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Palgrave Macmillan Early Modern Womens Letter Writing 14501700
Book SynopsisThis landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century.Trade Review'...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J .Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women; R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century; J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women; A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603; J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family; A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618); V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness; S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters; R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643); J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents; C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England; S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters; A.Laurence Notes and References Index
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age Digital
Book SynopsisMedieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repositoryâs digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History. Table of Contents1. IntroductionBenjamin Albritton and Elaine TreharnePart I. Theory and Practice2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of PixelsAstrid J. Smith3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstructionKeri Thomas4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript StudiesAbigail G. Robertson5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0Andrew PrescottPart II. Materialities6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210Orietta Da Rold7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 Part II: A Study in (Digital) CodicologyPeter A. Stokes8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual ObjectAnya Adair9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital RealmSiân EchardPart III. Translation and Transmission10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in TranslationMateusz Fafinski11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320John J. Gallagher12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and TransmissionDavid F. Johnson13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as TranslationSharon M. RowleyPart IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16A. Joseph McMullen15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond)Lindy Brady16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus CapellaElizabeth Boyle17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402Carla María ThomasPart V. Forms of Reading 18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of DarleyErica Weaver19. Severed Heads and Sutured SkinsCatherine E. Karkov20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability FrameworkAlexandra Bolintineanu21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the InternetMichelle R. Warren
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Travel Geography and Empire in Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome's far-reaching empire.The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume's discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The colTrade Review"...The vol>ume overall offers an impressive combination of topics and approaches in current research and is a collection of papers that will undoubtedly take readers on an enthralling and inspir>ing literary journey." - The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Traversing Empire, Micah Young Myers and Erika Zimmermann Damer; 2 The Stage at The Fair: Trade and Human Trafficking in the Palliata, Amy Richlin; 3 Expanding Geographies and Unbounded Subjects in Catullus, Sara H. Lindheim; 4 Arcadia and the Roman Imagination, Eleanor W. Leach; 5 Women’s Travels in Latin Elegy, Alison Keith; 6 On the Road with Tibullus: Aporia or Castration as the Way of Love, Paul Allen Miller; 7 Competing Itineraries, Travel, and Urban Subjectivity in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Erika Zimmermann Damer; 8 Statius’ Propemptikon and the Geopoetics of Silvae 3.2, Carole E. Newlands; 9 Martial, Spain, and the Girls from Gades: Travel and Identity in Flavian Epigram, Sarah H. Blake; 10 Memory Spaces of Ausonius and Rutilius Namatianus, Grant Parker; 11 Travelers and Texts: Reading, Writing, and Communication on the Roads of the Roman West, Alexander Meyer; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Herbal Remedies
Book SynopsisFeatured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical texts for the modern world.Here the medieval text is read as an example of technical writing (i.e., intended to convey instructions/information), not as literature. The audience it was originally aimed at would know how to diagnose and treat medical conditions and knew or was learning how to follow its instructions. For that reason, while working on the translation, specialists in relevant fields were asked to shed light on its terse wording, for example, herbalists and physicians. Unlike many current studies, this workTrade ReviewPraise for the second edition"I was delighted to see a revised edition of Anne Van Arsdall’s Medieval Herbal Remedies. For two decades, her book has served as an example of how to make medieval herbalism accessible to readers beyond just specialists in the field, through a much-needed modern translation of the Old English Herbarium, a study of the nineteenth-century antiquarian Oswald Cockayne and his own, curious 1864 translation of the Herbarium, and a fascinating comparison of early medieval herbalists to modern folk-healers. A welcome update to