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Thompson, Craig R.
UNIVERSITIES IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Small sticker damaged area to rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; Folger Guides to the Age of Shakespeare; 45 pages
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Lucas, Peter J. (Ed. )
JOHN CAPGRAVE'S ABBREUIACION OF CRONICLES
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 285; 518 pages
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Gradon, Pamela & (Dan Michel)
DAN MICHEL'S AYENBITE OF INWYT Vol II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Very light shelfwear. Light knock to top of spine. ; The Ayenbite of Inwyt (literally Prick (or Remorse) of Conscience) is a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English. ; Early English Text Society No. 278; Vol. 2; 338 pages
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Hudson, Anne (Ed. )
TWO WYCLIFFITE TEXTS The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, Testimony of William Thorpe 1407
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.
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Ayto, John & Alexandra Barratt (Eds)
AELRED OF RIEVAULX'S DE INSTITUTIONE INCLUSARUM Two English Versions
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.
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Trigg, Stephanie (ed.)
WYNNERE AND WASTOURE
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.
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Wirtjes, Hanneke (Ed. )
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PHYSIOLOGUS
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.
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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
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).
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Blayney, M S
A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE OF THE FRIEND AND THE FELLOW
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.
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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 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.
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McSparran, Frances
OCTOVIAN [octavian] Edited from Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2. 38
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two new-born sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished.
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Richardsons, Frances E. (Ed. )
SIR EGLAMOUR OF ARTOIS
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
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Hanna, Ralph & David Lawton (Ed. )
THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM
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 Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing 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.
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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
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.
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Morrall, E. J. (Ed. )
AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI (PIUS II) The Goodli History of the Ladye Lucres of Scene and of Her Lover Eurialus
Early English Text Society No. 308; 118 pages; This is a critical edition of the sixteenth-century translation into English of the Latin novella, the Historia de Duobus Amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The work, which was previously only accessible in an old and rare diplomatic reprint, demonstrates clearly the full impact of Italian Renaissance learning on English prose fiction.
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Blayney, Margaret S. (Ed. )
FIFTEENTH CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF ALAIN CHARTIER'S LE TRAITÉ DE L'ESPERANCE AND LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF [TWO VOLUME SET] Volume I: Text & Volume II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
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.
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Whitelock, Jill (Ed. )
THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME (MIDLAND VERSION) Edited from Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.I.17
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 324; 266 pages; This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.
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Shepherd, Stephen H. A. (Ed. )
TURPINES STORY A Middle English Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle
Early English Text Society No. 322; 169 pages; This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Artur by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.
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Bühler, Curt F (Ed. )
THE EPISTLE OF OTHEA Translated from the French Text of Christine De Pisan by Stephen Scrope
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
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Kennedy, Ruth (Ed. )
THREE ALLITERATIVE SAINTS' HYMNS: LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH STANZAIC POEMS The Alliterative Katherine Hymn (Bodleian Library Bodley Rolls 22) , the Alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln Cathedral Library MS 91) , and the Alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library, MS Additional 39574)
Early English Text Society Original Series; 230 pages; This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context.
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Hamer, Richard & Vida Russell (Eds. )
SUPPLEMENTARY LIVES IN SOME MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GILTE LEGENDE
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 Légende Dorée 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.
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Fowler, Roger (Ed. )
WULFSTAN'S CANONS OF EDGAR
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
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Burton, T. L. (Ed. )
SIDRAK AND BOKKUS [2 VOLUME SET] A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559, and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. Volume I: Introduction, Prologue, and Books I-II; Volume II: Books III-IV Commentary, Appendices, Glossary, Index.
Vol I: Fine in NF DJ. Vol II: one corner bumped else Fine. NF in NF DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 019722315X, 1998, 443 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197223168, 1999, 444-941 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 311 & No. 312; 941 pages; This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is adopted from an Old French source. It covers a wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages. Volume I includes an introduction. Volume II contains the remainder of the text, explanatory notes, and a glossary.
