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Book SynopsisWhen Greece Flew Across the Alps offers a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast territory lying between Spain and Russia and Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities due to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing, and initiatives taken by individuals or institutions. By analyzing this important aspect of the reception of the Classics, this volume contributes to a better understanding of early modern European culture.   Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Graecia transvolavit Alpes Editor’s Note Contributors 1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men  Inmaculada Pérez Martín 2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540  Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek Letters  Gianmario Cattaneo 4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape  Natasha Constantinidou 5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges  Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy 6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century)  Christian Gastgeber 7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania  Iulian Mihai Damian 8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg  Marianne Pade 9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek Grammar  Federica Ciccolella 10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century  Tua Korhonen 11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden  Johanna Akujärvi 12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia  Ovanes Akopyan Bibliography Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisScholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy’s role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity. Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Classical Authors and Works Notes on Contributors Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation  James Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers 1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s Tischreden  R. Alden Smith 2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus  John G. Nordling 3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin Poetry  Carl P.E. Springer 4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans  Carl P.E. Springer 5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s Tischreden  R. Alden Smith 6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses  Richard J. Serina, Jr. 7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna  Piergiacomo Petrioli Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy 8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music  E. Christian Kopff 9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium  Eric Phillips 10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany  Joseph Herl 11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music  Daniel Zager 12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1  E.J. Hutchinson 13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna  Jane Schatkin Hettrick Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry 14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics  William P. Weaver 15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics  Jack D. Kilcrease 16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics  Manfred Svensson 17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther  John G. Nordling Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499). The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem’s seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Editing the Text 2 Origins and Contexts 3 The CS as Literature 4 1499—The Latin catenae 5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion Bibliography Texts Treatment of Texts  1 Scots  2 Latin  3 Translations of Sententiae Prologue (1499) Poem and Catenae Textual Notes: Poem  1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts  2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English Print Emendations: Sententiae Commentary, Sources, Glossary Commentary: Poem Sources: Sententiae Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Lyon Terence Giulia Torello-Hill and Andrew J. Turner take an unprecedented interdisciplinary approach to map out the influence of late-antique and medieval commentary and iconographic traditions over this seminal edition of the plays of Terence, published in Lyon in 1493, and examine its legacy. The work had a profound impact on the way Terence’s plays were read and understood throughout the sixteenth century, but its influence has been poorly recognised in modern scholarship. The authors establish the pivotal role that this book, and its editor Badius, played in the revitalisation of the theoretical understanding of classical comedy and in the revival of the plays of Terence that foreshadowed the establishment of early modern theatre in Italy and France.Trade Review“This (study) makes us not only grateful for what it teaches but eager to know still more.” Sander M. Goldberg, UCLA, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.12.18Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Note on Illustrations and the Use of Electronic Resources Introduction 1 The Lyon Terence and Its Initial Impact  1.1 Contents and mise-en-page  1.2 Publishing in Lyon  1.3 Composition, Printing, and Distribution 2 Terence’s Plays: Commentary and Illustration from Manuscript to Print  2.1 Terence as an Educational Classic: Text and Commentary from Antiquity to Medieval and Renaissance Europe  2.2 The Development of Manuscript Illustrations of Terence  2.3 The Impact of New Learning and Technologies: Donatus and the Advent of Printing The Editor of the Lyon Terence: Jodocus Badius Ascensius  3.1 Badius  3.2 Early Life and Literary Career to 1493   3.2.1 Flanders and Brabant   3.2.2 Italy   3.2.3 Lyon  3.3 Later Career to 1502 4 Text and Commentary in Badius’ Three Editions of Terence  4.1 The 1491 Edition and Donatus  4.2 The Lyon Terence: the Commentary of Guy Jouenneaux and Badius’ Revisions   4.2.1 The Commentary Edition of Guy Jouenneaux   4.2.2 Badius’ Re-edition of Guy  4.3 The 1502 Terence and Its Sources 5 The Illustrative Programme of the 1493 Edition  5.1 Badius’ Appropriation of the Carolingian Tradition  5.2 Gestures in Medieval and Early Modern Culture  5.3 Carolingian Gestures  5.4 Non-Carolingian Gestures   5.4.1 Manly Gestures   5.4.2 Female Gestures   5.4.3 Affective Gestures  5.5 Characterization through Costuming  5.6 Gestures, Illustrations and Commentary Derivative of Donatus in the Lyon Terence  5.7 The Illustrator of the Lyon Terence  Appendix: A Catalogue of Gestures 6 The Theatricality of the Lyon Terence  6.1 The Lyon Terence and Performance  6.2 Stage Design: the Lyon