Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the New Medievalism
Book SynopsisOther contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.Trade ReviewThe present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays "contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual."... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice The essays ranged here by German and American scholars, in homage to Nichols and his cohort of new materialists, new philologists, new medievalists, are strong and ambitious attempts to revisit the twenty-year-old call for methodological reinvention. Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction. The New Philology Comes of AgeChapter 1. New Challenges for the New MedievalismChapter 2. Reflections on The New PhilologyChapter 3. Virgil's "Perhaps": Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante's Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26)Chapter 4. Dialectic of the Medieval CourseChapter 5. Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the NibelungenliedChapter 6. The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica SarracinaChapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular PoetryChapter 8. The Identity of a TextChapter 9. Conceiving the Text in the Middle AgesChapter 10. Dante's Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the CommediaChapter 11. Ekphrasis in the Knight's TaleChapter 12. Montaigne's Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic's Ethics of the SubjectChapter 13. The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the ProloguesChapter 14. Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of RabelaisChapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture to RomanceList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Sound of Writing
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace the sound of writing from the beginning of the Western record to poetry written in the last century. This rich series of essays considers the writings of Sappho, Simonides, Aldhem, Marcabru, Dante Alighieri, William Langland, Charles Butler, Tennyson, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot as well as poems and songs in Ancient Greek, Old and Middle English, Italian, Old French, Occitan, and modern English. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristopher Cannon and Steven Justice1. The Sounds and Matter of Women in Ancient Greek EpigramsSarah Nooter2. Reading Impressions: The Sound of the Sight of Occitan VerseSarah Kay3. Voices and Bees: The Evolution of Charles Butler's Acoustic BookJennifer Richards4. Prosodic Protocols and Interruptions of Them in Piers PlowmanIan Cornelius5. Latin Verse in Old English AccentsEmily V. Thornbury6. The Writing of SoundMeredith Martin7. Music Writing and Music History in a Thirteenth-Century SongSean Curran8. "Where the Sì Sounds": Dante's Dissonant Vernaculars and Their Sensual SignsAlison Cornish9. The Phenomenology of -eChristopher Cannon10. Writing Reading RhythmChristopher HastyContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Sound of Writing
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace the sound of writing from the beginning of the Western record to poetry written in the last century. This rich series of essays considers the writings of Sappho, Simonides, Aldhem, Marcabru, Dante Alighieri, William Langland, Charles Butler, Tennyson, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot as well as poems and songs in Ancient Greek, Old and Middle English, Italian, Old French, Occitan, and modern English. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristopher Cannon and Steven Justice1. The Sounds and Matter of Women in Ancient Greek EpigramsSarah Nooter2. Reading Impressions: The Sound of the Sight of Occitan VerseSarah Kay3. Voices and Bees: The Evolution of Charles Butler's Acoustic BookJennifer Richards4. Prosodic Protocols and Interruptions of Them in Piers PlowmanIan Cornelius5. Latin Verse in Old English AccentsEmily V. Thornbury6. The Writing of SoundMeredith Martin7. Music Writing and Music History in a Thirteenth-Century SongSean Curran8. "Where the Sì Sounds": Dante's Dissonant Vernaculars and Their Sensual SignsAlison Cornish9. The Phenomenology of -eChristopher Cannon10. Writing Reading RhythmChristopher HastyContributorsIndex
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University of Toronto Press The Book Unbound
Book SynopsisIn The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - literary, dramatic, legal, historical, and musical. The essays range from detailed examinations of specific codices to broader theoretical discussions on past and present editorial practices, from the benefits and disadvantages of digital editions versus print editions to the importance of including 'extratextual' material such as variant texts, illustrations, intertexts, and other information about a work's cultural contexts, history, and use. The Book Unbound presents important contributions to the discussions surrounding the editing of medieval texts, including the use of d
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University of Toronto Press The Tale of the Alerion
Book SynopsisWith this scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made this long-neglected narrative poem, the Dit de l'alerion a treatise on love and falconry available to students of medieval literature.Trade Review'This attractive volume is a welcome addition to the growing list of works making Guillaume de Machaut more accessible to English readers ... It is to be hoped that the beauty of this English translation and the helpfulness of the introductory material will tempt readers to take up a closer study of Guillaume's original poem.' -- Robert Taylor University of Toronto Quarterly
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University of Toronto Press Dantes Lyric Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into the writer of the vast and visionary Commedia.Barolini’s commentary exposes Dante’s lyric poems as early articulations of many of the ideas in the Commedia, including the philosophy and psychology of desire and its role as motor of all human activity, the quest for vision and transcendence, the frustrating search for justice on earth, and the transgression of boundaries in society and poetry. A wide-ranging and intelligent examination of one of the most important poets in the Western tradition, this book will be of interest to sTrade Review'This book has much to offer not only students of Dante but also medievalists, Italianists, and readers of poetry far beyond the confines of Dante studies... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice vol 52:08:2015Table of ContentsDante's Lyric Poetry: From Editorial History to Hermeneutic Future Editions Cited in the Introductory Essays and in the Notes Rime Correspondence Sonnets between Dante Alighieri and Dante da Maiano 1a Provedi, saggio, ad esta visione Dante da Maiano to various poets 1 Savete giudicar vostra ragione La tenzone del duol d'amore 2a Per pruova di saper com vale o quanto, Dante da Maiano to Dante Alighieri 2 Qual che voi siate, amico, vostro manto 3a Lo vostro fermo dir fino ed orrato, Dante da Maiano to Dante Alighieri 3 Non canoscendo, amico, vostro nomo 3b Lasso, lo dol che piu mi dole e serra, Dante da Maiano to Dante Alighieri Correspondence Sonnets between Dante Alighieri and Dante da Maiano 4a Amor mi fa si fedelmente amare, Dante da Maiano a Dante Alighieri 4 Savere e cortesia, ingegno ed arte 5 A ciascun'alma presa e gentil core VN III (1) 6 Se Lippo amico se tu che mi leggi 7 Lo meo servente core 8 O voi che per la via d'Amor passate VN VII (2) (First Redaction) 9 Piangete, amanti, poi che piange Amore VN VIII (3) 10 Morte villana, di pieta nemica VN VIII (3) 11 La dispietata mente che pur mira 12 Madonna, quel signor che voi portate 13 Deh ragioniamo insieme un poco, Amore 14 Sonetto, se Meuccio t'e mostrato 15 Com piu vi fere Amor co' suo' vincastri 16 No me poriano zamai far emenda [Non mi poriano gia mai fare ammenda] (Two Redactions) 17 Sonar bracchetti e cacciatori aizzare 18 Volgete gli occhi a veder chi mi tira 19 Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io 20 Amore e monna Lagia e Guido ed io 21 Per una ghirlandetta 22 Deh, Violetta, che 'n ombra d'Amore 23 Cavalcando l'altr'ier per un cammino VN IX (4) 24 Ballata, i' voi che tu ritrovi Amore VN XII (5) 25 Tutti li miei penser parlan d'Amore VN XIII (6) 26 Con l'altre donne mia vista gabbate VN XIV (7) (First Redaction) 27 Cio che m'incontra, nella mente more VN XV (8) (First Redaction) 28 Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente VN XVI (9) 29 Degli occhi della mia donna si move 30 Ne le man vostre, gentil donna mia 31 Lo doloroso amor che mi conduce 32 E' m'incresce di me si duramente 33 Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore VN XIX (10) 34 Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa VN XX (11) 35 Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore VN XXI (12) (First Redaction) 36 Voi che portate la sembianza umile VN XXII (13) 37 Se' tu colui c' hai trattato sovente VN XXII (13) 38 Onde venite voi cosi pensose? 39 Voi donne, che pietoso atto mostrate 40 Donna pietosa e di novella etate VN XXIII (14) 41 Un di si venne a me Malinconia 42 Io mi senti' svegliar dentro a lo core VN XXIV (15) 43 Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare VN XXVI (17) (First Redaction) 44 Vede perfettamente ogne salute VN XXVI (17) (First Redaction) 45 Di donne io vidi una gentil schiera 46 Si lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore VN XXVII (18) 47 Li occhi dolenti per pieta del core VN XXXI (20) 48 Venite a 'ntender li sospiri miei VN XXXII (21) (First Redaction) 49 Quantunque volte, lasso!, mi rimembra VN XXXIII (22) 50 Era venuta nella mente mia [Era venuta ne la mente mia] VN XXXIV (23) (First Redaction and Redaction of the Vita Nuova) 51 Videro gli occhi miei quanta pietate VN XXXV (24) (First Redaction) 52 Color d'amore e di pieta sembianti VN XXXVI (25) (First Redaction) 53 L'amaro lagrimar che voi faceste VN XXXVII (26) 54 Gentil pensero che parla di vui VN XXXVIII (27) 55 Lasso, per forza di molti sospiri VN XXXIX (28) (First Redaction) 56 Deh pellegrini che pensosi andate VN XL (29) (First Redaction) 57 Oltra la spera che piu larga gira VN XLI (30) (First Redaction) 58 Per quella via che la Bellezza corre [Per quella via che*lla Bellezza corre] (Two Redactions) Index of First Lines