this edition is Van Arsdall’s placement of the Old English Herbarium in a broader European context, as an heir to Galenic, monastic, and vernacular medical traditions." Winston Black, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia "In the nineteenth century T. Oswald Cockayne introduced Old English medical texts to the modern world. In her 2002 edition Anne Van Arsdall reintroduced Cockayne and his work to the twenty-first century. Now, a valuable second edition dramatically expands the story of the man whose tragic life reads like a ‘bittersweet Victorian novel’ and whose scholarly work has gone largely unrecognized. More, it dramatically re-envisions the Old English medical texts Cockayne valued only for the vocabulary they contributed to the Old English lexicon. By resituating them, not in an 'Anglo-Saxon' context, but in the larger early medieval European tradition and by reading them as technical medical texts based on herbalism, Van Arsdall charts a promising new path for the study of The Old English Herbarium and its textual kin."Dabney A. Bankert, Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature, James Madison University "This significantly revised text offers a thought-provoking introduction to medieval medicine through the Old English Herbarium. Van Arsdall vividly shows how early medical texts were long thought to be of little value except for studying Germanic philology or folklore. The substantial introductory chapters and notes to the translation presented here show how we need to rethink such texts as technical literature – and indeed a literature that grew out of rich cultures of medical knowledge and practice across Christendom rather than just among the English. The crisp translation of the Herbarium makes this fascinating and complex world of learning further accessible. Medieval Herbal Remedies will be a valuable resource for teaching new histories of premodern medicine and encouraging new research in the field." James T. Palmer, Professor of History, University of St Andrews Praise for the first edition"Anne Van Arsdall's new and elegant translation with its extensive and thoroughly documented introduction comes as a welcome correction to Cockayne's antiquated and often misleading nineteenth-century edition of the Old English Herbarium. At last the Herbarium is restored to a prominent position among the texts of late classical and medieval medicine in Western Europe, and offers to a wide audience a fascinating opportunity for understanding the value of herbals in the development of the medieval tradition of healing."Maria Amalia D'Aronco, University of Udine, Italy "Presents a modern, readable, accurate, and lucid new translation of the Old English Herbarium, one that replaces Cockayne's and one that will be the standard translation for many years to come."Helen Damico, Professor of Old English, University of New Mexico Table of ContentsForeword Linda Ehrsam VoigtsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Oswald Cockayne: The scholar whose long shadow hangs over medieval medicine2. Cockayne’s Herbarium3. New contexts for the Old English Herbarium4. About the Old English Herbarium: Manuscripts, illustrations, and need for an alternative to Cockayne’s translation5.The Old English Herbarium: A modern translationReferences and online resourcesAlphabetical indexes of plant namesIndex of medical complaintsGeneral index
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WW Norton & Co Searching for Sappho
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the fascinating poetry, life and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems.Trade Review"... plain and elegant translations of Sappho’s fragments..." -- Times Higher Education"This short book provides an admirably clear and compact introduction to Sappho, while offering as a bonus a complete new translation of her frustratingly incomplete known oeuvre..." -- The Independent
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama
Book SynopsisThis title offers a survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides an author-by-author examination of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander plus how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out and who watched them.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath
Book SynopsisThe first feminist edition of these two tales. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poems'' production in a critical commentary to the texts. Also includes a line by line gloss and a historical introduction.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale and The Clerk's Prologue and Tale; critical_commentary Critical Commentary;
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Taylor & Francis Disability in Medieval Europe
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The University of Michigan Press Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic
Book SynopsisBy conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviours and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question.Trade ReviewLyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece offers a new take on the creation of archaic elite identities . . . The approach to the texts is innovative, the argument is persuasive, and the close readings are insightful." —Pamela Gordon, University of Kansas
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The University of Michigan Press The Scent of Ancient Magic
Book SynopsisExplores the complex interconnection of scent and magic in the Greco-Roman world between 800 BCE and CE 600, drawing on ancient literature and the modern study of the senses to examine the sensory depth and richness of ancient magic.