Terence and the Representation of Theatre Buildings  6.3 The Stage  6.4 Stage Conventions   6.4.1 Entrances and Exits   6.4.2 Asides, Eavesdropping, and Off-stage Scenes  6.5 Terence on Stage in Renaissance Italy and France 7 The Legacy of the Lyon Terence in the Sixteenth Century  7.1 Terence in Print in Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century  7.2 The Venetian Illustrated Editions of Terence of Lazzaro de’ Soardi  7.3 The Italian Illustrated Editions of the Sixteenth Century  7.4 The Influence of the Lyon Terence in Germany: the Illustrated Terence of Johann Grüninger and Its Tradition  7.5 The French Tradition of Terence after 1493  7.6 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index Locorum Index of Manuscripts Index of Subjects Concordance of Images in the Lyon Terence Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first full-scale commentary on the eighth book of Virgil’s Aeneid, the book in which the poet presents the unforgettable tour of the site of the future Rome that the Arcadian Evander provides for his Trojan guest Aeneas, as well as the glorious apparition and bestowal of the mystical, magical shield of Vulcan on which the great events of the future Roman history are presented – culminating in the Battle of Actium and the victory of Octavian over the forces of Antony and Cleopatra. A critical text based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition is accompanied by a prose translation.Trade Review'(...) a work that is monumental not only for its size (801 pages) but also as a multifaceted contribution to the study of "Virgil's most Augustan book" (vii) (...)The commentary is also impressive in its stylistic analysis, which is subtly integrated into the comprehensive interpretation of Book 8. Moreover, Fratantuono and Smith have cleverly interwoven the allusive system into their stylistic insights. (...) They have succeeded in the challenge of offering a new commentary on perhaps the most canonical ancient poet in the Western tradition, and fitting it into the stimulating discussion with predecessors and contemporary scholars. Fratantuono and Smith's monumentum will certainly become a necessary reference not only for Virgilian scholarship, but also for those interested in other ancient poets or, more broadly, in their literary reception.' - Eleonora Tola, in: The Classical Journal Online "Este comentário é o resultado de mais uma publicação dos Mnemosyne Supplements da editora Brill, que, sistematicamente desde 1999, tem vindo a dar à estampa comentários de referência a muitos dos cantos da Eneida. (...) Numa obra tão rica de referências como é a Eneida, e particularmente o livro oitavo, os AA. guiam o leitor não apenas no âmbito das fontes vergilianas, mas também no imenso mundo de bibliografia secundária que se foi produzindo ao longo, sobretudo, dos séculos XX e XXI, fornecendo os principais títulos para episódios-chave, como o da batalha entre Hércules e Caco, ou a écfrase do escudo de Eneias. (...) Por último, resta-nos esperar que, numa altura em que há cada vez mais meios que ajudam a desenvolver este tipo de trabalho, tanto os AA. quanto a editora Brill continuem a tarefa hercúlea de produzir e editar comentários para os restantes livros da Eneida. - Gabriel A. F. Silva, University of Lisbon, in: EVPHROSYNE, Revista de Filologia Clássica 48 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Text and Translation Commentary Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Verborum

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Book SynopsisHow are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? Bertrand shows how biblical women in contemporary literature are given a voice that rests not only on words but also on silences. Exploring the many forms that silence can take, she presents an innovative typology that sheds light on this profoundly meaningful phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction  1Setting the Frame. Voices and Silences Part 1: The Silenced Feminine?  2Ambivalent Responses to the Bible  1Listening to the Implicit Dimension of the Bible  2Challenging Women’s Silencing  2.1Dumb Silencing  2.2Garrulous Silencing  2.3Deaf Silencing  3So Many Forms of Silencing to Denounce  1The Demoted, Repressed Feminine: The Wild Girl  2Amputated Subjecthood: The Handmaid’s Tale  3Boarding the Ark of the Refusées: The Book of Mrs Noah  4Beware of the Big Bad Lies: Sisters and Strangers  5The Voiceless Cipher in the Text: The Red Tent  6Battling Against God: Only Human  7Feminist Responses to Women’s Silencing Part 2: Voices Draped in Silences Section 1:Encountering the Other through Silences. Diamant’s the Red Tent and Roberts’s the Wild Girl  4Dinah’s Ode to the Plural Mother  1A Universe of Mothers and Goddesses  2The Bliss and Burden of Silence  2.1In the Image of the (Great) Mother(s)  2.2From Eloquent Silence to Silencing  2.3At One with the Mothers  5Mary Magdalene’s Quest for Identity and God  1Introduction into the Ineffable Divine  1.1A Voluptuous Dissolution of the Self  1.2Ineffable Beauty and Harmony  2Regaining Primeval Wholeness  2.1Sexuality as a Route to the Divine  2.2The Marriage between the Inner Man and the Inner Woman  2.3The Rehabilitation of the Female Divine Principle  2.4Celebrating Life and the Eloquent Silence of Intimacy  3The Harrowing of Hell and Resurrection  3.1Mary Magdalene’s First Trip to the Nether Realm  3.2On the Erroneous Belief in the Bodily Resurrection  3.3Mary Magdalene’s Second Harrowing Scene  4The Voice of Female Dissent  4.1Each of Us Is the Rock  4.2Sailing in and to Silence Section 2:Blurred Voices and Spectral Silences. Roberts’s the Book of Mrs Noah and Diski’s Only Human  6Mrs Noah’s Journey to Creativity  1On the Polyphonic, Silent Use of Epigraphy  1.1Echoing Donne’s Erratic Progress of a Multiform Soul  1.2In the Image of … Donne’s Soul: Outshining Noah’s Ark  1.3Sharing a Playful, Ironic Distance towards Authority  1.4Tempering with Donne’s Voice  2A Great Web of Blurred Voices  2.1Voice Blurring Across Narrative Levels  2.2Blurring within the Main Narrative Level  2.3A Mixture of Chaos and Rhythm Celebrating Plurality  2.4Delivered from Confinement, Delivered through Confinement?  2.5A Heavy Weight to Bear?  2.6Conjugating “To Come”  3Climbing Down Deep Inside, to Spectral Silence  3.1Partying with the Quintessential Silenced  3.2Speaking with(out) the Lost Mother  7Sarai’s Story Game of Competing Voices and Rival Desires  1Voice Blurring in a War of the Wor(l)ds  1.1At the Start, There Is an End  1.2Unidentified Narrative Voice for a Silenced Heroine  1.3Blurred Rival Versions of the Beginning(s)  2Sarai’s Early Encounter with Spectral Silence  2.1Primeval Loss and the Beginning of Desire  2.2The Beginning of the End, and Disappointing New Starts  3Sarai-Abram-God, a Destructive Triangular Desire  3.1When the One Finds Her Own Voice, the Other Finds God’s  3.2Enter I Am That I Am, the Homewrecker: Sarai Nil, God One  3.3The Battle of Wor(l)ds: Sarai One, God One  3.4The Choice of Laughter: Sarai Two, God One Section 3:Reticent Testimonies. Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale and Tennant’s Sisters and Strangers  8Offred’s Reticent Tale of Resistance  1An Introduction to Reticence  2Offred’s Polyphonic Testimony  2.1Dialoguing with the Narratee(s)  2.2Passing On Other Mutinous Female Voices  2.3Offred’s Chatty Discourse with the Maker  3Fighting for a Plurality of Identities and Meanings  3.1Remembering Her Former Selves  3.2Games of Words, Power and Desire with the Commander  3.3Offred as Secret Lover  9The Playfully Reticent Tale of Eve’s Journey  1An Introduction into Grandmother Dummer’s Reticence  2From the Passive Princess to the Demonic Lilith  3Subverting the Extremes: From Harlot to Madonna  4Female Lies and Truths: From Courtesan to Bluestocking Part 3: Closing Silences Voicing Openness  10Passing on the Heroine’s Voice  1Mary Magdalene’s Distrust of Words  2Eve’s Ultimate Subversive Enactment of Female Stereotypes  3Sarai and the Ineffable Human Horror  4Dinah’s Life Beyond the Grave  5The Irreconcilability of Mrs Noah’s Aspirations?  6Offred’s Blurred Voice  11Conclusion  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisUberto Decembrio’s Four Books on the Commonwealth (De re publica libri IV, ca. 1420), edited and translated by Paolo Ponzù Donato, is one of the earliest examples of the reception of Plato’s Republic in the fifteenth century. The humanistic dialogue provides an illuminating insight into such themes as justice, the best government, the morals of the prince and citizen, education, and religion. Decembrio’s dialogue is dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, the ‘worst enemy’ of Florence. Making use of literary and documentary sources, Ponzù Donato convincingly proves that Decembrio’s thought, which shares many points with the Florentine humanist Leonardo Bruni, belongs to the same world of Civic Humanism.Trade Review“This volume presents the student and scholar with an excellent text, translation, and critical apparatus.” Teresa Rodríguez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Fall 2022), pp. 975–976.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Indexes Introduction  1 The Person: Uberto Decembrio  2 The De re publica libri IV: Structure and Themes  3 Uberto Decembrio’s ‘Civic Humanism’  4 History of the Text  5 Editorial Principles De re publica libri IV / Four Books on the Commonwealth  Liber I / Book 1  Liber II / Book 2  Liber III / Book 3  Liber IV / Book 4 Bibliography Glossarial Index General Index

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Book SynopsisThe Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220-1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. In the present volume Thomas Jülch presents his translation of the first five juan of the massive annalistic part. Rich annotations clarify the backgrounds to the historiographic contents, presented by Zhipan in a highly essentialized style. For the historical traditions the sources Zhipan refers to are meticulously identified. In those cases where the accounts presented are inaccurate or imprecise, Jülch points out how the relevant matter is depicted in the sources Zhipan relies on. With this carefully annotated translation of Fozu tongji, juan 34-38, Thomas Jülch enables an indepth understanding of a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction Preliminary Remarks Translation Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 1 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 2  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 1 and 2 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 3  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 3 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 4 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 5 Glossary of Sanskrit and Pāli Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of Ancient Greek literature (interdiscursivity, intergenericity) as well as non-textual sources (intermateriality). Thirty-six chapters by leading specialists set Plutarch within the framework of modern theories on intertextuality and its various practical applications in Plutarch’s Moralia and Parallel Lives. Specific intertextual devices such as quotations, references, allusions, pastiches and other types of intertextual play are highlighted and examined in view of their significance for Plutarch’s literary strategies, argumentative goals, educational program, and self-presentation.Trade Review"In conclusione, il volume rappresenta un contributo significativo agli studi su Plutarco, in particolare per quello che riguarda gli aspetti letterari della sua vasta produzione. La metodologia adottata si rivela duttile e capace di illuminare aspetti poco frequentati del corpus plutarcheo, rifuggendo in generale dal rischio di una eccessiva schematicità. [...] Il risultato è una panoramica esaustiva, intelligente e aggiornata rispetto al tema dell’intertestualità in Plutarco, nonché uno strumento facilmente consultabile per chi volesse approfondire le singole sfaccettature del problema nel complesso del corpus plutarcheo." Francesco Padovani, BMCR 2021.02.37.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations of Plutarch’s Works Introduction: Plutarch and the Academic Reader  Maria Vamvouri Part 1 Defining Intertextuality in Plutarch 1 Intertextuality in Plutarch: What’s the Point?  Christopher Pelling 2 Hearing Voices: φωνή and Intertextual Orality in Plutarch  Alexei V. Zadorojnyi 3 Forms and Functions of Intratextuality in Plutarch’s Corpus  Gennaro D’Ippolito Part 2 Intertextuality at Work 4 Voices from the Past: Quotations and Intertextuality in Plutarch’s The Oracles at Delphi  Frederick E. Brenk 5 Homer as a Model for Plutarchan Advice on Good Governance  José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado 6 Pericles and Athens: An Intertextual Reading of Plutarch and Thucydides  Mark Beck 7 Plutarch’s and Xenophon’s Sparta: Intra- and Intertextual Relations in the Spartan Lives  Olivier Gengler 8 The Mechanics of Intertextuality in Plutarch  Timothy E. Duff 9 Shrieking Volumes: Plutarch’s Use of the Ath.Pol. as Intertextual Bridge between Athens and Rome  Andrew Worley 10 How to Do Things with Hellenistic Historiography: Plutarch’s Intertextual Use(s) of Polybius  Eran Almagor 11 “Let Us Make the Most of What They Offer Us”: Different Layers of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum  Geert Roskam 12 The Encounter between Roman Virtue and Platonism in Plutarch’s Cato the Elder  Michael