Pentecost: Celebrating Our Gifts

sermon text; MS Word document

"The Holy Eucharist a comfort to the penitent. A sermon preached before the University, in the Cathedral Church of Christ, in Oxford, on the fourth Sunday after Easter.

Cover title.

A Second Easter: A Celebration of Presence

sermon text; MS Word document

Missions the chief end of the Christian Church; also, the qualifications, duties, and trials, of an Indian Missionary: being the substance of services held on the 7th March, in St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, at the ordination of the Rev. Thomas Smith.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC55772204

Two lectures on population : delivered before the University of Oxford, in Easter term, 1828 ; to which is added, a correspondence between the author and T.R. Malthus.

Mode of access: Internet.

The battle of the Coral Sea; consisting of the actions at Tulagi, May 4th; off Misima, May 7th; and in the Coral Sea on May 8th, 1942.

"U. S. Confidential--British Secret."

Three lectures on the rate of wages, delivered before the University of Oxford in Easter term, 1830.

Mode of access: Internet.

Circum præcordia; the collects of the holy Catholic church as set forth by the Church of England in her book of common prayer for every Sunday in the year.

"... Four hundred and fifty copies have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper ..."

Introductory lectures on political economy : delivered at Oxford, in Easter term, 1831 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Difference between the Church and dissent; a discourse delivered in St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the evening of the second Sunday in Advent, December 6th, 1846.

Mode of access: Internet.

Two lectures on population : delivered before the University of Oxford, in Easter term, 1828 /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25495.

Luxurious Merovingian Textiles Excavated from Burials in the Saint Denis Basilica, France, 6th-7th century

A new examination of the textile fragments found in the Merovingian burials in the basilica of Saint Denis, near Paris, has recently underscored the diversity of fabrics used to make garments in which members of the royal court were buried. Among them, some woolens of fine quality had been dyed with indigotin. The most astonishing fibre found belongs to a mixed textile (not skin) with beaver fibers and wool. Silks contained shellfish purple and in one case kermes? Two dyestuffs associated with royalty and privilege. Along with this was large number of gold threads, probably produced locally and that were used in tablet-woven borders or for embroideries. In addition, several figured silks, of oriental origin, testify to the importance of this "foreign" material and the taste for textiles woven with complex techniques and probably what had originally had beautiful designs. Although none of these designs have been preserved and many colors have been greatly damaged, the technical characteristics of the remnants indicate proveniences as far as Byzantium, Sassanid Persia and the Chinese court. Such precious textiles show the high social status and political power of the Merovingian court, a testament to their ability to access such luxurious and costly textiles through diplomacy and/or trade with other powerful empires. The examination of these rare textiles along with other fine silks and luxury objects from the same period found in France expand our view of the fundamental role of textiles in the political sphere of this early period of European history.

The role of children in the traditional religious house-blessing rite of Salpassa in north-eastern Spain

Salpassa denotes the blessing of houses, land, and other belongings, carried out during Easter week and Resurrection (Easter) Sunday in the Valencia–Catalonia linguistic region of north-eastern Spain. Although it is now remembered mostly as a consecrating ceremony or a religious rite, recent field research has shown that a playful element, carried out by children through their songs and other activities, was also an important aspect of the traditional Salpassa.

Personal narratives of events in the war of the rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island soldiers and sailors historical society ... [1st]-7th ser.

[1st]-6th ser.: modern red cloth. 2d ser., no. 13; 4th ser., no. 7, 11-20; 5th ser., nos. 6 & 7: original wrappers.