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University of Toronto Press The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II
Book SynopsisBased on the latest critical edition of the text, this volume features a new, accessible English prose translation of the poem, complete with explanatory notes.Trade Review‘Barbara Sargent-Baur’s double companion to Beroul deserves widespread recognition as the most erudite English translatio of Tristran of the twenty-first century.’ -- Brindusa Grigoriu * Speculum, vol 92:04:2017 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Notes on the Preface Translation Notes Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Courtesy Lost
Book SynopsisIn Courtesy Lost, Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante’s literary and political influence on Boccaccio. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia, torn between nostalgia for elite families in decline and the need to promote morality and magnanimity within the Florentine Republic.By examining the passages in Boccaccio’s Decameron, De casibus, and Esposizioni in which the author rewrites moments in Florentine and Italian history that had also appeared in Dante’s Commedia, Olson illuminates the ways in which Boccaccio expressed his deep ambivalence towards the political and social changes of his era. She illustrates this through an analysis of Dante’s and Boccaccio’s treatments of the idea of courtesy, or cortesia, in an era when the chiTrade Review'An enjoyable and very informative work... This book would be an indispensable addition to any medievalist's library.' -- Alfred R. Crudale Annali D'Italianistica vol 35:2016 "Employing a theoretically diverse methodology and careful attention to historical detail, Olson offers new insights on the relationship between Dante and Boccaccio, the social and literary culture of 14th-centuiry Italy, and the increasing tensions between the aristocracy and the rising middle class." -- D. Pesta Choice 'In this interesting study, Olson offers new insights on the relationship between Dante and Boccaccio, the social and literary culture of 14th-century Italy, and the increasing tensions between the aristocracy and the rising middle class.' -- D.Pesta Choice Magazine vol 52:09:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction "Fateci dipingere la Cortesia": Historicizing Cortesia Chapter One Boccaccio's History of Cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of Elite Families * Cortesia and the Florentine Elite from the Early Commune to the Age of Dante * The Dantean cornice of Inf. 16 and "cortesia" lost: Decameron 1.8, 6.9 and Esposizioni 16 * The Greed of the Genoese (but not Florentine) Elite: Decameron 1.8, Guiglielmo Borsiere, and Ermino Grimaldi * The Incivility of Cortesia: Decameron 6.9, Betto Brunelleschi and Guido Cavalcanti Chapter Two The Politics of Cortesia: Historicizing the Elite and the gente nuova * Florentine Politics and Economics from Dante to Boccaccio: The Older Elite Families and the gente nuova * From Dantean Prophecy to Boccaccian Enactment: Florence from 1300-1302 * Figuring Florentine Conflict: Corso Donati (cortesia) versus Vieri de' Cerchi (avarizia) * The Elite and the popolo: The Case of Cisti and Geri Spini * The Arno Runs Red: Narrating Florentine Violence Chapter Three The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron: The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants * Cangrande della Scala: Dante's Generous Host Experiences an Unusual, and Momentary, Affliction of Avarice * Pope Boniface VIII: Figuring Avarice at the Beginning and End of the Decameron * A Tempered "epopea dei mercatanti": Musciatto Franzesi and the Avarice of the Merchant Class * The Dantean cornice of Avarice: Esposizioni 1 and Decameron 10.3 * From Finance to Fowling: The Case of the Gianfigliazzi Family Chapter Four Constructing a Future for Cortesia in the Past: Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines * The Familial Court of Cortesia: The Civil Acts of the Malaspina Family * Cortesia Was Chaste: The Virility of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines * Virility as Nobility: Cortesia in Romagna Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
Book SynopsisIn this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations by which they can communicate meaning. The author here searches for a minimal structural unit in the literary narrative analogous to the phoneme and the morpheme in language structure.Based on a detailed analysis of the Roland and the Cid and twelve additional Romance narratives, Professor Dorfman's argument is that the structure of the medieval Romance epics may be analyzed into functional units which he calls "narremes." He divides a narrative into two types of structure: the superstructure and the substructure. A narrative, by definition, is a series of incidents. All the incidents in the narrative, taken as written, form the superstructure. Analysis, how
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University of Toronto Press The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron
Book SynopsisWith The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel’s focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the DecamerTrade Review'Original, concise, and singularly readable, this book comes as an attractive complement to Migiel's now classic A Rhetoric of the Decameron... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice Magazine vol 53:08:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron 1. Wanted: Translators of the Decameron's Moral and Ethical Complexities 2 He Said, She Said, We Read: An Ethical Reflection on a Confluence of Voices 3. Can the Lower Classes Be Wise? (For the Answer, See Your Translation of the Decameron) 4. Some Restrictions Apply: Testing the Reader in Decameron 3.8 5. Rushing to Judge? Read the Story of Tofano and Ghita (Decameron 7.4) 6. New Lessons in Criticism and Blame from the Decameron 7. He Ironizes, He Ironizes Not, He Ironizes... To Conclude: A Conclusion that Is Not One
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University of Toronto Press Reading as the Angels Read
Book SynopsisAn uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the Banquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts. As Maria Luisa Ardizzone shows, its language and logic are deeply connected to medieval culture and the philosophical debates of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.In Reading as the Angels Read, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the Banquet and offers a bold new reading of this ambitious work. Drawing on a deep knowledge of Dante’s engagement with biblical, Augustinian, Neoplatonic, and Aristotelian philosophy, she suggests that the Banquet is not an encyclopedia of learning as many have claimed, but Dante’s attempt to articulate a theory of human happiness in which perfect knowledge is the natural basis for a well-organized political community. Trade Review‘Ardizzone contribution is subtle and illuminating… She sets before her readers a banquet that constitutes an important contribution to the field of Dante studies.’ -- Jason Aleksander * Renaissance Quarterly vol 70:04:2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Introducing a Cosmic Intellectual Dimension: The Dialectical Nature of Human Essence Chapter Two: Loving a Divine Idea: A Cognitive and Educational Process Chapter Three: Reading with Suspicio: Mind and Philosophy. A Philosophical Discussion about Mind Chapter Four: Community and Intellectual Happiness: The Invention of a Shifting Logical Subject Chapter Five: Syllogism and Censura: The Moralization of Nobility and the Decline of Intellectual and Political Aristocracy Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press The Emblematics of the Self
Book SynopsisThe Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the other,' as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations Chapter One The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance Chapter Two Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea Chapter Three Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia Chapter Four Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' Persiles Chapter Five Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis Chapter Six "We are all picturd in that Piece": Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the "Tottering" Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Conclusions Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press The Mystical Science of the Soul
