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Beth Irwin Lewis
George Grosz: art and politics in the Weimar Republic
Hardcover, 328 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 x 25 mm, in very good condition, no dustjacket / cover, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780299059019. George Grosz (German: born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.
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Terry Eagleton
Criticism and Ideology : A Study in Marxist Literary Theory
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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Thomas Cleary
Essential Confucius
Paperback, 179 pages, ENG, 210 x 135 mm, in good condition, . ISBN 9780062502155. A deluxe paperback edition: Thomas Cleary's brilliant translation of the sayings of Confucius presented in the order of the 64 classic I Ching hexagrams.
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Mertens, Phil / Ford, Jacqueline
VIEWPOINT : Hedendaagse Britse Kunst / L'art Contemporain En Grande-Bretagne 18.12.87 / 31.01.88
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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David Hockney, Didier Ottinger, Kay Heymer
David Hockney : Espace/Paysage
Paperback, 227 pages, Texte en Francais , Tres belle exemplaire, 290 x 255 x 22 mm, illustrations en couleur / n/b. ISBN 9782844260154. A presentation of landscape painting, from the 1960s to the 1990s, by David Hockney. Three major groups make up his work: hyperrealism from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s; the illusionist treatment of space and the multiplication of points of view with the contribution of photography; the introduction of the abstract.
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Beerbohm, Max
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Portfolio. 41 x 29.5cm. Number 193 of an edition of 900 copies. Mounted facsimile manuscript note by Max Beerbohm and five mounted colour prints each in a separate folder. Caricatures of Peggy Wood, Noel Coward, Charles B. Cochran, Ivy St. Helier and Georges Metaxa.
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Richard Dorment, Margaret MacDonald, Nicolai Cikovsky
James McNeill Whistler
Paperback, 335 pages, ENG, 300 x 235 mm, in good condition, illustr. in colour / b/w. ISBN 9781854371454.
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LE BAUT L.
Fluent english. Baccalaur?at 1e et 2e parties.
Reli?. 312 pages.
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BELJAME A.
First english reader. Premier livre de lectures anglaises (classes pr?paratoires).
Reli?. 154 pages.
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DEFOUR F. - LARREYA P. - LAVIGNE M. L.
English in action 1. Cours d'anglais pour les sections industrielles des coll?ges d'enseignement technique. B.E.P. premi?re ann?e. Illustrations de Alain Dufourcq.
Broch?. 127 pages.
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RADIO TELEVISION SCOLAIRE
Anglais classe de 6?me. Livret destin? aux ?l?ves.
Cartonn?. 316 pages.
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RICHARD P. M. - HALL Wendy
L'anglais par la litt?rature. Classe de 2e.
Cartonn?. 304 pages. 16 x 24 cm.
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Guillon (M.-N.-S.)
Histoire de la nouvelle hérésie du XIXe siècle, ou réfutation complète des ouvrages de l'abbé De La Mennais.
français In-8 de faux-titre, titre, 455 pp.; demi-basane marron, dos lisse à faux nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque). Coin supérieur du second plat très légèrement émoussé. Tome premier seul.
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Craik ( Mrs. )
John Halifax, Gentleman.
français London - Edinburgh - Paris - Toronto - New-York, Thomas Nelson & Sons LTD, sans date. Petit in-12 de (2) ff., 537 pp., (1) ff.; cartonnage de toile bleue de l'éditeur, sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Collection " The Nelson Classics," n°19. Texte en anglais. Bon exemplaire. Infimes usures à la jaquette.
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Dickens (Charles)
The PICKWICK PAPERS.
français T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd., sans date (1920). 2 vol. petit in-12 de (4) ff., 376 pp., (1) ff. et (4) ff., 470 pp., (1) ff.; cartonnage toilé rouge de l'éditeur, sous jaquette papier illustrée d'une vignette en couleurs. Nelson Classics. Bon exemplaire. Jaquettes usagées.