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Godden, Malcolm (Ed. )
AELFRIC'S CATHOLIC HOMILIES: THE SECOND SERIES Text
Light bump to base of spine. Minor shelfwear. ; This edition is based on the same manuscripts as Thorpe's but the text here is improved in a number of ways; it includes the passages of Gospel translation which Thorpe omitted; it retains the manuscript punctuation, which is clear and helpful once its principles are mastered; it introduces a number of emendations based on collations of all the other manuscripts; it corrects Thorpe's errors of transcription; and an effort is made to assure that the arrangement of the homilies is closer to Aelfric's intentions. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 5; 486 pages
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Pope, John C. (Ed. )
HOMILIES OF AELFRIC: A SUPPLEMENTARY COLLECTION [TWO VOLUMES] Edited from all the Known Manuscripts with Introduction, Notes, Latin Sources and a Glossary. Volume I & II.
Vol 1: one corner bumped VG+ in no DJ. Scholar's name to ffep: (Peter H. Salus) & Vol 2: very light shelfwear NF in no DJ. ; Vol 1: 1967, 491 pp & Vol 2: 1968, 492-945 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 259 & No. 260; 508 pages; "Being twenty-one full homilies of his middle and later career for the most part not previously edited with some shorter pieces mainly passages added to the second and third series."
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Stevens, Martin & A. C. Cawley (Eds. )
THE TOWNELEY PLAYS [TWO VOLUMES] Volume I: Introduction and Text & Volume II: Notes and Glossary
Vol 1: ISBN: 019722413X, 1994, xlviii & 435 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197224148, 1994, 436-733 pp. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 13 & S. S. 14; 733 pages; This new edition of The Towneley Plays (c. 1500) replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called "Wakefield Master" from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines.
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Henry, Avril (Ed. )
THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE LYFE OF THE MANHODE [2 VOLUMES] Translated Anonymously Into Prose from the First Recension of Guillaume De Deguileville's Poem Le Pèlerinage De La Vie Humaine. Vol. I: Introduction and Text & Vol. II: Explanatory Notes, Bibliography, and Glossary
Vol 1: very light shelfwear NF- no DJ. Vol 2: very minor shelfwear NF- no DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 0197222900, 1985, xcv & 356 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197222943, 1988, 357-615 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 288 & No. 292; 451 pages; This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le P`elerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought to be diffuse, Henry shows that this lively allegory is an intricate and effective structure stemming from the same theological foundation as works by Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain-poet.
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Barnum, Patricia Heath
DIVES AND PAUPER [3 VOLUME SET] Volume I, Part 1; Volume I, Part 2 & Volume II
Vol I.1: light rubbing to DJ has caused some colour loss. Small tear to top of DJ (1 cm). Light edgewear. VG. Book has very light shelfwear NF. Vol I.2: very light shelfwear NF. No DJ. Vol. II: Fine in Fine DJ. ; Vol I.1: ISBN: 0197222773, 1976, 359 pp. Vol I.2: ISBN: 019722282X, 1980, 331 pp & Volume II: ISBN: 0197223265, 2004, 451 pp; Early English Text Society No. 275, No. 280 & No. 323; 337 pages; Dives and Pauper is an encyclopaedic prose commentary on the ten commandments, cast as a dialogue between a wealthy layman and his instructor, a poor priest, perhaps a mendicant friar. It was composed in the early fifteenth century and addresses theological debates of the turbulent period of English church history with unusual directness and compendiousness. It has long attracted attention from historians of the period and often been quoted. This concluding volume presents a full historical discussion of its context and authorship, while the extensive explanatory notes and glossary make the many references in the text to church authorities, canon law and language accessible. The first two volumes were published by the Early English Text Society as Original Series 275 (1976) and 288 (1980). This final volume has been long- and eagerly-awaited.
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Godden, Malcolm
AELFRIC'S CATHOLIC HOMILIES Introduction, Commentary and Glossary
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 18; 856 pages; This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text.
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Ogden, Margaret S. (Ed. )
THE CYRURGIE OF GUY DE CHAULIAC [VOLUME I ONLY] Volume I: Text
Very light rubbing to boards. Scholar's name to ffep (Peter H. Salus) else Fine. Minor edgewear with rubbing to DJ. One small closed tear to top of back panel (1.5 cm). ; Early English Text Society No. 265; Vol. 1; 652 pages; Guy de Chauliac (ca. 1300 – 25 July 1368) was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a large and influential treatise on surgery, titled in Latin Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages (including English circa 1425) and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe.
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Erbse, Hartmut
SCHOLIA GRAECA IN HOMERI ILIADEM (SCHOLIA VETERA) Volume Primum: Praefationem Et Scholia Ad Libros A-D [Delta] Continens
Very slight shelfwear. ; Vol. 1; 1.2 x 9.6 x 6.4 Inches; 545 pages
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Lefkowitz, Mary R.
