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2006Hardback, 255 p., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782870330135. Le Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lille possede une interessante collection de Primitifs flamands. Albert Chatelet, conservateur honoraire du musee et professeur emerite a l'universite Marc-Bloch de Strasbourg, assiste de Nicole Goetghebeur restauratrice en chef honoraire a l'Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique a Bruxelles, a entrepris l'etude rigoureuse des dix-neuf tableaux constituant cet ensemble. Le Paradis terrestre et l'Enfer de Dirk Bouts font l'objet d'un dernier etat de la question. De nouvelles prises de vues ont ete realisees a cette occasion et des documents techniques inedits emaillent l'abondante illustration photographique. On releve egalement l'analyse des portraits de Louis de Quarre et Barbe de Cruysinck et du Triptyque de la Vierge et l'Enfant, deux oeuvres appartenant au groupe du Maitre au feuillage en broderie, un artiste enigmatique dont la personnalite a ete recemment mise en relief par une exposition dans ce meme musee. Le Concert dans l'oeuf d'apres Jerome Bosch, le Portrait de Philippe le Bon de l'entourage de Rogier van der Weyden et des tableaux du Maitre au brocart d'or, du Maitre de 1499, du Maitre de la Famille de sainte Anne et de divers anonymes completent cet ensemble. Languages: French.
2005Hardback, XLIV+490 p., 220 x 285 mm. ISBN 9782503517407. This important scholarly work is volume two in a series of four volumes that will publish all the more than six hundred cuneiform tablets in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Included are 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian and primarily dated to the latter part of the first millenium b.c. They shed new light on the civilization of the ancient Near East - on its complex beliefs and customs and surprisingly vast knowledge of mathematics and astronomy - for both the contemporary scholar and interested reader. The texts are organized in five sections: Documents of the Temple Cult include hymns and prayers, rituals and petitions; Documents of the Incantation Priest, Diviner, Physician, and Magician reveal various categories of omens; Literary Texts present myths and legends; The Scholastic Tradition contains a variety of texts and lists, including mathematical and astronomical texts; and the final section covers Unidentified Fragments. Among the most important texts are No. 42, a fragment of the Babylonian version of the ancient Flood story, and No. 81, which attests to the intellectual achievement of Babylonian astronomers. Eighteen distinguished international scholars in the field have contributed transliterations and translations of each tablet, and these are accompanied by commentaries and by insightful introductory essays on each genre. The volume was assembled and edited by Ira Spar, Professor of Ancient Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and W. G. Lambert, Professor Emeritus of the University of Birmingham, England. Lambert also contributed several entries and a general introduction that provides contextual information about the transmission of the literary and scholastic tradition in pre-Hellenistic Mesopotamia. The precise facsimile drawings of every tablet hand-made by Ira Spar are a valuable visual accompaniment to the text. This publication reaffirms the Museum's ongoing commitment to promote wider knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern civilization. And significantly, it appears at a time when better understanding of the history and culture of that region of the world holds particular relevance. Volume one of this series (1988) documents 120 tablets, cones, and bricks from the third and second millenia b.c. Volume three (2000) covers private archive texts from the first millenium B.C. Volume four, in preparation, will include an edition of cuneiform tablets written in the first millenium b.c. and inscriptions on bricks, cylinders, and prisms of royal records of the kings of Babylon and Assyria. Languages: English.
