‎Anglais‎

‎Catherine Millet ; Paul Holberton ; translation : Trista Selous‎

‎Dali and Me‎

‎, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008 Hardcover, 184 pages, ENG, 225 x 165 x 20 mm, NEW, dustjacket, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9783858817112.‎

‎Salvador Dal 's surrealist masterworks are admired worldwide for their eccentric metaphors. Far lesser known, though, are his fascinating writings, where he occupies himself with verve and in bewilderingly unrefined style with the human body and sexuality. The French art critic and writer Catherine Millet has studied Dal 's artistic oeuvre and his writings for years. Her essay is the expression of a very personal reading of his self-reflecting texts. This pivotal book explains Dal 's influence on his contemporary artist colleagues and reveals the narcissism, the constraints and the visual inventiveness of the most famous - and the most notorious - of the surrealists. The text is completed by rarely published photographs and paintings by Dal and others that illustrate Millet's ideas.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 61585

‎Simpson, Marc, Corn, Wanda M., Hartley, Cody, Lewis, Michael J.,‎

‎Like Breath on Glass : Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly‎

‎, Mass. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2008 Hardcover, grey cloth with silver imprint, 268 pages, dustjacket, 275 x 250 x 35 mm, book itself is in New condition, illustrated in soft colours / b/w, " easily a Collectors Item", *****The title paraphrases American artist James McNeill Whistler, who said, "Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the the surface of a pane of glass."*****. ISBN 9780300134063.‎

‎Released in conjunction with a 2008 exhibition. The title paraphrases American artist James McNeill Whistler, who said, "Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the the surface of a pane of glass." Catalog is accompanied by these articles: Painting Softly, An Introduction / Marc Simpson -- Whistler, Modernism, and the Creative Afflatus / Marc Simpson -- George Inness, Softness, and the Vapor Barrier / Leo G. Mazow -- True Illusions in Soft Paintings / Cody Hartley -- Materials for Immateriality / Joyce Hill Stoner -- The "Inaction Painters" and Their Moment / Michael J. Lewis -- Reflections on "The Color of Mood" / Wanda M. Corn. Simply stated, an exquisite book, and one that is worthy of any coffee table or personal library. Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic, this catalogue explores this painterly phenomenon. This copy was once owned by interior and garden designer Henriette Suhr and carries her bookplate at front.‎

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‎Hubertus Gassner ; Francisco Jarauta, Armin Zwelte, Bernd Kluser‎

‎Sean Scully : Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs 1990 to 2000‎

‎, Richter Verlag, 2001 Hardcover, 272 pages, ENG, 300 x 240 x 30 mm, dustjacket, As New, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783933807359.‎

‎The Irish-born artist Sean Scully has created a painterly oeuvre that, in this volume, reveals itself as vitally important in the ongoing dialogue about painting. Horizontal and vertical stripes are the sole motif in his work. He alternately groups strips of paint together and lays multiple stripes of color over one another, which produce visually irritating clashes. It is a working method that is revealed in the works themselves, in the places where these dueling lines meet; edges tell the story of process. The seemingly endless number of neutral stripes leave these paintings open to a variety of interpretations; they allow the viewers freedom to imprint their own visions on them. Usually in a large format, they recall landscapes, facades, buildings, and ornaments. Along with 254 color reproductions, this book includes a complete biography, several critical essays, and an illuminating interview with the artist. Sean Scully was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1945. Since moving to the United States in the mid-1970s, Scully has taught at major institutions including Princeton University, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and been the subject of a major touring exhibition organized by the High Museum in Atlanta in 1996. He is represented in virtually every major public collection of 20th-century art.‎

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‎Venceslas Kruta‎

‎Celtic Art‎

‎, Phaidon, 2015 240 pagina's, 255 illustraties in kleur, 29 21,4 cm, hardcover, Engels . ISBN 9780714845975.‎

‎An accessible, beautifully designed introduction to Celtic art, written by the world expert, this book offers a carefully chosen sequence of 250 masterpieces ranging from the fifth century BC to the eighth century AD. The great variety and full range of Celtic artistic production is represented ? from stone sculptures, terracotta vases and iron swords to amber necklaces, golden torques, bronze fibulas and illuminated manuscripts. Specially commissioned photography and lavish reproductions celebrate and reinforce the delicacy and beauty of Celtic art. This volume spans the entire Celtic world ? from Ireland to France, Italy to Hungary, the Czech Republic to Germany and Austria. The result is an authoritative survey of this magnificent period of artistic culture, as well as a rich visual sourcebook for students, arts and crafts lovers.‎

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‎Dirk Velghe‎

‎PARIS SOULS : Unexpected Histories from the City of Light‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2023 PB+, 240 x 160 mm, 560 pages, ENG edition, illustrated, . ISBN 9789464666403.‎

