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Julius Caesar; Alfredus Alfred Klotz Ed.
C. IULI CAESARIS GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR COMMENTARII Vol. I: Commentarii Belli Gallici. Adiecta Est Tabula Geographica. Editio Minor
B. G. Teubner. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Light foxing. Minor discoloration along edges of boards. Light wear to corners. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches; 214 pages . B. G. Teubner hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7776
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Julius Caesar & Aulus Hirtius; Bernardus Kubler Bernhard Kubler Ed.
C. IULII CAESARIS GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR COMMENTARII CUM A. HIRTII AULUS HIRTIUS ALIORUMQUE SUPPLEMENTIS EX RECENSIONE BERNARDI K�BLERI Vol. III: Pars Altera. Commentarius De Bello Hispaniensi. C. Iulii Caesaris Et A. Hirtiii Fragmenta
B. G. Teubner. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. Rubbing to extremities. Light bumping along foreedge. Minor shelfwear ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches; 266 pages . B. G. Teubner hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7775
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Herodianus Herodian; Immanuelus Bekkerus Immanuel Bekker Ed.
HERODIANI HERODIAN AB EXCESSU DIVI MARCI LIBRI OCTO Ab Immanuele Bekkero Recogniti.
B. G. Teubner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1855. Hardcover. Book has been rebound in cream boards with green spine with original wraps attached to boards. Spine label is rubbed and pieces have chipped off. Some rubbing to spine. Blank label to inner cover. Minor browning and foxing to pages. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Preface in Latin. Herodian or Herodianus of Syria ca. 170�240 was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus in eight books covering the years 180 to 238.; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; 216 pages . B. G. Teubner hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7801
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Parke H. W.
FESTIVALS OF THE ATHENIANS
Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0500400334 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. DJ is yellowed. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing with one chip to upper corner. Bottom of spine rubbed. ; Parke was an authority on Greek religion and gives an account of the chief ceremonial occasions of ancient Athens in their order in the calendar. The festivals he surveys exhibit an extraordinary variety of activity associated with different religious cults. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 208 pages . Thames and Hudson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7942 ISBN : 0500400334 9780500400333
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Ferguson John
THE RELIGIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Thames and Hudson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0500400148 . Some Rubbing to extremites. Scholar's name to ffep. ; Presents a comprehensive picture of religions that flourished in Rome from 100 to 300 AD. It describes the many new cults that sprang up during this period and show how they conflicted and sometimes fused with the traditional religions of Greece Rome and the northern countries and with Judaism and its offshoot Christianity. Discusses philosophical religions to mystery religions to emperor worship to belief in a goddess of Chance as well as attitudes toward death and roles played by shamans and confidence-tricksters. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages . Thames and Hudson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7941 ISBN : 0500400148 9780500400142
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Grossmann Gustav
PROMETHIE UND ORESTIE Attischer Geist in Der Attischen Trag�die
Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; Bibliothek Der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge. 2. Reihe - Band 31; 313 pages . Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7954
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Grosse Ernst Ulrich
SYMPATHIE DER NATUR Geschichte Eines Topos
Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. 3770502043 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Freiburger Schriften Zur Romanischen Philologie 14; 188 pages . Wilhelm Fink Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7951 ISBN : 3770502043 9783770502042
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Heydenreich Titus.
