Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Medieval Institute Publications Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour
Book SynopsisAt the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule. A new edition of David Parkinson’s 1992 book The Palis of Honoure. Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University publishes the TEAMS Middle English Texts series, which is designed to make available texts that occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but have not been readily obtainable in student editions. The focus of Middle English Texts is on Middle English literature adjacent to such major authors as Chaucer or Malory. The editions include glosses of difficult words and short introductions on the history of the work, its merits, points of topical interest and brief bibliographies. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction The Palyce of Honour Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Index Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications John of Garland's 'Integumenta Ovidii': Text,
Book SynopsisThe renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. The edition presents the original Latin text with facing-page modern English translation. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction Integumenta Ovidii Explanatory Notes Notes on the Text Bibliography
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St Augustine's Press 05 Achilles and Hector – Homeric Hero
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St Augustine's Press Symposium Of Plato – Shelley Translation
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley pulled himself away from a flurry of other projects to devote himself to translating Plato's Symposium. Besides being one of the very great lyric poets of Romanticism, Shelley was an accomplished Hellenist, and had a natural sympathy for Plato's way of seeing the world. The result of his labor was a translation of Plato's principal work on love that is, in both clarity and felicity of expression, unmatched by any contemporary translation. Much of what the dialogue offers to today's reader - namely, its invitation to see erotic experience as the privileged locus of our contact with the sacred and the divine - is lost in translation by failures of tone more than by inaccuracies or simple infelicities. The elevation and sophistication of Shelley's prose makes his translation a much better English vehicle for Plato's writing than the rather chatty and colloquial translations current today. Plato's speeches on love need an English idiom in which myth is at home, and in which humour rises to urbanity rather than descending to mere wit and joke. With Shelley, we get a translation of a great literary masterpiece by a writer who is himself a literary master, and his mastery is of exactly the type required by Plato's text. This translation came at the height of Shelley's powers, mirroring in language and conception some of his finest works, and so is itself a precious document in the history of Romanticism, for which the re-appropriation of Plato is second in importance only to the massive influence of Shakespeare. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband's literary executor, upon publication of (a somewhat expurgated version of) the dialogue, boasted that "Shelley resembled Plato; both taking more delight in the abstract and the ideal than in the special and the tangible. This did not result from imitation; for it was not till Shelley resided in Italy that he made Plato his study. He then translated his Symposium and Ion; and the English language boasts of no more brilliant composition than Plato's Praise of Love translated by Shelley." If this goes too far, it goes at least in the right direction. David K. O'Connor, in his introduction and footnotes, provides the historical and philosophic framework to appreciate best the importance of the dialogue and translation.Table of Contentsintroduction, notes, Stephanus numbers, index
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Michigan State University Press The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard
Book SynopsisWhen Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public's blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as Rene Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato's Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society, while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos figure, the human drug through whom Plato can dispense his philosophical remedies. With tremendous insight and satisfying complexity, this book analyses classical texts through the lens of Girard's mimetic mechanism.
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Michigan State University Press Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror
Book SynopsisMarie Delcourt’s brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert’s influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later.Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes: greatness, conquest, domination, the right to rule - all of them bound up with the idea of kingship. Together they form the biography of a Theban hero, the fullest account that has come down to us about the prehistory of sovereign power among the ancient Greeks. Delcourt does not suppose that Oedipus, or indeed any other Greek hero, was a historical figure. The personality familiar to us from the plays of the tragedians of the fifth century - our oldest source, and a very late one - was the result of their extraordinary artistry in linking together themes rooted in very ancient social and religious rites that in the interval had come to describe the feats of Oedipus, then his life, and finally his character. It was in order to explain these rites, whose meaning had ceased to be understood, that myths and legends were invented in the first place., Delcourt argues, is the archetype of all heroes of essentially (if not exclusively) ritual origin, whose acts were prior to their person. This is a very different = and far more complex - Oedipus than the one rather implausibly imagined by Freud. More generally, the origin and transmission of the Oedipus legend tells us a great deal about the strength and persistence of public memories in prehistoric societies.