Nerdahl 13 Plutarch’s Theseus-Romulus and the Murder of Remus  Brad Buszard Part 3 Intratextuality and the Plutarchan Corpus 14 Heroes Imitating Heroes: Ethical and Pragmatic Intratextuality in the Parallel Lives  Susan Jacobs 15 Ejemplos de responsio gramatical en el Teseo-Rómulo de Plutarco  Aurelio Pérez Jiménez 16 Reading Plutarch through Plutarch (?): De sera numinis vindicta and the Commentary on Hesiod’s Erga  Stefano Amendola 17 Demetrius of Phalerum in Plutarch: A Multimodal Expression of Intertextuality and Intratextuality  Delfim F. Leão 18 “As Each Came to Mind”: Intertextualizing Plutarch’s Mentality of Intricacy in the Table Talk and Questions  Michiel Meeusen 19 Un ‘galateo’ intestestuale del simposio: le raccomandazioni di Plutarco personaggio dei Moralia  Paola Volpe Cacciatore Part 4 Through the Lens of Interdiscursivity 20 Sympotic Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum  Craig Cooper 21 Aesopic Wisdom in Plutarch  Philip A. Stadter 22 Plutarch’s Proverbial Intertexts in the Lives  Alessio Ruta 23 Who Is the Best Prophet? The ‘Manifold’ Character of a Quotation in Plutarch  Elsa Giovanna Simonetti 24 Aspetti e funzioni dell’intertestualità nei De tuenda sanitate praecepta di Plutarco  Fabio Tanga 25 Medical Allusions and Intertext of Physis in Plutarch’s Comp. Cim. et Luc. 2.7  Eleni Plati Part 5 Intergenericity: Plutarch’s Works at the Crossroads 26 Generic and Intertextual Enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30  Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou 27 Intertextuality Across Paired Lives: Plutarch’s Nicias-Crassus  Lucy E. Fletcher 28 Plutarch’s Less Tragic Heroes: Drama and Epic in the Pelopidas  Anna Lefteratou 29 From Inter-textuality to Inter-mediality: Plutarch’s Lyric Quotations from Greek Tragedy  Argyri G. Karanasiou 30 Love in Many Dimensions: Hesiod and Empedocles in Plutarch’s Amatorius  Katarzyna Jazdzewska 31 Las Vitae de Plutarco y el epigrama  Francisca Pordomingo 32 Defining Rhetoric While Playing with Pre-texts: Some Aspects of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 801C–D  Theofanis Tsiampokalos Part 6 Beyond Text: Plutarch and Intermateriality 33 Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential  Philip Davies 34 ὕλη θεολογίας: Religious Lore as Inter‘text’ in Plutarch’s Moralia  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold 35 The Power of Bones: An Intertextual and Intermaterial Reading of the Retrieval of Theseus’ Bones in Plutarch’s Life of Cimon  Chandra Giroux 36 Plutarch’s Intertextual References to Tattoos and Brands  Christina Harker Bibliography Index locorum General index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores early modern recreations of myths from Ovid’s immensely popular Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers and on the peculiarities of the various media that were applied. The contributors try to tease out what (pictorial) devices, perspectives, and interpretative markers were used that do not occur in the original text of the Metamorphoses, what aspects were brought to the fore or emphasized, and how these are to be explained. Expounding the whatabouts of these differences, the contributors discuss the underlying literary and artistic problems, challenges, principles and techniques, the requirements of the various literary and artistic media, and the role of the cultural, ideological, religious, and gendered contexts in which these recreations were produced. Contributors are: Noam Andrews, Claudia Cieri Via, Daniel Dornhofer, Leonie Drees-Drylie, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Daniel Fulco, Barbara Hryszko, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Jan L. de Jong, Andrea Lozano-Vásquez, Sabine Lütkemeyer, Morgan J. Macey, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Susanne Scholz, Robert Seidel, and Patricia Zalamea.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Re-Inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses  Karl Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong PART 1: Printed Cycles of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book Illustrations, and Commentaries 2 Non-Ovidian “Immigrants” in Printed Illustration Cycles of the Metamorphoses  Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich & Sabine Lütkemeyer 3 “Fabula ad mores relata.” Commenting on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Early Modern Times: the Example of the Phaethon Episode  Robert Seidel 4 Isaac De Benserade’s Inventiveness in Metamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux (1676) on the Basis of Love Threads Woven by Arachne  Barbara Hryszko PART 2: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Painting and Prints 5 Olympic Adultery. Italian Escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan  Jan L. de Jong 6 From Original Sin to Pornography: Pictorial Translations of the Salmacis Myth, ca. 1500–1800  Karl Enenkel 7 Playing with the Gods: Nicolas Poussin’s Reinvention of Ovidian Myths  Leonie Drees-Drylie 8 Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German States  Daniel Fulco PART 3: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the Applied Arts 9 From Laurel to Coral: the Jamnitzer Daphnes  Noam Andrews 10 Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain  Morgan J. Macey PART 4: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Literature 11 The Hounds of Desire: Elizabethan Variations on Ovid’s Actaeon Episode  Daniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz 12 Reinventing Ovidian Themes in Viceregal Peru: the Remaking of Fertility Myths in a Quechuan Play  Andrea Lozano-Vásquez and Patricia Zalamea PART 5: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Theory of Literature and Art Theory 13 Morphings at Meta-Levels: Ovid, John Dryden, and the Art of Likeness in Translation  Kerstin Maria Pahl 14 Petrification and Animation: the Myth of Perseus as a Metaphor for the ‘Paragone’ in Early Modern Art  Claudia Cieri Via Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisEvery third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2018, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Albacete (Spain) on the theme of “Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”. This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.Table of ContentsXVIIth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Programme Presidential Address  Ingrid A. R. De Smet List of Illustrations Plenary Papers 1 Le De Alea (1561) de Pascasius, ou l’invention des addictions et de la thérapie analytique  Jean-François Cottier 2 Petrarca e la natura  Carla Maria Monti 3 “Conquering Greece”: On the Correct Way to Translate in Fifteenth-Century Humanist Translation Theory  Marianne Pade 4 Autor/Erzähler