TADEL UND LOB DER SEEFAHRT Das Nachleben Eines Antiken Themas in Den Romanischen Literaturen
Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag. Near Fine. 1970. Hardcover. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; Revision of the author's thesis Frele Universit�t Berlin; Studien Zum Fortwirken Der Antike 5; 354 pages . Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7953
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Mann Ulrich
VORSPIEL DES HEILS Die Uroffenbarung in Hellas
Ernst Klett Verlag. Near Fine. 1962. Hardcover. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else Fine. Light browning to DJ spine. Light edgewear. One small closed tear to DJ. ; 402 pages . Ernst Klett Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7950
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Mette Hans Joachim
MEDEN AGAN Ein Vortrag
C. H. Beck. Good. 1933. Softcover. Pencil marginalia. Wraps are somewhat worn with creasing and a couple of tears and minor soiling. ; On the ethical thought of the early Greek tragic poets. ; 36 pages . C. H. Beck paperback
Bookseller reference : 7961
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Brelich Angelo
VESTA
Rhein-Verlag. Very Good. 1949. Softcover. Scholars' bookplate to ffep. Very light edgewear. Pages slightly toned. ; Albae Vigiliae Neue Folge Heft VII; 120 pages . Rhein-Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 7968
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Clift Evelyn Holst
LATIN PSEUDEPIGRAPHA A Study in Literary Attributions
Baltimore: J. H. Furst. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Calling card from author affixed to ffep. Scholar's name to ffep M. Hammond. Gilt lettering to spine slightly faded. ; Contents: I: Libraries and Literary Interests in the Roman World; II: Plautine "Pseudepigrapha"; III: Republican Prose of Doubtful Authenticity; IV: Augustan "Pseudepigrapha"; 158 pages . J. H. Furst hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7852
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Radermacher Ludwig
MYTHOS UND SAGE BEI DEN GRIECHEN
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Third Edition. Hardcover. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1943 edition. ; 403 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7884
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Rooy CA. Van C. A.
STUDIES IN CLASSICAL SATIRE AND RELATED LITERARY THEORY
E. J. Brill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. Light shelfwear. ; A critical look at the development and history of the genre known as Satire. ; 229 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7853
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Konstan David
PITY TRANSFORMED
Duckworth Publishers. Very Good. 2001. Softcover. 0715629042 . Classical Inter/Faces; 192 pages; "Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. . Duckworth Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 7897 ISBN : 0715629042 9780715629048
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Kiessling A. & U. V. Wilamowitz Moellendorff Hrsg.
PHILOLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN. ZWEITES HEFT: ZU AUGUSTEISCHEN DICHTERN
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Fair. 1881. Softcover. Wraps are in fair condition but book is VG. Wraps are chipped with pieces missing from foreedge and back lower corner. Appears to have been ex-library but markings removed with adhesive stains to wraps and institution stamp to prelim Dept of Classics- McMaster Univ. . Former owner's name in ink to titlepages. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Wraps have been crudely repaired with brown tape to spine and clear tape to hinges. ; Philologische Untersuchungen; 122 pages . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung paperback
Bookseller reference : 7901
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Blazquez J. M.
ECONOMIA DE LA HISPANIA ROMANA
Ediciones Najera. Very Good-. 1978. Softcover. 8485432002 . Small tear to wraps at bottom front hinge 1". Small bump to base of spine. Light shelfwear otherwise. ; 725 pages . Ediciones Najera paperback
Bookseller reference : 7905 ISBN : 8485432002 9788485432004
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Boer W. Den
PRIVATE MORALITY IN GREECE AND ROME Some Historical Aspects
E. J. Brill. Very Good. 1997. Softcover. 9004059768 . Creasing to spine. Minor edgewear with a few very small tears. Minor soiling to wraps. ; Looks at the code of behaviour in everyday life not with the gods or the state. ; Mnemosyne Vol Suppl. 57; 305 pages . E. J. Brill paperback
Bookseller reference : 7899 ISBN : 9004059768 9789004059764
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Wendland Dr. Paul
DIE HELLENISTISCH-R�MISCHE KULTUR IN IHREN BEZIEHUNGEN ZU JUDENTUM UND CHRISTENTUM Die Urchristlichen Literaturformen. Zweite Und Dritte Auflage
Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Former owner's name to titlepage. Slight separation to inner hinge. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and circulation page to ffep. Boards are worn with edgeworn spine ends and corners. Light pencil underlining on a few pages. ; Mit 5 Abbildungen Im Text und 14 Tafeln ; Handbuch Zum Neuen Testament. 1. Bd. 2. Und 3. Teil; 448 pages . J. C. B. Mohr hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7855
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Meyer Hugo
MEDEIA UND DIE PELIADEN Eine Attische Novelle Und Ihre Entstehung. Ein Versuch Zur Sagenforschung Auf Arch�ologischer Grundlage
Giorgio Bretschneider. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Softcover. 888500735X . DJ has chipping to spine ends. Rubbing to panels. Softcover wraps have very light shelfwear. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. ; 30 pages of plates at end. ; Archaeologica 14; 156 pages . Giorgio Bretschneider paperback
Bookseller reference : 7889 ISBN : 888500735X 9788885007352
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Willi Andreas Ed.
