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Valentine: A Love Story
Chet Raymo
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Description for Valentine: A Love Story
Hardcover. Little is known about Valentine, whose name symbolizes romantic love. This book draws on the tradition that Valentine was a physician in love with the blind Julia to thread his way through the fabric of romance while illuminating the world of the Roman Empire of Claudius II - a time when Christian deaths provided public entertainment. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FR; FV; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490.
Little is known about Valentine, whose name symbolizes romantic love. Chet Raymo draws on the tradition that Valentine was a physician in love with the blind Julia to thread his way through the fabric of romance while illuminating the world of the Roman Empire of Claudius II—a time when Christian deaths provided public entertainment. The ideas in Valentine are startlingly relevant to our own times: globalization vs. fundamentalism, reason vs. superstition, the subversion of virtue by wealth—and the power of passionate love to overcome all obstacles to its consummation.
Little is known about Valentine, whose name symbolizes romantic love. Chet Raymo draws on the tradition that Valentine was a physician in love with the blind Julia to thread his way through the fabric of romance while illuminating the world of the Roman Empire of Claudius II—a time when Christian deaths provided public entertainment. The ideas in Valentine are startlingly relevant to our own times: globalization vs. fundamentalism, reason vs. superstition, the subversion of virtue by wealth—and the power of passionate love to overcome all obstacles to its consummation.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1955
Publisher
Cowley Publications,U.S.
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Blue Ridge Summit, United States
ISBN
9781561012862
SKU
V9781561012862
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99-15
About Chet Raymo
Chet Raymo is professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is teacher, naturalist, and former science columnist for the Boston Globe.
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