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Yee Gon Kim Worship Through Novels
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University of California Press The Best of the Argonauts
Book SynopsisThis revelatory exploration of Book One of theArgonauticarescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, Who is the best of the Argonauts? Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' curious and demanding poem to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek
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University of California Press The Poem of the Cid
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCanto One: The Exile Canto Two: The Wedding Canto Three: The Outrage at Corpes Map: Spain in the Time of the Cid
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Cambridge University Press The Millstatter Exodus
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Criseyde
Book SynopsisAn essential reader's guide specifically designed for students of English Literature studying Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English poem set in the Trojan War. This guide covers the entire text in short sections, as well as providing brief and accessible introductions to key topics and sources in short textboxes.Trade Review'Jenni Nuttall's Troilus and Criseyde: A Reader's Guide provides an invaluable teaching and learning resource which is aimed mainly at students of Chaucer. Its analysis covers the entire text; it is detailed and helpfully divided into sections, with key information highlighted in bold. The commentaries on each passage contain observations on plot, characterization, critical debate, and narrative voice, while close attention is paid to matters of style. Succinct introductions to key themes (Fortune, Felicity, and the Religion of Love, for example) and relevant antecedents (e.g. Petrarch's Sonnet 132) are positioned within discreet text boxes, guiding the reader through some of the central themes of the text.' The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Book V; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
Book SynopsisPlutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering everything from marriage to the Delphic Oracle, are crucial evidence for ancient philosophy and cultural history. This volume provides an engaging introduction to all aspects of his work, including his method and purpose in writing the Lives, his attitudes toward daily life and intimate relations, his thoughts on citizenship and government, his relationship to Plato and the second Sophistic, and his conception of foreign or ''other''. Attention is also paid to his style and rhetoric. Plutarch''s works have also been important in subsequent periods, and an introduction to their reception history in Byzantium, Italy, England, Spain, and France is provided. A distinguished team of contributors together helps the reader begin to navigate this most varied and fascinating of writers.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Plutarch and Biography Christophe Pellingr; 2. Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch Manuel Tröster; 3. Plutarch as moral educator Timothy Duff; 4. In the spirit of Plato Jan Opsomer; 5. Plutarch as a Polemicist John Dillon and Alexei Zadorojnyi; 6. Religion and myth in Plutarch Robert Lamberton; 7. Plutarch at the symposium Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 8. Language, style, and Rhetoric Donald Russell; 9. Plutarch and classical Greece Philip Stadter; 10. Great men: leadership in Plutarch's lives Mark Beck; 11. Thinking 'Private Life': Plutarch on gender, sexuality, family Françoise Frazier; 12. Wealth and decadence in Plutarch's lives Christopher Pelling; 13. Plutarch and the Barbarian 'Other' Eran Almagor; 14. Plutarch and Animals Judith Mossman and Alexei Zadorojnyi; 15. Plutarch in Byzantium Noreen Humble; 16. Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance Marianne Pade; 17. Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance Aurelio Pérez Jiménez; 18. Plutarch and Shakespeare: Reviving the dead Julia Griffin; 19. Plutarch in France: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Katherine MacDonald; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Virgil in the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Chaucers English A Study of Words 39 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus Cambridge
Book SynopsisTacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to established scholars in the field. First situating Tacitus within the tradition of Roman historical writing and his own contemporary society, it goes on to analyse each of his individual works and then discuss key topics such as his distinctive authorial voice and his views of history and freedom. It ends by tracing Tacitus' reception, beginning with the transition from manuscript to printed editions, describing his influence on political thought in early modern Europe, and concluding with his significance in the twentieth century.Trade Review"...the volume is both one among Tony Woodman's great services to Tacitean studies and a tribute to them." --BMCRTable of ContentsIntroduction A. J. Woodman; Contexts: 1. From the Annalists to the Annales: Latin historiography before Tacitus A. M. Gowing; 2. Tacitus and the contemporary scene A. J. Woodman; Texts: 3. The Agricola A. R. Birley; 4. The Germania as literary text Richard F. Thomas; 5. The faces of eloquence: the Dialogus de Oratoribus Sander M. Goldberg; 6. Fission and fusion: shifting Roman identities in the Histories Rhiannon Ash; 7. The Tiberian Hexad Christina Shuttleworth Kraus; 8. Hamlet without the Prince? The Claudian Annals S. J. V. Malloch; 9. 'Is dying so very terrible?': the Neronian Annals E. E. Keitel; Topics: 10. Tacitus' personal voice Christopher Pelling; 11. Tacitus as a historian Miriam T. Griffin; 12. Res Olim Dissociabiles: emperors, senators, and liberty S. P. Oakley; 13. Style and language S. P. Oakley; 14. Speeches in the Histories D. S. Levene; 15. Warfare in the Annals D. S. Levene; Transmission: 16. From manuscript to print R. H. Martin; 17. Tacitus and political thought in early modern Europe, c.1530–c.1640 Alexandra Gajda; 18. Gibbon and Tacitus Paul Cartledge; 19. A dangerous book: the reception of the Germania C. B. Krebs; 20. Tacitus and the twentieth-century novel Martha Malamud; 21. Tacitus' Syme Mark Toher; Chronological table.
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Cambridge University Press Theater outside Athens
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Cambridge University Press John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture 58 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press The Book of Memory A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 70
Book SynopsisMary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first.Table of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Introduction; 1. Models for the memory; 2. Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory; 3. Elementary memory design; 4. The arts of memory; 5. Memory and the ethics of reading; 6. Memory and authority; 7. Memory and the book; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General index.
