‎English‎

‎W. Scase‎

‎Making of the Vernon Manuscript, The Production and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Hardcover. XL 334 p., 62 b/w ill. 41 colour ill., 2 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Latin, French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503530468.‎

‎The Vernon Manuscript, the largest and arguably the most important Middle English anthology, is examined in its entirety in this ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study. This volume addresses important questions in late medieval book production and the history of the medieval book through original and substantial studies of one of the most remarkable surviving examples. The Vernon Manuscript, carefully copied and lavishly decorated around 1390-1400 for pious users, is famous as the largest and arguably the most important Middle English anthology. Its sheer size and conservation concerns mean that up to now it has been little studied as a book. The essays in this volume exploit for the first time the mass of new data generated by the Vernon Manuscript Project. Specialists in art history, bibliography, codicology, historical linguistics, and palaeography have been commissioned to interrogate this material from their various disciplinary perspectives. The result is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary volume which sheds new light on an iconic medieval book and on a transitional period of innovation and experimentation in vernacular book production.‎

Bookseller reference : 45177

‎C.B. Hieatt‎

‎Gathering of Medieval English Recipes‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2008 Hardcover. 170 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503528984.‎

‎This book is a collection of medieval English culinary recipes which have not been edited before. Some of them come from brief collections which have not been previously published, or are found in isolation or very small groups in manuscripts which do not contain such collections. Others come from collections which have been used, or viewed, primarily for collation, but which contain other recipes which had not yet been noted. It was the author's object to gather together all the recipes which had not been edited and published, or are not currently being edited by others, to make the record of English recipes of this period as complete as possible. The volume concludes with a supplement to the recently published Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries, adding all the "new" recipes to that Concordance, except for a few which are so fragmentary as not to deserve listing.‎

Bookseller reference : 45181

‎S. Morrison, A. Mairey‎

‎Dialogues et resistances, Une anthologie de textes anglais de la fin du Moyen Age‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2010 Hardcover. 412 p., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503534770.‎

‎Les textes presentes dans ce recueil, traduits pour la premiere fois en francais, ont ete composes entre le milieu du XIVe et du XVe siecle, alors que l?Angleterre connait de fortes transformations dans tous les domaines ? politiques, sociaux, culturels, economiques ? non sans resistances. Poemes, sermons ou encore tracts polemiques, produits dans un contexte de developpement de la 'literacy' (aptitude a lire et a ecrire) et d?une culture ecrite en anglais, s?interrogent, et parfois contestent, ces evolutions. Ces textes suggerent tous qu?en realite, ces transformations fonctionnent ensemble et ils constituent tous des lieux de communication, de dialogue ou de resistance (voire les deux) dans une societe anglaise alors en pleine ebullition.‎

Bookseller reference : 45186

‎M. Ornato, N. Pons‎

‎Pratiques de la culture ecrite en France au XVe siecle, Actes du colloque international du CNRS. Paris, 16-18 mai 1992.Organise en l'honneur de Gilbert Ouy par l'unite de recherche 'Culture ecrite du moyen age tardif'.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1995 Hardcover. 516 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 02150020200.‎