‎In this book, reality always outdoes fiction and truth always outdoes myth. Get ready for a personal encounter with police inspectors and filles la cuisse l g re, Impressionists and art thieves, swindlers and bankers, poisoners and surgeons, collaborators and members of the resistance, Cubists and anarchists, painters' models and curators, terrorists and duellists, Huguenots and Catholics, criminals and executioners. In intriguing, often forgotten histories such as 'The Chanel versus Wertheimer', 'Lenin's Yellow Jersey' and 'Selling the Eiffel Tower', hundreds of Parisian souls are brought back to life behind the fa ades, in the passages, on the squares and along the avenues and boulevards of the City of Light In Paris Souls, the reader samples the idiosyncratic harvest of someone who, after many seasons in his favourite city, still takes delight in its fruits. Author Dirk Velghe recounts facts and stories about the unusual people and events that have coloured Paris, sometimes with paint, sometimes with blood. Histories the way only a true Parisian can tell them. Light-hearted but always drawing on thorough research, Velghe gives a completely new twist to the history of Paris. His no-nonsense prose and narrative flair make for compelling reading.‎

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‎Moritz K ng‎

‎Peter Downsbrough : The Book(s) Addendum‎

‎, Hatje Cantz, 2013 Softcover, 80 pages, ENG / SPA / CAT, 230 x 160 x 20 mm, approx. 15 illustrations, NEW condition, . ISBN 9783775735865.‎

‎Peter Downsbrough (*1940 in New Jersey) studied art and architecture and, like Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner, is one of the artists who continue to use the book as another space to present their work. Since the early seventies, he has incorporated text and line drawings into his books, later integrating maps and photos of urban spaces. His consistent and sharply delineated oeuvre is devoted to examining the meaning of of space and place. This book is a continuation of the title Peter Downsbrough - The Book(s), that gave an annotated overview of all the eighty-five books published since 1968 by and on the artist. Addendum provides an update and complement to this overview from 2011 with its newly released fifteen titles to date.‎

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‎Charlotte Ribeyrol ; Madekline Hewitson ; Matthew Winterbottom‎

‎COLOUR REVOLUTION Victorian Art, Fashion & Design‎

‎, Acc Art Books, 2023 Paperback, 256 pages, ENG. edition, 280 x 220 x 20 mm, NEW, illustrated in colour. ISBN 9781910807576.‎

‎Britain's industrial age is often perceived through a black-and-white filter as the 'funereal' age of coal pollution and bleak working class slums. This catalogue will dispel that perception, demonstrating how the industrial revolution transformed colour, and focus on the central role it played in art, culture and technology As opposed to approaches favouring a long history of colour, the catalogue focuses on the second half of the 19th century and argues that this was a crucial chromatic turn, which has been significantly ignored by prominent historians of colour and previous publications Several essays in the catalogue offer new research into key chromatic events of the period including the 1862 International Exhibition Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum from 21 September 2023 to 18 February 2024 Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians' perception of colour and, over the course of the second half of the 19th century, it became the key signifier of modern life. Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design charts the Victorians' new attitudes to colour through a multidisciplinary exploration of culture, technology, art and literature. The catalogue explores key 'chromatic' moments that inspired Victorian artists and writers to think anew about the materiality of colour. Rebelling against the bleakness of the industrial present, these figures learned from the sacred colours of the past, the sumptuous colours of the Middle East and Japan and looked forward towards the decadent colours that defined the end of the century.‎

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‎Murad Ali Baig‎

‎80 Questions to Understand India : History - Mythology - Religion.‎

‎, Jaico Publishing House, 2011 Paperback, 224 pages, ENG.,215 x 140 x 20 mm, in Fine Condition. ISBN 9788184952858.‎

‎Murad Ali Baig questions, not the importance of faith, but the capturing of all religions by the vested interests of professional priests claiming to be God?s sole selling agents leading to distortions, superstitions and religiosity that the founding sages would have abhorred. He analyzes the patrons of religion ? the founding prophets, apostles, priests, rulers and the rich ? and the common people whose offerings make the places of worship so rich. Murad provides interesting insights into how people the world over, especially in India, have been influenced by geography, sources of food, technological change, trade and by political and religious forces. He presents provocative questions and answers allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Writing on religion can be volatile but fortunately he cannot be accused of prejudice when his answers equally impact Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and others.‎

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‎Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones‎

‎AUGUSTUS EARLE : TRAVEL ARTIST : Paintings and Drawings in the Rex Nan Kivell collection, National Library of Australia.‎

‎, Scolar Press, 1980 Hardcover, 157 pages, ENG.,285 x 225 x 20 mm, dustjacket, book is in very good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780859676311.‎

‎Augustus Earle (1793?1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world?s most irrepressible travel artists. His paintings are valuable both as works of art and as documentary records of historic and ethnographic significance. This publication gives an overview of some of Earle?s most significant works held by the National Library of Australia.‎

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‎Amy Faulkner, Francis Leneghan (eds)‎

‎Age of Alfred. Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850-950‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 600 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 2 col., 5 tables b/w., Language:English. ISBN 9782503606651.‎

