This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of stones and gems, the Peterborough Lapidary…

Francis Robert Goulding (1810-1881) was born in the Midway Community of Liberty County, Georgia. At nineteen, he graduated from the University of Georgia and at twenty-two received his degree from…

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Modern jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, both of which were once identified with youthful insurrection, have reached middle age. In these articles, jazz critic Francis Davis considers music young and…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

In 1860, 23 year-old Margaretta Greene was inspired by unexplained phenomena in her family home (which was built into the ruins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds) to write…

Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 1558-1642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, their political significance, and the internal politics of the…