Book SynopsisThe Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an ‘embodied soul’ for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.Boon proposes a fundamental rereading of the key recogimiento text Subida del Monte Sión (1535/1538), which melds the traditionally distinct spiritual techniques of moral self-examination, Passion meditation, and negative theology into one cognitively adept path towards mystical union. She is also the first English-language scholar to treat the author of this influential work – the Renaissance physicTrade Review'The Mystical Science of Soul is a fascinating piece of research. It focuses on a mystical method of recollection and the genre of literature associated with it...this volume should be welcomed by medievalists and early modernists, students of the Renaissance, historians of science, mysticism, and medicine, as well as theologians and church historians.' -- Jon Balserak Sixteenth Century Journal vol 65:02:2014
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University of Toronto Press Dantean Dialogues
Book SynopsisDantean Dialogues is a collection of essays by some of the world''s most outstanding Dante scholars., These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada’s finest scholar of the Italian poet.The essays focus on the major themes of Iannucci’s work, including the development of Dante’s early poetry, Dante’s relation to classical and biblical sources, and Dante’s reception. The contributors cover crucial aspects of Dante’s work, from the authority of the New Life to the novelty of his early poetry, to key episodes in the Comedy, to the poem’s afterlife. Together, the essays show how Iannucci’s reading of central cruxes in Dante’s texts continues to inspire Dante studies – a testament to his continuing influence and profound intellectual legacy.Trade Review'With its wide and interdisciplinary variety of topics, Dantean Dialogues offers reflections on different aspects of Dante's oeuvres upon the heels of Iannucci's studies, a fitting "legacy" of his critical voice and contributions to the study of Dante.' -- Isabella Magni Italica vol 92:02:2015Table of ContentsPreface Bibliography of works by Amilcare Iannucci (University of Toronto, Comparative Literature) List of Contributors Note on Editions and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Zygmunt G. Baranski (University of Cambridge, Italian) 'Lascio cotale trattato ad alto chiosatore': Form, Literature and Exegesis in Dante's Vita Nova Chapter 2: Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University, Italian) A Cavalcantian Vita Nuova: Dante's Canzoni Lo doloroso amor che mi conduce and E' m'incresce di me si duramente Chapter 3: Robert Hollander (Princeton University, European Literature) Dante's Cato Again Chapter 4: Elena Lombardi (Jesus College Oxford, Italian) 'Che libido fe' licito in sua legge': Lust and Law, Reason and Passion in Dante Chapter 5: Carolynn Lund-Mead (Independent scholar) The Vulgata in the Commedia: Self-Interpreting Texts Chapter 6: Maggie Kilgour (McGill University, English) Dante's Ovidian Doubling Chapter 7: Massimo Ciavolella (University of California Los Angeles, Italian) Esoteric Interpretations of the Divine Comedy Chapter 8: Piero Boitani (University of Rome, Comparative Literature) Ersed Irredent: The Irish Dante
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University of Toronto Press The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II
Book SynopsisThis volume is a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of this story, including the first ever diplomatic edition of the text, replicating the exact state of the original manuscript.Trade Review'This volume will provide endless delight to scholars... Highly recommended.' -- R. Cormier Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Notes on the Preface A Remark on the Diplomatic and Critical Editions Diplomatic Edition Critical Edition Rejected Readings Notes Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Task of the Cleric
Book SynopsisIn The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the composition of the Libro de Alexandre in the context of cartography, political economy, and translation.Trade Review'By opening new doors and establishing new frames, the author's comparative approach yields a thought provoking and convincing results.' -- E.H. Friedman Choice, vol 54:04:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Cleric's Compass 2. Bricks and Mortar 3. Coins on the Desk Afterword Appendix
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University of Toronto Press Medieval Artes Praedicandi
Book SynopsisWritten by a leading expert on the late medieval scholastic sermon, Medieval Artes Praedicandi is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students interested in using scholastic sermons in their research.Trade Review'This volume is an excellent resource for students of the art of preaching in the late Middle Ages... Wenzel has done a great service in offering this clearly written, well-organized synthesis of the scholastic sermon form.' -- Holly Johnson Speculum January 2016 'This small volume serves as a gift of succinctly presented guidance from an experienced instructor to students learning to find their way in the field of medieval sermon studies.' -- Anne Thayer Sehepunkte vol 16:02:2016Table of ContentsPart I: The Artes Part II: Scholastic Sermon Structure Part III: Sample Sermon Part IV: Other Issues
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University of Toronto Press Roman Social Imaginaries
Book SynopsisLucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.Trade Review'This is a fascinating book - perceptive, effective, and reasoned... This is not only a singularly important contribution, but also a most welcome one.' -- Matt Gibbs Journal Mnemosyne vol 69:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: Roman Social Imaginaries Chapter 1: Belonging Chapter 2: Cognition Chapter 3: The Ontology of the Social Conclusion: Making Romans
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University of Toronto Press The Legendary Sources of Flauberts Saint Julien
Book SynopsisThe sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers generally use traditional material. Superficial resemblances have led critics to conclude that Flaubert relied heavily on a medieval tale of Saint Julian and that he borrowed details and specific phrases from his medieval predecessor. This book, by a world renowned specialist in Flaubert studies and a medieval philologist, demonstrates that the Légende is not medieval in structure or in spirit, and that its conception is distinctly modern; where Flaubert borrowed at all he used contemporary sources to recast the Julian legend in Romantic style. Bart and Cook establish definitely what legendary sources were and show how Flaubert came into conta
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University of Toronto Press The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius
Book SynopsisThe elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected without a comprehensive examination of the surviving copies. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment of the tradition. The principal novelty is the argument that six Renaissance copies represent an independent third witness to the archetype, revealing passages where corruptions, glosses, or medieval corrections are now accepted as the words of Propertius and suggesting that the archetype was far more corrupt than now commonly supposed. The study is in two parts. In Part One, after a survey of Propertius’ fortuna in the Middle Ages, the auth
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University of Toronto Press Nidrstigningar Saga
Book SynopsisDario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Abbreviations 1 The Latin Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Europe 2 The Manuscript Tradition of Nidrstigningar saga 3 The Manuscript Filiation of Nidrstigningar saga 4 The Latin Source Text Underlying Nidrstigningar saga 5 The Textual Interpolations of Nidrstigningar saga 6 The Theological Context of Nidrstigningar saga 7 Conclusion Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses
Book SynopsisThe Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC. Shows how powerful states - stretching from western Iran to Greece and from Turkey to Sudan - jointly shaped the history, society, and culture of this region through both peaceful and military means Offers a straightforward narrative, current research, and rich illustrations Utilizes historical data from ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hittites, Mycenaeans, Canaanites, and others Considers all members of these ancient societies, from commoners to royalty - exploring everything from people's eating habits to royal negotiations over diplomatic marriages Trade Review"Throughout the chapters, various basic problems of historical methodology from interaction to self-identification, from technological change to collapse are faced and explained in an easy but correct way." (Recensiones, 2010) Table of ContentsList of illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Note to the reader. 1 The World in 1279 BC. 2 The Primary Actors: States. 3 The Other Actors: On the Fringes of the States. 4 Political Organization and Social Structure. 5 Diplomacy and War. 6 Food and Drink. 7 Aspects of the economy: textiles, metals, and trade. 8 Cultures in Contact. 9 A Mediterranean system. 10 End of an Era. Appendix: King Lists. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