‎King Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) remains a key figure in English literary history. Although his reputation as a scholar who was personally responsible for the translation of a number of Latin works is no longer secure, the figure of the wise king nevertheless casts a long shadow over vernacular writing from the late ninth century through to the twelfth. This volume takes stock of recent developments and debates in the field of Alfredian scholarship and showcases new directions in research. Individual chapters consider how English authors before, during, and after Alfred's reign translated and adapted Latin works, often in innovative and imaginative ways. Other contributions provide new contexts and connections for Alfredian writing, highlighting the work of Mercian scholars and expanding the corpus beyond the works traditionally attributed to the king himself. Together, these essays force us to rethink what we mean by 'Alfredian' and to revise the literary history of the 'long ninth century'.‎

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‎Stephen Pelle (ed)‎

‎New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies: Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xii + 504 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442338.‎

‎Summary This book sheds new light on the Latin background of various Old English homilies, and of certain homilies from related vernacular traditions. Two broad themes are treated, the Nativity of Christ and Christian eschatology; the volume contains five Latin texts dealing with each theme. Critical editions, full English translations, and detailed introductions and commentaries are included, as well as case studies that demonstrate the relevance of each text to one or more homilies written in Old English, and, in a few cases, early Middle English and Old Norse. While the volume is intended for scholars of early English preaching, many of the texts hold considerable intrinsic interest and should have general appeal for medievalists, students of preaching, and those working on the transmission of biblical apocrypha in the Latin West. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Sigla codicum Introduction TEXT ONE A Christmas Homily from the Bavarian Homiliary (BH I.2) TEXTS TWO AND THREE Carolingian Sermons on the Miracles at Christ's Birth TEXTS FOUR AND FIVE Hiberno-Latin Christmas Homilies TEXTS SIX AND SEVEN Eschatological Sermons Included in Some Manuscripts of the Homiliaries of Angers and Saint-P re de Chartres TEXT EIGHT A Sermon Related to an Early Redaction of the Visio Pauli (Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, 27, fols. 104v-106v) TEXT NINE A Doomsday Sermon from a Carolingian Priest's Handbook (Laon, Biblioth que municipale, 288, fols. 38r-39v) TEXT TEN The Three Utterances of the Soul: Recension IV Conclusions Appendix 1: A Christmas Homily Related to Texts 1 and 5 Appendix 2: Latin Analogues for Middle Irish and Middle High German Lists of Miracles at Christ's Birth Appendix 3: A Latin Vision of the Otherworld and Its Middle English Descendants Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Index of DOE Short Titles of Old English Homilies Cited or Discussed General Index‎

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‎Elle Shushan, Essaka Joshua, Emma Rutherford, Ellie Smith, Alison Lapper‎

‎Without Hands - The Art of Sarah Biffin‎

‎, Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd, 2022 Softcover, 104 pages, ENG. edition, 250 x 195 mm, NEW , illustrated in color / b/w. ISBN 9781913645366.‎

‎Overview A celebration of an artist whose under-sung legacy testifies to the enduring power of originality, drive, and devotion. Accompanying an exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, Without Hands presents the art of Sarah Biffin. Biffin (1784-1850) was born with phocomelia, a condition described on her baptism record as "born without arms and legs." After learning to sew and write as a child, Biffin joined a traveling sideshow where she painted in front of an audience. Eventually, she rose to fame as a talented miniaturist, signing many of her works "without hands." Despite her prolific output, including commissions from royalty and exquisitely detailed self-portraits, Biffin's work has been overlooked by art historians. Beautifully illustrated and including original research, Without Hands celebrates Biffin as an artist who challenged contemporary attitudes to disability.‎

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‎Irving Lavin‎

‎World Art : Themes of Unity in Diversity : Acts of the XXVIth International Congress of the History of Art.‎

‎, Penn State University Press, 1990 Hardcover, 3 Volumes; 265 + 535 + 893 = 1693 pages, In very Good condition, illustrated dustjackets, Language = 90 pct. English + partly French, Italian , German., images / illustrations in b/w. .290 x 225 x 75 mm; ISBN 9780271006079.‎

