‎Anglais‎

‎Fagiolo, Marcello ; Madonna, Maria Luisa ; Shugaar, Antony‎

‎Roma delle delizie : i teatri dell'acqua : grotte, ninfei, fontane‎

‎Rome, EMR Franco Maria Ricci 1990, 1990 Hardcover, 227 paginas, Italio / English (partly), in prima condizione/ in new condition, in a protection box, beautiful sharp pictures/ photografia of Rome, collectors item., 320 X 320 mm ISBN 9788821601309.‎

‎Descrizione *Roma delle delizie : i teatri dell'acqua : grotte, ninfei, fontane / di Marcello Fagiolo ; con Maria Luisa Madonna ; fotografie di Araldo De Luca ; english translation by Antony Shugaar 5000 exemplari - Questo exemplari il numero : 2161‎

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‎Terry Eagleton‎

‎Criticism and Ideology : A Study in Marxist Literary Theory‎

‎, Verso, 1998 Paperback, 191 pages, ENG, 215 x 135 mm, in good condition, . ISBN 9781859842171.‎

‎Terry Eagleton is one of the most important - and most radical - theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trostsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional literary criticism, while producing a compelling theoretical account of ideology. Eagleton uses this perspective to offer fascinating analyses of canonical writers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. However, he distances himself from a simplistic application of Marxist categories and shows how ideology can play a productive and subversive role in their work.‎

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‎Mertens, Phil / Ford, Jacqueline‎

‎VIEWPOINT : Hedendaagse Britse Kunst / L'art Contemporain En Grande-Bretagne 18.12.87 / 31.01.88‎

‎, K.M.S.K. / M.R.B-A - British Council, 1987 Paperback, 144 pages, NL / FR, 295 x 210 mm, illustr. in colour / b/w, in goede staat, .‎

‎Artists : John Davies Richard Deacon Ian Hamilton Finlay Antony Gormley Anish Kapoor Christopher Le Brun Stephen McKenna Bruce McLean Alison Wilding‎

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‎Richard Dorment, Margaret MacDonald, Nicolai Cikovsky,‎

‎James McNeill Whistler‎

‎, Tate Gallery, 1994 Paperback, 335 pages, ENG, 300 x 235 mm, in good condition, illustr. in colour / b/w. ISBN 9781854371454.‎

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‎David King ; H. Daiber ; D. Pingree‎

‎World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca : Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science‎

‎, Brill, 1999 Hardcover, 638 pages, ENG, 295 x 230 x 40 mm, book is in very good condition !, dustjacket is included but in bad shape, however the book is better without it, illustrated in colour / b/w . ISBN 9789004113671.‎

‎Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.‎

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‎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.‎

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‎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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‎H. A. D. Miles, David Blayney Brown‎

‎Sir David Wilkie of Scotland (1785-1841): Exhibition Organized by William J. Chiego‎

‎, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987 Paperback, 397 pages, ENG, 255 x 230 mm, in good order, illustrated in colour / b/w, slightly discoloured through time. ISBN 9780882599533.‎

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‎Armin Zweite, Peter B rger, Martin Harrison, Daria Kolacka‎

‎Francis Bacon : The Violence of the Real‎

‎, Thames & Hudson, 2006 Hardcover, 256 pages, ENG, 305 x 230 mm, in Good condition, dustjacket, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780500093351.‎

‎Dramatic depictions of human forms ? writhing painfully, dissolving, wrestling or engulfing one another, seated or in motion ? are ubiquitous in the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of the most eminent painters of the 20th century. Bacon portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. His individuals are usually alone, isolated from their surroundings, trapped in empty, windowless rooms or behind the bars of cages. Bacon?s figures act on stage-like platforms, doubled over in torment, sliding into formlessness. By wiping, scratching and erasures, Bacon converted the picture surface into a field of perpetual activity ? and in the process, created images of great forcefulness, sensibility and beauty. Bacon found his models not only in the history of art, but also in photographs of athletes, soccer players, or boxers in combat. He also betrayed a strong interest in the photographic sequences through which Eadweard Muybridge, in the later 19th century, registered the phases of a path of animal movement. Such instinctively performed motions disclosed to Bacon actions of an original sensuality which he strove to capture in his pictures.‎

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‎Susan Tallman‎

‎KERRY JAMES MARSHALL : The Graphic Work‎

‎, Ludion, 2023 HB, 305 x 240 mm, 256 pages, ENG edition, NEW, dustjacket, illustrated in colours / b/w. ISBN 9789493039759.‎

‎Best known as a painter, Kerry James Marshall has also produced a vast graphic oeuvre that has been seldom seen and rarely documented. This catalog raisonn offers the first public account of his graphic work and is also the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall's work as a whole. One of the most important American contemporary artists, Kerry James Marshall is known for artworks that address the 'crisis of under-representation' of the black figure in the pictorial traditions of the Western world, from museums to comic books. His work has been widely celebrated in major museum retrospectives such as Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff (Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid) in 2014 and Mastry (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles) in 2017, and through numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. An assiduous worker, he spent his youth acquiring time-honored skills of art - drawing and painting, but also wood engraving and printing. By his mid-twenties, he recalls, 'I could paint in egg tempera... I was good at printmaking. I could do woodcuts, etchings, aquatints. I knew all of those techniques.' Most of his prints have been produced not in professional print workshops, but by the artist, working alone in his studio. They range from images the size of postcards to his 50-foot-long, 12 panel woodcut Untitled (1998-99), to iterations of his ongoing magnum opus, Rythm Mastr. And while some have entered prominent museum collections, many exist only in private collections or the artist's archive and are unknown to the public. This catalog raisonn offers the first public account of these important works and the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall's work as a whole.‎

