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Cambridge University Press Vergils Aeneid and Greek Tragedy Ritual Empire and Intertext
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Cambridge University Press A Commentary on Ovids Metamorphoses Volume 2 Books 712
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Cambridge University Press Terence Hecyra Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Writing and Empire in Tacitus
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Cambridge University Press Geoffrey Chaucer in Context
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Cambridge University Press Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Dantes Vita nuova and the New Testament
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Cambridge University Press The Divine Vision of Dantes Paradiso
Book SynopsisBristling with interdisciplinary insights, this book will open up new dimensions for Dante scholars and attract researchers from a host of other fields, not least philosophy and theology. Alongside critical theory and phenomenology, William Franke also spotlights Dante's striking pertinence to emergent fields in media studies and iconology.Trade Review'This is a brilliant and enjoyable book. With sharp interdisciplinary acumen, Franke provides lucid and creative readings that offer original and fruitful perspectives on Dante's Commedia, highlighting its relevance for contemporary studies in theology, philosophy and literature. The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso compellingly shows how Dante's bold and experimental writing can, even for us today, vivify in striking ways reflection on truth and its mediation.' Vittorio Montemaggi, King's College London'This book possesses the outstanding qualities one has come to expect from Franke's scholarship: broad and deep mastery of the Western philosophical and theological traditions; attentive, nuanced, and fecund literary analysis; a crystal-clear, jargon-free, economical, elegant, and at times lyrical prose; a searching and intelligent devotion to groundbreaking inquiry. In Franke's view, Dante's longed-for vision of God is nothing other than his vision of Letters – of Writing that, in keeping with the doctrine of Incarnation, both is and is not God. Such Writing is not human but is revelation: it shows God visibly, yet at the same time it is not God's essence as the Absolute and the Infinite.' Gregory B. Stone, Louisiana State University'Franke seeks to interpret Dante's vision of writing in ways that make it available to philosophical analysis and speculative contemplation, methods aesthetic and spiritual at the same time. Such connections offer important resources for philosophical and theological reflections that resonate 'in the excruciating dilemmas of [the] present cultural predicament' ... Highly recommended.' D. Pesta, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPart I. The Literary Vision; 1. Writing as Theophany: The Medium as Metaphor for Immediacy; 2. The Presence of Speech in Writing: Speaking as Sparking; 3. The Parts of Speech: Mediation and Contingency; 4. From Speculative Grammar to Visual Spectacle and Beyond; 5. Sense Made Sensuous and Synaesthesia in the Sight and Sound of Writing; 6. Infinite Script: Endless Mediation as Metaphor for Divinity; Part II. Philosophical Reflections; I. Language as Concocted of Letters versus the Mysticism of the Name; II. Saussure and the Structuralist Idea of Language as a System of Differences; III. Temporalization and Transcendence of Time through Language; IV. Transcendental Reflection: Time Synthesis and the Role of the 'I'; V. Unmanifest Wholeness of Sense: Language as Image of the Imageless; VI. Transcendentality of Language and the Language of the Other.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture 2 Volume Hardback Set
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Cambridge University Press Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century
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Cambridge University Press Decimus Laberius
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes the Democrat
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Cambridge University Press Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts 12th15th Centuries
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Cambridge University Press Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press Dante the Theologian
Book SynopsisThis compelling new work argues that appreciation of the Divine Comedy has been hindered by lack of understanding of how Dante used theology to articulate his ideas. He should be understood not just as a poet indeed the 'Supreme Poet', as Italians call him but also as a remarkable theologian.Trade Review'Dante the Theologian is a significant, brilliant and illuminating contribution to theological reflection on Dante's Commedia. As such, it can both build on and help strengthen further the growing body of scholarly reflection on the theological dimensions of Dante's work. It presents an unusually compelling combination of depth of content and accessibility of style while offering new insights into Dante's poetry. Its central argument is that a theological analysis that ignores the poetic prevents us from recognizing both the uniqueness of Dante's theological voice and the contribution this can make even today to our theological thinking. Among the most significant contributions of the book are its splendidly incisive highlighting of the theological nature of Dante's poetry as poetry, and its marvellously fruitful treatment of the question of the relationship between fiction and truth. In both respects, Denys Turner's book is a powerful and novel contribution to key debates concerning Dante's work and its theological implications.' Vittorio Montemaggi, King's College London'Dante the Theologian is a significant, brilliant and illuminating contribution to theological reflection on Dante's Commedia. As such, it can both build on and help strengthen further the growing body of scholarly reflection on the theological dimensions of Dante's work. It presents an unusually compelling combination of depth of content and accessibility of style while offering new insights into Dante's poetry.' Vittorio Montemaggi, King's College London'This is a superb book, and will be very welcome. It's written with energy, and a sense of excitement and fun – all qualities which are often lacking in books on Dante. It brings a +avenues for research on and discussion of its subject.' Matthew Treherne, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Theology and Poetry; Hell: 2. Hell: Dante and Aquinas; 3. Does Dante's Hell Exist?; Purgatory: 4. Purgation and Purgatory; 5. Hope, Memory, and the Earthly Paradise; Paradise: 6. Paradise and Paideia; 7. The End of Poetry.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Greek Tragedy