Microfiche, 2331 p., on 8 microfiche., 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449221. The fifth and most recent fascicle of the Dictionary of Old english, the letter A, consists of 1505 headwords in 2331 pages on microfiche. The material on which A is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except multiple copies of texts), an estimated three million running words. Although the Dictionary of Old English is meant to serve as a bilingual translation dictionary, it is also a historical dictionary, an inventory and description of the English language from its earliest appearance in written records, ca.600. It is intended to complement the Oxford English Dictionary for the earliest period of the language; indeed, the Dictionary of Old English will catalogue the Old English vocabulary deliberately excluded from the OED because it failed to survive past 1150. The dictionary draws on as wide a range of texts in date, dialect and genre - as possible. It differs from previous dictionaries in several important features: a listing in a simplified paradigmatic order of every spelling that is attested for a word in the dictionary corpus; frequency counts for each word in the corpus so that readers can determine what proportion of the evidence has been cited; usage labels where they are statistically significant, noting restrictions to a class of texts, to an author, or to a particular period or dialect; exhaustive citation for all words of twelve or fewer occurences. Prepared by A.di Paolo Healy, J.Holland, D.McDougall, I.McDougall, N.Speirs, P.Thompson, S.Ono, S.Takeuchi, M.Rissanen, E.Stanley. Languages : English.
Microfiche, 55 p., + 771 p. on 4 microfiche, 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449238. Languages : English.
Microfiche, 2693 p., on 9 microfiche., 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449245. Languages : English.
Microfiche, 1610 p., on 6 microfiche., 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449252. Languages : English.
Microfiche, 951 p., on 4 microfiche., 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449269. Languages : English.
Microfiche, 6 p., + 6 microfiche, 140 x 225 mm. ISBN 9780888449276. Languages : English.
Microfiche, XXIV p., + 35 microfiches, 135 x 215 mm. ISBN 9780888449290. Languages : English.
Microfiche, XVI p., + 35 microfiches, 135 x 215 mm. ISBN 9780888449313. Languages : English, Old English.
Paperback, 331 p., 10 b/w ill. + 28 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503529387. Dans son histoire du monde, ecrite vers 1030, Raoul Glaber depeint l'eglise preromane de Saint Benigne de Dijon comme -plus admirable que les basiliques de toute la Gaule- (totius Galliae basilicis mirabiliorem). Commencee autour de 1001 et consacree en 1016 (l'eglise) et 1018 (la rotonde), cette abbatiale benedictine, dont seule la crypte de la rotonde subsiste, relevait des traditions architecturales romaine, carolingienne et ottonienne. Elle fut construite a un moment-cle de l'histoire politique de la France et de la Bourgogne et peut etre interpretee en fonction de l'ideologie de ses batisseurs, l'abbe Guillaume et l'eveque Brun de Langres. Il faut egalement la lire comme un cadre exceptionnellement bien concu pour la devotion monastique et la liturgie de Cluny telle qu'interpretee par Guillaume. Cet ouvrage se veut une interpretation visuelle, politique, liturgique et theologique de cette eglise etonnante de l'an mil. Languages : French.
Hardback, XIII+304 p., 11 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503524313. More than any single volume has so far attempted, Mortality and Imagination is devoted to the history and literary 'life' of the dead in medieval writing. There have been many books on the medieval culture of death, but this book is the first devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. Mortality and Imagination is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead - in their narrative, aesthetic, and ideological formulation - a theme which up to now has been explored only fragmentarily, available only in studies of particular genres. Kenneth Rooney's book explores a wider range of texts and genres than has been attempted before, and reads the vernacular representation of the dead against the impact of one of the most intriguing cultural phenomena of the Middle Ages - the macabre - a rhetorical and artistic idiom designed to evoke the dead at their most horrifying. Tracing the models for the representation of the dead available to English writers, he offers fresh readings of texts both familiar and neglected, including sermons, tale collections, romances, drama, lyrics, and other genres in the period c.1100-1550. This book is a stimulating appraisal of the impact, in medieval insular contexts, of an international idea of great longevity and significance, and makes an important contribution to the study of death, belief, and society in pre-modern Europe. Languages : English, Old English, French.