‎Under the sponsorship of the Comit International d?Histoire de l?Art (CIHA), scholars from 31 countries met in August in Washington, DC, to present papers and discuss the subject of the Congress. The CIHA was created by a group of scholars meeting in Vienna in 1873 to exchange results of research, discuss aspects of the theory of the history of art, and encourage international discourse. CIHA has since sponsored congresses at intervals of three or five years. Until now CIHA focused on European art from Constantine to the present, whereas the XXXVIth Congress, in a critical shift, encompassed the history of art from all periods and places. The seven sessions deal with broad themes that transcend cultural differences and are uniquely perceptible through the discipline of art history. Center and Periphery: Dissemination and Assimilation of Style examines the processes whereby local styles may be formed by ?dissemination? from a dominant cultural center and, conversely, those which form a cosmopolitan style by the ?assimilation? of disparate local tradition. Conceptual Designs: Diagrams and Geometric Patterns discusses form and meaning in diagrams and geometric patterns used as independent compositions or as ?incidental? ornament. The Written Word in Art and as Art explores the relationship between what is written and how it is written, and the contribution of both to an understanding of the work as a whole. The Artist is concerned with significant developments in the history of the artist?s self-consciousness. Art and Ritual examines the contribution of the study of ritual to an understanding of the form and meaning of a work of art, and vice versa. Art and National Identity in the Americas looks at the problems of regional and national self-definition in the art of North, Central, and South America, from the European conquests to the present. Preserving the World Art discusses the history and theory of conservation and restoration of works of art and their settings. Each session was chaired and its program determined by two distinguished scholars from widely divergent fiends, ensuring a broad and varied approach to the subject. Following introductory essays by the Chairs, the papers represent a selection of the best contribution by art historians as well as scholars in other disciplines. Included as well are plenary addresses by three international leaders in the field, Hermann Fillitz, Andr Chastel, and George Kubler.‎

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‎Veronica O'Mara, Virginia Blanton (eds)‎

‎Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II. An Edition of the ?Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xvi + 502 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503607832.‎

‎Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique collection of prose saints' lives evenly divided into eleven universal and eleven native saints (predominantly culted at Ely). Clearly intended for the devotional life of nuns, presumably in an East Anglian convent, the volume comprises nineteen female figures, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns, and three male saints (two apostles and a hermit). These late Middle English lives are translated from a variety of Latin sources and analogues including material by Jacobus de Voragine, John of Tynemouth, and others. The collection demonstrates an interest in showcasing native saints alongside their universal sisters. Luminaries of the English Church, such as thelthryth of Ely and her sister Seaxburh, are found in the company of notable virgin martyrs like Agatha and Cecilia. Famous saints like John the Evangelist and Hild of Whitby feature alongside others such as Columba of Sens and Eorcengota. Fully analysed and contextualised in its companion volume Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I: A Study of the ?Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604, these texts are edited here for the first time. Alongside the edition of the twenty-two saints' lives and full textual apparatus, there are extensive overviews and commentaries providing details of the sources and analogues as well as explanatory historical and literary notes. The edition concludes with three appendices, a detailed select glossary, and a bibliography of works cited. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Editorial Procedure A Study and Edition of the Saints' Lives Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Iohn Baptist Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Iohn Euangeliste Here begynnyth the lyf of Seynt Columbe e virgyn [Here begynneth the martirdome of Seynt Agace the virgyn] [The life of Seynt Cecile the virgyn and martir] Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Barbara the virgyn and martir The life of Seynt Audry of Hely virgyn and martir Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Sexburge, sister to Seynt Awdre, which was the next abbes of Hely aftir hir Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Ermenylde, the first doughter of seynt Sexburgh Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Werburgh, the doughter of Seynt Ermenyld Here begynnyth a shorte lyfe of Seynt Erkengoode, the secunde doughter of Seynt Sexburgh and the awnte of Seynt Wereburgh, and of Seynt Alburgh at was sistir to Seynt Awdre of Hely Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Whitburge Here begynnyth the lif of Seynt Edith of Wylton Here begynnyth the holy life of Seynt Edburgh, abbes of Tenett aftir Seynt Mildrede Here begynnyth the holy life of Seynt Aswyde e nonne of Folkstone [The holy lif of Seynt Hilde abbes of Streneshall] Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Martha, abbes of many nonnes and e syster of Mary Mawdelen Here begynnyth a litill short mencion of the life of Seynt Domitille Of the Life of Seynt Iustine Abbes and Martyr [Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Benett] Thus begynnyth e lyfe of Seynt Modewyne Here begynnyth the life and miracles of Seynt Leonarde Textual Apparatus Overviews and Commentaries John The Baptist John the Evangelist Columba Agatha Cecilia Barbara thelthryth Seaxburh Eormenhild W rburh Eorcengota (and thelburh) Wihtburh Edith Eadburh Eanswith Hild Martha Domitilla Justina Benedicta Modwenna Leonard Appendix A. Section Summaries Appendix B. Miracles Appendix C. Place-Names Select Glossary Select Bibliography‎

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‎Dominique Goy-Blanquet‎

‎From the Domesday Book to Shakespeare?s Globe. The Legal and Political Heritage of Elizabethan Drama‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 456 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503601311.‎