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Pearson Education The Franklins Tale York Notes Advanced
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
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Harvard Department of the Classics The Lives of Latin Texts
Book SynopsisThe Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics is testament to Tarrant's influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism.
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Harvard University Press Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams
Book SynopsisThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.
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Harvard University Press Placita
Book SynopsisAëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the Greek philosophers, which served as a multi-purpose manual both for study and for personal enlightenment and which remains a valuable source for our knowledge of Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy.
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Harvard University Press Epitome of Pompeius Trogus Volume II
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Harvard University Press Velleius Paterculus
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Harvard University Press The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope L260
Book SynopsisThe comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.Trade ReviewWolfgang de Melo has established an updated text and rendered Plautus into smooth, pleasantly readable prose for the Loeb Classical Library...De Melo makes the world of Plautinopolis intelligible without becoming too familiar. Footnotes succinctly explain references to Greek and Roman allusions. Sometimes the translation presents a clear modern analogue with the literal meaning footnoted...Several enhancements improve the presentation of the new edition...The overall product is quite impressive. -- Fred Franko * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Book SynopsisAdrian Kelly is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature, Balliol College, Oxford.
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Manchester University Press The Templars
Book SynopsisThis unique collection of translated sources offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. This book charts the origins of the Order through to the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution. -- .Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceChronologyNotesMapsHistorical introduction1. Foundation and privileges2. Warfare and politics3. Religions and charitable functions4. Humans and material resources5. Attitudes towards the Templars6. The trialBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable
Book SynopsisStarting from the premise of the letter as literary artefact, with a potential for ambiguity, irony and textual allusion, this innovative analysis of the correspondence between the Cluniac abbot, Peter the Venerable, and the future saint, Bernard of Clairvaux, challenges the traditional use of these letters as a source for historical and (auto)biographical reconstruction. Applying techniques drawn from modern theories of epistolarity and contemporary literary criticism to letters treated as whole constructs, Knight demonstrates the presence of a range of manipulative strategies and argues for the consequent production of a significant degree of fictionalisation. She traces the emergence of an epistolarly sequence which forms a kind of extended narrative, drawing its authority from Augustine and Jerome, and rooted in classical rhetoric. The work raises important implications both for the study of relations between Cluniacs and Cistercians in the first half of the 12th century and for thTrade Review'... an attractively readable yet scholarly study which contains much of interest for historian, theologian, and student of medieval literature alike.' Medium Aevum 'Gillian Knight's immensely rich and detailed study of one of the best known epistolary exchanges of the twelfth century is [...] a most welcome addition to the literature.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Letter-writing and friendship reconsidered; Sanctity and rebuke: the relationship between Bernard's Apologia and Peter's letter 28; The proof of caritas: Peter, letter 65; Bernard, ep. 147; Fraudulent alms and monstrous election: Peter, letter 29; Reproach, iocus and debate: Bernard, ep. 228; Peter, letter 111; The salt of caritas: letter 111 continued; Bitterness and sweetness: Bernard, ep. 387; Peter, letter 149; Salvation, damnation and cohabitatio: Peter, letter 150; A new crusade: Bernard, ep. 364; Peter, letter 164; Duplicity or simplicity: Peter, letters 175 and 181; Bernard, ep. 265; An epistolary closure: Peter, letter 192; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Byzantium to Modern Greece Medieval Texts