‎Ce volume rassemble les contributions presentees au cours du colloque tenu a Paris en mai 1992 en l'honneur de Gilbert Ouy. L'histoire intellectuelle du Moyen Age tardif a ete l'object privilegie des recherches menees par Gilbert Ouyet l'equipe qui s'est formee autour de lui. Ce recueil qui constitue une reflexion de synthese sur l'activite culturelle en France a cette periode represente une mise au point sur l'etat de la recherche ainsi qu'un instrument de travail indispensable a sa poursuite. La culture ecrite et les pratiques qui la concretisent dans les productions litteraires, historique, diplomatique, etc. temoignent de l?activite creatrice de toute une epoque. Aussi ont-elles ete envisagees selon une approche globale: les auteurs et les textes sont inseparables des livres et des lectures, ainsi que des institutions qui produisent et transmettent la culture; ils sont egalement inseparables de la societe et des divers centres de pouvoir qui la favorisent ou tentent de la controler. L'ouvrage s'organise en trois parties. I. L'humanisme en France au XVe siecle: les origines du mouvement, les facteurs qui en ont conditionne le developpement, son impact. II. Societe, politique et culture: le lien entre culture et institutions, scolaires, religieuses et politiques; l'emergence du pouvoir etatique royal; continuites et innovations dans les modeles culturels et linguistiques. III. Livres, culture, societe: les modes de production, de circulation et de conservation du livre manuscrit et imprime: les articulations entre monde du texte et monde de la lecture: l'image comme outil culturel et ideologique. G. Ouy, Avant-propos, G. Billanovich, Il primo umanesimo italiano: da Lovato Lovati a Petrarca, M.-R. Jung, Situation de Martin Le Franc, E. Beltran, Guillaume Fillastre (ca.1400-1473) eveque de Verdun, de Toul et de Tournai, G.M. Roccati, La formation des humanistes dans le dernier quart du XIVe siecle, C. Jeudy, La bibliotheque cathedrale de Reims, temoin de l'humanisme en France au XVe siecle, E. Mornet, Gerson en Scandinavie, F. Berier, Remarques sur l'evolution des idees politiques de Nicolas de Clamanges, G. Di Stefano, Il Decameron: da Laurent de Premeirfait a Antoine Le Macon, H. Millet, Qui a ecrit Le livre des faits du bon messire Jehan Le Maingre dit Bouciquaut?, E. Hicks, Pour une edition genetique de l'Epistre Othea, L. Dulac et C. Reno, L'humanisme vers 1400, essai d'exploration a partir d'un cas marginal: Christine de Pizan, traductrice de Thomas d'Aquin, G. Mombello, Une hypothese sur l'origine d'une legende: Hugues Capet fils d'un boucher, F. Autrand et P. Contamine, Les livres des hommes de pouvoir: de la pratique a la culture ecrite, C. Guavard, Les humanistes et la justice sous le regne de Charles VI, C. Bozzolo, H. Loyau et M. Ornato, Hommes de culture et hommes de pouvoir parisiens a la Cour amoureuse, M. Lejbowicz, Langues vernaculaires et langage scientifique: l'enjeu medieval, J.-P. Boudet, Prevision de l'avenir et connaissance du passe: les relations entre astrologie et histoire a la fin du moyen age, P.S. Lewis, Jeu de cubes : reflexions sur quelques textes et manuscrits, B. Guenee, Comment le Religieux de Saint-Denis a-t-il ecrit l'histoire? L'exemple du duel de Jean de Carrouges et Jacques Le Gris (1386), J.P. Genet, Les auteurs politiques et leur maniement des sources en Angleterre a la fin du moyen age, N. Pons, A l'origine des dossiers polemiques: une initiative publique ou une demarche privee?, M.A. Rouse et R.H. Rouse, La famille d'Andre Le Musnier, de 1400 jusqu'a 1511, B. Merrilees et W. Edwards, Un dic‎

Bookseller reference : 45504

‎Hans Willemse E.a.‎

‎Panamarenko Universum (English Version)‎

‎BE - , Graphic Matter / Ludion, 2014 Hardcover 200 pages , ills colour . fine. English edition. Fine !! ISBN 9789491819209.‎

‎Panamarenko's assemblages of flying machines, autos and vessels are objects designed to make adventure a reality, not intended as a quick escape from reality. One of the most original contemporary Belgian artists, he is an innovator in all respects. Although his works appeal to the imagination of the beholder, they are often underpinned by scientific calculations. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, this book offers a comprehensive and inspired look at Panamarenko?s fanciful universe.‎

Bookseller reference : 45951

‎Cattle, P.C.‎

‎Down the road, in Belgium a volley of verse, signed + dedication‎

‎, Antwerp : Lloyd anversois, 1964 , Original binding, paper, limited edition of 400 copies numberd; HC signed.‎

‎With had written dedication of the author Cattle.‎

Bookseller reference : 50212

‎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

Bookseller reference : 57392

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 60688

‎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

Bookseller reference : 60837

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 61128

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 61421

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 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.‎

Bookseller reference : 61745

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 61747

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 61944

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 62220

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 62386

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 62614

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 62736

‎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.‎

Bookseller reference : 62765

‎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'.‎

Bookseller reference : 62919

‎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

Bookseller reference : 63072

‎Henry Constable, Mar a Jes s P rez-J uregui (ed)‎

‎Complete Poems.‎

‎, Brepols - PIMS, 2024 Hardback, xxii + 454 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:8 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442321.‎

