Bøger af Lesley Smith

The Reclaiming of Reskha has begun. Time has passed and the Changing of the Sun has ended. The Kashinai are finally able to return to the world they were forced to leave behind, much changed but still the same. New settlements have been created, ancient cities are being restored and the Kashinai are no longer what they once were. The Seaborn diver An'she and her sister are part of a team of archeologists sent to excavate the ruins of Danshu. High Summer has come and the sea is calling more than just An'she. Above them an alien ship is drifting having realised life exists on this once sun-battered world. Below them, in the ocean depths, a new kind of life is rising. Today, they meet for the first time. What they gain the capacity to create will go beyond just a single world and change the fate of a galaxy. The Parting of the Waters is the second instalment of a breath-taking trilogy that spans lifetimes and ages from veteran journalist turned author Lesley Smith.

There are many kinds of stories ... A single soul can make a difference and many can change the course of reality itself. Welcome to the Ashteraiverse, a universe of wonder and beauty hinged on the evolution of those within it. The maelstrom of time pulls everything in and those who escape are changed in more ways than they could ever imagine. Witness key events in the history of the Union and those who have the power to change it for the better. Watch as an shipborn woman finds her inner bravery to save a friend and strives to become a part of something bigger than herself or her plagueship. Walk with a dreamer as she becomes a witness to an event which will make or break her world and could destroy the galaxy. Witness the fall of an empire through the eyes of those who lived through the chaos and were forever changed by the experience. Join two Elders of the Ashterai as they try to blend in and be something they're not for the sake of Contact and their only daughter. Live through moments, large and insignificant, and all that comes after in the first of a series of anthologies from the mind of veteran journalist turned author Lesley Smith.

The world is shifting and only the blind have eyes to see it. In a seaside village, a woman has come back from the dead, the only survivor of a tsunami which wiped out her clan. When she speaks, it is of things no Kashinai should know. She says danger is coming and only an Oracle can save them...one who has not yet been called. In Aiaea, a city infected by fear, a priestess finds herself blind and afraid. Denied her mantle, Saiara is imprisoned by the woman who should have been her teacher. What Saiara has seen cannot be stopped and unless she acts, an entire world and its people will burn. Their only safety lies in sacred caverns far to the north, but first Saiara must escape captivity with only the aid of a former High Oracle, a healer, a bondservant, and a Seaborn woman who is indwelt by the goddess of death. Oracle and indwelt, healer and nomad, child and adult...the Changing of the Sun is coming. Will they be ready? Will you? The Changing of the Sun is the first installment of a breath-taking trilogy that spans lifetimes and ages from veteran journalist turned author Lesley Smith.

Short stories and poetry: written by three Irish writers, two living in Wexford and one in Dublin who worked together virtually during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020. All writing is fictional, some relating to the virus and its effects, others reflecting different topics inspired during the time. Writing the book provided the writers with an escape and they took comfort in the task. We hope it provides insights into a unique time and living during a global pandemic but mostly that it's read and enjoyed in its own right. The topics covered range from love, war memorials, fear, resilience, people coming together, social media, information, running. Some are serious, some funny, some tongue in cheek and some thought-provoking. It hopes to provide both a record of living through the early part of a Pandemic and goes from first understanding to reality setting in, to restrictions and containment phase to Lockdown, partial reopening and then into the second wave. We lived through Lockdown, Re-opening and in October 2020 heading into the second wave lockdown Our second Lockdown with colder weather and grey skies is so different from the first which had blue skies and sun. Fatigue is setting in and we are all hoping for a vaccine or that this will magically disappear. The things we did during lockdown to aid us ranged from baking, walking, running, praying and gardening. It was a strange time and we hope you enjoy the contents of this book. Some Covid 19 related stories, some not but all original stories and poetry from 2020. We hope we have given a clear Irish context. We included quotations in the hope to be inspired ourselves but also to inspire you the reader and also in places to provide the context of what was being said by the Irish government. Other things of major importance were happening at the time that this book was being written, Black Lives Matter, Climate change, USA election, Forest Fires, Planned Brexit but we have not intentionally commented on these in any meaningful way. We hope we have indicated what it is like to be living alone versus living in a family unit during a Pandemic. Enjoy and if you like this please search for other works by the individual authors. We would really appreciate it if you would take the time to write a review. Thank you

"Lesley Smith is a new star on the horizon" - Michael Bunker, author of Pennsylvania. "A grand science fiction fable in the tradition of Herbert's Dune and Martin's Game of Thrones." - Nick Cole, author of The Wasteland Saga. Deep in an ancient desert, a young potter is about to begin her latest-and final-commission as midsummer burns around her. Trouble is coming with the wind, a storm which will take millennia to blow itself out and will affect a line of seers down through the ages. Blinded and alone, tortured and broken, Kia must rise to her destiny as High Oracle and lead her people, or fail and see a great civilisation begin to collapse around her before the apocalypse has even begun. Trace the origins of a cataclysm in the prequel to the breath-taking new trilogy. The Changing of the Sun is coming and the whispers in the desert are growing louder by the day ...