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Iter Press My Life`s Travels and Adventures – An
Book SynopsisIn her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, including child bride, wife, mother, lover, adventuress, slave trader, writer, and home-taught physician. She successfully carved out a viable niche for herself, navigating the multicultural, multiethnic, and varied religious environment of Europe’s eastern periphery. Despite limited expectations for female professionals, she became a highly sought after and well-respected practitioner of the medical arts and rose to the position of court physician to Turkish pashas and Hungarian princes, and even to Sultan Mustafa III. My Life’s Travels and Adventures—part memoir, part autobiography, and part travelogue—provides a view into eighteenth-century social, professional, and gender interactions and weaves a rich narrative replete with vignettes of love, travel, and popular superstitions important to our historical, ethnographic, and religious understanding of the era. This edition brings the entirety of this personal and idiosyncratic memoir to English for the first time. Trade Review“Thanks entirely to the discovery of her lost memoir at the end of the nineteenth century, Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa enjoys the reputation of being the first female doctor in Polish history. And how all this came about is a fascinating story, vividly conveyed in Roczniak’s tour-de-force translation. . . . Pilsztynowa’s compelling story as told in this splendid critical edition is worthy of her legacy.” -- Barry Keane, University of WarsawTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Other Voice Her Life, Her Book, and Her Times The Emancipate’s Journey Pilsztynowa as Other, Pilsztynowa and Others Note on Locations and Translation My Life’s Travels and Adventures Preface, To the Estimable Reader Chapter One, First Journey to Istanbul, and Other Adventures Chapter Two, My Second Marriage, and Other Adventures Chapter Three, The Disagreement with Mr. Bekierski, and My Cavalier Chapter Four, My Second Arrival in Istanbul Chapter Five, The Turkish Sect Chapter Six, The Route to Jerusalem Chapter Seven, About Fasting on Saturdays Appendix One: Glossary of Places Appendix Two: Pilsztynowa’s Patients Appendix Three: Chronology Bibliography Index
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Archaeopress Discurso, espacio y poder en las religions
Book SynopsisDiscurso, espacio y poder en las religiones antiguas aims to reflect on how the wielders of power, be they religious, social or political, shape the discourses that justify their power within the framework of a society or a specific group, and how space participates in these discourses. Intellectuals, aristocrats, holy men or even the dead all needed to shape a discourse that would allow them to justify their hierarchies, whether they were internal or common to all of society, to reach a social consensus and to sustain them over time. The forms in which power used religion to express itself were quite diverse, such as ritual violence, martyrdom, sacrifice, or even divine trickery. Sometimes certain spaces became places whose political and religious control brought about conflicts, whose resolution was found through the legitimisation generated by the complex theological discourse, which reinforced the extraordinary qualities of the gods to reaffirm their authority, or through the cohesive value of the rites. This volume analyses these questions through fourteen works by sixteen researchers from different institutions. It includes studies carried out with materials from a wide range of sources: epigraphy, the archaeological record, and literary sources.Trade Review'This miscellany of studies has been enriched by his approach multidisciplinary because the contributions have been focused from a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as the History of Religions, Philology, History and Archaeology. Likewise, there is no doubt that we are dealing with a collection of innovative tests of great scientific value for scholars of societies as a whole, and that in Spanish-speaking historiography comes to fill a historiographic gap on the conceptual trinomial discourse-space-power. The different contributions, covering a wide chronology and cultural contexts diverse, facilitate the understanding of the realities and beliefs so polyhedral that they underlie the articulation of past religions. In short, from all that has been said previously it is inferred that it is a work of great quality, aspect that guarantees per se its publication in the academic publisher Archaeopress.' – Paula Arbeloa Borbón (2022): REVISTA ARYSTable of ContentsPrólogo – RAMÓN SONEIRA MARTÍNEZ ; Aspectos teóricos ; Teorizando la religión y el poder en el mundo antiguo: del discurso al espacio. Nociones introductorias – RAFAEL A. BARROSO-ROMERO & JOSÉ A. CASTILLO-LOZANO ; Senses in/of religious violence: identity, difference, privilege, and