Authors:Giovanni Levi, Jean-Claude Schmitt,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: medieval, rites, passage, ancient, volume, people, west, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0674404076
ISBN-13: 9780674404076
However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lyces of modern F
Author: David Slade
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Keywords: rites, last
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1843863820
ISBN-13: 9781843863823
Author: S. J. Yarnold
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers
Keywords: initiation, rites, inspiring, awe
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1994-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0567292436
ISBN-13: 9780567292438
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: rites, funeral
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802130879
ISBN-13: 9780802130877
Genet’s sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: rites, equal
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061020699
ISBN-13: 9780061020698
Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: passage, rites
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0374526400
ISBN-13: 9780374526405
Now reissued with a new jacket the first volume of Golding’s sea trilogy, which follows the trials and fortunes of a warship captain bound for Australia. Whilst at sea he writes a journal to send back to England in which he records the mounting tensions onboard ship. From the author of LORD OF THE FLIES.
Author: Arnold Van Gennep
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
Keywords: passage, rites
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1977-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0710087446
ISBN-13: 9780710087447
Birth, puberty, marriage, and death are, in all cultures, marked by ceremonies which may differ but are universal in function. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to the transitional stages in man’s life, and his phrase for these, "the rites of passage," has become a part of the language of anthropology and sociology.