THE LANGUAGE OF GREEK COMEDY
Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0199245479 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 356 pages; The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi -- Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter or just cousins / Ewen Bowie -- The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio -- Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover -- Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings -- Languages on stage: Aristophanic language cultural history and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi -- Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Mageiros Poietes: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov -- Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott -- Speech within speech in Menander / Ren� N�nlist. . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7845 ISBN : 0199245479 9780199245475
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Walcot Peter
ENVY AND THE GREEKS A Study of Human Behaviour
Aris & Phillips. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0856681466 . Dustjacket has some shelfwear and rubbing. Tear to bottom corner of DJ ~1". Edgewear at corners of DJ. Yellowing to DJ. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light edgewear to extremities. ; Looks at how the anthromorphic gods of the Greeks led to the concept of divine envy the ways in which both the Athenian and Spartan constitutions allowed for the prevalence of envy among their citizens popular belief in the evil eye and the solutions to the problems pose by envy offered by philosophy and religion. ; 128 pages . Aris & Phillips hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7848 ISBN : 0856681466 9780856681462
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Haight Elizabeth Hazelton
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE HOUSE DOOR IN CLASSICAL POETRY
Longmans Green and Co. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 small tears to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Minor shelfwear to book. ; Contents: Tradition and Symbol; Fuctional use of the door in Greek Tragedy; Doors of Fantasy and Reality in Aristophanes; Door as a Character in Plautus' comedies; Theocritus: Magic Sorrows and Songs at the Door; Doors of Life and Death in the Greek Anthology; Doors in Catullus Horace Tibullus and Propertius; Publius Ovidius Naso: Doors of Light Loves and of Tragic Exile; Retrospect and Prospect. ; 158 pages . Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7831
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Solmsen Friedrich
INTELLECTUAL EXPERIMENTS OF THE GREEK ENLIGHTENMENT
Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0691072019 . DJ has small adhesive stains from old sticker to lower front corner. DJ has one small close tear and a couple of tiny chips. Minor shelfwear. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Foxing to top of textblock. ; Examines new methods of argumentation : persuasion aimed at the control of man's emotions; utopian speculation; experiments with language; and the emergence of a secular psychology and its use in the reconstruction of human motives and historical events. ; 259 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7842 ISBN : 0691072019 9780691072012
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Dover K. J.
GREEK POPULAR MORALITY In the Time of Plato and Aristotle
Basil Blackwell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0631151907 . 1 small closed tear 1cm. Minor Edgewear and rubbing to DJ. Minor shelfwear else Fine. ; 349 pages; In ancient Greece as today popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony and reference is also made to Sophocles Euripides Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon and other sources. The selection of topics the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious social and legal principles and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life. . Basil Blackwell hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7844 ISBN : 0631151907 9780631151906
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Scafuro Adele C.
THE FORENSIC STAGE Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0521443830 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light ding along bottom back edge. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Includes scholar's handwritten pencil review notes tipped in. ; 534 pages; This book explores the ways in which legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and in second-century BC Rome. After examining pretrial scenarios in the Attic orators and comparable ones in Roman legal sources the author turns to the plays of Greek New Comedy and their later Roman adaptations. There she identifies similar scenarios especially in disputes concerning sexual violations the marriages of heiresses and divorces and shows that recognition of legal scenarios aids interpretation of New Comedy texts. . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7846 ISBN : 0521443830 9780521443838
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Day Archibald A.