Hardback, XII+242 p., 15 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503524702. The essays collected here represent the current state of research into the works of John Gower, poet, philosopher, and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. They assess Gower's literary output within the context of manuscript production and readership/ownership in late medieval England and the triangle of Latin, French, and English as literary and official languages in Ricardian England. Sections of the volume focus on manuscripts and the circulation of Gower's works in languages other than English. In addition, the literary and philosophical contexts that inform Gower's poetics and politics are considered here, resulting in readings of the poet's rhetorical and ethical agenda as well as his texts' intervention in and reaction to social outsiders in his contemporary London. A wide variety of critical discourses inform the readings presented here, including medieval English, French, and Latin literary studies, art history, manuscript production and reception, postmodern ethics, and historical studies. Languages : English.
Hardback, XIV+530 p., 3 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503525969. This interdisciplinary volume takes as its subject the multi-faceted genre of didactic literature (the literature of instruction) which constituted the cornerstone of literary enterprise and social control in medieval and early modern Europe. Following an Introduction that raises questions of didactic meaning, intent, audience, and social effect, nineteen chapters deal with the construction of the individual didactic voice and persona in the premodern period, didactic literature for children, women as the creators, objects, and consumers of didactic literature, the influence of advice literature on adult literacy, piety, and heresy, and the revision of classical didactic forms and motifs in the early modern period. Attention is paid throughout to the continuities of didactic literature across the medieval and early modern periods?its intertextuality, reliance on tradition, and self-renewal?and to questions of gender, authority, control, and the socially constructed nature of advice. Contributors particularly explore the intersection of advice literature with real lives, considering the social impact of both individual texts and the didactic genre as a whole. The volume deals with a wide variety of texts from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, written in languages from Latin through the European vernaculars to Byzantine Greek and Russian, offering a comprehensive overview of this pervasive and influential genre. Languages : English.
Hardback, XVIII+276 p., 2 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503529233. Tolomeo Fiadoni (1236-1327) was one of the most remarkable of medieval writers. Living to almost one hundred years of age, Tolomeo bore witness to some of the most important events of the period. He studied and travelled with Thomas Aquinas and was elected Dominican prior in Lucca and Florence. He attended the saintly Pope Celestine V during Celestine's doomed reign, lived at the papal court in Avignon, served in the households of two cardinals, and associated with the infamous Pope John XXII. At the age of eighty, Tolomeo was appointed bishop of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, where his superior, the Patriarch of Grado, subsequently excommunicated and jailed him. Tolomeo is known today for his major contribution to republican political thought, most notably his continuation of Thomas Aquinas's only political treatise. However, he also wrote treatises on imperial and ecclesiastical power, a commentary on the six days of creation, a massive Church history, and a European history from 1063 onward. Drawn from all known surviving sources, The Life and Works of Tolomeo Fiadoni is the first full-length study of Tolomeo's life. It discusses each of his works, and addresses numerous problems of authorship and dating. Its companion volume, The Worldview and Thought of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca), provides an in-depth analysis of Tolomeo's beliefs and thought. Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, VIII+281 p., 2 b/w ill., 3 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531496. Reflecting the work of Dhira B. Mahoney, in whose honour this book is published, these essays discuss the intersections between medieval rhetoric and various sorts of medieval literature, with particular focus on romance. This volume honours the academic career of Professor Dhira B. Mahoney, recently retired from the Department of English at Arizona State University, who is well known for her rhetorical readings of medieval literature. Professor Mahoney?s scholarship employs rhetorical theory in readings of late medieval literature, particularly prologues and epilogues, women?s writings, and Arthuriana. As a response to her work, Romance and Rhetoric offers rhetorical readings of a variety of literary pieces from the late Middle Ages, especially for those authors and genres on which Professor Mahoney has published. Its collected essays provide interdisciplinary studies of art, social and literary history, manuscript transmission, and women?s studies in relation to texts in Middle English, Latin, German, and French. In particular, the essays in this volume focus on the writings of courtly authors such as Chaucer, Lydgate, Malory, Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Chretien de Troyes, and others. In keeping with the ancient tradition of analysing rhetorical principles in the structure of an art work, they also examine the rhetoric of the manuscript art connected to these authors and the genres in which they wrote. This volume thus fills a gap in medieval literary scholarship, as it evaluates with scrutiny how rhetorical teachings or medieval poetic strategies inform the writing of romances. Languages : English, French, German.