power – FRANCISCO DÍEZ DE VELASCO ; Discursos sociorreligiosos en la configuración del poder ; La influencia del período amarniense en la religión egipcia – IRIA SOUTO CASTRO ; La última cabalgada: imaginarios del tránsito psicopompo ibérico – JORGE GARCÍA CARDIEL ; Análisis del Himno Homérico a Hermes: su faceta y evolución como trickster – ANA CANALEJO PALAZÓN ; Teología negativa en el pensamiento presocrático – ALBERTO BERNABÉ PAJARES ; ¿Fue Pitágoras un chamán? – MARÍA DEL PILAR GARCÍA ARROYO ; El Satiricón 131: un rito mágico contra la impotencia sexual – DIEGO MESEGUER GONZÁLEZ ; Cicero and Augustine: a comparative pedagogy of rhetoric – GUILLERMO IZNAOLA RODRÍGUEZ ; El camino hacia la divinidad: la muerte de Alejandro Magno – SERGIO LÓPEZ CALERO ; Deshacer el cuerpo, deshacer la autoridad: corporeidad y resistencia política en el martirio de Policarpo – AITOR BOADA BENITO ; Apropiación religiosa del espacio y proyección del poder ; Aspectos de las prácticas religiosas en Tarteso: el sacrificio de animales en santuarios – JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS SOLDADO & EDUARDO FERRER ALBELDA ; Barrios romanos y religión material – JÖRG RÜPKE ; El cristianismo primitivo y su idea de la naturaleza – JOSÉ ANTONIO MOLINA GÓMEZ
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Archaeopress The Hippos of Troy: Why Homer Never Talked about
Book SynopsisThe Hippos of Troy: Why Homer Never Talked About a Horse deals with one of the most famous episodes of the whole of Classical mythology, the Wooden Horse of Troy. Thanks to the analysis of words, images and wrecks, the author proposes a new interpretation of what Homer actually intended when he spoke of the hippos used by the Greeks to conquer the city of Troy. The archaeological, iconographic and philological evidence discussed by the author leads to the conclusion that Homer never talked about a giant wooden horse, nor a war machine. In fact, Homer referred to the use of a particular ship type, a merchant ship of Levantine origin in use in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Mediterranean, used to pay tribute to Levantine kings, as well as to trade precious metal around the Mediterranean coast.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Archaeology at Troy ; Was it a horse? ; The Naval Dimension of Homer ; The Nautical Dimension of the Homeric World ; Homer as a Source for Naval Archaeology ; The Naval Context of the Homeric Narration of the Last Night of Troy ; The Wooden Horse in Ancient texts ; The original version of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Homer ; Structural elements of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Vergil ; The Wooden Horse of Troy in Classical Art ; The Iconography of the Wooden Horse in Ancient Greece ; The Iconography of the Wooden Horse in Rome ; The Hippos Ships in the Ancient Mediterranean ; Textual evidence of the ἵππος ship ; Iconography of the ἵππος ship ; Direct evidence of the ἵππος ship ; The ἵππος ship and the Trojan War ; Why Homer never talked about a horse ; Homer’s words in their proper context ; The deception planned by Athena Pallas ; From the Ship to the Wooden Horse of Troy ; Bibliography ; Ancient Authors
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Four Courts Press Ltd Introduction to Early Irish Literature
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Four Courts Press Ltd In Dialogue with the Agallamh: Essays in Honour
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Four Courts Press Ltd King and Warrior in Early North-West Europe
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Four Courts Press Ltd Latin Psalter Manuscripts in Trinity College
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Four Courts Press Ltd In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400-1500
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Medieval Institute Publications Journeys Toward God: Pilgrimage and Crusade
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 27-28, 1988. The essays explore "the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought. . . ." - from the PrefaceTable of ContentsPreface by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur Pilgrimage and Crusade Literature by J. G. Davies Pilgrimage and Sacral Power by Robert Worth Frank, Jr. Journeys to the Center of the Earth: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimages to Mount Calvary by Dorothea R. French Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212 by Gary Dickson Militia Dei: A Central Concept for the Religious Ideas of the Early Crusades and the German Rolandslied by Horst Richter Christian and Moors in Ay Jherusalem! by Donna M. Rogers The Letter of Jean Sarrasin, Crusader by Jeanette M. A. Beer Crusade Propaganda in the Epic Cycles of the Crusade by Robert Francis Cook The Siege of Jerusalem As a Crusading Poem by Mary Hamel Structural Convergence of Pilgrimage and Dream-Vision in Christine de Pizan by Susan Stakel Isabel of Portugal and the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Crusade by Charity Cannon Willard Notes on Contributors Index
