Erika Rummel
Auteur van The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany
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Erika Rummel is Professor Emerita of History (Wilfrid Laurier University) and presently Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books on Erasmus and Northern Humanism
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Werken van Erika Rummel
The Case Against Johann Reuchlin: Social and Religious Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2002) 20 exemplaren
Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition) (2008) 11 exemplaren
Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland (Essays and… (2007) 3 exemplaren
Unspeakable 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Rummel, Erika
- Geboortedatum
- 1942
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Austria (birth)
Canada - Geboorteplaats
- Vienna, Austria
- Woonplaatsen
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Toronto (MA|1969|Ph.D|1976)
University of Vienna (BA|1965) - Beroepen
- historian
novelist
professor - Organisaties
- Wilfrid Laurier University
University of Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Renaissance Society of America - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
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- Populariteit
- #110,008
- Waardering
- 3.9
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- ISBNs
- 63
The book shifts between two narrators, one from the present and one from the past. Lynne, an incubus, has become bored with her current life in the present. She has taken over the body of Ginny Addington and is a successful stockbroker. However, the passion in her life has gone. She can't stop thinking about her lost love Jack from the 18th century. Lynne lost her life when someone, who Jack humiliated, slit her throat in revenge. Lynne took over the body of another for a number of years. It's through the diary of this person, the second narrator named Adele, that Lynne hopes to find a way back to the past and her Jack. Lynne travels to LA to work with a former colleague and academician, who can allow Lynne access to Adele's diary, but will she? There is no love lost between Lynne and her.
This book is more like an historical novel, a cross between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, filled with murder, mayhem, an elderly clergyman trying to defraud an innocent young heiress, who is jilted by a young gambling wastrel, out of her inheritance and claim her as his own bride, a military officer with a scandalous secret, a secret love child and rival underworld characters. The plot twists and turns will keep you guessing to the last page!
This novel is the second one that I have read by Erika Rummel. Her books deal with strong female characters in historical settings, some in the not too distant past. I will definitely be looking out for her next one!… (meer)