Book SynopsisThis two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xii Preface xx Acknowledgments xxii Ancient Authors: Abbreviations xxiv Reference Works: Abbreviations xxxvii Introduction 1 John Marincola PART I Contexts 11 1 The Place of History in the Ancient World 13 Roberto Nicolai 2 The Origin of Greek Historiography 27 Catherine Darbo-Peschanski 3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians 39 Guido Schepens 4 Documents and the Greek Historians 56 P. J. Rhodes 5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography 67 T. P. Wiseman 6 Myth and Historiography 76 Suzanne Saïd 7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians 89 Carolyn Dewald 8 Characterization in Ancient Historiography 102 L. V. Pitcher 9 Speeches in Classical Historiography 118 John Marincola 10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case 133 A. J. Woodman PART II Surveys 145 11 The Development of the War Monograph 147 Tim Rood 12 Continuous Histories (Hellenica) 159 Christopher Tuplin 13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus 171 John Marincola 14 Local History and Atthidography 180 Phillip Harding 15 Western Greek Historiography 189 Riccardo Vattuone 16 Greek Historians of Persia 200 Dominique Lenfant 17 The Historians of Alexander the Great 210 Andrea Zambrini 18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio’s ‘‘Other’’ Sons 221 John Dillery 19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography 231 Gregory E. Sterling 20 The Greek Historians of Rome 244 Christopher Pelling 21 The Early Roman Tradition 259 Hans Beck 22 Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome 266 Andrew M. Riggsby 23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic 275 D. S. Levene 24 The Emperor and his Historians 290 John Matthews 25 The Epitomizing Tradition in Late Antiquity 305 Thomas M. Banchich PART III Readings 313 26 To Each His Own: Simonides and Herodotus on Thermopylae 315 Pietro Vannicelli 27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) 322 Stephanie West 28 The Enigma of Discourse: A View of Thucydides 328 Leone Porciani 29 Contest (Ago ¯n) in Thucydides 336 Donald Lateiner 30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon’s More Routine Hellenica 342 Vivienne Gray 31 Fortune (tych¯e) in Polybius 349 Frank W. Walbank 32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach 356 Craige B. Champion 33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War 363 Peter Green 34 Caesar’s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34–2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches 371 Christina Shuttleworth Kraus 35 The Politics of Sallustian Style 379 Ellen O’Gorman 36 The Translation of Catiline 385 Andrew Feldherr 37 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy’s Second Pentad 391 Gary Forsythe 38 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy 40.21–22 397 Mary Jaeger 39 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 404 Clemence Schultze 40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus 411 Alain M. Gowing 41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199–219) 419 Honora Howell Chapman 42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ‘‘Good King’’: The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16–26 427 E. J. Baynham 43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: A Historiographical Route Map? 434 Rhiannon Ash 44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36–39) 441 Elizabeth Keitel 45 Arrian, Alexander, and the Pursuit of Glory 447 A. B. Bosworth 46 Toward a Literary Evaluation of Appian’s Civil Wars, Book 1 454 Gregory S. Bucher 47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety 461 Martin Hose 48 Ammianus’ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae 468 David Rohrbacher 49 ‘‘To Forge Their Tongues to Grander Styles’’: Ammianus’ Epilogue 474 Gavin Kelly PART IV Neighbors 481 50 Epic and Historiography at Rome 483 Matthew Leigh 51 Ethnography and History 493 Emma Dench 52 Tragedy and History 504 Richard Rutherford 53 Antiquarianism and History 515 Benedetto Bravo 54 Biography and History 528 Philip Stadter 55 Geography and History 541 Johannes Engels 56 Fiction and History: Historiography and the Novel 553 J. R. Morgan PART V Transition 565 57 Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 CE 567 Brian Croke Bibliography 582 Index Locorum 642 General Index 677
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Catullus
Book SynopsisIn this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman lyric poets' Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Notes on Contributors xx 1 Introduction 1 Marilyn B. Skinner Part I The Text and the Collection 11 2 History and Transmission of the Text 13 J. L. Butrica 3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present 35 Marilyn B. Skinner Part II Contexts of Production 55 4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57 T. P. Wiseman 5 The Contemporary Political Context 72 David Konstan 6 The Intellectual Climate 92 Andrew Feldherr 7 Gender and Masculinity 111 Elizabeth Manwell Part III Influences 129 8 Catullus and Sappho 131 Ellen Greene 9 Catullus and Callimachus 151 Peter E. Knox Part IV Stylistics 173 10 Neoteric Poetics 175 W. R. Johnson 11 Elements of Style in Catullus 190 George A. Sheets 12 Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse 212 Brian A. Krostenko Part V Poems and Groups of Poems 233 13 Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept 235 William W. Batstone 14 The Lesbia Poems 254 Julia T. Dyson Hejduk 15 Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems 276 Vassiliki Panoussi 16 Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64 293 Jeri Blair DeBrohun 17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses 314 Elena Theodorakopoulos 18 Social Commentary and Political Invective 333 W. Jeffrey Tatum Part VI Reception 355 19 Catullus and Horace 357 Randall L. B. McNeill 20 Catullus and Vergil 377 Christopher Nappa 21 Catullus and Roman Love Elegy 399 Paul Allen Miller 22 Catullus and Martial 418 Sven Lorenz 23 Catullus in the Renaissance 439 Julia Haig Gaisser 24 The Modern Reception of Catullus 461 Brian Arkins Part VII Pedagogy 479 25 Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum 481 Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett 26 Catullus in the College Classroom 503 Daniel H. Garrison Part VIII Translation 521 27 Translating Catullus 523 Elizabeth Vandiver Consolidated Bibliography 542 General Index 568 Index Locorum 585
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek Literature
Book SynopsisA Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire.Trade Review"the volume successfully sums up the status quaetionis of many Greek genres and contemporary scholarship." (Choice Connect 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Abbreviations xv Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature 1Martin Hose and David Schenker Part I Production and Transmission 7 1 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity 9Lucio Del Corso 2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission 27Richard H. Armstrong Part II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System 41 3 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature 43Steve Reece 4 Literature in the Archaic Age 58Timothy Power 5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece 77James McGlew 6 Literature in the Hellenistic World 89Anatole Mori 7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature 112Jason König 8 The Encounter with Christianity 126Jan Stenger Part III Genres 139 9 Greek Epic 141Hanna M. Roisman 10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac 155James Bradley Wells 11 The Ethics of Greek Drama 175Richard Rader 12 Epigram and Minor Genres 190Regina Höschele 13 Oratory: Practice and Theory 205Mike Edwards 14 Historiography and Biography 217Antonis Tsakmakis 15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle 235Martin Hose 16 The Novel 256Stefan Tilg 17 Technical Literature 266Thorsten Fögen Part IV The Players 281 18 The Creators of Literature 283Mary Lefkowitz 19 Users of Literature 296René Nünlist 20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature 310David Schenker Part V The Places 323 21 Places of Production 325Martin Hose 22 Places of Presentation 344Manuel Baumbach 23 Topos and Topoi 353Suzanne Saïd Part VI Literature and Knowledge 371 24 Literature and Truth 373Martin Hose 25 Knowledge of Self 386Daniela Dueck 26 Explicit Knowledge 401Markus Asper 27 Implicit Knowledge 415David Konstan 28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations 427Markus Dubischar Part VII Literature and Aesthetics 441 29 The Language of Greek Literature 443Andreas Willi 30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation 461Nicholas Baechle 31 The Function of Literature 476Victoria Wohl Part VIII The Reception of Greek Literature 489 32 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy 491Emily Wilson 33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity 511Edith Hall Index 534
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
