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Final Touches: Registering Death in American Cinema

Final Touches: Registering Death in American Cinema

Charles Scott Combs

Yet subsequent historians disagree: Richard Wunderli and Gerald Broce claim that the die-er plays. * Quoted in Richard Wunderli and Gerald Broce, “The Final Moment before Death in Early Modern England,” Sixteenth Century journal, Vol.
Rhetoric of the Reformation

Rhetoric of the Reformation

Peter Matheson

It was through the events of communal life, the seasonal markets, the patterns of the liturgical year, the round of feasts and festivals, so vividly portrayed in Richard Wunderli's Peasant Fires,“ that news and views will often have trickled down, ...
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation

Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation

Peter Marshall

... Archdeacons' Court Books and the Common's Supplication Against the Ordinaries', in D. A. Bullough and R. L. Storey, eds, The Study of Medieval Records (Oxford, 1971), 282–316; Richard Wunderli, London Church Courts and Society on ...
Romania Historica et Romania Hodierna:

Romania Historica et Romania Hodierna:

Peter Wunderli

10 Roger Berger/René Boyenval/Pierre Bougard, Rlpeitoiie dei nomi de iamille du Pai-de-Calaii en 1«20 I, Arras 1960, p. 59b, 80a; René Boyenval/René Debrie /René Vaillant, Rlpeitoiie dei nomi de (¡amillz de la Somme en 1«49, Amiens ...
Faith and Fraternity: London Livery Companies and The ...

Faith and Fraternity: London Livery Companies and The ...

Laura Branch

... balance the demands of the city government, which sanctioned such ordinances, with the company members who had to operate within their boundaries. Richard Wunderli has demonstrated that the pre-Reformation commissary court aimed ...
London's Livery Companies and Metropolitan Government, ...

London's Livery Companies and Metropolitan Government, ...

Joseph P. Ward

Nevertheless, Richard Wunderli's study of London's ecclesiastical courts prior to the Reformation indicates that their case loads were all too heavy to justify jurisdictional squabbles.18 The court officers may also have endorsed their bishop's ...
Renaissance Posthumanism

Renaissance Posthumanism

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Medieval ecclesiastical courts rarely tried cases for sodomy: Richard Wunderli argues that only “one person out of 21,000 defendants in ecclesiastical court between 1470 and 1516 were accused of sodomy,” which suggests that the 1533  ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen

Richard Wunderli

All the great preachers of Germany—mostly Dominican and Franciscan friars such as Johann Gritsch, Johann of Werden, and Johann Herolt, or university professors such as Ulrich Kraft—published collections of Lenten sermons for the use of ...
Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne

Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne

Sara McDougall

The work of a handful of scholars, including L. R. Poos and Richard Wunderli, offers discussion of much more regulatory and intrusive English ecclesiastical court action, with much of that action aimed at the marital as well as the sexual ...
Biography

Biography

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BEHEM, HANS Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen. Richard Wunderli. Indiana University. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $8.95. Reviewed by Alexandra Hall. The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 1992, p. 18. "Hans Behem was ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the Canterbury Tales

Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the Canterbury Tales

Lee Everett Patterson

church courts—where sodomy cases would therefore have been tried—show a remarkable record of disregard. Richard Wunderli examined 21,000 cases brought before the London church courts between 1470 and 1516; of these 21,000 ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

South Asia: An Environmental History

Christopher V. Hill

... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

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Boettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London

Haunted London

Peter Underwood

Peter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...

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