THE ORIGINS OF LATIN LOVE-ELEGY
Georg Olms Verlag. Very Good. 1972. Softcover. 3487043076 . Spine is discolored. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1938 Oxford edition. ; 148 pages . Georg Olms Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 7900 ISBN : 3487043076 9783487043074
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Kerenyi Karl Hg.
DIE ER�FFNUNG DES ZUGANGS ZUM MYTHOS Ein Lesebuch
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Very light rubbing to boards else fine. ; Wege Der Forschung XX; 291 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7877
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Brauer George C.
THE AGE OF THE SOLDIER EMPERORS Imperial Rome A.D. 244-284
Noyes Press. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0815550367 . DJ is discolored along edges of front panel. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Noyes Classical Studies; 288 pages; Looks at the history of the Roman Empire in the middle part of the third century A. D. From the reign of Philip the Arab to Carus and his dynasty before the reign of Diocletian. Book is heavily illustrated with pictures of coins of the period. . Noyes Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7972 ISBN : 0815550367 9780815550365
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Chilver Guy Edward Farquhar G. E. F. & Completed and Revised by G. B. Townend
A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON TACITUS' HISTORIES IV AND V 4 & 5
Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0198148526 . Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ is discolored. Minor shelfwear otherwise to DJ. ; Deals with the last few days of A. D. 69 after the death of Vitellius the outbreak of the revolt on the Rhine and events of the early months of A. D. 70 in Rome German and the East where Vespasian now supreme master of the Empire was preparing his return to Rome. Tactius displays his mastery in recounting not only senatorial debates in the capital but also the complexities of the war on the Rhine in which Roman legions were demoralised and virtually destroyed before the new government was able to send fresh troops to restore the situation. Book V also contains Tacitus' curious account of the history and the country of the Jews breakin off just before the destruction of Jerusalem. ; 124 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7975 ISBN : 0198148526 9780198148524
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Chilver Guy Edward Farquhar G. E. F.
A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON TACITUS' HISTORIES I AND II 1 & 2
Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0198148305 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket else VG; Commentary by Prof. Chilver on the first two books of Cornelius Tacitus' first major historical work known as the Histories. In these books I & II Tacitus describes the fall of the first emperor Galba and an account of the war in which the second emperor Otho was defeated by Vitellius and committed suicide and of the challenge of the final victor Vespasian presented to Vitellius in the latter part of year A. D. 69. Includes emphasis on the major historical themes analysis of textural and syntactical problems when their solution is vital to establishing Tacitus' meaning. 280 pgs. Illustrated with two maps: the Roman Empire in A. D. 69 and Eastern Gaul the Alps and Northern Italy.; 280 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7974 ISBN : 0198148305 9780198148302
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Chilver Guy Edward Farquhar G. E. F. & Completed and Revised by G. B. Townend
A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON TACITUS' HISTORIES IV AND V 4 & 5
Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0198148526 . Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. Sections of DJ are lightly discolored. Mild foxing to DJ flaps and endpapers ; Deals with the last few days of A. D. 69 after the death of Vitellius the outbreak of the revolt on the Rhine and events of the early months of A. D. 70 in Rome German and the East where Vespasian now supreme master of the Empire was preparing his return to Rome. Tactius displays his mastery in recounting not only senatorial debates in the capital but also the complexities of the war on the Rhine in which Roman legions were demoralised and virtually destroyed before the new government was able to send fresh troops to restore the situation. Book V also contains Tacitus' curious account of the history and the country of the Jews breakin off just before the destruction of Jerusalem. ; 124 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7976 ISBN : 0198148526 9780198148524
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Cigman Gloria Ed.
LOLLARD SERMONS British Library MS Additional 41321 Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 751 John Rylands Library MS Eng 412. Description of the Manuscripts by Jeremy Griffiths ; Analysis of the Language by Jeremy Smith.