Book SynopsisA Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day.Trade Review“The multi-authored Handbook to the Reception of Ovidis far more wide-ranging, and considers the whole field of Ovidian influence on literature, education, the visual arts, and film, from antiquity to the present day.” (Translation and Literature, 1 May 2015) “While readers will also want to consult works by Doody (1985), Hopkins (2010), Oakley-Brown (2006) and Martindale (1988) — among many others, too numerous to list — this new Handbookis highly recommended as a scholarly introduction to the reception of Ovid.” (Eighteenth-century Studies and Eighteenth-century Literature, 1 October 2014)Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Carole E. Newlands and John F. Miller 1 Ovid’s Self-Reception in His Exile Poetry 8 K. Sara Myers 2 Modeling Reception in Metamorphoses: Ovid’s Epic Cyclops 22 Andrew Feldherr 3 Ovidian Myths on PompeianWalls 36 Peter E. Knox 4 Ovid in Flavian Occasional Poetry (Martial and Statius) 55 Gianpiero Rosati 5 Poetae Ovidiani: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Imperial Roman Epic 70 Alison Keith 6 Ovid in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 86 Stephen Harrison 7 A Poet between TwoWorlds: Ovid in Late Antiquity 100 Ian Fielding 8 Commentary and Collaboration in the Medieval Allegorical Tradition 114 Jamie C. Fumo 9 The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid 129 Gregory Hays 10 Ovid’s Exile and Medieval Italian Literature: The Lyric Tradition 144 Catherine Keen 11 Venus’s Clerk: Ovid’s Amatory Poetry in the Middle Ages 161 Marilynn Desmond 12 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante’s Divine Comedy 174 Diskin Clay 13 Ovid in Chaucer and Gower 187 Andrew Galloway 14 Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Baroque Art 202 Paul Barolsky 15 The Poetics of Time: The Fasti in the Renaissance 217 Maggie Kilgour 16 Shakespeare and Ovid 232 Sean Keilen 17 Ben Jonson’s Light Reading 246 Heather James 18 Love Poems in Sequence: The Amores from Petrarch to Goethe 262 Gordon Braden 19 Don Quixote as Ovidian Text 277 Frederick A. de Armas 20 Spenser and Ovid 291 Philip Hardie 21 Ovidian Intertextuality in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 306 Sergio Casali 22 “Joy and Harmles Pastime”: Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure 324 Mandy Green 23 Ovid Translated: Early Modern Versions of the Metamorphoses 339 Dan Hooley 24 Ovid in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England 355 James M. Horowitz 25 The Influence of Ovid in Opera 371 Jon Solomon 26 Ovid in Germany 386 Theodore Ziolkowski 27 Ovid and Russia’s Poets of Exile 401 Andrew Kahn 28 Alter-Ovid—Contemporary Art on the Hyphen 416 Jill H. Casid 29 Contemporary Poetry: After After Ovid 436 Sarah Annes Brown 30 Ovid’s “Biography”: Novels of Ovid’s Exile 454 Rainer Godel 31 Ovid and the Cinema: An Introduction 469 Martin M.Winkler Index 485
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University of Texas Press Epideictic Rhetoric
Book SynopsisSpeeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek period (fifth to fourth century BC) and the Roman imperial period (first to fourth century AD), and they have influenced public speakers through all the succeeding ages. Yet unlike the other classical genres of rhetoric, epideictic rhetoric remains something of a mystery. It was the least important genre at the start of Greek oratory, but its role grew exponentially in subsequent periods, even though epideictic orations were not meant to elicit any action on the part of the listener, as judicial and deliberative speeches attempted to do. So why did the ancients value the oratory of praise so highly?In Epideictic Rhetoric, Laurent Pernot offers an authoritative overview of the genre that surveys its history in ancient Greece and Rome, its technical aspects, and its social function. He begins by defining epideictic rhetoric and tracing its evolution from itTrade Review"[Pernot's] familiarity with a vast amount of material allows him to summarise, succinctly and elegantly, the evolution of epideictic rhetoric in theory and practice from its Athenian origins to the fall of Empire...[Pernot's] authority in the field of epideixis and his intimate knowledge of the texts make this short monograph a very useful addition to current scholarship." * Journal of Roman Studies *The master has now written an excellent introduction to ancient epideictic, and I thoroughly recommend it. * Revue de Philologie *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources1. The Unstoppable Rise of Epideictic2. The Grammar of Praise3. Why Epideictic Rhetoric?4. New Approaches in EpideicticEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press The Essential Isocrates
Book SynopsisThe Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greece's foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his life and times and on morality, religion, philosophy, rhetoric, education, political theory, and Greek and Athenian history. In Mikalson's treatment, Isocrates receives his due not only as a major thinker but as one whose work has resonated across time, influencing even modern education practices and theory.Isocrates wrote extensively about Athens in the fourth century BCE and before, and his speeches, letters, and essays provide a trove of insights concerning the intellectual, political, and social currents of his time. Mikalson details what we know about Isocrates's long, eventful, and complicated life, and much can be gleaned on the personal level from his own writings, as Isocrates was one of the most introspective authors oTrade Review[The Essential Isocrates] is an effective introduction to Isocrates especially for readers, students and scholars who are not familiar with ancient Greek and bibliography written in languages other than English. * The Classical Review *The Essential Isocrates gives a valuable first overview of Isocrates’ oeuvre, especially for readers with limited to no knowledge of Greek. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *The tone [of The Essential Isocrates] is just about pitch perfect. Enthusiasm and humour leap from the page, as we learn how accessible and fun Isocrates can be...There is...a use and indeed a need for Mikalson’s volume in the teaching of Ancient History. As a sourcebook it is more than decent. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *[A] solidly put together study...this book is going to be relevant for scholars in several fields of history but also in urban planning and public policy. * Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsWritings of Isocrates Terms Needing Definition Persons Perhaps Not Generally Known but Featured in Isocrates’ Writings Chronology of Works of Isocrates and of Major Events Mentioned by Him Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Isocrates: His Life Chapter 2. Isocrates: On Himself Chapter 3. Isocrates: On Morality and Religion Chapter 4. Isocrates: On Philosophy, Education, Rhetoric, and Poetry Chapter 5. Isocrates: On Political Theory Chapter 6. Isocrates: On Athenian and Greek History Notes Selected Bibliography Further Readings General Index Index Locorum
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New York University Press The Utopia Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias.Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia, to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions.This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coveragTrade Review"The Utopia Reader is the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures. These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative." -- Jean Pfaelzer,author of The Utopian Novel in America: the Politics of a Literary Form"How utopianto see something that was very good get better. This second edition includes an expanded introduction that addresses the complexities of defining utopia, significant additions to several sections, and an entirely new section on the 21st century that includes young adult dystopias and non-print utopias." -- Kenneth Roemer,author of Utopian Audiences
£30.40
New York University Press The Epistle on Legal Theory
Book SynopsisThe Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi''i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi''i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur''an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and lTrade ReviewThis is a very accurate and eloquent translation.The translators use of suitable English terms makes the text easy to read, unburdened by transliterations or overly cumbersome terminology. -- Ahmed El Shamsy,University of ChicagoThe Epistle on Legal Theory represents one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law, one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and Islamic legal tradition. * Islamic Horizons *Lowry has made a new and assertive offering with his translation of conceptual terminology... a significant achievement. * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsLetter from the General Editor Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Text Notes to the IntroductionEpistle on Legal Theory Notes Glossary of Names and Terms Bibliography Further Reading Index of Qur?an Passages Index About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute About the TypefacesAbout the Editor-Translator
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New York University Press The Utopia Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias. Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia, to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions. This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coverage of the varietiTrade Review"The Utopia Reader is the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures. These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative." -- Jean Pfaelzer,author of The Utopian Novel in America: the Politics of a Literary Form"How utopianto see something that was very good get better. This second edition includes an expanded introduction that addresses the complexities of defining utopia, significant additions to several sections, and an entirely new section on the 21st century that includes young adult dystopias and non-print utopias." -- Kenneth Roemer,author of Utopian Audiences
£73.80
New York University Press A Treasury of Virtues