‎Summary The phrase 'Jus Uncommon' summarizes England's claim to independence from Europe, a claim supported by its unique legal system and Elizabethan theatre, and their strong interconnexion. Elizabethan tragedy begins at the Inns of Court. It was no mere coincidence, but a result of the long history of intersecting processes of law, politics, and theatre. This book sets out to contextualize and explore such legal and literary intersections, charting the emergence of Elizabethan legal culture from its various English and European sources over the course of the four hundred years running from Magna Carta to Shakespeare. It encompasses the major strands of legal history and culture that formed the background to Elizabethan political drama, republican tradition, theories of monarchical sovereignty,?European and English theories of?imperium,?pedagogical and rhetorical practices of the Inns of Court,?legal-antiquarian research, parliamentary privilege, and Tudor political pamphleteering. Legal texts, discourses, and social practices constructed a pervasive intellectual culture from which Elizabethan drama - like Shakespeare's - emerged. Shakespeare is not the central object of this study, but he is central to its argument. What he knew about law was what collective memory had stored from centuries past at home and abroad. The issues, characters, themes, theories, and metaphors dramatized by the Elizabethan playwrights followed the way opened at the Inns. Emblematic figures of lawyers-writers and their Senecan patterns paved the way to Gorboduc and to Shakespeare's histories. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Note Introduction : Law or Liberty? Part I. Jus uncommon. Freedom of the State Chapter 1. Dreams of Empire Early Steps to Singularity Clashes of Jurisdictions Sacred Monarchy Chapter 2. England's Mixed Polity English Democrats Good Counsel Model Parliaments Right of Conquest Chapter 3. Rival Law Codes Roman Law The Common Law of the Realm Emergence of the Inns Upward Mobility Part II. Fair Trial. Freedom of Magistrates Chapter 4. Learned Counsel A Display of Legalism The Courtly Muses of Europe Chapter 5. Divorcing Rome King's Conscience King's Printer King's Games Chapter 6. Fortune's Wheels Common Prayers Heretics on Trial 'Something Tawdry'. The Political Pageant 'An Axe or an Acte'. The Execution of Justice Part III. The Conscience of England. Freedom of Speech Chapter 7. The Languages of Law The Legal Nursery Won in Translation Chapter 8. Theatres of Law Dramatic Justice Political Tragedy Chapter 9. Lawyers in Parliament 'Shall Cassandra Bee Punished?' The Liberties of the House Clean and Unclean Money The Lawyer's Glasses of Governance Chapter 10. Kings do but Play Us Lawyers in Resistance A Parliament of Voices Conclusion. 'This Magnificent Theatre of Heaven and Earth' Select Bibliography Index of Acts, Statutes, and Treatises Index of Plays, Poems, Dialogues, and Masques General Index‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63359

‎Liz Lochhead , Amanda Schiff , Joe Ahearne , Cyrus Shahrad , Adam Ganz‎

‎Crude Metaphors : Parts 1-5‎

‎, Hotshoe Books Limited, 2015 Box with 5 books, 60 pages, short stories with photographs, ENG., 190 x 120 x 45 mm, All in Fine condition, . ISBN 9780955746598.‎

‎A very special limited edition collectors box of five books featuring a selection of the most renowned photographers of today, including Roger Ballen, Todd Hido, Edgar Martins, Mayumi Hosokura and Esther Teichmann. Crude Metaphors, a prominent and celebrated section of HOTSHOE magazine since 2005, brings together photography and fiction writing, pairing a photographer and a writer to produce a narrative, written in response to a chosen series of images. This beautifully designed collection of books combines these greats of photography with writers such as the National Poet for Scotland Liz Lochhead, and Joe Ahearne, director of Doctor Who and co-writer of Danny Boyle's Trance. With stories ranging from a female bounty hunter to a world of artificial intelligence and a father's suicide, readers will be taken on five compelling journeys through the words and images of ten different creators.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63801

‎Mich le Bussi res (ed)‎

‎Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon. Old English text with introduction, translation and Latin version‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 160 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 5 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Old English, Latin. ISBN 9782503609256.‎

‎Summary The Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon survives in one eleventh century manuscript: it appears here for the first time in an easily available edition. This edition is based both on independent research and on the work of previous scholars. It is a challenging text, from a much-damaged manuscript, but well worth reading: it is interesting both from a linguistic point of view, as a testimony of late Anglo-Saxon language, and also as a sign of continental influence on Anglo-Saxon culture and of a change in literary taste in England on the eve of the Norman Conquest. It is preceded by a full introduction dealing with the history of the text, from Greece to Western Europe and the context of its translation into Old English. The text is accompanied by copious notes dealing with difficult passages and it is made more accessible by a Modern English translation. The edition is completed by a 12th century Latin version which seems to be the closer to its Old English counterpart. The edition is completed by an Anglo-Saxon glossary. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Old English Text and Translation Commentary Latin text Bibliography‎

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‎Camilla Caporicci (ed)‎

‎Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries). Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 295 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 4 col., 14 tables b/w., 10 Musical Examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503608174.‎