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Medieval Institute Publications Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on
Book SynopsisThis book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation. . . . Ruth is the shortest book of the Old Testament, being only four chapters long. It is partly for this reason that it lends itself so well to a short book introducing medieval exegesis; but it is also of interest in itself. Ruth poses a number of exegetical problems, including the basic one of why such an odd book, in which God never appears as an actor, and with a central character who was not an Israelite but a Moabite outsider, and a woman at that, should find a place in the canon of Scripture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Book of Ruth Commentators Sources Medieval Biblical Commentary Abbreviations and Editions of Texts Used Some Further Reading Texts Jerome: The Book of Ruth Isidore of Seville: On Ruth The Ordinary Gloss Additions to The Ordinary Gloss Peter of Comestor: The Scholastic History Hugh of St. Cher: Postills on Ruth Nicholas of Lyra: Postills on Ruth
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American Academy in Rome The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome,
Book SynopsisThis volume from the American Academy in Rome represents the interests of the AAR, its fellows, residents, and the larger international community who utilize its excellent library and facilities. The Memoirs series (MAAR) presents a selection of ambitious articles on subjects represented by the AAR. These topics include, but are not limited to, Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history.
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (1996)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsForeword Abbreviations ESSAYS Allegory on the Half-Acre: The Demands of History by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith Will and the Law of Property in Piers Plowman by Louise M. Bishop The Hermeneutics of Supersession: The Revision of the Jews from the B to the C text of Piers Plowman by Elisa Narin Van Court Piers Plowman and the Gospel and First Epistle of John by Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P. Jesus the Jouster: The Christ-Knight and Medieval Theories of Atonement in Piers Plowman and the “Round Table” Sermons by Lawrence Warner A Reply to Jill Mann, Reaffirming the Traditional Relation between the A and B Versions of Piers Plowman by Traugott Lawler FORUM Langland’s Troianus by Siegfried Wenzel A Response to Wendy Scase on Langland and Literacy by Hugh White REVIEWS Robert R. Edwards, ed., Art and Context in Late Medieval Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. by Ruth Morse Allen J. Frantzen and Douglas Moffat, editors, The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England by Christopher Dyer C.W. Marx, The Devil’s Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England by Denise N. Baker A. V. C. Schmidt, ed., Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C, and Z Versions by Robert Adams M. Teresa Tavormina, Kindly Similitude: Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman by Anna Baldwin ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY by Vincent DiMarco INDEX
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 11 (1997)
Book SynopsisFrom 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse, and on the historical, religious and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsC. David Benson, Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings Roy J. Pearcy, Langland's Fair Field Wendy Scase, First to reckon Richard: John But's Piers Plowman and the Politics of Allegiance Edward Jones, Langland and Hermits Richard Firth Green, Friar William Appleton and the Date of Langland's B Text Sean Taylor, The Lost Revision of Piers Plowman B Carl Grindley, A New Fragment of the Piers Plowman C Text? Bryan P. Davis, The Rationale for a Copy of a Text: Constructing the Exemplar for British Library Additional MS. 10574 Tadahiro Ikegami, A Short History of Langland Studies in Japan Ruth Nisse, Reversing Discipline: The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Lollard Exegesis, and the Failure of Representation FORUM D. Vance Smith, Samuel Overstreet's Response: Ad Objectiones REVIEWS David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture (Denise N. Baker) Helen Barr, Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Britton J. Harwood) Charlotte Brewer, Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Sean Taylor) Edwin B. Dewindt, The Salt of Common Life. Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church. Essays Presented to H. Ambrose Rafti (Christopher Dyer) Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England (David C. Fowler) Richard G. Newhauser, and John A. Alford, ed., Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (James Simpson) Sean Taylor, Annual Bibliography, 1996