Book SynopsisInsights into a life of integrity by a master of Arabic eloquenceA Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom, 'Ali was renowned for his eloquence: his words were collected, quoted, and studied over the centuries, and extensively anthologized, excerpted, and interpreted. Of the many compilations of 'Ali's words, A Treasury of Virtues, compiled by the Fatimid Shafi'i judge al-Quda'i (d. 454/1062), arguably possesses the broadest compass of genres and the largest variety of themes. Included are aphorisms, proverbs, sermons, speeches, homilies, prayers, letters, dialogues, and verse, all of which provide instruction on how to be a morally upstanding human being. The shorter compilation included here, One Hundred Proverbs, is attributed to the emTrade ReviewTahera Qutbuddins edition proves to be definitive A smooth presentation of the Arabic texts and a first-rate English translation. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *
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University of Toronto Press Petrarchs Fragmenta
Book SynopsisPetrarch''s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures.By concentrating on the poem’s reliance on Christian tenets and distinguishing between author, narrator and character, Peterson exposes the underlying narrative and theological unity of the work. Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity, and biblical intertextuality, Peterson conducts a rigorous examination of the Fragmenta’s poetic language. This combination of stylistic and philological analysis recasts Petrarch’s poetry in a new light revealing its radically innovative and liberating character.Trade Review"Peterson’s stimulating book has the merit of inducing the reader to revisit the complexity of the Canzoniere as a work in which, in an innovative way, a story of transformation is narrated." -- Susanna Barsella, Fordham University * Speculum, Vol 94 no 3, July 2019 *Table of ContentsIntroduction * Petrarch Today: A Focus on Narrativity * Humanism and Poetic Theology * A History of Return Chapter 1: Historical Context and PoeticForm * The Poetry of the Tradition * Style, Genre,Structure * The Proem of the Fragmenta (Rvf 1-10) Chapter 2: Temporality andDesire * Entering the Selva of the FirstCentenary * The Dimension of Fable in the 'Raccolta of 1342' * Further Consequences ofFable Chapter 3: The Language of Tears (Rvf 92-122) * A Parable of Return * Nature, Landscape, Solitude* The Secretum and Canzone Chapter 4: In fresca riva: Landscape and History(Rvf 125-183) * Canzoni 125-129 * Saint Peter and the AvignonChurch * Antithesis and Parallelism Chapter5: The Penitent Lover (Rvf 184-263) * The Fading Myth of Daphne * Out of the Labyrinth, Away From the World * APoetics of Quietude Chapter 6: Songs of Grief and Lamentation (Rvf 264-317) *"Quelle pietosebraccia" (264, 14) *"Come va 'l mondo!" (290, 1) * Augustinian Time and the Process ofGrieving Chapter 7: Songs of Consecration (Rvf 319-366) * The In Between Time of Parable * Friendship and Dialogue,Memory and Solitude * Seeds of Grace Conclusion * Historical Reception and the Figure of Petrarch*"Altr'uom" (Narrative, Style, Theology) * An Autopoietic Unity Notes Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Undoing Babel
Book SynopsisUndoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.Trade Review"Major’s surprising larger point [of this work] is how the story of Babel proves less foundational than one would expect…[This] is a detailed study that impressively brings out the handling of [various biblical texts] across a wide range of retellings throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, even as Major convincingly demonstrates that there may be less at stake in those retellings than meets the eye." -- Jonathan Wilcox * The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1-2 *"Undoing Babel, wide-ranging yet everywhere sensitive in its analyses, is a fascinating window not only on the fate of Genesis 10-11 in Anglo-Saxon England, but also on wider movements in the ecclesiastical, political, and literary landscapes, presenting a clear picture of both the idiosyncrasies of individual authors and the ways they fit into broader interpretive trends." -- Matthew D. Coker, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford * Notes and Queries, vol 66 no 1, March '19 *"[Major’s book] results in a detailed study that impressively brings out the handling of biblical texts across a range of retellings throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, even as he convincingly demonstrates that there may be less at stake in these retellings than meets the eye." -- R. M. Luizza * Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2019 *"Undoing Babel offers a substantial contribution to this field. It will be a very useful book for students, too, and will appeal to readers interested in Christian history, in ethnicity, language, and origins in the early medieval period, and in the reception of the Bible in English more broadly." -- Carl Kears, King’s College London * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Genesis 10-11 Introduction 1 Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity 2 Latin Christian Antiquity 3 The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury 4 Bede and Alcuin 5 Alfred the Great and the Literature of his Reign 6 The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries 7 The Biblical Poems of Junius 8 Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Reconsidering Boccaccio
Book SynopsisReconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Boccaccio’s own writings, Reconsidering Boccaccio brings a variety of methodologies and critical approaches to the works of one of the ‘three crowns’ of Italian literature. Containing essays by scholars not only of Italian literature, but also history, law, classics, and Middle Eastern literature, this collection is part of a vital movement to open up a dialogue among researchers in various areas of study that touch on the works of Boccaccio. The volume highlights the necessity of a technical and historical framework when approaching Boccaccio studies, while also shedding new light on the lives of women and their role in the reception of BoTrade Review"This collection of essays, which moves from the close examination of Boccaccio’s own manuscript of the Decameron to the larger social and legal contextualization of his works to their reception in Renaissance Europe, will prove a valuable point of reference to students and scholars of Boccaccio for years to come." -- David G. Lummus, University of Notre Dame * Speculum *"This is a learned and provocative set of essays that should interest any scholar working in early modern European or Mediterranean studies." -- Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California, Davis * , University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsOlivia Holmes and Dana Stewart (Binghamton University), Introduction I MATERIAL CONTEXTS 1. K. P. Clarke (University of York), “Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron” 2. Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol), “Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds” II SOCIAL CONTEXTS: FRIENDSHIP 3. Jason Houston (University of Oklahoma), “Boccaccio on Friendships (Theory and Practice)” 4. Todd Boli (Independent Scholar), “Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profile of Mainardo Cavalcanti” III SOCIAL CONTEXTS: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND THE LAW 5. Alessia Ronchetti (University of Cambridge), “Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta” 6. Grace Delmolino (Columbia University), “The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex” 7. Sara Diaz (Fairfield University), “Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante” 8. Mary Anne Case (University of Chicago Law School), “What Turns on Whether Women are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan?” IV POLITICAL AND AUTHORIAL CONTEXTS: ON FAMOUS WOMEN 9. Elizabeth Casteen (Binghamton University), “On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court” 10. Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania), “Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des Dames” 11. Lori Walters (Florida State University), “Reading like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiu” V LITERARY INTERTEXTS 12. Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago), “A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus” 13. Katherine A. Brown (Princeton University), “Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau Barat et Haimet and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6” 14. Filippo Andrei (University of California, Berkeley), “The Tragicomedy of Lament: The Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Madonna Fiammetta” 15. Nora Peterson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron”
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University of Toronto Press Compelling God
Book SynopsisIn Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.Trade Review"Stephanie Clark presents the first sustained study to focus directly on prayer in early England, and with stunning success." -- Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College * Speculum *"Compelling God presents an original approach to investigating early English religious practices and devotional attitudes, a model worthy of imitation by scholar and student alike. Stephanie Clark makes a significant contribution to medieval studies and religious studies by treating what the early English authors taught about prayer, what it does, and how it works seriously on their own terms." -- Miranda Wilcox, Brigham Young University * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *"This volume offers a valuable and nuanced account of the Anglo-Saxon period to those working on histories of prayer, the gift, selfhood, and spirituality in other literatures and traditions." -- Helen Appleton, University of Oxford * Early Medieval Europe *"The strength of Clark’s book consists in showing that Anglo-Saxon prayer theory cannot be assumed to be the same as that of later periods. She carefully works out the differences in prayer theory between Bede, Asser, Alfred, and Aelfric." -- Gernot R. Wieland, University of British Columbia * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ntroduction Chapter 1: The Anglo-Saxon Inheritance Chapter 2: Gratiam pro gratia: Bede on Prayer Chapter 3: Does Prayer Work? The Prayers of King Alfred Chapter 4: Aelfric and the Community of Prayer Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Preaching Apocrypha in AngloSaxon England
