Wilmington: Convention Facilities
Wilmington: Convention Facilities
The Wilmington area offers meeting planners more than 4,000 rooms plus meeting facilities that range from intimate country getaways to large world-class conference centers accommodating 1,000 people in a single room. The area's largest event and convention venue is the Bank One Center on the Riverfront, which offers more than 60,000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space, including an additional 45,000 square feet new in 2005. Convenient to major airports, hotels, I-95, and Amtrak, the center has boardrooms, meeting rooms, ballrooms, state-of-the-art audio-visual, and more than 2,400 parking spaces.
New Castle County convention bureau officials boast of more than 40 hotels that specialize in medium-size and small conferences and meetings plus 400 restaurants—all set in the beautiful Brandywine Valley with its vistas made famous by three generations of Wyeths. One of the larger venues is Clayton Hall Conference Center at the University of Delaware, which offers state-of-the-art amenities accommodating intimate gatherings to 1,500-person conclaves. The Chadds Ford Ramada Inn & Conference Center in nearby Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania, offers almost 15,000 square feet made up of 13 well-lit meeting/banquet rooms, including a state-of-the-art auditorium with built-in AV and seating for up to 200 people. The Hotel du Pont is a historic property that includes 30 meeting rooms, five in the self-contained Executive Conference Center, and 11 rooms in a state-of-the-art High Tech Conference Center. Also located within the Hotel du Pont is the multipurpose 1,200-seat Du Pont Theater, available for meetings. Both the Embassy Suites Hotel and the Radisson Hotel and Suites Wilmington offer meeting space in the Greater Wilmington Area. Unique meeting sites in Wilmington include the Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Museum of Natural History, and The Grand Opera House.
Convention Information: Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau, 100 West 10th Street, Suite 20, Wilmington, DE 19801; telephone (302)652-4088; fax (302)652-4726
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Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, c. 650-c. 1450
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...array of material; fifteen concern Paulicians, the remaining thirty-five Bogomils...sophisticated form by Nina Garsoian, that Paulicians were originally Adoptionists and followers...trust Peter of Sicily's account of the Paulicians; for the Bogomils and their history...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Everybody's knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door; A panapoly of piety and confusion.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 1/15/2004; 700+ words
; ...of the Church, in the shape of the Paulicians. These heretics, troubled by the endless...priests, it was not best pleased when the Paulicians published a list of evil things which...for archery practice, however, the Paulicians flourished. And, naturally, split...
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Understanding the Balkan conflict.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...things that I am writing. In the seventh century the quakefish Paulicians saw the temporal world as the shelter of all evil, they wished...ninth century arrived iconoclasm was being outlawed and the Paulicians had been given the option of renouncing their errors or to...
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A Brief History of Heresy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...this work is that figures and the movements contained therein are treated in a very cursory manner. The medieval dualists (Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars) receive very little treatment, and the whole vita apostolica movement of the twelfth century is largely...
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Basil I, founder of the Macedonian dynasty; a study of the political and military history of the Byzantine empire in the ninth century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 506 words
; ...ninth century to create a new treatment of the contexts and the repercussions of Basil's wars, especially those with the Paulicians, Sicilians, Dalmatians, the Italian states, and peripheral territories. He also gives full coverage of Basil's internal...
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I'm an atheist, but all my best friends are religious
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...side in a theological argument to be heretic and then excommunicating it - or worse. Monophysites, Arians, Donatists, Paulicians, all found themselves in the wilderness. Let alone the Bogomils, the Cathars and various other Manichaean sects, who were...
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Walker's "Visions of Ararat" Re-Issued in Softback; "What Others Have Said" Over the Centuries
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 7/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the serious side, there are the passages from Edward Gibbon (he of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) about the Paulicians, an early Protestant community which, many believe, may have started in Armenia. Heavy going, but fascinating. Throughout...
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Paulicians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Paulicians , Christian heretical sect. The sect...Nestorianism . The teachings of the Paulicians seem to show some gnostic influence...brought on new persecutions of the Paulicians in Armenia, but the permissive Isaurian...
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Plovdiv
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the capital of Thracia. It was razed by the Goths but recovered after Byzantine Emperor Constantine V settled the Armenian Paulicians there. Destroyed (early 13th cent.) by the Bulgarians, Plovdiv later became the center of the Bogomils . It was occupied...
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Dualism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...was a Manichaean in his youth. Later Christian dualistic heresies, thought to be derived from Manichaeism, include the Paulicians (Armenia, Albania, seventh – eighth century), the Bogomils (Bulgaria, tenth century) and the Cathars (Albigensians...
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Michael III
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Theophilus and grandson of Michael II. His minority saw the final overthrow of iconoclasm and a severe persecution of the Paulicians . Upon coming of age he entrusted the government to his capable uncle, Bardas, whose administration (856-66) was marked...
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Basil I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...extension of the living Roman law. Basil's reign was active militarily. In the 870s his forces broke the heretical sect of the Paulicians, whose strongholds had weakened the eastern frontiers. His armies also pushed successfully against the Arabs, beginning...
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