‎Summary Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and defined by Rabbi Aqiva as the Holy of Holies among the sacred Scriptures, the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books. Celebrated as a key to the supreme mystery of the union between God and the faithful, this ambivalent book, which combined a sensual celebration of love with a well-established tradition of allegorical interpretation, was a text crucial to both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and held a particular appeal for poets. Indeed, the Song of Songs played a significant role in the development of European poetry from its very beginning, creating an exceptional convergence of sacred and secular languages and horizons of meaning. Written by a group of distinguished international scholars, this volume explores the complex and multifaceted processes through which the Song of Songs entered, influenced, and interacted with medieval and Renaissance European poetry (twelfth to seventeenth centuries). Focusing on both individual authors - including Peter Riga, Dante Alighieri, Richard Rolle, and George Herbert - and particularly relevant poetic traditions - including Hebrew liturgical poetry and the Tristan and Ysolt tradition, Middle English and Petrarchan lyric, Renaissance verse versions and seventeenth-century musical compositions, dissident and prophetic texts - the volume unveils the relevant role played by the biblical book in the development of European poetry, thought and spirituality, highlighting its ability to contribute to different poetic genres and give voice to a variety of religious, political, philosophical, and artistic intentions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Camilla Caporicci Part I. A Many-Faced Influence: Medieval Voices Chapter 1. 'The Song of Songs, gaze upon her': Antique Hebrew Liturgical Poetry from the Medieval Mainz Rite Leor Jacobi Chapter 2. Versifying the Cantica canticorum in the Context of Peter Riga's Aurora Greti Dinkova-Bruun Chapter 3. 'Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men': Revisiting the Song of Songs with Tristan and Ysolt Brindusa Grigoriu Chapter 4. The Song of Songs' Lyricism in Late Medieval England Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead Part II. Poetry and Music: The Italian Tradition Chapter 5. The Good Sorrow: The Song of Songs in Dante's Comedy and Contemporary Popular Piety Lino Pertile Chapter 6. The Song of Songs in Sixteenth-Century Italian Lyric Poetry Matteo Navone Chapter 7. Laetitia et solatio: Singing the Canticles and Female Spirituality in the Early Seventeenth Century Marina Toffetti Chapter 8. Motets on the Song of Songs in the Collection Symbolae diversorum musicorum (Venice, 1621) edited by Lorenzo Calvi Gabriele Taschetti Part III. Rewriting and Appropriating the Song of Songs in the British Isles Chapter 9. A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Song of Songs' Early Modern Translations (1535?1611) Fabio Ciambella Chapter 10. William Baldwin's Canticles or Balades of Solomon and the Beginnings of English Petrarchism Rachel Stenner Chapter 11. A Reading of Joseph Hall's Paraphrase of the Song of Songs (1609) Tibor Fabiny Chapter 12. From the 'broken Altar' to 'The Banquet' of Love: The Song of Songs in George Herbert's The Temple (1633) Carmen Gallo Chapter 13. The Allure of Canonical Fleshliness: The Song of Songs as Hermeneutic interm diaire for Ranter Libertarianism and Counter-Ethics Simone Turco Chapter 14. Women Prophets, Dissent, and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England Adrian Streete ***‎

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‎Dabney A. Bankert‎

‎Philology in Turbulent Times. Joseph Bosworth, His Dictionary, and the Recovery of Old English‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxx + 314 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888449108.‎

‎Summary This book situates Joseph Bosworth's A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) and its revised 1898 version in their cultural context, reconstructing their history from a wealth of archival materials. It opens up a larger investigation into the central role played by Bosworth's work in the birth and growth of Old English studies in the nineteenth century. And it examines the challenges faced by T. Northcote Toller in completing the revision of the Dictionary after Bosworth's death, as well as his compilation of its Supplement in 1921. Overall, this study aims to rectify widespread disciplinary ignorance of the Dictionary's conception, compilation, and publication, and to examine its impact on the development of the discipline. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abbreviations Chronology PREFACE Recovering Bosworth-Toller INTRODUCTION Building a Lexicographical Empire in Turbulent Times CHAPTER 1 Dictionary Bosworth: The Making of a Lexicographer CHAPTER 2 Beginning: Origins, Sources, and Method of A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) CHAPTER 3 Compiling: Antiquarian Foundations CHAPTER 4 Collaborating: The Bosworth Syndicate, the New Philology, and the Battle over Method CHAPTER 5 Revising: Expanding the Lexicon, 1840-1876 CHAPTER 6 Ending: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth (1898) CHAPTER 7 Supplementing: T. Northcote Toller's An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Supplement (1921) APPENDIX 1 The Bosworth Donation APPENDIX 2 Sources: A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) APPENDIX 3 Bodleian Library Entry Books, 1813-1875 APPENDIX 4 Holograph Drafts of A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) Bibliography Index of Manuscripts and Archival Collections General Index‎

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‎Georgiana Donavin‎

‎John Gower's Rhetoric. Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503595771.‎