Book SynopsisPreaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Seeking Out Gold in the Mud Chapter 1: Homiliaries, Apocrypha, and Preaching Networks Chapter 2: Apostles, Trinity, and Reform in Blickling 15 Chapter 3: Ælfric and Correct Doctrine Chapter 4: Translating Jesus in Text and Image Chapter 5: A Network Microcosm in Bodley 343 Conclusion: Mediating Tradition Excursus on Terminology Appendices
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University of Toronto Press Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds
Book SynopsisMinding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal, the manner in which they interact with the animal, and the place in which the animal lives. Often this has little if anything to do with the actual cognitive abilities of the animal. However, occasionally early authors made surprisingly accurate assumptions about the thoughts and feelings of animals. Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including: the utility of anthropomorphism; the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts; attempts at understanding the minds of animalsTrade Review"Minding Animals is a welcome addition to the growing body of studies about animals in Hispanism. It shows how early Spanish literature advocates the mindedness of animals and teaches nuanced meanings of anthropomorphism as a productive way to understand animals." -- John Beusterien, Texas Tech University * Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume XCVI, Number 10, 2019 *"Steven Wagschal's book is a goldmine of information about animal minds." -- Marc Bekoff * Psychology Today *"This is a fine example of literary research and writing that ties into recent trends in interdisciplinary human–animal studies, ethology, and medieval and early modern studies." -- Martha Few, Pennsylvania State University * Bulletin of the Comediantes *"Minding Animals is a carefully researched, accessible, and highly readable book that makes a valuable contribution to the history of animal cognition." -- Helen Cowie, University of York * Speculum *Table of ContentsMinding Animals with Anthropomorphism Deploying The Animal in Medieval Miracles, Bestiaries and Fables Exploiting The Animal through Husbandry and Hunting Describing The Animal in New World Habitats Embodying Animals: Cervantes and Animal Cognition Minding Animals after Cervantes
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University of Toronto Press The Writers Gift or the Patrons Pleasure
Book SynopsisThe Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V's unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work's status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose.Trade Review"Wemmers’ Victimology: A Canadian Perspective is essential reading for those interested in victims of crime in all their dynamism – theoretically, politically, and within the disciplines. However, Wemmers takes this further by providing a powerful analysis of structural and institutional reform, through the emerging human rights instruments that place victim rights firmly on the policy agenda. Bringing together a volume of this kind is no small feat, internationally significant, but with obvious relevance to those especially interested in Canada’s justice response." -- Elizabeth L’Estrange, University of Birmingham * Renaissance Quarterly *"Deborah McGrady’s analysis of patronage practices during the last quarter of the fourteenth century and the first quarter of the fifteenth, as evidenced not only by authorial dedications and presentation miniatures but also archival records, texts themselves, and manuscript witnesses, offers keen insight into the politically fraught institution hiding behind the nostalgic idea of medieval mecenat." -- S.C. Kaplan, Rice University * French Studies *"Deborah McGrady’s rich, meticulously researched, and lucidly written monograph addresses this surprising gap in modern studies of late medieval book communities. She shows that the decades surrounding Charles V’s translation project constitute a crucial moment of change in medieval patronage practices, characterized by a tension between spontaneous artistic expressions freely offered by the poet and transactional commissions undertaken for the pleasure of the patron." -- Julie Slinger, Washington University in St. Louis * H-France Review *"The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure? Makes important contributions to the fields of literary studies, economic history, art history, and the history of the material text—it is a pleasure to read and a gift to the scholarly community." -- Sarah Wilma Watson * Speculum, Vol. 96, No. 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Literary Patronage in a Medieval Context 1. King Charles V’s Sapientia Project: From the Construction of the Louvre Library to the Books He Commissioned 2. The Writer’s Work: Translating Charles V’s Literary Clientelism into Learned Terms 3. Guillaume de Machaut’s Fictions of Engagement 4. Eustache Deschamps on the Duties and Dues of Poetry 5. The Pursuit of Sponsorship: From Christine de Pizan’s Troubled Dealings with Louis of Orléans to Marketing Nostalgia 6. The Curse of the Commission: Christine de Pizan on Sacrificing Charles V’s Biography Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the sonnet. Featuring illustrations and new English translations of some forty lyrics, Richard Lansing revives the work of a pioneer of Italian literature, a poet who helped pave the way for later writers such as Dante and Petrarch. Giacomo da Lentini is hailed as the earliest poet to import the Occitan tradition of love poetry into the Italian vernacular. This edition of Giacomo fills a gap in the canon of translations of Italian literature in English and serves as a vital reference source for students as well as scholars and teachers interested in the literature of the romance languages.Trade Review"This volume deserves to be commended as an elegant, comprehensive, and well- contextualized edition of Giacomo’s poetry. Thanks to Lansing and Kumar’s efforts here, a much broader readership will now be able to evaluate the innovative poetry of Giacomo on its own terms and in light of its own specific cultural and intellectual context." -- Tristan Kay, University of Bristol * Speculum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Bibliography Lyrics Canzoni and Discordo 1. Madonna, dir vo voglio (My lady, I wish to tell you) 2. Meravigliosa-mente (Extraordinarily) 3. Guiderdone aspetto avere (I hope for recompense) 4. Amor non vole ch’io clami (Love will not let me seek) 5. Dal core mi vene (From my heart comes) 6. La ’namoranza disïosa (The love full of desire) 7. Ben m’è venuto prima cordoglienza (Indeed I felt deep grief at once, my fair) 8. Donna, eo languisco (My Love, I suffer and don’t know what hope) 9. Troppo son dimorato (Too long have I resided) 10. Non so se ’n gioia mi sia (I do not know if thoughts of love) 11. Uno disïo d’amore sovente (So frequently an amorous desire) 12. Amando lungiamente (In loving for so long) 13. Madonna mia, a voi mando (My lady fair, I send to you) 14. S’io doglio no è meraviglia (It’s no surprise I grieve) 15. Amore, paura m’incalcia (O Love, fear presses me) 16. Poi no mi val merzé né ben servire (Since neither mercy nor performing deeds) 17. Dolce coninzamento (I sing a sweet preamble) Tenzone with the Abbot of Tivoli 18a. Ai deo d’amore (O god of Love, I pray you see) 18b. Feruto sono isvarïatamente (I have been wounded differently) 18c. Qual om riprende altrui (One who rebukes another frequently) 18d. Cotale gioco rnai non fue veduto (A game like this has not been seen) 18e. Con vostro onore facciovi uno ’nvito (I honor you and send you this appeal) Tenzone with Jacopo Mostacci and Pier della Vigna 19a. Solicitando un poco meo savere (To stimulate my intellect) 19b. Però ch’Amore non si pò vedere (Because Love is not visible) 19c. Amore è uno disio che ven da core (Love’s a desire that issues from the heart) Sonnets 20. Lo giglio quand’è colto tost’è passo (The lily fades as soon as it is picked) 21. Sì come il sol che manda la sua spera (Just like the sun that sends its rays) 22. Or come pote sì gran donna entrare (How can so great a lady pass) 23. Molti amadori la lor malatia (Many lovers bear their malady) 24. Donna, vostri sembianti mi mostraro (My lady, your expressions raised in me) 25. Ogn’omo ch’ama de’ amar so ’nore (A lover must protect his name) 26. A l’aire claro ò vista ploggia dare (On clear days I have seen it rain) 27. Io m’aggio posto in core a Dio (I’ve set my heart on serving God) 28. Lo viso mi fa andare alegramente (Her face creates my happiness) 29. Eo viso e son diviso da lo viso (I see, but only from afar, her face) 30. Sì alta amanza à pres’a lo me’ core (A love so noble seized my heart) 31. Per sofrenza si vince gran vetoria (Through patience victories are won) 32. Certo me par che far dea bon signore (It seems quite clear a noble lord should base) 33. Sì como ’l parpaglion ch’a tal natura (Just as the butterfly in nature’s grasp) 34. Chi non avesse mai veduto foco (If one had never seen a flame of fire) 35. Diamante, né smiraldo, né zafino (No diamond, sapphire, emerald) 36. Madonna à ’n se vertute con valore (The virtue of my lady is) 37. Angelica figura e comprobata (Angelic figure manifest) 38. Quand’om à un bon amico leiale (When someone has a good and loyal friend) Lyrics of dubious attribution D.1. Membrando l’amoroso dipartire (Remembering my loving fond farewell) D.2. Lo badalisco a lo specchio lucente (Before a shiny mirror the basilisk) D.3. Guardando basalisco velenoso (Looking at the deadly basilisk) Notes Illustrations Index of First Lines
