Anatiposi focuses on reprinting historical books to preserve their content for future generations. While these reprints may exhibit missing pages or lower quality due to their age, the initiative aims to ensure that valuable historical texts remain accessible to the public, preventing them from being lost over time.
This edition of Euclid's classic geometry textbook includes detailed explanatory notes from Francis Young based on Robert Simson's original text. Topics covered in Book I include basic Euclidean geometry principles such as lines, angles, triangles, and circles.
A game-changing exploration of the 'small gods' of nature and everyday life in Britain from the Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. It addresses fauns and satyrs, fairies and elves, nymphs and forest sprites - shadowy deities of fate and chance - who dance their elusive way through Britain's history.
Originally published in 1871, this reprint offers a glimpse into the historical context and themes of its time. The book captures the essence of its era through its narrative style and character development, providing readers with an authentic experience of the period. Its enduring relevance and insights into societal norms make it a valuable addition to any collection, appealing to both history enthusiasts and literary scholars.
The book presents a compelling argument that magic has played a crucial role in Britain's cultural and political landscape, rivaling the influence of religion throughout history. It explores how magical practices and beliefs have shaped societal norms and power dynamics, offering insights into their significance in various historical contexts. Through detailed analysis, the author reveals the intricate relationship between magic and the evolution of British identity.
This Element examines hierarchical and clerical understandings of witchcraft within the contemporary Roman Catholic church. It explores whether it is possible to adopt any kind of coherent approach to a phenomenon appraised so differently across different cultures that the church's responses in one context are likely to seem irrelevant in another.
Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual
Contemporary exorcism in England has seen a notable resurgence, particularly within independent churches, despite the Church of England's historical skepticism towards such practices. Francis Young explores how the Anglican Church, which once viewed exorcisms as superstition, has adapted by designating clergy for "deliverance ministry" since the 1970s. This shift represents a significant and unlikely evolution within a tradition that historically condemned the expulsion of evil spirits, highlighting the complexities of faith and belief in modern society.
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? As Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King suggests, present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body - placed in an `iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries - of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the 9th century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, this fascinating book points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.
The first book to explore beliefs about fairies in the county of Suffolk, drawing on medieval chronicles, place-name studies, archaeology, local newspapers and the collections of folklorists,