und Fiktion im neulateinischen Roman: Ein Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie  Stefan Tilg 5 Apuntes sobre la transmisión textual de la versión latina de la Política de Leonardo Bruni  Juan J. Valverde Abril Communications 6 La Compendiosa Historia Hispanica (1470) como fuente en el primer Renacimiento castellano  Guillermo Alvar Nuño 7 L’humaniste suisse Heinrich Glaréan (1488–1563), vir bonus dicendi et docendi peritus  David Amherdt 8 La relevancia de los paratextos de las primeras ediciones de Marciano Capela para la crítica textual  Manuel Ayuso 9 Fonctions et effets des titres-résumés dans les miscellanées philologiques de la Renaissance  Valéry Berlincourt 10 From puer to iuuenis: Peder Hegelund’s Self-Reflecting Portrayal of Danish Christian III in the Epicedion de Inclyto et Serenissimo Rege Christiano III  Anders Kirk Borggaard 11 Shaping a Poem: Some Remarks on Paul of Krosno and His Horatianism  Elwira Buszewicz 12 Le scritture esposte e il latino in Italia fra XIV e XV secolo  Nadia Cannata 13 Commenter Quinte-Curce au xvie siècle : Premières observations  Lucie Claire 14 Bernardo Michelozzi e Francesco Pucci, amici di penna  Claudia Corfiati 15 The Bird-Catcher’s Wiles: Pietro Angeli da Barga’s De Aucupio  Ingrid A. R. De Smet 16 La tradición latina renacentista del De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus de Galeno  Marina Díaz Marcos 17 Aspects of Nature and People in Early Travel Literature (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)  Roumpini Dimopoulou 18 Bonaventura Vulcanius in Spain: Some Poems  Ignacio J. García Pinilla 19 La versión latina del tratado aristotélico De sensu (Parva naturalia) de Sepúlveda  Paraskevi Gatsioufa 20 The Practicing Poet: Petrarch, Dedalus, and the Dynamics of Poetic Creativity in the Bucolicum carmen  Donald Gilman 21 The Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (1521) and the Muses: a Little-Known Chapter in Sixteenth-Century Latin Poetry  Gerard González Germain 22 La figure du tyran dans les Adages d’Érasme  Lika Gordeziani 23 From Caesar to the Rantzaus: Allegory, Fiction and Reality in Heinrich Rantzau’s De obitu nobilissimae matronae Annae Rantzoviae Domini Ioannis Rantzovij coniugis Ecloga  Trine Arlund Hass 24 Epigramme et épopée : quelques exemples tirés de l’épigramme lyonnaise des années 1530–40  Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine 25 Ovidio neo-latino tra Cinque e Seicento: un percorso italo-europeo  Marco Leone 26 Nunc erit beatior … L’homme et la nature dans la troisième épode de Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski  Maria Łukaszewicz-Chantry 27 L’art de conférer chez Érasme  Eric MacPhail 28 Mankind’s Public and Private Roles in Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae (1571)  Ana I. C. Martins 29 Prefazioni e dediche nelle edizioni degli storici greci tra politica e divulgazione  Maria Stefania Montecalvo 30 Dutch Late Humanism and Its Aftermath: the Reception of Hugo Grotius’ Biblical Scholarship  Henk Nellen 31 The Merging of Linguistic Idioms in the Commentary Genre: the Case of Alejo Vanegas of Toledo (1542)  Daniel Nodes 32 La quaestio An terra moveatur an quiescat di Giovanni Regiomontano  Pietro Daniel Omodeo e Alberto Bardi 33 Los cuatro epigramas latinos de Alonso García en alabanza del Libro de la melancholia (Sevilla, 1585) de su discípulo Andrés Velásquez  Joaquín Pascual-Barea 34 Amato Lusitano: El relato patográfico del morbo gálico  María Jesús Pérez Ibáñez 35 Nuevos retos para el estudio de la poesía jesuítica latina del siglo XVIII  Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez 36 Fonti scientifiche in contesti scolastici: La metafora medica nei commenti a Persio del Secondo Quattrocento  Federica Rossetti 37 Continuidad y variación en el tratamiento de la rabia: de Gratio (s. I) a Aurifaber (s. XVI)  María de Lourdes Santiago Martínez 38 Magnetism’s Transformation from Natural Phenomenon to Literary Metaphor  Raija Sarasti-Wilenius 39 Natural and Artificial Objects in Conrad Gessner’s Book on “Fossils”  Petra Schierl 40 Educazione e politica nelle lettere di Costanza da Varano  Margherita Sciancalepore 41 Städtelob und Zeitkritik: Die Frankfurt-Episode im Iter Argentoratense (1544) des Humanisten Georg Fabricius  Robert Seidel 42 Seven Types of Intertextuality, and the Emic/Etic Distinction  Minna Skafte Jensen 43 A Dowry Recovered after Three Decades: Diego Gracián’s Spanish Editions of Ioannes Dantiscus’ Hymns Revisited  Anna Skolimowska 44 Neo-Latin and Russian in Mikhail V. Lomonosov’s Panegyric for Elizaveta Petrovna (1749)  Anna Smirnova 45 De interpretibus Iacobi Vanierii e Societate Jesu sacerdotis inter poetas Hungaros  László Szörényi 46 The Weaver of Light: Divine Origin of Nature and Natural Science in Carlo Noceti’s Iris  Irina Tautschnig 47 Notas sobre la correspondencia manuscrita de Christoph Sand  Pablo Toribio 48 Cum Apolline Christus: Personal Mottos of Humanists from the Czech Lands  Marta Vaculínová 49 Lettere alla corte aragonese: L’epistolario di Antonio Galateo, i re di Napoli e l’Accademia  Sebastiano Valerio 50 The Latin and the Swedish Versions of J. Widekindi’s Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis: the Nature of the Differences  Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich 51 Il bestiario “non inutile e giocondo” dell’umanista Pier Candido Decembrio  Éva Vígh 52 Der Humanist in der Krise: Zur Rolle der Poesie im Leben des Rigaer Humanisten David Hilchen  Kristi Viiding 53 Nepenthes – Trank der Helena: Die umstrittene Identität eines ‚homerischen‘ pharmakon in gelehrten Debatten des 17. Jahrhunderts  Benjamin Wallura 54 Martinus Szent-Ivany’s Notion of scientia: Some Preliminary Notes on the Semantics of Neo-Latin Science  Svorad Zavarský Index