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsAndrew Galloway, Introduction to Special Section: Gender and Piers Plowman Stephanie Trigg, The Traffic in Medieval Women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism, and Piers Plowman Joan Baker and Susan Signe Morrison, The Luxury of Gender: Piers Plowman and The Merchant's Tale James J. Paxson, Gender Personified, Personification Gendered, and the Body Figuralized in Piers Plowman Louise Bishop, Dame Study and Women's Literacy Andrew Galloway, Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman Ralph Hanna, Reading Prophecy / Reading Piers Peter Barney, Line-Number Index to the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman: The C Version REVIEW ESSAY Ralph Hanna, A New Edition of the C Version (review of George Russell and George Kane, eds., Piers Plowman: The C Version) REVIEWS James Dean, The World Grown Old in Medieval Literature (Miceal F. Vaughan) George Economou, trans., William Langlands Piers Plowman: The C Version (Dick Barnes) Anne Hudson and Pamela Gradon, eds., English Wycliffite Sermons , Volumes 4 and 5 (Siegfried Wenzel) Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: ME MSS and Their Texts (Charlotte Brewer) Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds., Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship (David Aers) Gordon Teskey, Allegory and Violence (Seth Lerer) Joseph Wittig, William Langland Revisited (Anna P. Baldwin) Sean Taylor, Annual Bibliography"
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 13 (1999)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsAndrew Galloway, " Foreword: Reception and Its Discontents" George Kane, "An Open Letter to Jill Mann about the Sequence of the Versions of Piers Plowman" David C. Fowler, "Piers Plowman: Will's 'Apologia pro vita sua'" Rees Davies, "The Life, Travels, and Library of an Early Reader of Piers Plowman" John M. Bowers, "Dating Piers Plowman: Testing the Testimony of Usk's Testament" Sarah A. Kelen, "Plowing the Post: 'Piers Protestant' and the Authority of Medieval Literary History" Siegfried Wenzel, "Eli and His Sons" Bonnie Millar, "The Role of Prophecy in the Siege of Jerusalem and its Analogues" REVIEW ARTICLE AND RESPONSE Ralph Hanna III, "Piers Plowman and the Radically Chic" (review essay of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise Despres, Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce 'Piers Plowman') Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, with Denise Despres, "Fabricating Failure: The Professional Reader as Textual Terrorist" REVIEWS C. David Benson and Lynne Blanchfield, The Manuscripts of 'Piers Plowman': The B Version (Rob Adams) Lawrence Clopper, 'Songes of Rechelesnesse': Langland and the Franciscans (Wendy Scase) Douglas Parker, ed., The praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe (Jill C. Havens) Edwin D. Craun, Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature. Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Joan Blythe) Sean Taylor, "Annual Bibliography (1998)"
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Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh
Book SynopsisA collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- ( Peter Schrijver ); Rowynniauc , Rhufoniog : the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh ( Paul Russell ); Old English literacy and the provenance of Welsh y ( Peter Kitson ); Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their implications for dating texts ( Simon Rodway ); The structure and typology of prepositional relative clauses in Early Welsh ( Graham Isaac ); The dry point glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior ( Alexander Falileyev and Paul Russell ); The Old Welsh glosses on Weights and Measures ( Pierre-Yves Lambert ); Marwnad Cunedda a diwedd y Brydain Rufeinig ( John T Koch ); Are there elements of non-standard language in the work of the Gogynfeirdd? ( Peter Busse ); The Progressive in Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn ( Erich Poppe ).Table of ContentsThe etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- (Peter Schrijver); Rowynniauc, Rhufoniog: the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh (Paul Russell); Old English literacy and the provenance of Welsh y (Peter Kitson); Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their implications for dating texts (Simon Rodway); The structure and typology of prepositional relative clauses in Early Welsh (Graham Isaac); The dry point glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior (Alexander Falileyev and Paul Russell); The Old Welsh glosses on Weights and Measures (Pierre-Yves Lambert); Marwnad Cunedda a diwedd y Brydain Rufeinig (John T Koch); Are there elements of non-standard language in the work of the Gogynfeirdd? (Peter Busse); The Progressive in Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn (Erich Poppe).