Hardback, X+308 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503527567. Marcia Colish is one of the most influential scholars of the history of medieval and early modern thought, the author of numerous books and scores of articles in the field, as well as a pioneering President of the Medieval Academy of America. This volume honours her accomplishments with papers by her many colleagues, friends, and former students, who are themselves prominent scholars from across a range of disciplines. The chapters are diverse chronologically and topically, yet they are all stimulated by themes that Prof. Colish has explored during her long and distinguished career. They address the richness of European intellectual history between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, treating the multiple heritages of philosophy, theology, political theory, historiography, classical reception, and many other subjects to which her scholarship extends. The volume demonstrates the power of ideas in the development of European history generally, revealing that the careful study of the works of the 'mind' does indeed 'matter'. Languages : English.
Hardback, XVIII+276 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503529264. Tolomeo Fiadoni (1236-1327) was one of the most important political theorists and historians of the Middle Ages. He was central to developing a theory for the practices of Northern Italian republicanism and was hostile to kingship, portraying it as despotic and inappropriate for virtuous and freedom-loving people. He was the first writer to compare Aristotle's examples of Greek mixed constitutions - Sparta, Crete, and Carthage - with the Roman Republic, the ancient Hebrew polity, the Church, and medieval communes, yet he remained a staunch defender of the absolute secular and spiritual monarchy of the pope. Blythe explores various tensions in Tolomeo's work that are often overlooked in scholarly treatments of him, and which derive from cultural preconceptions and the diverse influences on him: Aristotle, Augustine, apologists for papal power, his life in the Dominican Order, his educational experience with Thomas Aquinas, and his social position as a member of Northern Italy's ruling class. These factors exerted contradictory influences on Tolomeo and led him to a sometimes unsuccessful intellectual struggle for consistency. This book is the first full-length study of Tolomeo's thought and it gives full consideration not only to the political writings for which he is most known, but also to his historical and exegetical works. It is the companion to The Life and Works of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca). Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, approx. X+380 p., 11 b/w ill. + 6 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503530314. Empathy is a deep feeling or intuition for kinship transcending self-preoccupied individuality. This book is about empathy in the Middle Ages, before it had a name.The authors begin by tracing the origins of empathy in pre-Christian Antiquity and early Christianity, especially in mysteries of divine justice, by which the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and, as with surgical healing, compassion was manifested by inflicting pain. The authors also explore many facets of empathy's development in the Latin West, criss-crossing the artificial borders of academic departments to reveal interlocking connections that give emotional power to images, whether verbal, pictorial, or performative. In a powerful multi-disciplinary collaboration, they identify conditions and limits of empathy, and areas in which the dynamic between insiders and outsiders forced subversive explorations of what it meant to be human. The doctrine of Christ as mediator of divine love dominated medieval thought about empathy as a human instinct. Taken together, like magnetic poles, two pictures in this book represent that mediation in action. The cover illustration, a mid-ninth-century ivory plaque from Carolingian Gaul, depicts Christ, the Divine Word, Love incarnate, glorified, enthroned, and adored by angels as creator, judge, and teacher. The second, Plate 1, from the same period and region, represents the act that sealed the mediation of divine love to humanity: Christ the man, tortured and dying from love.Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, 464 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503507385. Cet ouvrage represente la premiere synthese generale de toutes les donnees archeologiques et archivistiques relatives a l'histoire de la verrerie dans l'espace geographique francais du XIIe au XVIe siecle. Il analyse, region par region, l'evolution economique des ateliers, les dynasties verrrieres, les approvisionnements, l'espace de travail, les fours et les techniques de la fabrication, les aspects administratifs et humains, ainsi que le commerce et l'usage du verre. Languages : French.
