence of only two genetically distinct families by the name of Fleming. The progenitor of one of these families was, according to ancient tradition, a Flemish nobleman who lived in Danish occupied Pomerania in the late twelfth century. The factual identity of this "first Fleming" has never been discovered in the primary sources of medieval history. The progenitor of the ...

Manufacturer: Paragon Publishing
Written By: F Lawrence Fleming

By their very nature, Family History books are filled with names, dates, and place names. Usually they make for very boring reading unless you are looking for some fact that will help to complete your family tree. We have attempted to make SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE BLAIRS more interesting by providing biographies of many of our ancestors. We hope to give future generations of Blairs an insight ...

Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
Written By: T.W. Blair Sr., T.W. Blair Jr.