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Kallendorf, Craig
LATIN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1945-1979
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. ; Garland reference library of the humanities; 141 pages
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Schmidt, Michael
LIVES OF THE POETS
Very light shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has light shelfwear. ; A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. Setting out to write his own homage to Samuel Johnson's legendary Lives of the English Poets of more than two hundred years ago, Michael Schmidt introduces us to the world tradition of poets who have written in English. From the rustic rhythms of Piers Plowman to today's postmodernists, from fifteenth-century Scotland to the contemporary Caribbean, Schmidt explores the lives and creations of more than three hundred poets, discussing their best (and sometimes worst) poems, their triumphs and tragedies, their individual genius. Here is the shared universe and work of so many great poets, including Chaucer, Donne, Blake, Behn, Burns, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, Rossetti, Yeats, Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Ginsberg, Rich and Heaney, to name but a few. Schmidt also embraces the extraordinary poetry now emerging from Australia, New Zealand, India and other countries, and shows how these varied landscapes and cultures make their contributions to our common language. Tracing the themes and achievements of each poet's work, Schmidt demonstrates with wit and erudition how poets overshadow and inspire one another across the centuries. En route, he champions some unjustly neglected voices and outlines the ways in which history and politics intervene to shape (or sometimes misshape) the poetic imagination. With infectious enthusiasm and avoiding all fashionable jargon, Schmidt speaks unapologetically for a common language -- the language of poetry, which unites people across continents and across the ages. For anyone who has ever been moved by a poem, a rich and important book. ; 992 pages
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Drabble, Margaret (Ed. )
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has a bit of edgewear with light creasing. ; 1155 pages
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Davenport, William H. & Ben Siegel (Eds. )
BIOGRAPHY PAST AND PRESENT Selections and Critical Essays
A couple of institution stamps. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Creasing to spine with a bit of chipping. Some edgewear to wraps. ; 472 pages
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Thwaite, Anthony
BEYOND THE INHABITED WORLD Roman Britain
Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. DJ has some edgewear with a few small tears. ; A Clarion Book; 125 pages
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Thompson, Craig R.
UNIVERSITIES IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Small sticker damaged area to rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; Folger Guides to the Age of Shakespeare; 45 pages
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Lucas, Peter J. (Ed. )
JOHN CAPGRAVE'S ABBREUIACION OF CRONICLES
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 285; 518 pages
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Gradon, Pamela & (Dan Michel)
DAN MICHEL'S AYENBITE OF INWYT Vol II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Very light shelfwear. Light knock to top of spine. ; The Ayenbite of Inwyt (literally Prick (or Remorse) of Conscience) is a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English. ; Early English Text Society No. 278; Vol. 2; 338 pages
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Hudson, Anne (Ed. )
TWO WYCLIFFITE TEXTS The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, Testimony of William Thorpe 1407
Lxiii, 182 pp ; Early English Text Society No. 301; 245 pages; These two texts set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, a sermon by William Taylor, caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second, an account of the conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel, sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407.
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Ayto, John & Alexandra Barratt (Eds)
AELRED OF RIEVAULX'S DE INSTITUTIONE INCLUSARUM Two English Versions
Early English Text Society No. 287; 233 pages; Two English versions of Aelred of Rievaulx's treatise on the ordering of the external and inner life of an anchoress, De Instututione Inclusarum, edited by John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt; includes critical introduction, select bibliography, note on the texts, notes, glossary.
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Trigg, Stephanie (ed.)
WYNNERE AND WASTOURE
Early English Text Society No. 297; 128 pages; This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem Wynnere and Wastoure provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date, provenance, and metre. In addition, it offers a concise summary, criticism, a bibliography, a commentary, glossary, and an index of names.
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Wirtjes, Hanneke (Ed. )
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PHYSIOLOGUS
Early English Text Society No. 299; 160 pages; This book is the first separate critical edition of the Middle English Physiologus from its sole surviving manuscript, with apparatus, commentary, glossary, and introduction.
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Baker, Donald C. & John L. Murphy & Louis B. Hall Jr.
THE LATE MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS PLAYS [THE DIGBY PLAYS] Of Bodleian MSS Digby 133 and E Museo 160
Light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 283; 394 pages; Once owned by the Catholic and Royalist bibliophile Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) , this manuscript was among those Digby gave to Oxford University's Bodleian Library in 1634. Hence Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 lends its name to an eclectic group of religious plays that makes up one of two important late medieval dramatic anthologies (the other is the Macro Plays).
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Blayney, M S
A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE OF THE FRIEND AND THE FELLOW
Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century.
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Cigman, Gloria (Ed. )
LOLLARD SERMONS British Library MS Additional 41321, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 751, John Rylands Library MS Eng 412. Description of the Manuscripts by Jeremy Griffiths ; Analysis of the Language by Jeremy Smith.
Early English Text Society No. 294; 392 pages; This book brings together a wide range of late Middle English sermons distinctively "Lollard" in their intense preoccupation with the role of the preacher and the exposition of the scriptures. The work encompasses sixteen gospel sermons, an optional expansion, and the Sermon of Dead Men--a funeral sermon with a lengthy discourse on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, the Pains of Hell, and the Joys of Heaven)--in addition to introductory sections, a glossary, notes, and a two-part Index of Scriptural Texts, one sermon-by-sermon, the other alphabetical.