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 019722296X . Early English Text Society No. 294; 392 pages; This book brings together a wide range of late Middle English sermons distinctively "Lollard" in their intense preoccupation with the role of the preacher and the exposition of the scriptures. The work encompasses sixteen gospel sermons an optional expansion and the Sermon of Dead Men--a funeral sermon with a lengthy discourse on the Four Last Things Death Judgement the Pains of Hell and the Joys of Heaven--in addition to introductory sections a glossary notes and a two-part Index of Scriptural Texts one sermon-by-sermon the other alphabetical. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8000 ISBN : 019722296X 9780197222966
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Blayney M S
A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE OF THE FRIEND AND THE FELLOW
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0197222978 . Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis c. 1425 by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers army and common people in the early 15th century. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7999 ISBN : 0197222978 9780197222973
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Trigg Stephanie ed.
WYNNERE AND WASTOURE
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0197222994 . Early English Text Society No. 297; 128 pages; This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem Wynnere and Wastoure provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date provenance and metre. In addition it offers a concise summary criticism a bibliography a commentary glossary and an index of names. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7993 ISBN : 0197222994 9780197222997
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Wirtjes Hanneke Ed.
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PHYSIOLOGUS
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 019722301X . Early English Text Society No. 299; 160 pages; This book is the first separate critical edition of the Middle English Physiologus from its sole surviving manuscript with apparatus commentary glossary and introduction. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7994 ISBN : 019722301X 9780197223017
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Ayto John & Alexandra Barratt Eds
AELRED OF RIEVAULX'S DE INSTITUTIONE INCLUSARUM Two English Versions
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0197222897 . Early English Text Society No. 287; 233 pages; Two English versions of Aelred of Rievaulx's treatise on the ordering of the external and inner life of an anchoress De Instututione Inclusarum edited by John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt; includes critical introduction select bibliography note on the texts notes glossary. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7991 ISBN : 0197222897 9780197222898
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Lucas Peter J. Ed.
JOHN CAPGRAVE'S ABBREUIACION OF CRONICLES
Early English Text Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0197222870 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 285; 518 pages . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7980 ISBN : 0197222870 9780197222874
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Millet Bella Ed.
HALI MEIDHAD
Early English Text Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0197222862 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 284; 143 pages; The author of the Hail Meidhad is working within an existing tradition of virginity literature which can be traced back to the patristic period. Although this tradition of virginity literature is not the only source of the material used in Hali Meidhad the author's debt to it is extensive. Many of the ideas he uses were the common property of patristic and medieval writers on virginity and obscure passages in his argument are often made clearer by a study of earlier treatments of the same theme. Includes passages on The Two Cities; Life of Angels; marriage and Sexuality; The Three States; The Bride of Christ. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7981 ISBN : 0197222862 9780197222867
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Hudson Anne Ed.
TWO WYCLIFFITE TEXTS The Sermon of William Taylor 1406 Testimony of William Thorpe 1407
Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0197223036 . Lxiii 182 pp ; Early English Text Society No. 301; 245 pages; These two texts set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first a sermon by William Taylor caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second an account of the conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7985 ISBN : 0197223036 9780197223031
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Baker Donald C. & John L. Murphy & Louis B. Hall Jr.
THE LATE MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS PLAYS THE DIGBY PLAYS Of Bodleian MSS Digby 133 and E Museo 160
Early English Text Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0197222854 . Light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 283; 394 pages; Once owned by the Catholic and Royalist bibliophile Sir Kenelm Digby 1603�1665 this manuscript was among those Digby gave to Oxford University's Bodleian Library in 1634. Hence Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 lends its name to an eclectic group of religious plays that makes up one of two important late medieval dramatic anthologies the other is the Macro Plays. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7997 ISBN : 0197222854 9780197222850
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Miller Clarence H. Ed. & Sir Thomas Chaloner
THE PRAISE OF FOLIE BY SIR THOMAS CHALONER
Early English Text Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 0197222579 . Scholar's name to ffep P. H. Salus. Minor rubbing to extremities. Light shelfwear. ; English translation of Morae Encomium by Erasmus. ; Early English Text Society No. 257; 276 pages . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8022 ISBN : 0197222579 9780197222577
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Richardsons Frances E. Ed.