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Book SynopsisThe Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation offers important essays on the origins, textual transmission, and (re)use of early English preaching texts between the ninth and the late twelfth centuries. Associated with the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project, these studies provide fresh insights into one of the most complex textual genres of early medieval literature. Contributions deal with the definition of the anonymous homiletic corpus in Old English, the history of scholarship on its Latin sources, and the important unedited Pembroke and Angers Latin homiliaries. They also include new source and manuscript identifications, and in-depth studies of a number of popular Old English homilies, their themes, revisions, and textual relations. Contributors are: Aidan Conti, Robert Getz, Thomas N. Hall, Susan Irvine, Esther Lemmerz, Stephen Pelle, Thijs Porck, Winfried Rudolf, Donald G. Scragg, Robert K. Upchurch, Jonathan Wilcox, Charles D. Wright, Samantha Zacher. See inside the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Plates Abbreviations and Short Titles Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine 2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies  Donald G. Scragg 3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Förster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross)  Charles D. Wright 4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary  Thomas N. Hall 5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers  Aidan Conti, Stephen Pelle, and Winfried Rudolf 6 The Lenten Tithe of Days: An Old English Theme and Its Treatment and Sources in Three Anonymous Homilies (Irvine V, Napier LV, and Blickling III)  Robert Getz 7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIII  Esther Lemmerz 8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter Homilies  Stephen Pelle 9 Columbanus’s De mundi transitu in Early Medieval England: A New Source for an Old English Homily (Irvine VII) in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343  Thijs Porck 10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism  Samantha Zacher 11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual Transmission  Jonathan Wilcox 12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple Manuscripts  Robert K. Upchurch Bibliography Indexes

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisThe Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome. A Greek by birth, Manilius Cabacius Rallus (c. 1447 – c. 1523) spent most of his life far from his motherland, unable to return. Through his poems, composed in a range of metres and genres, Rallus engaged with some major events and personalities of his time, including Angelo Poliziano, Ianus Lascaris, and Pope Leo X. His poems also reflect on timeless human experiences such as helplessness in the face of fortune and nostalgia for what is lost. Han Lamers edited the Latin text of Rallus’ poems (most of them printed for the last time in 1520) and added annotations and an English prose translation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Spelling Introduction: A Spartan Poet in Renaissance Rome  1 Introduction to the Poet and His Work  2 Editorial Matters Latin Text and Translation Editorial Abbreviations Manilii Cabacii Ralli Iuveniles ingenii lusus Literary Trifles of My Youth Eiusdem Manilii carmina extravagantia More Poems Annotations with the Text General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMuḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many stories of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the assassinations ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction  1 The Author  2 Sources on Ibn Ḥabīb  3 Works  4 The Book on Prominent Murder Victims and Poets Who Were Killed  5 Editions  6 The Translation  7 Transliteration  8 Abbreviations in the English  9 Abbreviations in the Notes to the Arabic Text Text and Translation Bibliography List of Sections Index of Persons, Tribes, Nations, Groups Geographical Index Index of Rhymes فهرست القوافي

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Francesca Martelli outlines some of the main contours of recent, current and future research on Ovid. Her study looks back to the rehabilitation of Ovid's oeuvre in the 1980s, and considers the post-modern aesthetic prerogatives and post-structuralist theoretical concerns that drove the critical recuperation of his poetry throughout that decade and in the decades that followed. But it also looks forward, by considering how the themes of this poet's oeuvre answer to a variety of new materialist concerns that are now gaining currency in the humanities and social sciences. It highlights the ecopoetic sensibility of the Metamorphoses, for example, and unpacks the environmental narratives that this poem yields when read in dialogue with the discourses of critical posthumanism. And it closes by considering the hauntological aesthetics of Ovid's exile poetry as a comment on the effects of the principate on time, space, media, and art.Table of ContentsContents Ovid  Francesca K.A. Martelli Abstract 1 Keywords  1 Introduction: Ovid, a Poet between Paradigms  2 Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in the Amores, Ars Amatoria, and Heroides  3 Metamorphoses (i): Between Nature and Culture  4 Metamorphoses (ii): Naturecultures  5 Ovid’s Fasti and the Ideological Bind  6 Hauntologies of Exile: Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto  7 Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe history of European integration goes back to the early modern centuries (c. 1400–1800), when Europeans tried to set themselves apart as a continental community with distinct political, religious, cultural, and social values in the face of hitherto unseen societal change and global awakening. The range of concepts and images ascribed to Europeanness in that respect is well documented in Neo-Latin literature, since Latin constituted the international lingua franca from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature Isabella Walser-Bürgler examines the most prominent concepts of Europe and European identity as expressed in Neo-Latin sources. It is aimed at both an interested general audience and a professional readership from the fields of Latin studies, early modern history, and the history of ideas.Trade Review"Isabella Walser-Bürgler’s book aims to demonstrate the genesis and development of an important discourse, the history of European integration, that Neo-Latin sources can elucidate in a much deeper way than only the use of vernacular sources can do. She provides a smörgåsbord of titles and quotations that undoubtedly will serve this purpose very well and makes us understand that a rich source material awaits those who immerse themselves in the treasuries of libraries and archives. The possibilities for new understanding not only for the past but also for topics that engage us directly today are legion." Arne Jönsson in BMCR 22.06.44Table of ContentsEditorial Note  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Early Modern Latin: A European Language and a Language for ‘Europe’  3 Antecedents of the Early Modern Discourse of Europe  4 From Zero to Hero: Conceptualisations of Europe in the Early Modern Period  5 Perspectives  References

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Book SynopsisDid the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights. This approach, combined with little known historical material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why Ficino’s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino’s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino’s ideas by early modern art theorists.