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McSparran, Frances
OCTOVIAN [octavian] Edited from Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2. 38
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two new-born sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished.
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Richardsons, Frances E. (Ed. )
SIR EGLAMOUR OF ARTOIS
Scholar's name to ffep (P. H. Salus). Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; One of the most popular late medieval romances. ; Early English Text Society No. 256; 206 pages
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Hanna, Ralph & David Lawton (Ed. )
THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM
Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text, which survives in many copies.
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Barratt, Alexandra (Ed. ) & (Dame Eleanor Hull)
THE SEVEN PSALMS: A COMMENTARY ON THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Translated from French Into English by Dame Eleanor Hull
Very light bump to top of spine else Fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Early English Text Society No. 307; 368 pages; This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman, lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV, who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory, a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St. Albans Abbey. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is known, and about whom there is any information. In addition to the commentary on the penitential psalms, she translated a collection of prayers and meditations. Dame Hull is a significant figure in English literary history, who has remained virtually unknown until now.
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Morrall, E. J. (Ed. )
AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI (PIUS II) The Goodli History of the Ladye Lucres of Scene and of Her Lover Eurialus
Early English Text Society No. 308; 118 pages; This is a critical edition of the sixteenth-century translation into English of the Latin novella, the Historia de Duobus Amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The work, which was previously only accessible in an old and rare diplomatic reprint, demonstrates clearly the full impact of Italian Renaissance learning on English prose fiction.
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Blayney, Margaret S. (Ed. )
FIFTEENTH CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF ALAIN CHARTIER'S LE TRAITÉ DE L'ESPERANCE AND LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF [TWO VOLUME SET] Volume I: Text & Volume II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Vol. I: book has Bump to base of spine NF. DJ spine is lightly discolored with rubbing (with colour loss) VG. Vol; Vol I: 1973, 264 pp ISBN: 019722722; Vol II: 1980, 260 pp ISBN: 0197222838 ; Early English Text Society No. 270 & No. 281; Three Fifteenth-century English translations of the prose works of Alain Chartier honoured by the rhetoricians as the 'father of French eloquence' are edited here for the first time.
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Whitelock, Jill (Ed. )
THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME (MIDLAND VERSION) Edited from Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.I.17
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 324; 266 pages; This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.
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Shepherd, Stephen H. A. (Ed. )
TURPINES STORY A Middle English Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle
Early English Text Society No. 322; 169 pages; This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Artur by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.
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Bühler, Curt F (Ed. )
THE EPISTLE OF OTHEA Translated from the French Text of Christine De Pisan by Stephen Scrope
Hard bump to front bottom corner that has extended to first few pages. DJ has some edgewear with a couple of small closed tears. DJ has rubbing in places (with some colour loss). ; Early English Text Society No. 264; 273 pages
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Kennedy, Ruth (Ed. )
THREE ALLITERATIVE SAINTS' HYMNS: LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH STANZAIC POEMS The Alliterative Katherine Hymn (Bodleian Library Bodley Rolls 22) , the Alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln Cathedral Library MS 91) , and the Alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library, MS Additional 39574)
Early English Text Society Original Series; 230 pages; This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context.
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Hamer, Richard & Vida Russell (Eds. )
SUPPLEMENTARY LIVES IN SOME MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GILTE LEGENDE
Very minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 315; 604 pages; Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation 'drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe' in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Légende Dorée of about 1333-40, itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, completed about 1267. Of its eight surviving manuscripts, three contain additions, mostly of Lives of saints from or related to Britain, many of them deversified from the South English Legendary, but with some use of other sources. The twenty-six lives include Thomas Becket, Edmund of Abingdon, Frideswide, Edward the Confessor, Erkenwald, Augustine of Canterbury, Brendan, and Winifred. Also edited are an incomplete tract on 'What the church betokenith,' explaining some of the symbolism of the church and its services; and another detailing what indulgences were available to pilgrims in each of the churches in Rome.
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Fowler, Roger (Ed. )
WULFSTAN'S CANONS OF EDGAR
Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. Dustjacket is rubbed causing some colour loss. DJ has one small tear to upper front corner (1cm) . Light edgewear. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages
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Burton, T. L. (Ed. )
SIDRAK AND BOKKUS [2 VOLUME SET] A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559, and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. Volume I: Introduction, Prologue, and Books I-II; Volume II: Books III-IV Commentary, Appendices, Glossary, Index.
Vol I: Fine in NF DJ. Vol II: one corner bumped else Fine. NF in NF DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 019722315X, 1998, 443 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197223168, 1999, 444-941 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 311 & No. 312; 941 pages; This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is adopted from an Old French source. It covers a wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages. Volume I includes an introduction. Volume II contains the remainder of the text, explanatory notes, and a glossary.