A celebration of the art of handwriting, including samples from famous writers, scientists, and historical figures. The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written in their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships are illuminated through the writing that has been left behind. We see Elizabeth I attempting to win over her new stepmother, Alan Bennett working out the character of Mr. Toad, Henry Moore advising on cleaning methods for his sculptures, and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin balancing childcare with discovering the structure of penicillin. Handwritten includes letters, first drafts, autograph books, hastily scribbled notes, fair copies, marked-up proofs, and doodles. Divided into themed categories, the entries feature novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Raymond Chandler; scientists Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein; reformers Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale, and Mohandas Gandhi; and explorers Walter Raleigh, T.E. Lawrence, and Patrick Leigh Fermor, among many others. Each of these extraordinary figures has passed on a manuscript or document with a fascinating story to tell.

Starting with the premise that the history of a medieval subject cannot be properly written "e;without recourse to the materials it produced,"e; Lesley Smith's Masters of the Sacred Page provides an illuminating study of theology in the Middle Ages. She focuses on the dramatic transformations of the discipline in the twelfth century and uses a collection of contemporary manuscripts as a guide to its changes and developments.Smith points out that the medieval masters of theology had a much wider view of their subject than the modern academic tendency for neatness and division can easily admit, and she places their discipline squarely within the rapidly evolving intellectual and educational context of the twelfth-century university.Her approach avoids two of the most common weaknesses of modern historical studies of medieval theology. In the first place, those histories have a tendency to be distorted by a reliance on easily available printed editions of medieval texts, the bulk of which are summae and other logical, systematic treatments. This preponderance, however, often reflects the concerns and interests of nineteenth- and twentieth-century editors more than it does the medieval masters. Biblical commentaries, sermons, and manuals for pastoral use have only recently begun to be edited and printed in numbers reflecting their importance and widespread use in the Middle Ages; Smith includes such material in her study.In the second place, traditional histories have a tendency to remove the study of theology from the actual environment of the medieval university and therefore fail to account for the complex relations between theology, the arts, and the burgeoning disciplines of medicine and law. By refusing to follow this trend, Smith has greatly improved our awareness of the situation of medieval theology.Using the manuscript books themselves as witnesses, Smith shows how theology competed with other disciplines for students (as well as teachers), how it attempted to define itself, and how it cooperated with other disciplines to foster new development in book technology-and new traditions in the social and intellectual culture of the medieval university.

"It has been 140 years since a full biography of William of Auvergne (1180?-1249), which may come as a surprise, given that William was an important gateway of Greek and Arabic thought and philosophy to western Europe in the thirteenth century, and one of the earliest writers in the medieval Latin west on demonology. Lesley Smith's aims in this book are two-fold: first, to take a closer look at William, the human being, how he saw the world and his place in it; and to uncover William's interactions with his Parisian congregation through the nearly 600 sermons he left after his death. Smith has mined these writings, unremarked in previous scholarship, to give us a different perspective on the schoolmaster, bishop of Paris, and strict theologian we have come to know: a preacher who spoke and ministered not just to the powerful and elite, but also to commoners, to the poor, and to the less fortunate. Through a study of the sermons, Smith creates a broader landscape of William's thought and life, highlighting his attention to the importance--and limits--of language, and his attempts to find a way to address the concerns of the larger populace. In his preaching, we get a sense of the balance William achieved, in the way he communicated religious teachings, in his understanding of the concerns of ordinary Parisians, and in his awareness of the ebb and flow of daily life in a medieval city. The book will interest scholars of intellectual history and philosophy, religion, and literary studies more broadly for Smith's innovative method of excavating the sermons in pursuit of William the person, and his humanity. An altogether "new" William for the twenty-first century"--

This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation. . . . Ruth is the shortest book of the Old Testament, being only four chapters long. It is partly for this reason that it lends itself so well to a short book introducing medieval exegesis; but it is also of interest in itself. Ruth poses a number of exegetical problems, including the basic one of why such an odd book, in which God never appears as an actor, and with a central character who was not an Israelite but a Moabite outsider, and a woman at that, should find a place in the canon of Scripture.

A collection of over 100 traditional nursery rhymes, from Incy Wincey Spider and Hey Diddle Diddle, to The Muffin Man and Old King Cole. Packed with delightful illustrations by Lesley Smith.

Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources.

Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

Focuses on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages. This book analyses the powers and the dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history, beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their situation, defend claims, and make accusations.

* The second volume of a compelling, original work which will redefine our perceptions of medieval civilization, the renaissance and the evolution of modern Europe. * Written by a man who was widely regarded as the greatest medieval historian. .