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Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. The End and Beyond
Book SynopsisWhat awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieval Irish inherited and further transformed this tradition, producing vivid eschatological narratives which had a profound impact throughout Europe as well as being works of remarkable literary and spiritual power in their own right. Under the headings ‘Soul and Body’, ‘The Seven Heavens’, ‘The Next World’, and ‘The Judgement and its Signs’, this book presents critical editions, with translation and commentary, of 26 eschatological texts from the Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish periods, together with related material in Latin and Old English. Some of these works are here edited for the first time. Extended essays survey Irish eschatological literature a whole, and place it in its wider context; and the volume concludes with a comprehensive handlist of Irish eschatological compositions. This book consists of two volumes.
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Classical Press of Wales Xenophon and Sparta
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Griffin House Publications Dante
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Ave Maria University Press Languange Redeemed: Chaucer's Mature Poetry
Book SynopsisThe contemporary reader of Chaucer's poems is often surprised to discover how bawdy they are. A superficial veneer of Christian culture seems to give way easily in Chaucer to the celebration of a light-hearted hedonism. In this readable study, written for students and experts alike, the eminent literary scholar David Williams guides the reader carefully through Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. He shows that below the surface Chaucer's narrative reveals an author attuned to the Christian story of creation, fall, and redemption. His characters expose the sophistries, spiritual and intellectual, that Chaucer seeks to mend.
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West Virginia University Press Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader
Book SynopsisWith the immersion method dominating contemporary language learning, the knowledge of traditional grammar is at a low ebb, creating real barriers to any student wanting to learning dead or historical languages. This revised edition of Reading Old English aims to equip readers (advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and autodidacts) with the necessary tools to read the oldest recorded forms of the English language by explaining key language features clearly and methodically, without simplifying any of the core grammatical concepts. It includes a number of helpful exercises, a variety of interesting and unusual Old English texts to translate, as well as appendices covering the basics of traditional grammar and sound changes in Old English, along with an introduction to poetic structure.
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For Beginners Dante for Beginners
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Les Belles Lettres Sapho Alcee, Fragments
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome I: Anthologie Palatine:
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome III: Anthologie
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome IV: Anthologie Palatine:
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome V: Anthologie Palatine:
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome VII: Anthologie
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome VIII: Anthologie
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome X: Anthologie Palatine:
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Les Belles Lettres Anthologie Grecque: Tome XIII: Anthologie de
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Les Belles Lettres Apollonios de Rhodes, Argonautiques: Tome I:
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Les Belles Lettres Archiloque, Fragments
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Les Belles Lettres Archimede, Oeuvres: Tome I: de la Sphere Et Du
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Les Belles Lettres Aristophane, Comedies: Tome V: l'Assemblee Des
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, de l'Ame
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Poetique
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Rhetorique: Tome II: Livre II
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Rhetorique: Tome III: Livre III
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