‎Summary This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across Gower's trilingual corpus. Identifying Gower's rhetorical cornerstones in Aristotelian pathos, the theology of the Word, and the execution of a plain style, it provides fresh interpretations of poems in Latin, French, and Middle English that arise from an enhanced understanding of Gower's literary methods. It explores the classical and medieval rhetorical traditions that informed Gower's craft, the biblical personae through which the poet achieved his rhetorical aims, and the Renaissance publishers and authors who valued and imitated his strategies for composition. Gower adapted his rhetorical theory from the principles of Aristotelian texts, Augustinian theology, exemplars of Ciceronian style, and the dictates of various artes poetriae; from the latter, John of Garland's Parisiana Poetria is especially important for outlining practices of Marian rhetoric. Modelling virtuous female speakers on the Virgin and prophetic narrators on John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, Gower gave extra-scriptural voice to members of the extended Holy Family and in so doing, achieved unimpeachable expressions inside classically informed structures of discourse. The epistolary structure, proceeding from Ciceronian rhetoric and the artes dictaminis, is one among Gower's favoured rhetorical forms for projecting singular voices. His straightforward, reiterative style in Middle English and his virginal speakers compelled Renaissance publisher Thomas Berthelette and celebrated authors Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare to praise Gower's rhetoric in prefaces and imitate it on the stage. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One. Gower's 'Rethorique' Chapter Two. My Name is John: Biblical Ethos and Apocalyptic Narrative Chapter Three. Virgo Bona Dicendi Perita: The Good Maiden Speaking Well Chapter Four. Epistles and Rhetorical Experimentation, Part I: Contexts and Practices Chapter Five. Epistles and Rhetorical Experimentation, Part II: Music and Letters in the Trentham Manuscript Chapter Six. The Hortus Conclusus in Gower's Poems Coda. Renaissance Receptions of Gowerian Repetitio Bibliography Index‎

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‎Marlene Hennessy‎

‎Scottish Manuscripts & English Manuscripts in Scotland. Fascicle I: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Paperback, 182 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:50 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781915487018.‎

‎Summary This is the tenth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was an important period in the history of book production in Britain, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance to historians of art, religion, literature, costume, natural science, and social custom. The present volume extends the survey to Scotland and catalogues not only English but also Scottish and Gaelic manuscripts from the collections of the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, as well as manuscripts made on the Continent for English and Scottish book-owners. The catalogue contains entries for 112 manuscripts and notes the subject-matter of every illustration in each manuscript, from full-page miniatures and historiated initials to marginalia, added drawings and nota bene signs. A comprehensive index of pictorial subjects provides readers with complete references to the visual material with thematic groupings making the following categories easily accessible: animals, architecture, birds, Christ, costume, furniture, kings, musical instruments, occupations/professions, plants, saints, Virgin Mary, weapons, and women. The volume also includes a user's guide, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms, and indexes of authors/texts, manuscripts with coats of arms, and Scottish and English names. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Users' Manual I. Scope of the Search II. Cataloguing the Manuscripts III. Principles of Pictorial Description IV. The Template: Opening Headings V. The Template: Pictorial Information VI. The Template: Costume of Specialized Interest VII. The Template: Headings under 'Other Information' List of Manuscripts Catalogued Other Manuscripts Examined List of Abbreviations Catalogue of Manuscripts The Template Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Glossary of Subjects and Terms Index of Authors and Texts Index of Incipits Index of First Words of Acephalous Texts Index of Pictorial Subjects Index of Manuscripts with Coats of Arms Index of Scottish and English Names List of Illustrations Illustrations‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64555

‎Wendy Scase‎

‎Visible English. Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, xix + 408 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 24 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598420.‎

‎Summary Visible English recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of littera pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. Littera is at the heart of the set of theories and practices that constitute the 'graphic culture' of the book's title. The book shows for the first time that littera pedagogy was an 'us and them' discourse that functioned as a vehicle for identity formation. Using littera pedagogy as a framework for understanding the medieval English-language corpus from the point of view of the readers and writers who produced it, Visible English offers new insights on experiences of writing and reading English in communities ranging from those first in contact with Latin literacy to those where print was an alternative to manuscript. Discussing a broad range of materials from so-called 'pen-trials' and graffiti to key literary manuscripts, Visible English provides new perspectives on the ways that the alphabet was understood, on genres such as alphabet poems, riddles, and scribal signatures, and on the different ways in which scribes copied Old and Middle English texts. It argues that the graphic culture underpinned and transmitted by littera pedagogy provided frameworks for the development and understanding of English-language literacy practices and new ways of experiencing social belonging and difference. To be literate in English, it proposes, was to inhabit identities marked by Anglophone literate practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Visible English Chapter One: Graphs, Alphabets, and Scripts Chapter Two: Graphic Models Chapter Three: Graphic Play Chapter Four: Graphic Display Chapter Five: Reprographics Conclusion: Medieval English Literacy Index‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64585

‎Laetitia Sansonetti, R mi Vuillemin (eds)‎

‎Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England. Translation, Transmission, Transfer‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 297 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503598147.‎