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Book SynopsisA Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.Table of ContentsEnglish Preface المقدمة Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Study of the Ancient World 1 Assyriologie in Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick  Laith M. Hussein 2 Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s: The Founding Generations  Fayza Haikal and Amr Omar 3 Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholars and Their Contributions to the Writing of the History of Ancient Yemen  Mohammed Maraqten 4 Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l’enseignement de l’histoire ancienne  Sidi Mohammed Alaioud 5 Les sciences de l’antiquité en l’Algérie : bilan et perspectives  Youcef Aibeche 6 Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive  Usama Gad Part 2: The Study of the Middle Ages 7 The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945–2017)  Abdelaziz Ramadan 8 Hichem Djaït, maître d’une école historique pour l’étude de l’Islam  Khaled Kchir 9 The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing  Abdulhadi Alajmi 10 Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends  Nasir al-Kaabi 11 L’histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Maġrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes  Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich et Azeddine Guessous 12 Les travaux d’histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles  Allaoua Amara 13 Mamluk Studies in the Arab World  Emad Abou-Ghazi 14 Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250–1517)  Hani Hamza 15 Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant « les relations Maghreb-Machreq » au Moyen ge  Lotfi Ben Miled 16 Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study  Al-Amin Abouseada Index

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Book SynopsisSaʿdeddīn Efendi was a renowned Ottoman chief jurisconsult, influential statesman, eminent scholar, and prolific translator of Arabic and Persian works into Turkish. Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I (“the Grim”). Saʿdeddīn’s Selimname consists of a preface and twelve anecdotes in which Selim I is portrayed as a divinely ordained sultan who delves into the realm of meditation, communicates with otherworldly saints and the “rightly guided” caliphs, and foretells the future.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Symbols, Spelling, and Vocalization Selīmnāme in Transcription Selīmnāme in Translation Selīmnāme in Facsimile (MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A, Oct. 79) Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAdventure, sex, magic, robbery, and dramatic declamatory displays play a central role in the plot of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses III. This volume completes the prestigious Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius series, which is available in its entirety as a digital resource as well: Apuleius Online. This volume on book III presents a new text of Metamorphoses III provided with an English translation and a full commentary, which covers literary, linguistic, textual, narratological, and socio-cultural matters. The introduction casts new light on many aspects of Apuleius’ novel, including its relationship with its lost Greek model, with the Greek love novels and with other genres (epic, poetry, declamation), Apuleius’ elaborate style, the narratological features of book III and its main themes. An appendix is devoted to the manuscript transmission of the Metamorphoses: it factors in new textual evidence gathered from the first examination of several recentiores since Oudendorp (1786) and Hildebrand (1842).Trade Review''Die Pièce de Résistance des Bandes bildet selbstredend der detailverliebte Kommentar, der zum Markenzeichen der GCA wurde und auch hier in bester Groninger Tradition quasi definitive Qualität besitzt. Costantini dokumentiert die Auseinandersetzung mit der gesamten Sekundärliteratur zum Thema; er lässt sich minutiös auf die äußere Gestalt des Werks ein; und kaum eine Frage zu den Realien, zu den literarischen Vorbildern, zum Sinn der einzelnen Partien wie des Ganzen bleibt unberührt. Erwähnung verdienen in diesem Zusammenhang die siebzehn in den Kommentar integrierten Essays, die relevante Sujets kompakt behandeln. (...) Mit seinem enzyklopädischen opus hat eines der ambitioniertesten philologischen Großunternehmen der letzten Jahrzehnte einen würdigen Abschluss gefunden. Der aufrichtige Dank aller Roman-Aficionados ist ihm gewiss.'' Peter Habermehl in Das Altertum 03.2023.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction  1 The scope of this commentary  2 Content of book III  3 The Metamorphoses (book III), the Onos, and the Ur-ass-story  4 The characters in book III and their characterisation  5 Space and time in book III  6 Narrative techniques  7 Themes in book III  8 The prose of the Metamorphoses: a stylistic overview Note to the text  1 The text printed in this commentary  2 Orthography  3 The translation Text of book III Commentary Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI Chapter XXVII Chapter XXVIII Chapter XXIX Appendix Plate Bibliography Index Rerum et Nominum Index Verborum Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisIn Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for Princes are considered here, for the first time, as a transcultural phenomenon that challenges the dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident. Traditionally, the historiographic tradition has viewed ‘European’ and ‘Middle Eastern’ Mirrors as distinct and incommensurable. Analyzing the contents and discourses in four Mirrors, ostensibly separated by space, time and language, Enrico Boccaccini convincingly draws out the surprising continuities between these texts, while also showing how they are embedded in their own historical, literary and political context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration and Style Introduction  1 Approaching Mirrors for Princes  2 The Heritage of Late Antiquity  3 Transculturalism  4 Research Procedure 1 The Traditions  1 The Two Histories of Mirrors for Princes  2 Mirrors for Princes—A genre?  3 Transcending the Historiographic Divide 2 The Texts  1 Risāla to the Crown Prince  2 De institutione regia  3 Naṣīḥat al-mulūk  4 Castigos e documentos para bien vivir 3 The Advice  1 Traits of the Ideal Ruler  2 Roles of the Ideal Ruler 4 The Advisors  1 Constructing Advice  2 Negotiating with Power Conclusion  1 The Transcultural Genre of Mirrors for Princes  2 In the Mirror and Beyond Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAntonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius’ works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to his broad Quattrocento recovery, many profound cultural and intellectual shifts had transpired. Consequently, Rho’s dialogues engage topics arising from scholastic and other debates in jurisprudence, cosmology, astrology, geography, philosophy, and theology. He was convinced that insights from these fields would elucidate errors of Lactantius that his readers had overlooked. This reveals much about the cultural and intellectual developments that shaped readers’ efforts to recover, comprehend, and define Lactantius as an author. Significantly, the list of Lactantius’ errors discussed in the dialogues was printed with nearly every edition of Lactantius through the sixteenth century and beyond.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Works of Antonio da Rho Introduction Sigla Abbreviations in Critical Apparatus Errors and Treatises Dialogue 1 Dialogue 2 Dialogue 3 Appendices Appendix 1: Niccolò Arcimboldi, Glosses on the Three Dialogues against Lactantius Appendix 2: Francesco Filelfo, Letter to Antonio da Rho Appendix 3: Pier Candido Decembrio, Letter to Antonio da Rho Bibliography Manuscript Index