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Cambridge University Press Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
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Cambridge University Press Lucretius and the End of Masculinity
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Cambridge University Press Plutarchs Prism
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Cambridge University Press Plutarchs Prism
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Cambridge University Press Polybius Book 8
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Cambridge University Press Polybius Book 8
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Cambridge University Press Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Temple of Our Soul
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Cambridge University Press Platos Charmides
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Cambridge University Press The Life Course in Old English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Book SynopsisAn essential point of reference for advanced students and researchers interested in ancient Greek poetry or religion. It contains a new text of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, an English translation, detailed commentary on points of interest, and an introductory discussion of the poem's origin and significance.Trade Review'An essential framework for scholarship on the hymn, Thomas' detailed explanations of the intended puns or of Hermes' 'hermetic' riddling statements/speeches offer not only brilliantly researched pieces of philology, but also very fine-drawn interpretations.' Gabriela Cursaru, University of Montreal'Thomas' commentary provides a fresh and valuable instrument for the interpretation of a text, which does not fail to surprise for the stimulating new approaches it is able to offer.' Cecilia Nobili, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text and translation; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
Book SynopsisArthur Westwell closely examines the manuscripts of the Ordines Romani and reveals the surprising creativity of their compilers. His study addresses changes and reinterpretations of ritual texts before print, using manuscripts to shed new light on how medieval churchmen read and used the scripts for religious ceremonies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The 'Roman' Collection of Ordines in Metz, Lorsch and Tours; 2. The 'Frankish' Collection in Verona, Regensburg, Nonantola and Corbie; 3. Unique Collections of the Ordines from Worms and Wissembourg, St Amand and St Gallen; 4. Liturgical 'Usefulness' and Reading the ordines romani; 5. Orders for the Stational Mass in Frankish Cities and Monasteries; 6. The Ordo Romanus of the Baptismal Scrutinies; 7. Ordines for Special Occasions, Ordination and the Ember Days: The Contribution of Arn of Salzburg; 8. Layout, Script and Language of the Ordo Romanus Manuscripts; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
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Cambridge University Press Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Cambridge University Press Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Athenian Funeral Oration
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Cambridge University Press Womens Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
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Cambridge University Press Vice in Ancient Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient Near East
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Cambridge University Press Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Responses to Ovids Exile
Book SynopsisThe Augustan poet Ovid exerted significant influence over the Middle Ages, and his exile captured the later medieval imagination. Medieval Responses to Ovid''s Exile examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid''s exile across medieval culture. It ranges across the medieval schoolroom, where new forms shape Ovidian exile anew, literary pilgrimages, medieval fantasies of dismemberment and visits to Ovid''s tomb. These responses capture Ovid''s metamorphosis into a poet for the Christian age, while elsewhere medieval poets such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer demonstrate how to inhabit an Ovidian exilic voice. Medieval audiences fundamentally understood the foundations laid by the exilic Ovid, and so from antiquity and from exile Ovid shaped his own reception. The extent, enthusiasm and engagement of medieval responses to Ovid''s exile are to such a degree that they must be considered when we read Ovid''s exilic works, or indeed any of his poetry.
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Cambridge University Press Literary Form in Early Medieval England
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Cambridge University Press Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new examination of Timaeus of Tauromenium, a Sicilian historian and one of the first Greeks to devote attention to Rome. It presents methodological discussions of fragments, genre and speeches in their proper context, which will be useful for other areas of study in the ancient world.Trade Review'Baron has produced a highly readable and engaging study … this book is certain to play an integral role in future discussions of Hellenistic historiography.' Liv Mariah Yarrow, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. How to study a fragmentary historian; 2. Timaeus' life and works; 3. Timaeus' legacy: Rome and beyond; 4. The distorting lens: Polybius and Timaeus; 5. A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens; 6. Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian's craft; 7. The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus; 8. 'Just like a schoolboy': Timaeus and his speeches; 9. Generic choices: the shape of Timaeus' Histories; 10. Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age; 11. Conclusion; Appendix A. New delimitations or translations; Appendix B. Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.