‎Summary In the early modern period, the humanist practice of translation of sacred as well as secular texts created new readerships in the vernacular for authoritative texts, religious or classical. As the circulation of languages within Europe reshuffled hierarchies between classical languages and vernacular tongues, transmission via translation was not only vertical, but also horizontal, and the contacts between European languages enabled the expansion of local lexicons from sources other than Latin or Greek. This volume focuses on the role of translation and lexical borrowing in the expansion of specific English lexicons (erudite, technical, or artisanal) as evidenced in printed texts from the early modern period. It considers how language shapes identity in social, religious, philosophical, artistic, and literary contexts, and is in turn shaped by claims of social, religious, philosophical, artistic, and literary identity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Contributors Introduction ? Laetitia Sansonetti and R mi Vuillemin Roots, Germanic and Latinate: English as a Hybrid Language An Expanding or a Fragmenting Lexicon? Some Possible Approaches to Loanwords, Lexical Change, and Multilingual Practices in Early Modern English ? Philip Durkin 'A little mint where you may coin words for your pleasure': Cant and Linguistic Currency in Dekker's Rogue Pamphlets ? Jean-David Eynard Strange Roots in Roman Shakespeare ? Iolanda Plescia Language and Universality: The Transmission of Religious Dogma and Philosophical Concepts Writing Catholic, Translating Protestant: English Translations from French in the Sixteenth Century ? Susan Baddeley Bacon's English and Latin Expositions of the Doctrine of Idols: Their Common Features and Differences ? lodie Cassan A Universe over the Channel: The Circulation of John Wilkins's Universal Language Scheme in Early Modern Europe ? Fabien Simon Transnational Poetic Communities: Appropriating Continental Models Petrarchism as the European Language of Poetry: The Example of 'Chi vuol veder quantunque p natura' ? Enrica Zanin and R mi Vuillemin Traducing Ronsard: Larceny and the Poet in English Love-Lyrics, 1582-1591 ? P draic Lamb) Echo's 'repercussive voix': Ovidian Echo Poems in Early Modern England ? Agn s Lafont The Languages of Artistic Transfer: Music and the Visual Arts 'Their ditties Englished': Naturalizing French Lyrics ? Chantal Sch tz Miniatures in Translation: Words for a Gentle Art ? Anne-Val rie Dulac Index‎

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‎David R. Carlson‎

‎Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 358 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442260.‎

‎Summary This study offers a novel paradigm for explaining the late-medieval Anglo-Latin verse, by analyzing the development of the writings of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), who made major contributions to English- and French-language poetry, in addition to being the pre-eminent Latin poet of the ?Age of Chaucer.? In addition to translating amongst the three languages in which he worked, Gower invented a plain style for Latin ?public poetry? that was like his better-known English-language Confessio amantis in emphasizing regular prosodic simplicity; and his plain style was emulated by other Anglo-Latin poets. Gower's Latin public poetry contradicts the other kinds of Latin verse in use in England at the time: on the one hand, the demotic accentual-syllabic rhymed verse in use amongst clerical controversialists and other kinds of social polemicists, characterized by language-mixing and prosodic fluidity within individual poems; and on the other, the hyper-sophisticated poetria nova of the schoolmen. At the end of his career, however, Gower rejected his own plain-style Latin-verse invention to take up instead the late scholastic style, but only at the moment of its decadence, when the humanist neo-classicism that disdained scholasticism would already have begun to arrive in England.‎

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‎Carolyn Twomey, Daniel Anlezark (eds)‎

‎Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 289 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 2 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588889.‎

‎Summary Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the natural landscapes, religious lives, cultural expressions, and physical needs of medieval women and men. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to enlarge our understanding of the overlapping qualities of water in early England (c. 400 - c. 1100). Scholars from the fields of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and art history come together to approach water and its diverse cultural manifestations in the early Middle Ages. Individual essays include investigations of the agency of water and its inhabitants in Old English and Latin literature, divine and demonic waters, littoral landscapes of church archaeology and ritual, visual and aural properties of water, and human passage through water. As a whole, the volume addresses how water in the environment functioned on multiple levels, allowing us to examine the early medieval intersections between the earthly and heavenly, the physical and conceptual, and the material and textual within a single element. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Colour Plates Introduction: Worlds of Water Carolyn Twomey and Daniel Anlezark The Sacred Nature of Rivers, Wells, Springs, and Other Wetlands in Anglo-Saxon England Della Hooke Rivers and Rituals: Baptism in the Early English Landscape Carolyn Twomey Swimming in Anglo-Saxon England Simon Trafford Sensing the Sea: Sounds of Sailors in Anglo-Saxon Literature Rebecca Shores The Sailors, the Sea Monster, and the Saviour: Depicting Jonah and the Ketos in Anglo-Saxon England Elizabeth A. Alexander Pearls before Paradise: Considering the Material Associations of Heavenly Water/s, Precious Stones, and Liminality in the Art of the Medieval West Megan Boulton 'Streams of Wholesome Learning': The Waters of Genesis in Early Anglo-Saxon Exegesis John J. Gallagher Aquas ab Aquis: Aqueous Creation in Andreas Michael Bintley Water, Wisdom and Worldliness in the Anglo-Saxon Prose Lives of Guthlac Helen Appleton Drawing Alfredian Waters: The Old English Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care, Boethian Metre 20, and Solomon and Saturn II Daniel Anlezark Modor is monigra m rra wihta: Watering the World Jill Frederick Index‎

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