Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
Catalogue
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Rules and statutes relating to the Antonine order
Date: 1367Reference: MS.48- Books
The religious orders in England / by Dom David Knowles.
Knowles, David, 1896-1974.Date: 1961-1962- Archives and manuscripts
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Constantinus Africanus (1015-1087)
Constantinus Afircans, cc. 1087Date: Late 14th centuryReference: MS.209- Books
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Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusqu'à present; contenant ... Les vies de leurs fondateurs & de leurs reformateurs: avec des figures qui representent tous les differens habillemens de ces ordres & de ces congregations ... / [Anon].
Hélyot, Pierre, 1660-1716.Date: 1714-1719- Books
Regla de N.G.P. San Augustin y constituciones de las religiosas del Sagrado Orden de Predicadores / traducida ... Juan Bautista Mendez.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.Date: 1787