‎Summary Elizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, was long dismissed as a minor poet, a Catholic traitor, or both, but his writings reveal unresolved tensions between the public and the private, hope and disillusion, the secular and the religious. This book offers a new comprehensive critical edition of Constable's sonnets. Along with an updated biography and a study of the sonnet collections, the introduction provides an authoritative revision of the canon of Constable's poetry and an overview of its critical reception. TABLE OF CONTENTS Illustrations Tables Abbreviations, Sigla, and Notes Preface Chapter One Henry Constable: A Biographical Account Chapter Two The Amatory and Dedicatory Sonnets Chapter Three The Spiritual Sonnets Chapter Four Henry Constable and the Sonnet Form Chapter Five The Critical Reception of Constable's Poetry Chapter Six The Present Edition Henry Constable The Poems Explanatory Notes Bibliographical Description of Main Textual Sources Appendix A: Two Anonymous Sonnets from T Dedicated to Constable Appendix B: Arrangement of the Secular Sonnets in All Sources Appendix C: Headings and Arrangement of the Spiritual Sonnets in the Two Manuscripts Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Index of First Lines with Regularized Spelling General Index‎

Bookseller reference : 63139

‎Veronica O'Mara, Virginia Blanton (eds)‎

‎Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I. A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxxii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 8 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503545516.‎

‎Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique prose legendary almost entirely of female saints, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns. The manuscript, which also has varied post-medieval items, is written in one hand probably dating from c. 1480 to c. 1510. This previously unstudied Middle English collection features twenty-two universal and native saints, both common (like John the Baptist and thelthryth) and rare (such as Wihtburh and Domitilla). These texts are dependent on a complex mixture of Latin sources and analogues. Specific linguistic and art-historical features, as well as attention to the predominant female saints of Ely and post-medieval provenance, suggest an East Anglian convent for the original readership. Through an exploration of the manuscript and its later ownership (both recusant and antiquarian), a discussion of its linguistic attributes, a consideration of local female monastic and book history, a comparison of hagiographical texts, and a wide-ranging source and analogue study, this Study fully contextualises these Middle English lives. The book concludes with a survey of the structural and stylistic aspects of the texts, followed by three appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The texts are edited for the first time in its companion volume, Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface I. The Manuscript II. Language and Dialectal Provenance III. Convent and Geographical Location IV. Hagiographical Context and the Selection of Saints V. Latin Sources and Analogues VI. Reading the ?Lyves and Dethes' Conclusion Appendix 1. Universal Latin Saints' Lives: Sources and Analogues Appendix 2. Latin and Middle English Versions of Athelthryth Appendix 3. Middle English Translations of John the Evangelist Bibliography Index‎

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‎Peter Lucas‎

‎Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xviii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 14 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600314.‎

‎Summary By comparison with Latin Europe, Anglo-Saxon civilization is notable for the amount of literature preserved in contemporary manuscripts in the vernacular language, formerly called ?Anglo-Saxon' but now more usually called ?Old English'. This literature includes some remarkable poetry, which is the subject of the present collection of essays. Some of the earliest poems may well have been written at a time when northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. The approach is holistic, investigating important issues in the manuscripts that affect the integrity of the texts to be studied or the way they relate to each other, examining metrical issues that affect the way the poems are appreciated for their compositional skill, studying particular textual problems that require elucidation or even emendation to make the meaning clear, and finally offering readings of particular poems focussing on themes that are central to Old English poetry. A postscript examines Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, which is presented as a ?Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry'. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Section A: Manuscripts Foreword 1. The Place of Judith in the Beowulf-Manuscript 2. The Vercelli Book Revisited 3. The Structure of the Junius Manuscript, with a Survey of Places of Possible Loss 4. On the Incomplete Ending of Daniel and the Addition of Christ and Satan to MS Junius 11 Section B: Metre Foreword 5. Some Aspects of the Interaction between Verse Grammar and Metre in Old English Poetry 6. On the Ro?le of Some Adverbs in Old English Verse Grammar 7. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: A Postscript from Junius 8. Franciscus Junius and the Versification of Judith Section C: Textual Problems Foreword 9. Beowulf 214: eolet t ende 10. Andreas 733b 11. Christ III 1476b 12. The Seafarer 62b, anfloga: Lone Ranger or Away-day Flier? 13. Genesis B 623-5: Part of the Speech to Eve? 14. Exodus 480: mod gerymde 15. Exodus 265: gnian 16. Daniel 276 Section D: Readings Foreword 17. Loyalty and Obedience in the Old English Genesis and the Interpolation of Genesis B into Genesis A 18. Sengeley in synglere. The Language of the Loner: From Splendid Isolation to 'Individual' in Early English Poetry? 19. The Cross in Exodus 20. Easter, the Death of Saint Guthlac and the Liturgy for Holy Saturday in Felix's Vita and the Old English Guthlac B 21. Judith and the Woman Hero Section E: Postscript 22. From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon, and Oxford *** Publications by Peter L. Lucas aetatis suae LXXX Select Bibliography Indices‎

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