Book SynopsisThe twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or ''romance'') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the vernacular made its first tentative literary appearances. These developments continued uninterruptedly through the late Byzantine and early modern periods. Scholarship since the nineteenth century has been sharply divided over these texts: do they represent the first ''breakthrough'' of an emergent ''Modern Greek'' literature, or merely a footnote to the Byzantine learned tradition? What, in particular, do they have to tell us about the collective self-definition of the Greek-speakers who wrote them (roughly during the period 1100-1600)? And how has their subsequent reception contributed to defining and consolidating the national identity of the Modern Greeks, since the nation state was established in the 1820s? The papers cTrade Review’Variorum compilations are long familiar to medievalists. This volume is notable among them for the effectiveness with which its nineteen articles create a coherent whole, responsive to their assembly between two covers in a given order.’ Annemarie Weyl Carr in ArthurianaTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Literature and Identity: 'De vulgari eloquentia' in 12th-century Byzantium; Antique nation? 'Hellenes' on the eve of Greek independence and in 12th-century Byzantium. Part 2 Byzantine Epic and the Oral Tradition: Balladry in the medieval Greek world; Byzantine historiography and modern Greek oral poetry: the case of Rapsomatis; Was Digenes Akrites an oral poem?; Digenes Akrites and modern Greek folk song: a reassessment; An epic in the making? The early versions of Digenes Akrites. Part 3 The Revival of Satire: Cappadocians at court: Digenes and Timarion; The rhetoric of poverty: the lives and opinions of Theodore Prodromos; Ptochoprodromos III: the ethopoeia of the unruly monk. Part 4 The Byzantine Novel or 'Romance': The Byzantine revival of the ancient novel; The world of fiction and the world 'out there': the case of the Byzantine novel; The poetics of the vernacular Greek romances and the 'chronotope' according to Bakhtin; Courtly romances in Byzantium: a case study in reception; Erotokritos and the history of the novel. Part 5 Byzantine Literature and the Making of a Modern Greek National Consciousness: Koraes, Toynbee and the modern Greek heritage; Romanticism in Greece; La fortune de Digénis Akritis: de l'épopée médiévale au symbole du nationalisme grec; 'Our glorious Byzantinism': Papatzonis, Seferis, and the rehabilitation of Byzantium in postwar Greek poetry; Index.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Vulgar Latin to Old Proven231al
Book SynopsisExamines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations of a few selected texts, both prose and poetry. The secondary source material includes a razo and two vidas from the troubadour biographies, as well as three poems selected from the works of Bernart de Ventadorn, the Countess of Dia, and Giraut de Bornelh.
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later
Book SynopsisBeginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus'' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or formidable and powerful? Not finding sufficient information in the Gospels, which are almost completely silent about Jesus'' childhood, medieval Christians turned to centuries-old apocryphal texts for answers.In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon demonstrates how these apocryphal legends fostered a vibrant and creative medieval piety. Popular tales about the Christ Child entertained the laity and at the same time were reviled by some members of the intellectual elite of the church. In either case, such legends, so persistent, left their mark on theological, devotional, and literary texts. The Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx urged his monastic readeTrade Review"[A]n excellent monograph in a burgeoning area of study. No doubt it will appeal to readers interested religious devotion in later medieval Western Europe; at the same time, it offers much for scholars of early Christianity and the transmission of apocrypha more generally. Dzon presents a compelling study that will surely provide a firm foundation for future scholarship on the Christ Child in his myriad medieval manifestations." * Review of Biblical Literature *"In this fascinating study, Mary Dzon tackles the 'hidden years,' as she terms them, of Jesus’ childhood—particularly the time between his birth and the episode with the temple doctors in Jerusalem...This is truly a thought-provoking study, not only for anyone interested in the Christ Child, but also for readers who wish to deepen their understanding of the intricacies of medieval devotional culture." * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *"In this ambitious and impeccably well-researched book, Mary Dzon explores the emergence and later influence of apocryphal treatments of Christ’s childhood...[A] thoroughly enjoyable and interesting book...This richly detailed study makes a serious contribution to medieval studies and will no doubt be an engine of creative and productive engagement in its own right. " * Religion & Literature *"Quests are undertaken to be disappointed. Like the grail of the medieval romances, the Christ Child of medieval devotion remains elusive both in modern scholarship and in the medieval sources. How important was meditation on Jesus’ childhood in medieval devotion to his humanity? It is oddly difficult to say. Mary Dzon has admirably analysed [the] sources that we do have...Dzon is to be commended for allowing the theological arguments of her sources to outshine the prevailing desire in the scholarship to make Jesus’s humanity central at the expense of his Godhead." * The Journal of Theological Studies *"The Christ Child, like the Man of Sorrows, was a regular presence in later medieval religion, but a complex and seemingly contradictory figure. He could be the subject of tender affective piety, but he could also be the mischievous child of apocryphal infancy narratives, lowly and vulnerable or lordly and powerful, the subject of imaginative narratives or the focus of meditation and prayer. With deeply impressive learning and clarity, Mary Dzon unfolds the complexities of the Christ Child in medieval culture. She gives the subject the careful and captivating attention it has long needed." * Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University *"The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages fills a major lacuna in the history of affective piety: the importance of the Christ Child in lay and clerical devotion from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. This book is a timely and novel exploration of terra incognita, with methodological relevance to scholars outside the fields of medieval spirituality." * William MacLehose, University College London *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images Chapter 2. The Christ Child in Two Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx and in Early Franciscan Sources Chapter 3. Aquinas and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages Chapter 4. A Maternal View of Christ's Childhood in the Writings of Birgitta of Sweden Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Yearning of the Quest Appendix: Summary of William Caxton's Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477) Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Bonds of Secrecy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Saltzman’s book is impressive in its range, compelling in its argument, and significant in its contribution. I twill undoubtedly remain a touchstone for scholarship on early medieval notions of agency, interiority, and legal identity for a long time to come." * Speculum *"Highly original, Bonds of Secrecy reveals something that has been hidden in plain sight throughout a wide variety of texts and makes a significant impact on our understanding of historical and narrative motivations. Benjamin A. Saltzman succeeds in clearing away presentist mental furniture to reveal what secrecy meant to Anglo-Saxons who understood it to be inseparable from divine omniscience." * Leslie Lockett, The Ohio State University *Table of ContentsA Note on References and Translations List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. LAW Chapter 1. Political Epistemology and Crimes of Concealment in Anglo-Saxon Law Chapter 2. The Secret Seized: Theft, Death, and Testimony PART II. SPIRITUALITY Chapter 3. Monastic Life and the Regulation of Secrecy Chapter 4. Making Space for Spiritual Secrecy Chapter 5. Seeing in Secret: Saints, Hagiography, and the Ethics of Concealment and Discovery PART III. LITERATURE Chapter 6. Binding Secrets, Solving Riddles Chapter 7. Worldly Concealment, Divine Knowledge, and the Hermeneutics of Faith Chapter 8. Reading Hidden Meaning: Between Interpretive Pride and Eschatological Humility Afterword Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Mothering New Middle Ages
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, this study offers a broad range of approaches to medieval society's undertanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice and imagery of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. In 19 original theoretical essays, medical and literary sources to establish that for male commentators are examined, as well as the narrowly biological, female parameters of maternity which were insistently supplanted by images of nurturant mothering, an ungendered activity that could be preempted and associated with male behavior. The remainder focus on representations of motherhood in Old Norse and Icelandic literatures, and on record evidence for the maternal behavior of actual mothers in medieval France, England, and Spain.Trade Review"The editors are to be congratulated on the sensitivity with which they have placed the essays in linked groupings, and the individual contributors on their scholarship. The essays are highly readable and, as well as being insightful, provide excellent guidelines for future study." -- Parergon"The collection provides an exciting and insightful overview of medieval mothering, one that significantly enhances our appreciation of both the medieval theory and practice of this complex activity." -- The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Medieval Mothering, Medieval Motherers, John C. Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler; Abbreviations; Nurturing Danger: High Medieval Medicine and the Problem(s) of the Child, William F. MacLehose; Milk of Christ: Herzeloyd' as Spiritual Symbol in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Patricia Ann Quatirin; Pregnant Queen as Counsellor and the Medieval Construction of Motherhood, John C. Parsons; Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, Allyson Newton; Maternal Behavior of God: Divine Father as Fantasy Husband, Pamela Sheingorn; Joseph as Mother: Adaptation and Appropriation in the Construction of Male Virtue, Rosemary Drage Hale; Is Mother Superior?: Towards a History of Feminine Amtscharism, Felice Lifshitz; Maternity in Aelred of Rievaulx's Letter to His Sister, Susanna Greer Fein; In the Meyden's Womb: Julian of Norwich and the Poetics of Enclosure, Maud Burnett McInerney; Inverted Metaphor: Earthly Mothering as Figura of Divine Love in Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings, Andrew Sprung; Old Norse Motherhood, Jenny Jochens; Viking's Mother: Relations Between Mothers and Their Grown Sons in Icelandic Sagas, Stephan Grundy; Female Networks for Fostering Lady Lisle's Daughters, Barbara A. Hanawalt; Looking for Grandmothers: The Pastons and Their Counterparts in Late Medieval England, Joel Rosenthal; Empress Matilda and Her Sons, Marjorie Chibnall; Public Lives, Private Ties: Royal Mothers in England and Scotland, 1070 - 1204, Lois L. Huneycutt; Adela of Blois as Mother and Countess, Kimberley A. LoPrete; Berenguela of Castile's Political Motherhood: The Management of Sexuality, Marriage, and Succession, Miriam Shadis; Family Romance of Guibert of Nogent: His Story/Her Story, Nancy Partner; Contributors
