Author: Michel Faber
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: consort, courage
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-11-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156032767
ISBN-13: 9780156032766

With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In "The Hundred and Nin

Authors:Andrew Ashbee, Peter Holman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: consort, music, english, studies, jenkins, time, john
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1997-02-20
List price: $233.00
ISBN-10: 0198164610
ISBN-13: 9780198164616

John Jenkins (1592-1678) was a leading English composer of instrumental music in the mid-seventeenth century. These studies by leading experts focus not only on his life and work but also on the music of such contemporaries as Gibbons, Ferrabosco II, Mico, and Cobbold; period instruments; and consort manuscripts.

Author: Lisa Hilton
Publisher: WN
Keywords: queens, medieval, consort, england
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0297852612
ISBN-13: 9780297852612

Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, England’s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation. Lisa Hilton’s meticulously researched new work explores the lives of the 20 women crowned between 1066 and 1503. She reconsiders the fictions surrounding well-known figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine, illuminates the lives of forgotten queens such as Adeliza of Louvain, and shows why they all had to negotiate a role that combined tremendous influence with terrifying vulnerability. The result is a provocativ

Author: P. Pratap Kumar
Publisher: An American Academy of Religion Book
Keywords: academy, american, tradition, religion, series, nava, vai, divine, lak, consort, south, indian, goddess
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-01-02
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0788501992
ISBN-13: 9780788501999

The Hindu Goddess Laksmi is the consort of the great God Vishnu. This book looks at the relationship between Laskmi and Vishnu in South Indian tradition. In some other sub-traditions, P. Pratap Kumar shows, the Goddess is seen as a mediator between devotees and God. Others put her on a par with her male counterpart. In yet other traditions she is worshiped as an independent deity in her own right. South Indian Vaisnavism views the Goddess in all of these ways, with the result that theological debates have flourished. Clarifying these debates and the assumptions behind them, Kumar contributes n