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Cambridge University Press Narrative Authority and Power The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition By author Larry Scanlon published on November 2007
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Cambridge University Press Seneca the Elder
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Cambridge University Press Piers Plowman New Anticlericalism 4 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Dante and Difference Writing in the Commedia 2 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Theophrastus Characters
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Cambridge University Press The Derveni Papyrus
Book SynopsisGábor Betegh offers a systematic reconstruction and analysis of the Derveni Papyrus, found in 1962, and discusses its significance as a document of primary importance for a better understanding of the religious and philosophical developments of the time of Socrates. Will appeal to classicists, philosophers and historians of religion.Trade Review'Gabór Betegh has done a brilliant job. His book provides his readers with a Greek text and an intelligent translation that does not hesitate to go its own way … Thanks to Betegh's careful and thorough book, an important text has finally become much more accessible …' The Times Literary Supplement'This is the first book-length study of this text since 1997… Betegh has made a major contribution to understanding both the thought of the Derveni author and the Orphic poem.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'This is a remarkable book … the debate Betegh's book stimulates as well as the answers he has given will inevitably lead to greater understanding of this puzzling text.' Rhizai'The Derveni Papyrus is a rich text and … there is no doubt that it will continue to prove controversial and hard to understand. But Betegh has given us a commentary that matches the text's richness.' The Heythrop Journal'… his work contributes greatly to unravelling its difficulties.' Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Text and translation; 1. The find; 2. The first columns; 3. The reconstruction of the poem; 4. The interpretation of the poem; 5. The cosmic god; 6. Cosmology; 7. Anaxagoras; 8. Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens; 9. Physics and eschatology: Heraclitus and the gold plates; 10. Understanding Orpheus, understanding the world; Appendix: Diagoras and the Derveni author; Bibliography; Index verborum; Index of passages; Index of modern names; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press The Beginnings of Medieval Romance Fact and Fiction 11501220 47 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 47
Book SynopsisUp to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the romance, which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed largely to break free from traditional presuppositions. Dennis Green explores how and why this happened, and examines this period of crucial importance for the birth of the romance and the genesis of medieval fiction in the vernacular. Although the crucial innovative role of writers in Germany is Green's main concern, he also takes literature in Latin, French and Anglo-Norman into account. This study offers a definition of medieval fictionality in its first formative period in the twelfth century, and underlines the difficulties encountered in finding a place for the fictional romance within earlier literary traditions.Trade Review'Green's is a comparative, pan-European approach never neglectful of literary developments and textual examples … but also … Green is a true pleasure to read: his manner is unvaryingly straightforward and robust; the perfect mastery with which he develops an argument allows for no loose ends, neither from one paragraph to the next nor from chapter to chapter.' Dalhousie French StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; 1. Defining twelfth-century fictionality; 2. Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century; 3. Fictive orality; 4. Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival; 5. Fiction and structure; 6. Fiction and history; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names.
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Cambridge University Press Gestures Looks Medieval Narrative 48 Cambridge
Book SynopsisIn medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. In this, the first study of its kind in English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts.Trade Review'… this fascinating book … the author's intellectual flexibility and lightness of touch make this book a pleasure to read …' The Times Literary Supplement'… a fascinating study of non-verbal communication elements in both well-known and lesser-known medieval texts. It is the first general study of its kind in English … I found the writing to be quite readable, so that a non-scholar with an interest in either the texts or the topic would find the style accessible. I can easily see providing excerpts or even a whole chapter of this book to students in an undergraduate literature class, or the whole book to students in a graduate medieval literature course … Burrow supplies useful, contextual information about the passages he includes as examples, as well as relevant historical and social background for each of the elements of non-verbal communication he explores in the texts … medievalists will find Burrow's interpretations sound, viable, and highly relevant. I found Burrow's interpretations of scenes that I have read, studied, and taught for years enlightening … accessible writing style …a valuable addition to medieval studies which points the way to further research in this much needed area of analysis.' CerclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Gestures; 3. Looks; 4. Two Middle English narratives; 5. Dante's Commedia; 6. Afterword; Bibliography; Index of names and titles; Index of signs.
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Cambridge University Press Chaucer Tradition Roman Antique 15 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Indrajit of Orcha A Study of Early Braj Bhasa Prose A Study of Early Braj Bhs Prose 13 University of Cambridge Oriental Publications Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Greek Oared Ships 900 322 BC
Book SynopsisThis book is written in the belief that a proper understanding of Greek civilization in antiquity requires some knowledge of its background of seafaring. A knowledge of nautical practice is required for an understanding of some passages of Greek poetry and prose writing. This is an attempt at a thorough study of the evidence, both literary and archaeological.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Homeric Period 900–700 BC: 1. Ships of the Bronze Age; 2. Ships of the geometric period; 3. Literary texts; Part II. The Archaic Period: 700–480 BC: 4. Catalogue of ship representations; 5. Literary and epigraphical texts; 6. Accounts deriving from the later fifth century; Part III. The Classical Period 480–322 BC: 7. Catalogue of ship representations; 8. The ship-sheds D. J. Blackman; 9. Written evidence; 10. Sea power in the Aegean: 480–322 BC; 11. Written evidence; 12. Handling; Maps; Bibliography and opus abbreviations; Glossaries; Index to collections; Index of Greek and Latin words; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Terence Language Roman Comedy Cambridge Classical Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius
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Cambridge University Press Troubadours and Irony 3 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Cantar De Mio Cid Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts 5 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Homers People
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Cambridge University Press The Tragedies of Ennius The Fragments Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
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Cambridge University Press Dantes Inferno Difficulty and Dead Poetry Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Arthurian Romances Chretien Troyes Once and Future Fictions Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Abbasid Belles Lettres
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Medieval Europe New Research in Early Drama 9 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Surveyed
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Cambridge University Press Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre
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Cambridge University Press The Frontier People of Roman Britain
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Cambridge University Press Platos Thought in the Making
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Cambridge University Press The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
Book SynopsisThis is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought. The volume includes essays discussing Pythagoras, Hesiod and Plato, in which Cornford's enthusiasm for his subject will communicate itself to any reader.Table of ContentsMemoir; Note; 1. The unconscious element in literature and philosophy (1921); 2. The harmony of the spheres (1930); 3. The unwritten philosophy (1935); 4. Plato's commonwealth (1935); 5. The doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium (1937); 6. Greek natural philosophy and modern science (1938); 7. A ritual basis for Hesiod's Theofony (1941); 8. The Marxist view of ancient philosophy (1942); Appendix: a list of Cornford's publications on classical subjects (excluding reviews).