FIRST-PERSON FICTIONS Pindar's Poetic 'I'
DJ has very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; 240 pages; This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the 'I' in the odes of the most celebrated ancient Greek poet, Pindar? Since antiquity, the complex and allusive language of the first-person statements has provoked many different answers. Professor Lefkowitz describes the function and nature of Pindar's 'I'-statements and proposes a controversial solution that would cause some histories of Greek literature to be rewritten. Rather than accept the view that the identity of the speaker could be subject to instant and unannounced change, she proposes that the voice of the victory odes is the poet himself, in his most professional persona. Professor Lefkowitz also refutes the traditional belief that the odes were sung by a chorus. She shows that in most, if not all cases, they were sung as solos and that Pindar was continuing the tradition established by the Homeric bards.
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McCann, Anna Marguerite
THE PORTRAITS OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (A. D. 193-211)
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ slightly browned with one closed tear ~1". Book has very slightly bumped corners else Fine. ; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXX (30) ; 222 pages; Forms a new, comprehensive catalogue of Severus' portraits which can serve as a replacement to Bernoulli's now out-dated list.
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Paardt, Rudi Van Der & Maike Zimmerman (Eds. )
METAMORPHIC REFLECTIONS Essays Presented To Ben Hijmans At His 75th Birthday
Crease along front wrap else fine. ; 345 pages; This Festschrift honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca and Ovid, Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works. In 1973 he initiated the research project Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, and until his retirement he was editor-in-chief of the series of commentaries issued from that research project. This collection of essays contains a number of important new and original articles on Apuleius' Metamorphoses, on the reception of the Latin novel, and on Apuleius' rhetorical work. The book presents original research on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception. Other contributions testify to the broader interests of Ben Hijmans and deal with general cultural aspects, art history, the art of translating, archaeology and iconography. Ben Hijmans' fascination with, and insight into mythical motifs is reflected not only in articles on Pyramus and Thisbe and Actaeon respectively, but also in contributions on Narcissus and on Seneca's mythical tragedies and their transformation in Roman Declamation.
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Bonanno, Anthony
PORTRAITS AND OTHER HEADS ON ROMAN HISTORICAL RELIEF UP TO THE AGE OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS [Roman Relief Portraiture to Septimius Severus]
Small tear at bottom of backstrip. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; British Archaeological Reports (B. A. R. ) Supplementary Series 6; 248 pages
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Ando, Clifford
IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND PROVINCIAL LOYALTY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
One small chip to DJ else Fine. ; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 1.57 x 9.37 x 6.31 Inches; 494 pages; The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jrgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.
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Sartori, Antonio
DEDICANTI E CULTORES NELLE RELIGIONI CELTICHE VIII Workshop F. E. R. C. A. N. Gargano Del Garda (9-12 Maggio 2007)
Papers in English, German, Italian with 1 paper in Spanish and in French; Quaderni Di Acme 104; 433 pages
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Thomas, Joël
L'IMAGINAIRE DE L'HOMME ROMAIN Dualité Et Complexité
Collection Latomus Volume 299; 246 pages
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Jonkers, Engbert Jan
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMMENTARY ON CICERO'S DE IMPERIO CN. POMPEI
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and traces of removed pocket. Minor wear to spine ends. Book has been rebound in boards with original front wrap affixed to front board. Minor discoloration to upper back board. Minor dampstaining to rear board and last few pages. ; Social and Economic Commentaries on Classical Texts I; 53 pages
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Croix, G. E. M. De Ste.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests
Scholar's name to ffep (R. Develin). Mild bump to one corner. Light shelfwear ; De Ste Croix has always been controversial and this book is no exception. Using evidence that most scholars would agree on, de Ste Croix gives some new twists to previous, standard interpretations. A good start to anyone wanting to investigate social history either in the ancient world or common themes/trends in human history. ; 1.79 x 9.31 x 6.07 Inches; 732 pages
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Lateiner, Donald
THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF HERODOTUS
Light sticker residue to bottom of spine. Else Fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXIII; 336 pages; Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues, against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized, that the Histories contain their own definition of historical significance. He examines patterns of presentation and literary structure in narratives, speeches, and direct communications to the reader, in short, the conventions and rhetoric of history as Herodotus created it. This rhetoric includes the use of recurring themes, the relation of speech to reported actions, indications of doubt, stylistic idiosyncrasies, frequent reference to nonverbal behaviours, and strategies of opening and ending. Lateiner shows how Herodotus sometimes suppresses information on principle and sometimes compels the reader to choose among contending versions of events. His inventories of Herodotus' methods allow the reader to focus on typical practice, not misleading exception. In his analysis of the structuring concepts of the Histories, Lateiner scrutinizes Herodotean time and chronology. He considers the historian's admiration for ethnic freedom and autonomy, the rule of law, and the positive values of conflict. Despite these apparent biases, he argues, the text's intellectual and moral preferences present a generally cool and detached account from which an authorial personality rarely emerges. The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas.