SIR EGLAMOUR OF ARTOIS
Early English Text Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 0197222560 . Scholar's name to ffep P. H. Salus. Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; One of the most popular late medieval romances. ; Early English Text Society No. 256; 206 pages . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8021 ISBN : 0197222560 9780197222560
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Hanna Ralph & David Lawton Ed.
THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM
Early English Text Society. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0197223230 . Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen K�lbing and Mabel Day O. S. 188 1932. This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts some unavailable to K�lbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described and the editors discuss the sources and authorship as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text which survives in many copies. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8023 ISBN : 0197223230 9780197223239
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Barratt Alexandra Ed. & Dame Eleanor Hull
THE SEVEN PSALMS: A COMMENTARY ON THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Translated from French Into English by Dame Eleanor Hull
Early English Text Society. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0197223095 . Very light bump to top of spine else Fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Early English Text Society No. 307; 368 pages; This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull wife of Sir John Hull a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St. Albans Abbey. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is known and about whom there is any information. In addition to the commentary on the penitential psalms she translated a collection of prayers and meditations. Dame Hull is a significant figure in English literary history who has remained virtually unknown until now. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8025 ISBN : 0197223095 9780197223093
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Reidy John Ed. & Thomas Norton
THOMAS NORTON'S THE ORDINAL OF ALCHEMY
Early English Text Society. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0197222749 . DJ has edgewear with wear to corners and spine ends. DJ has rubbing in places causing colour loss. ; Early English Text Society No. 272; 200 pages; Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy being a defence of alchemy as arcane and sacred and warning against imposters edited by John Reidy . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8031 ISBN : 0197222749 9780197222744
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Fowler Roger Ed.
WULFSTAN'S CANONS OF EDGAR
Early English Text Society. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0197222668 . Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. Dustjacket is rubbed causing some colour loss. DJ has one small tear to upper front corner 1cm . Light edgewear. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8047 ISBN : 0197222668 9780197222669
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Buhler Curt F Ed.
THE EPISTLE OF OTHEA Translated from the French Text of Christine De Pisan by Stephen Scrope
Early English Text Society. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0197222633 . Hard bump to front bottom corner that has extended to first few pages. DJ has some edgewear with a couple of small closed tears. DJ has rubbing in places with some colour loss. ; Early English Text Society No. 264; 273 pages . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8038 ISBN : 0197222633 9780197222638
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Blayney Margaret S. Ed.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF ALAIN CHARTIER'S LE TRAIT� DE L'ESPERANCE AND LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF TWO VOLUME SET Volume I: Text & Volume II: Introduction Notes and Glossary
Early English Text Society. Near Fine. 1973. Hardcover. 0197222838 . Vol. I: book has Bump to base of spine NF. DJ spine is lightly discolored with rubbing with colour loss VG. Vol; Vol I: 1973 264 pp ISBN: 019722722; Vol II: 1980 260 pp ISBN: 0197222838 ; Early English Text Society No. 270 & No. 281; Three Fifteenth-century English translations of the prose works of Alain Chartier honoured by the rhetoricians as the 'father of French eloquence' are edited here for the first time. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8028 ISBN : 0197222838 9780197222836
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Hamer Richard & Vida Russell Eds.
SUPPLEMENTARY LIVES IN SOME MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GILTE LEGENDE
Early English Text Society. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0197223184 . Very minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 315; 604 pages; Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation 'drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe' in 1438 of Jean de Vignay's L�gende Dor�e of about 1333-40 itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea completed about 1267. Of its eight surviving manuscripts three contain additions mostly of Lives of saints from or related to Britain many of them deversified from the South English Legendary but with some use of other sources. The twenty-six lives include Thomas Becket Edmund of Abingdon Frideswide Edward the Confessor Erkenwald Augustine of Canterbury Brendan and Winifred. Also edited are an incomplete tract on 'What the church betokenith' explaining some of the symbolism of the church and its services; and another detailing what indulgences were available to pilgrims in each of the churches in Rome. . Early English Text Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8042 ISBN : 0197223184 9780197223185
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