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Cambridge University Press Roman History from Coins
Book SynopsisIn this 1968 study, Michael Grant examines how Rome used currency to inform direct or deceive public opinion and considers the results of this exploitation. He masters his difficult and complex subject matter, producing a brief exposition of it in a manner suitable for the general reader and specialist alike.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. How rules thought of their coins; 2. Coins and personalities; 3. The empire on its coinage; 4. New evidence for the past; 5. Approach to world coinage; Notes; Plates; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Horace and his Lyric Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Plato Phaedrus
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Cambridge University Press Platos Philebus
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Cambridge University Press Dante and the Franciscans Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia 52 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 52
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Cambridge University Press Platos Progress
Book SynopsisThis is, as from the author of The Concept of Mind it could scarcely fail to be, a bold and rollicking book. It is also one of the most important works about Plato to have appeared since the first volume of Sir Karl Popper's The Open Society. Whereas The Concept of Mind was a general offensive against Cartesian views of man, eschewing any precise references to particular sources, Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature. Yet Professor Ryle is still incapable as ever of the dry-as-dust.Table of ContentsPart I. The Disorders: 1. Aristotle and Plato; 2. Plato; 3. Conclusion; Part II. The Publication of Dialogues: 4. Book-reading; 5. The recitation of dialogues; 6. games-audiences; 7. The mammoth dialogues; Part III. Plato and Sicily: 8. Who invited Plato to come to Syracuse in 367?; What were Isocrates, Plato, etc., invited for?; 10. The real Dion; 11. The forger; 12. Plato's third visit to Sicily; 13. Aristotle and Sicily; Part IV. Dialectic: 14. Foreword; 15. Aristotle's Art of Dialectic; 16. The earlier history of dialectic; 17. Plato's dialectic vis-à-vis eristic; 18. The minor values of dialectic; 19. The philosophical value of dialectic; 20. Conclusion; Part V. The Crisis: 21. The charges against Socrates; 22. The charges against 'Socrates'; 23. Evidence; 24. Plato's co-defendants; 25. Epilogue; Part VI. The Disappearance of the Eristic Dialogue: 26. The abandonment of the elenchus; 27. The organisation of the eristic Moot; 28. The minuting of debates; 29. Dialogues and the minutes of debates; 30. Why the eristic dialogue vanished; 31. From eristic to philosophy; 32. Eristic and the Theory of Forms; Part VII. The Timetable: 33. Foreword; 34. The eristic dialogues; 35. The Apology and the Crito; 36. The foundation of the Academy; 37. The Phaedo and the Symposium; 38. The Critias; 39. The Timaeus; 40. The Republic; 41. The Philebus; 42. The Laws; 43. The Phaedrus; 44. The Cratylus; 45. The Theaetetus; 46. The Sophist; 47. The Politicus; 48. The Parmenides; 49. A stylometric difficulty; Acknowledgements; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press Dante and Renaissance Florence 56 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press Empedocles Cosmic Cycle
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Cambridge University Press Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Chaucer Love Sex and Agency in the Canterbury Tales 55 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 55
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Cambridge University Press Solon and Early Greek Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Aratus and Augustus
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Cambridge University Press The Lament for the South Yu Hsins Ai ChiangNan Fu Cambridge Studies in Chinese History Literature and Institutions
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Path of the Argo
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Cambridge University Press Powerplay in Tibullus
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Cambridge University Press The Han Rhapsody
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Cambridge University Press Propertius
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Cambridge University Press The Chronology of Platos Dialogues
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Cambridge University Press Poems of AlMutanabbi
Book SynopsisAl-Mutanabbi (AD 915â965), though universally considered the greatest of all the Arab poets, has seldom been translated or discussed outside Arab countries. This study uses the same format as and is intended to supplement Professor Arberry's Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students. The introduction discusses Al-Mutanabbi's life, style, influence and critics. There follows a selection from his poems, in the original Arabic, with a literal translation into English on the facing page and notes on points of language and style at the foot. There is also a concluding chapter on textual variants, the problems of translation and a bibliography. Students of Arabic will find this a convenient introduction to one of the classics of the literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Texts and translations; Textual variants; Bibliographical notes; On translating Al-Mutanabbi.
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Cambridge University Press The Wycliffite Heresy Authority and the Interpretation of Texts 45 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 45
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