Hardback, 314 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508108. Le terme "positivisme" repond traditionnellement a la definition suivante: un systeme philosophique qui recuse les a priori metaphysiques et voit dans l'observation des faits positifs et dans l'experience l'unique fondement de la connaissance. Mais cette definition est-elle suffisante? N'y a-t-il alors qu'un seul "positivisme", et s'agit-il d'un mode de pense revolu, sans influence sur notre temps, ou au contraire d'un ou de plusieurs modes de pensee qui gardent leur actualite? Les etudes rassemblees dans ce volume abordent differentes facettes, non plus du positivisme mais bien des positivismes. Traite par des philosophes, des historiens, des sociologues, ce theme s'epanouit en questions multiples. La pensee comtienne y est reexaminee sous l'angle du systeme philosophique proprement dit, de son actualite et de ses archaismes. L'on y examine les glissements de sens du mot positivisme, sa presence - parfois implicite - au sein de notre pensee actuelle, les differentes "ecoles positivistes", comme le positivisme logique, ou encore l'influence exercee par les positivismes sur d'autres disciplines, histoire, sociologie, sciences exactes... Languages : French.
Hardback, 524 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503507392. La chimie prevaloisienne est encore trop souvent consideree, dans la tradition de Bachelar, comme une science perimee dont les savoirs sont devenus definitivement obsoletes. A travers la vie et l'analyse de la pratique chimique du medecin-apothicaire parisien Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715), le present ouvrage entend montrer que la chimie du XVIIe siecle constitue au contraire un domaine autonome dont l'originalite s'affirme face a l'iatrochimie paracelsienne et la chimie stahlienne du phiogistique. L'oeuvre chimique de Lemery propose une veritable rhetorique de la clarte (d'inspiration cartesienne) associee a une nouvelle vision corpusculaire du monde (davantage inspiree par Gassendi). La confrontation des theories mecanistes et des pratiques dont le laboratoire etait reellement le cadre revele aussi le combat des chimistes du XVIIe siecle pour la reconnaissance de leur "science". Ces episodes s'inserent dans divers contextes, epistemologiques mais aussi sociologiques et economiques, dont l'examen renouvelle l'histoire de la chimie de la fin du XVIIe siecle. Languages : French.
Paperback, 226 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508900. This is the first of a series of thematic volumes consisting of a selection of papers from the XXth International Congress of History of Science, which was held in Liege in 1997. The present volume deals with the relationship between science, technology and politics in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on some areas of the world that recently underwent serious political change including the German Democratic Republic and other countries from the former "Eastern bloc" such as Hungary, Ukraine, the Baltic countries, Russia, and countries in Central Asia. Individual contributions from Japan, Algeria and Portugal have also been included, since they should help initiate a transnational reflection on the subject. Languages : English.
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Gebonden, geillustreerd, deels in kleur, 14,5x24 cm, 850 pagina's. ISBN 9789460040641. De biografie van Gerrit Paape vertelt het unieke levensverhaal van een plateelschilder die zich wist te verheffen tot de stem van de radicale revolutionairen in Nederland: onverzoenlijk, venijnig en geestig. Gerrit Paape was erbij en schreef erover, als geen ander. Als het hem en zijn vaderland slecht ging, doopte hij zijn pen in gif en schreef meeslepende reportages en adembenemende satirische romans. Romans die nog steeds schitteren. In zijn literaire en journalistieke werk vond hij voor zichzelf steeds nieuwe identiteiten uit. Onder geleende pseudoniemen hield hij zijn tijdgenoten een genadeloze spiegel voor. In Gerrit Paape (1752-1803) brengt Peter Altena de vele levens en werken van een bevlogen schrijver voor het eerst in kaart. Zo ontstaat tevens een nieuw beeld van de rumoerige decennia waarin het moderne Nederland werd uitgevonden.