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University of Hawai'i Press Developing Zeami The Noh Actors Attunement in
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Taylor & Francis History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent 10001200
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Cambridge University Press Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
Book SynopsisChallenging established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ''Easter eggs'' of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such signposting is usually considered the preserve of later literary cultures, closely linked with the development of libraries, literacy and writing. But Thomas Nelson shows that these devices were already deeply ingrained in oral archaic Greek poetry, deconstructing the artificial boundary between a supposedly ''primal'' archaic literature and a supposedly ''sophisticated'' book culture of Hellenistic Alexandria and Rome. In three interlocking case studies, he highlights how poets from Homer to Pindar employed the language of hearsay, memory and time to index their allusive relationships, as they variously embraced, reworked and challenged their inhTable of ContentsI. Introduction; II. The Pre-Alexandrian footnote; III. Poetic Memory; IV. Time for allusion; V. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Terence
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Legare Street Press Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of the
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Aeneid Book I.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.This collection serves as a meditation on the different ways that cosmological and experiential time are construed, measured, and manipulated in Greek and Latin literature. It explores both the kinds of time deemed worthy of measurement, as well as time that escapes notice. Likewise, it interrogates how linear time and its representation become politicized and leveraged in the service of emerging and dominant power structures. These essays showcase various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality in order to build bridges and expose chasms between ancient and modern ideologies of time. Some of the areas explored include the philosophical and social implications of time that is not measured, the iTable of ContentsIntroduction; I. Out of Time; 1. “Now, Sleep,” Alex Purves and Victoria Wohl; 2. “Untold Times? A Page from Galen,” James Ker; II. Engendering Time; 3. “Fertile Pasts and Sterile Futures in Euripides’ Andromache,” Sarah Olsen, 4. “The History of Sexuality in Xenophon’s Symposium,” Kate Gilhuly; 5. “Materna Tempora: Gestational Time and the Ovidian Poetics of Delay,” Caitlin Hines; III. Shaping Time; 6. “The Politics of Epinician Time,” Nigel Nicholson; 7. “But now…The Temporality of Archaic Invective Poetry,” Kirk Ormand; 8. “Wasting Time with Petronius,” Jeffrey Ulrich; 9. “The Roman Poetics of Decline,” Andreas Zanker; IV. Beyond Time; 10. “Greek Ghosts and Roman Imperial Temporalities,” Robert Cioffi; 11. “Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18),” Patrick Glauthier.
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Taylor & Francis Repurposing Literary Romance Texts in Medieval
Book SynopsisTranscribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the authors over the circulation of their works allowed scribes to employ particularly refined strategies aimed at assigning new functions and meanings to these texts, which might appear very different from the original to the readers. This could be achieved in various ways, such as manipulating the configuration of the manuscript, creating or emphasising textual connections within organised collections, exploiting paratexts, or making more significant alterations to the text itself.This volume provides an overview of the primary ways in which textual repurposing and the consequent guiding of the reader are achieved within the manuscript tradition of Medieval Romance literary texts. Each method is described and exemplified through detailed analysis of particularly significant cases, which not only offer interesting insights into the perception of authorship in this literary context but also reveal unexpected ways through which manuscript compilers revitalise and enhance the communication of the works they handle.This book will be of interest to readers of Romance Medieval literature, Medieval manuscript culture, and material philology.
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Taylor & Francis Ancient Greek Oracular Texts
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Taylor & Francis The Poetics of Old English
Book SynopsisCombining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Anglo-Saxon prose and verse, ultimately recognizing an inherent poetic nature present in all Old English texts. While the poetic nature of Beowulf, due to the regular meter and heroic story, is recognized, this study demonstrates that poetry is a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought; poetic patterning can be found across the Old English corpus, both in verse and in so-called prose. Informed by Jakobsonian linguistics and oral theory, Beechy's analysis focuses on the text itself to identify unique poetic strategies. This demonstration includes a comparison between King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and the Latin original; the poetic quality of prose homilies; poetic epistemology in law codes, riddles, and charms; and unconventional poetics even in
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