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Joint Association Of Classical Teachers
THE WORLD OF ATHENS An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture
Former owner's name to ffep. Light rubbing to wraps. ; Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course Background Book; 407 pages; The World of Athens is a serious, up-to-date account of the history and culture of fifth century Athens for adults, university students and sixth-formers with an intelligent interest in ancient Greece. The book, which is profusely illustrated, contains chapters on all aspects of the history, culture, values and achievements of Athenian life. Teachers and students of Reading Greek now have a full and instant guide to the cultural and historical topics in which the course is so diverse and rich.
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Mellaart, James
THE NEOLITHIC OF THE NEAR EAST With 164 Illustrations
Water-staining and rippling to pages. Working copy only. ; Looks at the development of the Neolithic in the Near East with chronological and agricultural tables covering present-day Middle East, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Iran, the Caucasus and eastern Mediterranean. ; 300 pages
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Anderson, William S.
THE ART OF THE AENEID
Very light edgewear else Fine. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 129 pages; Anderson's narrative in The Art of the Aeneid provides the modern reader fresh insights into Vergil, into the Aeneid. His analysis illuminates the literary and historical context and covers each of the twelve books of one of the greatest and most enduring works of Latin literature.
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Rich, John & Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Eds. )
CITY AND COUNTRY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society 2; 324 pages; The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world full of cities: not of cities in the modern sense of massive conglomerations, but in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. Interest in the special relationship of town and country in the ancient world goes back to Max Weber and beyond. This volume of papers by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship and its impact on social, political, economic and cultural conditions in classical antiquity. Topics include the rise of the polis in ancient Greece, the economic and cultural role of city elites in Athens, central Italy and Asia Minor, and the role of taxation in subordinating town to country.
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MacMullen, Ramsay
ROMAN SOCIAL RELATIONS 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
Former owner's name on ffep. Spine slight discolored. Light edgewear and rubbing. ; 212 pages; "In this interesting and suggestive book, Professor MacMullen views anew an important and rather neglected aspect of Roman social relations. A perceptive and sensitive interpreter, he has drawn widely upon the scattered and unorganized evidence about the poorer classes, rural and urban, in much of the Roman Empire, and presents a fresh picture of their conditions, attitudes, and aims." -T. Robert S. Broughton
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Martha, Jules
LES SACERDOCES ATHÉNIENS
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book has been rebound in blue buckram with white lettering to spine ; Bibliothèque Des Écoles Française D'Athènes Et De Rome Fascicule 26; 184 pages
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Virgil; T. L. Papillon
P. VERGILI MARONIS OPERA. VIRGIL [2 VOLUME SET] With an Introduction and Notes. Vol. I Introduction and Text, Vol. II Notes.
Fraying to spine ends. Corner are edgeworn. Vol. 2 back inner hinge starting to crack. ; Extensive English Notesand Introduction with Latin text; Clarendon Press Series. 2 Volume Set COMPLETE. ; 730 pages
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Grant, Michael
READINGS IN THE CLASSICAL HISTORIANS
Crease to DJ flap. One corner of book bumped. ; 698 pages; An anthology of the great chroniclers of the ancient world includes selections from such early Greek and Roman historians as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, and others.
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Grant, Michael
THE ARMY OF THE CAESARS
Small chip missing from bottom back edge of DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Bottom corners slight bumped. Ffep has corner clipped (probably to remove former owner's name). ; Thorough description and assessment of the Roman army, its organization, staffing, management, finance, and relationship with Roman leaders from Julius onward. ; 364 pages
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