Mitra-Varuna, a penetrating inquiry into the first of these functions - religious and political sovereignty - is among the first of his texts to implement this revolutionary theory. Dumezil shows how, from Vedic India to Ireland from Caucasia to Rome, and from Iran to Old Germany, the sovereign gods and heroes always appear in couples: the creative but violent legislator and his counterpart, the conservative guarantor of world order. In effect, Mitra-Varuna presents an archaeology of representations of religious and political power. Georges Dumezil a member of the Academie Francaise, was Professor of Indo-European Civilization in the College de France. He is the author of numerous books including Camillus, The Gods of the Ancient Northmen, and The Stakes of the Warrior. Derek Coltman lives in England and is the translator of Dumezil's From Myth to Fiction.

    Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartok. In 1945 Bela Bartok described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for "didactic" purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the "world of the little ones, the children." Stylistically Mikrokosmos reflects the influence of folk music on Bartok's life and the rhythms and harmonies employed create music that is as modern today as when the cycle was written. The 153 pieces making up Mikrokosmos are divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty. Major teaching points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 1: Unison melodies, Question and answer, Imitation and Inversion. Volume with pink covers have text in English, French, German, and Hungarian.

    In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significance.

    

    Mongol conquests & empire by Genghis Khan & his decendants.The Steppes of AsiaThe Emperors on HorsebackThe Book of the KuriltaiThe Book of the Western MarchThe Book of the Three Great LadiesThe Book of Tsar BatuThe Book of Kublai KhanThe Consequences...of All the RussiasAfterwordThe SourcesThe Mongolian SagasThe Chinese Histories & TravelersThe Persian & Arabic ChroniclersThe Eastern ChristiansThe Standard HistoryGeneralThe TransliterationIndex

    Paris had fallen. Brittania anticipated German invasion. Against this backdrop, the English Province of the Society of the Jesuits, like their brothers throughout the world, sought an appropriate way to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jesuit order. To mark the occasion, Father James Brodrick, S.J., an historian with a wry wit, had written a spirited account of the origins of the Jesuits and their founding fathers. Although severely restricted by wartime rationing of paper, printers Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. proceeded with a limited run, and the first edition of "The Origin Of This Jesuits" was born. Now considered a classic of Jesuilica, no finer short introduction to the history and the spirit of the Jesuit order has ever been written in English or any language. Many reprints later, Loyola Press is proud to present this special paperback edition of the original Brodrick text, with a new foreword by Joseph N. Tylenda, S.J. A beautifully re-designed arid historically significant cover completes the updated work.

    Nilsson has, in this volume, made a real & lasting contribution."--Morton Scott Enslin"In the extensive literature relating to ancient Greece, there is no work that serves the purposes of this volume. A Swedish proverb speaks of placing the church in the middle of the village, & that is precisely what Nilsson has here done. Homer & Hesiod formed the basis of the traditional education of the Greeks in general, & the great gods & goddesses as they appear in art show at all times the formative influence of the epic tradition. Nevertheless, the hard core of Greek religion is to be found in its observances--these took their shape among men whose focus was 1st the hearth & then the city-state, men moreover whose life & livelihood were tied to crops & herds & the annual cycle of nature."--Arthur Darby Nock Nilsson writes about the popular religious observances of the Greeks, as practiced both earlier in the 20th century & in classical times, the agricultural festivals & customs, the rituals of family & society. The folk religions of Greece that underlay & continually erupted into the more elevated Olympian mythology of Homer & Hesiod are explained in detail by a scholar with unparalleled understanding of the rites & customs of rural life. Martin P. Nilsson authored several books, including History of Greek Religion & The Dionysiac Mysteries of the Hellenistic & Roman Age.