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‎Sidney John Hogben, Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene‎

‎Emirates of Northern Nigeria: A Preliminary Survey of Their Historical Traditions‎

‎, Oxford University Press, 1966 Hardcover, 638 pages, ENG, dustjacket, 220 x 155 mm, reasonable condition, illustr. in b/w.‎

‎Based upon research into local traditions, primary sources and secondary publications in a number of languages, this is a detailed history of the Muslim Emirates of Northern Nigeria over the last 500 years, up to Nigeria's independence in 1960. It is supplemented by recent case histories.‎

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‎John Stephen Morrill‎

‎Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain‎

‎, Oxford University Press, 1996 Paperback, 487 pages, ENG, 245 x 190 x 27 mm, still in very good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780192893277.‎

‎Britain under the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts was a country marked by extraordinary and dramatic change. These were the centuries of the Reformation, civil wars, and two revolutions; a time of upheaval that saw the trials and executions of two monarchs, two wives of a king, and two Archbishops of Canterbury; and a time of religious controversy that resulted in the torture or burning of hundreds of ordinary people. But this was also the time that saw an explosion of literacy and the printed word, transformations in landscapes and townscapes, new forms of wealth, new structures of power, and new forms of political participation that freed minds and broadened horizons in the generations from 1485 to 1689. In this exciting and richly illustrated new work, eighteen leading scholars explore the political, social, religious, and cultural history of this tumultuous time. From the maneuverings of rulers and powerbrokers, both religious and secular, to the profound social and cultural changes that affected the lives of ordinary men and women throughout Britain--indeed, throughout the world--The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain offers the most authoritative history of this great age ever published.‎

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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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‎Susan Whyman‎

‎Pen and the People : English Letter Writers 1660-1800.‎

‎, OUP Oxford, 2009 Hardcover, 348 pages, ENG., 240 x 165 x 25 mm, In Very Good condition, illustrated dustjacket, with b/w illustrations. ISBN 9780199532445.‎

‎Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.‎

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‎David Hockney ; Jonathan Wilkinson‎

‎DAVID HOCKNEY : Normandy Portraits‎

‎, National Portrait Gallery (Thames), 2023 Hardcover, 48 pages, ENG., edition, 275 x 220 mm, full page illustrated coloured portaits. ISBN 9781855145870.‎

‎David Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 and 2022. David Hockney: Normandy Portraits illustrates around 40 acrylic on canvas works painted by Hockney at his Normandy studio - depicting his friends and visitors, as well as the artist himself. This image-led book product will showcase a series of some previously unseen portraits, through 48 pages, uninterrupted by text, to allow readers to engage directly with the artworks. These works highlight the ongoing importance of portraiture within the artist's practice and demonstrate his sentiment that 'drawings and paintings . are a lot better than photographs to give you a sense of the person'. Hockney returned to painting after an intensive period spent depicting the Normandy landscape using an iPad. The portraits were painted quickly and directly onto the canvas without under drawing. As Hockney has said 'to do a portrait slowly is a bit of a contradiction'.‎

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‎Giulia Iannuzzi‎

‎Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment. Samuel Madden's 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' (1733)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 460 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503606026.‎

‎Summary Published anonymously in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is one of the earliest futuristic novels known in Anglophone and Euro-American literature. It foregrounds an acceleration of history brought about by an increasing degree of global interconnectedness, and the exclusion of prophetism and astrology as credible ways to know the future. The work of Samuel Madden, an Irish writer and philanthropist of Whig sympathies, it consists of a collection of diplomatic letters composed in the 1990s, which the narrator claims were brought to him from the time to come by a supernatural entity. Through these correspondences, twentieth-century world scenarios are spread out before the reader, in which British naval power rules the waves and international commerce, while the transnational scheming of the Jesuits threatens the independence of weaker European courts. This book - which includes a study followed by an annotated edition of the text - assesses the cultural significance of this literary work, as an apt observatory on how historical time as a cultural construction was shaped, during the eighteenth century, by new forms of transnational circulation of information, and by the dubious space carved out in European culture by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates on the nature of historical knowledge. Through and by means of the Memoirs case study, this volume aims to contribute to a wider cultural history of the future and speculative fiction. The novel's ironic distancing of beliefs considered to be superstitious and absurd - such as divination techniques and occult and magical disciplines - offers an exceptional testimony to the negotiation of the boundaries of verisimilitude and credibility within a religious enlightenment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Time in the Age of the Enlightenment Part I. Samuel Madden's Eighteenth-Century Memoirs from the Future I. Where was the Future? II. When was the Future? III. An Irish Whig between Philanthropism and Literature IV. An Eighteenth-Century Twentieth Century V. An (Unreliable) Historian of the Future VI. A 'good genius' and the 'scene of things below' VII. Empirical Science, Global Consciousness, and 'the History of Future Times' VIII. Blurring the Dichotomy between History and Fiction IX. Satirising Past Futures X. 'Publishing' the Letters XI. 'This prodigious society': Anti-Jesuit Satire XII. Whose Credulity, whose Credibility XIII. Bookish Mysteries and an 'alternate George VI' XIV. Concluding Remarks Part II. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century A Note on the Text Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Notes to the Text Bibliography Index‎

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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

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‎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.‎

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‎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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