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University of Toronto Press The Allure of Sports in Western Culture
Book SynopsisSports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Introduction Introduction: The Allure of Sports John Zilcosky Part II: Theoretical Perspectives 1. Sports/Allure Grant Farred 2. "Allure" Constrained by "Ethics"? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Part III: The Ancient World 3. The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics Sophie Remijsen 4. Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies John Zilcosky 5. The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement Charles Stocking Part IV: Modern Europe 6. Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain Rebekka Von Mallinckrodt 7. A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation Wolf Kittler 8. Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany Sarah Panzer 9. The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football Annette Vowinckel Part V: Coda 10. Swimming Karin Helmstaedt Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press The United States of Medievalism
Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection explores America's appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation's complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.Table of ContentsIntroduction Built in the United States of America: Constructing a Medieval Past Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein Part I: Building the American Middle Ages 1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge Kathleen Coyne Kelly 2. Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn – and Philadelphia’s Other Medieval(ist) Jewels Kevin J. Harty 3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, D.C. Laurie Finke 4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siècle Alfred Thomas Part II: Living in the American Middle Ages 5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta Richard Utz 6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross Candace Barrington 7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones Jana K. Schulman 8. “I yearned for a strange land and a people that had the charm of originality”: Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia Alison Gulley 9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism Lowell Gallagher Part III: Playing in the American Middle Ages 10. Orlando’s Medieval Heritage Project Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein 11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans’s Medievalisms Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington 12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May-Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century “Pleasure Faires” in Contemporary Texas Lorraine Kochanske Stock 13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman Notes on Contributors
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University of Toronto Press The Saint and the Count
Book SynopsisWhile historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: “We Should Not Pass Over in Silence” 1. “In the Province of Bayeux”: St. Vitalis in the Historical and Hagiographic Record 2. “Strive to rise swiftly from the dust”: The Author Stephen of Fougères 3. “Men who built the Holy Church”: Hagiography and Genre 4. “These are not our inventions”: Miracles and Doubt 5. “They tried to kill him”: Hagiography and the Problem of Violence Afterword: “So that my words may not bore the reader” Appendix 1: The Life of St. Vitalis Appendix 2: The Life of St. Firmat Glossary of Terms and Concepts Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times
Book SynopsisThe Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era.From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today.
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University of Toronto Press The Poetics of Dantes Paradiso
Book SynopsisParadiso, the conclusion to Dante Alighieri's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, is an exploration of the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.Massimo Verdicchio's canto-by-canto analysis focuses on the subversive undercurrents created by poetic allegory and irony and relates Dante's ordering of the heavens to the Arts and Sciences of the Trivium and Quadrivium (the major subjects taught at medieval universities). This new reading highlights Dante's use of language to expose the earthly flaws of the saints and denounce the illicit and destructive alliance between the House of Anjou and the church. The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso is thought-provoking, tenacious, andTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue I: DXV and Paradiso Prologue II: The Poetics of Paradiso 1. Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II−IV) 2. Heaven of Mercury: Dialectics (V−VII) 3. Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII, IX) 4. Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X−XIV) 5. Heaven of Mars: Music (XV−XVII) 6. Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII, XIX, XX) 7. Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI−XXII) 8. Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV−XXVII) 9. Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX) 10. Empyrean: Theology (XXX−XXXIII) Conclusions
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University of Toronto Press On Amistà
Book SynopsisAlthough we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and ethical dilemmas that needed to be carefully negotiated. On Amistà analyses these dilemmas and looks at how Dante’s strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he manoeuvred between different social groups and settings.Elizabeth Coggeshall reveals that friendship was not an unequivocal moral good for the writers of late medieval Italy. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social relationships such as allies, collaborators, servants, patrons, rivals, and enemies. Drawing on the use of the language of friendship in the letters, correspondence poems, dedications, narratives, and treatises composed by Dante and his interlocutors, Coggeshall examines the way they skillfully neTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy Friendship’s Many Faces A Sociological Approach: The Fields and Practices of Friendship 1. Exclusivity: The Piazza Friendship as Civic Medicine Creating Networks The Ship of Friendship Friendship’s Secret Chambers Epilogue 2. Self-Interest: The University Language and Amicabilitas The Ciceronian Turn Amicita as Disinterested Collaboration Amicitia as Self-Interested Sponsorship Abandoning Amicitia 3. Hierarchy: The Court Friendship in the Patronage Economy Negotiating Inequality The Game of Honour Managing Reciprocity The Gratuitous Gift 4. Difference: The Afterlife Inferno: Against the Other Purgatorio: Beside the Other Paradiso: Beyond the Other The Eclipse of Friendship Epilogue: Friendship’s Afterlife in Early Humanism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Recycling the Cycle
Book SynopsisA consciousness of the past has been an essential determinant of community in the city of Chester, England. This awareness and fascination has been bolstered by a strong civic tradition of drama. In particular, the city's Whitsun Plays have been a vehicle for communicating the myth of the city's medieval heritage, helping to reinforce the sense of history that is part of Chester's identity.Building up the material in REED: Chester, David Mills has produced a detailed study of Chester's Whitsun Plays in their local, physical, social, political, cultural, and religious context. A continuum has survived between the Middle Ages and the present day, providing not only an understanding of the plays themselves, but a narrative of the ways in which manuscripts survive and the functions that they serve. The continued performance of these plays is significant of modern play revivals as a political and sociological phenomenon, demonstrating the power that these rituals and play
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University of Toronto Press Althochdeutsche Glossen
Book SynopsisThis collection of glosses, which stems from materials originally uncovered by the eminent Latin paleographer, Bernhard Bischoff, may well be the last major addition to the corpus of Old High German glosses. Dr Mayer's work adds about 1700 glosses and offers for the first time extensive information on their paleographic dating. It also contains a large number of scratched glosses, which in many cases offer more original material than glosses written by pen. This will be a standard reference for those interested in German etymology, the history of the German language, and medieval Latin lexicography. /Diese Glossensammlung, die auf Angaben des Mittellateiners und Palaographen Bernhard Bischoff beruht, ist wohl der letzte umfangreichere Nachtrag zum Corpus der althochdeutschen Glossen. Sie Fugt zu den bereits veroffentlichten Glossen rund 1700 hinzu, wobei alle Federglossen von Bernhard Bischoff palaographisch datiert sing. Sie enthalt auBerdem eine groBere Anzahl von Griffelglossen, die
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