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Cambridge University Press Plato and the Stoics
Book SynopsisStoics wrote against Plato, and yet Plato's influence on Stoicism was wide-ranging and profound. This book explores the Stoic reception of Plato from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius, and so addresses the relationship between a major philosopher and one of the most important philosophical movements.Table of ContentsIntroduction A. G. Long; 1. Cardinal virtues: a contested Socratic inheritance Malcolm Schofield; 2. The Academy, the Stoics, and Cicero on Plato's Timaeus G. Reydams-Schils; 3. Chrysippus and Plato on the fragility of the head Jenny Bryan; 4. Plato and the Stoics on limits, parts and wholes Paul Scade; 5. Subtexts, connections and open opposition A. G. Long; 6. Seneca against Plato: Letters 58 and 65 George Boys-Stones; 7. Theôria and scholê in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius: Platonic, Stoic or Socratic? Thomas Bénatouïl.
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Cambridge University Press The Medieval Manuscript Book Cultural Approaches 94 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 94
Book SynopsisTraditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. Written by experts in the study of the handmade book before print, this volume combines bibliographical expertise with broader insights into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas from bibliography to social context, linguistics to location, and archaeology to conservation. The focus of the contributions ranges widely, from authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a whole, these essays make the case that to understand the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its cultural complexity, from production to transmission to its continued adaptation.Trade Review'The editors and Cambridge University Press have made an excellent start by including this book in the high-profile Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, a series devoted to illuminating literature in relation to medieval culture and bodies of learning. It is to be hoped that the present volume will engage a new generation of literary scholars and cultural historians in discovering manuscript culture and investigating its meanings.' Review of English Studies'This volume is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussion about the place of the medieval manuscript book within both book history and medieval studies. Reflecting the continuing growth over the past forty years of manuscript studies in both the amount and the sophistication of its research, this collection will provide an accessible and provocative entry point for future scholars. In making plain the necessity of attending to medieval texts as inescapably bound to their physical manifestations, the essays here should establish as a given that any future work in medieval studies drawing on written records will perforce have to contend with the material nature of those records.' Benjamin C. Tilghman, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript'This volume, a worthy addition to the series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, contains twelve new essays (plus an introduction) by a diverse group of scholars … This is a generous collection, offering not only examples of some of the best contemporary work on manuscripts but also suggestions and recommendations for further study and new paradigms for manuscript study.' R. M. Liuzza, Journal of English and German PhilologyTable of Contents1. Introduction: manuscripts and cultural history Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen; 2. Bibliographical theory and the textuality of the codex: towards a history of the pre-modern book Seth Lerer; 3. What is a manuscript culture? Technologies of the manuscript matrix Stephen G. Nichols; 4. Decoding the material book: cultural residue in medieval manuscripts Erik Kwakkel; 5. Organizing manuscript and print: from Compilatio to compilation Jeffrey Todd Knight; 6. Containing the book: the institutional afterlives of medieval manuscripts Siân Echard; 7. Medieval manuscripts: media archaeology and the digital incunable Martin K. Foys; 8. The circulation of texts in manuscript culture Pascale Bourgain; 9. Multilingualism and late medieval manuscript culture Lucie Doležalová; 10. Miscellaneity and variance in the medieval book Arthur Bahr; 11. Vernacular authorship and the control of manuscript production Andrew Taylor; 12. Medieval French and Italian literature: towards a manuscript history Keith Busby and Christopher Kleinhenz; 13. Afterword: social history of the book and beyond Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Middle Egyptian Literature Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom
Book SynopsisThis companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely regarded as the pinnacle of Egyptian literary arts, by the Egyptians themselves and by modern readers.Trade Review'A rich resource for students to enhance their reading of eight classics of Middle Egyptian literature in the original language. It will surely become a standard in Middle Egyptian courses.' Mark Collier, University of Liverpool'A marvellously authoritative and accessible new resource for anyone wanting to read these classics of world literature in the original language.' R. B. Parkinson, University of Oxford'This book gives the reader access to one of the true surviving treasures of ancient Egypt: Middle Kingdom literary texts, presented in their original wording. An essential companion for students and lovers of ancient literature.' Andréas Stauder, École Pratique des Hautes Études, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor; Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe; Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction; Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep; Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant; Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul; Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale; Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.
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