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Godden, Malcolm (Ed. )
AELFRIC'S CATHOLIC HOMILIES: THE SECOND SERIES Text
Light bump to base of spine. Minor shelfwear. ; This edition is based on the same manuscripts as Thorpe's but the text here is improved in a number of ways; it includes the passages of Gospel translation which Thorpe omitted; it retains the manuscript punctuation, which is clear and helpful once its principles are mastered; it introduces a number of emendations based on collations of all the other manuscripts; it corrects Thorpe's errors of transcription; and an effort is made to assure that the arrangement of the homilies is closer to Aelfric's intentions. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 5; 486 pages
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Pope, John C. (Ed. )
HOMILIES OF AELFRIC: A SUPPLEMENTARY COLLECTION [TWO VOLUMES] Edited from all the Known Manuscripts with Introduction, Notes, Latin Sources and a Glossary. Volume I & II.
Vol 1: one corner bumped VG+ in no DJ. Scholar's name to ffep: (Peter H. Salus) & Vol 2: very light shelfwear NF in no DJ. ; Vol 1: 1967, 491 pp & Vol 2: 1968, 492-945 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 259 & No. 260; 508 pages; "Being twenty-one full homilies of his middle and later career for the most part not previously edited with some shorter pieces mainly passages added to the second and third series."
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Stevens, Martin & A. C. Cawley (Eds. )
THE TOWNELEY PLAYS [TWO VOLUMES] Volume I: Introduction and Text & Volume II: Notes and Glossary
Vol 1: ISBN: 019722413X, 1994, xlviii & 435 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197224148, 1994, 436-733 pp. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 13 & S. S. 14; 733 pages; This new edition of The Towneley Plays (c. 1500) replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called "Wakefield Master" from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines.
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Henry, Avril (Ed. )
THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE LYFE OF THE MANHODE [2 VOLUMES] Translated Anonymously Into Prose from the First Recension of Guillaume De Deguileville's Poem Le Pèlerinage De La Vie Humaine. Vol. I: Introduction and Text & Vol. II: Explanatory Notes, Bibliography, and Glossary
Vol 1: very light shelfwear NF- no DJ. Vol 2: very minor shelfwear NF- no DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 0197222900, 1985, xcv & 356 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197222943, 1988, 357-615 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 288 & No. 292; 451 pages; This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le P`elerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought to be diffuse, Henry shows that this lively allegory is an intricate and effective structure stemming from the same theological foundation as works by Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain-poet.
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Barnum, Patricia Heath
DIVES AND PAUPER [3 VOLUME SET] Volume I, Part 1; Volume I, Part 2 & Volume II
Vol I.1: light rubbing to DJ has caused some colour loss. Small tear to top of DJ (1 cm). Light edgewear. VG. Book has very light shelfwear NF. Vol I.2: very light shelfwear NF. No DJ. Vol. II: Fine in Fine DJ. ; Vol I.1: ISBN: 0197222773, 1976, 359 pp. Vol I.2: ISBN: 019722282X, 1980, 331 pp & Volume II: ISBN: 0197223265, 2004, 451 pp; Early English Text Society No. 275, No. 280 & No. 323; 337 pages; Dives and Pauper is an encyclopaedic prose commentary on the ten commandments, cast as a dialogue between a wealthy layman and his instructor, a poor priest, perhaps a mendicant friar. It was composed in the early fifteenth century and addresses theological debates of the turbulent period of English church history with unusual directness and compendiousness. It has long attracted attention from historians of the period and often been quoted. This concluding volume presents a full historical discussion of its context and authorship, while the extensive explanatory notes and glossary make the many references in the text to church authorities, canon law and language accessible. The first two volumes were published by the Early English Text Society as Original Series 275 (1976) and 288 (1980). This final volume has been long- and eagerly-awaited.
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Godden, Malcolm
AELFRIC'S CATHOLIC HOMILIES Introduction, Commentary and Glossary
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 18; 856 pages; This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text.
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Ogden, Margaret S. (Ed. )
THE CYRURGIE OF GUY DE CHAULIAC [VOLUME I ONLY] Volume I: Text
Very light rubbing to boards. Scholar's name to ffep (Peter H. Salus) else Fine. Minor edgewear with rubbing to DJ. One small closed tear to top of back panel (1.5 cm). ; Early English Text Society No. 265; Vol. 1; 652 pages; Guy de Chauliac (ca. 1300 – 25 July 1368) was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a large and influential treatise on surgery, titled in Latin Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages (including English circa 1425) and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe.
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