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Book SynopsisThe Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were produced and how they were understood at the time.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Conventions Introduction Part 1 The Context 1 The Zhou Changes: Received Text and Early Manuscripts 2 The Philosophy of Divination in Ancient China 3 Turtle-Shell Divination 4 Milfoil Divination 5 Milfoil Divination with the Zhou Changes 6 The Poetic Imagination Part 2 The Text 7 The Hexagram 8 The Hexagram Statement 9 The Line Statement 10 Intra-hexagram and Inter-hexagram Structures of Hexagram Texts 11 The Hexagram Sequence 12 From Divination to Philosophy Works Cited Index of Zhou Changes Lines Index of Zhou Changes Hexagram and Line Statements Cited General Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume—the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation—brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into state-of-the-art contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together, they demonstrate how Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions that benefit interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means  Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas 1 Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle  Christian Pfeiffer 2 Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre  Jaap Mansfeld 3 Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita  David T. Runia 4 Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius?  Max Bergamo 5 Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen  Teun Tieleman 6 “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?  Han Baltussen 7 Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics  Christoph Helmig 8 Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography  Yury Arzhanov 9 Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum  Ute Pietruschka 10 Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103  Elvira Wakelnig 11 Reporting the Dualists: al-Ṯanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām  David Bennett 12 Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions  Andreas Lammer 13 Ibn Ṭufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors  Bethany Somma 14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʿīlī Background  Fedor Benevich Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fanāʾ) and subsist (baqāʾ) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Translation Notes Translator’s Introduction  1 Madārij and Its Author  2 The Formation of Sufism  3 Sufism and Antinomianism  4 Sufism and Mysticism  5 Defining Sufism  6 Al-Harawī and Manāzil  7 Madārij’s Reverential Critique of Manāzil  8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fanāʾ)  9 Causality and Ethics  10 The Problem of Epistemology  11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path  12 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madārij al-Sālikīn: Text and Translation Prolegomenon  1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qurʾan, The Opening  2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity  3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes  4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance  5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies  6 Refutation of Heresies  7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help” 1 The Stations of the Journey  1 The Station of Awakening  2 The Station of Insight  3 The Station of Purpose  4 The Station of Resolve  5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations 2 The Station of Reflection  1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation  2 Three Types of Annihilation  3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation  4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation  5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism  6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous 3 The Station of Self-Reckoning  1 The First Pillar  2 The Second Pillar  3 The Third Pillar 4 The Station of Repentance  1 Repentance and The Opening  2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance  3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins  4 The Inner Realities of Repentance  5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance  8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality  9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners  10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance  11 The Full Meaning of Repentance  12 Sins: The Object of Repentance  13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qurʾan  14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and Repentance Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fanāʾ) and subsist (baqāʾ) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)Table of Contents5 The Station of Oft-Returning  1 Reform  2 Fulfillment  3 State 6 The Station of Remembrance  1 Conditions of Benefitting from Admonition  2 Contemplating the Qurʾan  3 Five Things that Corrupt the Heart  4 Endless Desires for Worldly Things  5 Attachment to Things Other Than God  6 Gluttony  7 Sloth 7 The Station of Holding Fast  1 The Meaning of Holding Fast  2 The Holding Fast of the Elite 8 The Station of Fleeing  1 Fleeing from the Ego  2 Fleeing from All Other Than the Truth 9 The Station of Disciplining  1 The Disciplining of the Elite of the Elite] 10 The Station of Listening  1 Against Music  2 The Prohibition of Singing and Music  3 The Arguments of Those Who Permit Singing  4 First Principle: Scripture is the Judge of Mystical Knowledge  5 Second Principle: All Disagreements Are Judged by Scripture  6 Third Principle: The Weighing of Harm and Benefit  7 Spiritual Taste  8 Levels of Audition  9 The Audition of the Elite  10 The Audition of the Elite of the Elite 11 The Station of Grief  1 Levels of Grief 12 The Station of Fear  1 Kinds of Fear  2 Fear of Self-deception  2 Balancing Fear and Hope 13 The Station of Trembling 14 The Station of Humility  1 Putting Out The Fire of Ego  2 Recognizing the Lesions of One’s Soul and Deeds  3 The Third Level  4 Humility and Attentiveness in Prayers 15 The Station of Meekness  1 Being Blind to People’s Opinions 16 The Station of Renunciation  1 Is Renunciation Possible in These Times?  2 Parting from All Longings  3 Renunciation of Renunciation 17 The Station of Scrupulousness  1 Levels of Scrupulousness  2 The Web of Divine Stations 18 The Station of Devotion 19 The Station of Hope  1 The Excellence of Hope  2 Levels of Hope 20 The Station of Desire 21 The Station of Shepherding  1 Levels of Shepherding  2 Shepherding of Time 22 The Station of Watchfulness  1 Ranks of Watchfulness  2 Watchfulness of the Elite of the Elite 23 The Station of Venerating God’s Prohibitions  1 Is God Worshipped for Fear of the Fire and Love for the Garden?  2 Conditions of Displaying One’s Good Deeds  3 Venerating Scripture on Divine Attributes  4 Protecting the Divine Opening 24 The Station of Purification  1 Levels of Purification  2 The Second Level  2 Purification and Truthfulness 25 The Station of Refinement and Correction  1 Second Level  2 Third Level 26 The Station of Standing Firm  1 Exclusivity  2 The Soul of All States  3 Levels of Steadfastness  4 The Second Level  5 The Third Level 27 The Station of Trusting Reliance  1 Meaning of Tawakkul  2 Levels of Reliance  3 The Level of Joyful Contentment  4 Separating Relegation from Inaction and Negligence  5 Relating Reliance in God to the Beautiful Divine Names  6 Limiting Reliance to Unworthy Pursuits  7 Returning to al-Harawī on Trusting Reliance  8 The First Level according to al-Harawī  9 The Blemish of Asking of Creation  10 Third Level 28 The Station of Relegation  1 Second Level  2 Third Level 29 The Station of Trust in God  1 First Level  2 Second Level  3 Third Level 30 The Station of Submission  1 The Defects of Submission  2 Second Level 31 The Station of Patience  1 The Literal Meaning  2 Kinds of Patience  3 Patience according to al-Harawī  4 First Level  5 Third Level  6 Patience and God 32 The Station of Joyful Contentment  1 Contentment versus Patience in Suffering  2 Contentment and Tranquility  3 Three Levels of Contentment  4 The Three Conditions of Contentment  5 Second Level  6 Differentiating Normative and Ontological Commands  7 God’s Wisdom in Creating the Devil  8 Sixty-Two Virtues of Contentment and Indifference to Pleasure and Pain  9 Returning to al-Harawī  10 Third Level Index

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