Saint and the Count

Saint and the Count
Author: Leah Shopkow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021
Genre: Christian hagiography
ISBN: 1487525869

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In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.

The Saint and the Count

The Saint and the Count
Author: Leah Shopkow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487538235

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While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.

The Comte de St Germain

The Comte de St Germain
Author: Isabel Cooper Oakley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1912
Genre: Freemasonry
ISBN:

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Count on the Saint

Count on the Saint
Author: Leslie Charteris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1980
Genre:
ISBN: 9780340271056

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Count on the Saint

Count on the Saint
Author: Leslie Charteris
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781477843086

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The Saint gets more than he bargained for when he tries to help a friendly pastor and he discovers murder when he aids Father Christmas.

Out of the House of Life

Out of the House of Life
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1994-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312890261

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Three thousand years ago, amidst the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt, they called him Demon. Today he is known as the Count Saint-Germain--a man of great power and greater mystery. For over 15 years, readers and critics have praised Yarbro's novels of Saint-Germain. Now, the secrets of his mysterious past--and distant nights along the shores of the Nile--are revealed.

Leslie Charteris' Count on the Saint

Leslie Charteris' Count on the Saint
Author: Donne Avenell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1980
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780340253847

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The Black Count

The Black Count
Author: Tom Reiss
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307952959

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.

The Great Secret Count St. Germain

The Great Secret Count St. Germain
Author: Raymond Bernard
Publisher: Health Research Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1993-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780787300951

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The Rosicrucian adept who preserved his youth for centuries. Was Francis Bacon the author of Shakespeare's plays; Editor of King James Version of the Bible; Count Saint-Germain founder of Freemasonry; heir to the English throne; Prince Rakoczy; foun.

Madame Blavatsky on the Count de Saint-Germain

Madame Blavatsky on the Count de Saint-Germain
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2018-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Count de Saint-Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen in last centuries of the last millennium. He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such claim. He was a pupil of Indian and Egyptian hierophants, and proficient in the secret wisdom and arts of the East. Saint-Germain is, until this very time, a living mystery. And the Rosicrucian Thomas Vaughan, another one. Together with Mesmer, he belonged to the Lodge of the Philalethes. Like all great men, the Count was slandered and lied about. Saint-Germain was a “fifth rounder,” a rare case of abnormally precocious individual evolution. He was sent by Louis XV to England, in 1760, to negotiate peace between the two countries. Before and during the French Revolution, the Count puzzled and almost terrified every capital of Europe, and some crowned Heads. Saint-Germain predicted in every detail the social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. In fact, it was he who brought about the just outbreak among the paupers, and put an end to the selfish tyranny of the French kings. The Count’s temperamental affinity to the celestial science forced the Himalayan Adepts to come into personal relations with him. When True Magic has finally died out in Europe, Saint-Germain and Cagliostro, sought refuge from the frozen-hearted scepticism in their native land of the East.