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1873RARE monograph on the interrelationships of Prussian Jewish communities by the eminent German lawyer Hermann Makower (1830-1897), who served also as chairman of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community of Berlin. 230x160mm. 116 pages. Marbled board Hardcover with black cloth spine. Cover rubbed and scratched. Cover corners and edges peeling. Front cover and spine stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Spine rear hinge partly cracked. Whitepages missing. Binding loose and visible between rear inner cover and last page (contents page). Pen inscription on title page edge/corner. Title page upper edge/corner slightly worn. Stamp residues on title page. Library stamp on several pages. Pages 45-52 bottom corner creased. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is in good condition for its age.
1947RARE monograph on personal laws in British-ruled Palestine by Edoardo Vitta, a lecturer in International Law at the Government Law School of Jerusalem, at the School of Law and Economics of Tel-Aviv and at the Middle East College of Public Administration, later becoming Professor of Law at the University of Florence. 240x170mm. XXXII+315 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover bottom corners and spine edges bumped. Front cover bottom corner worn. Small scratch-mark on front cover. Rear cover edges age-stained. Spine stained. Spine edges peeling. Inner cover browning. Ex-library copy with stamp on whitepages and title page. Text-block age-stained. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on personal laws in Palestine under the British mandate is otherwise in good condition.
Hardback, 634 p., 5 cartes et plans, 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503507507. Au cours du Xe siecle, des moines de l'abbaye bretonne de Lehon, fuyant les ravages normands, parvinrent a Paris, apres un long periple, porteurs des reliques de saint Magloire, eveque de Dol, evangelisateur des iles anglo-normandes. Le duc des Francs, Hugues le Grand, les installa au sein de la Cite, dans la chapelle palatine Saint-Barthelemy ou son fils, Hugues Capet, fonda une abbaye benedictine sous le vocable de Saint-Magloire. Au debut du XIIe siecle, le monastere se transporta sur la rive droite de la Seine, rue Saint-Denis. Il fut ainsi associe a l'essor rapide des quartiers commercants de la "Ville" et, autour des batiments monastiques se constitua une censive progressivement lotie. Hors Paris, les donations, royales pour la plupart, assurerent son implantation en Ile-de-France, principalement dans la foret d'Yveline, la vallee de l'Orge et la Brie. Ce n'est pas seulement le developpement de l'abbaye durant les trois premiers siecles de son existence que nous permettent de suivre les 280 documents publies dans ce volume, tome I de la publication, dont les tomes II et III sont deja parus. C'est aussi la construction progressive des nouveaux quartiers de la capitale et leur peuplement, ainsi que la mise en valeur des terres d'Ile-de-France par les etablissements religieux qui s'y implanterent. Languages : French.
Hardback, IX+416 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503520773. This volume presents translations, with accompanying introductions, of the Lives of three thirteenth-century figures: Yvette of Huy, Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, and the anchoress Juliana of Cornillon. This volume presents the Lives of three women of the thirteenth century, all written by contemporaries. In the late Middle Ages, almost every town in Northern Europe had its own anchoress, who would keep in touch with the citizens through a window looking onto the churchyard or through a door and window looking into the church (as shown in the cover illustration). Such women, along with the beguines, Cistercian nuns and monks, reform-minded clergy, and devout laywomen, formed what Barbara Newman has termed 'close-knit networks of spiritual friendship that easily crossed the boundaries of gender, religious status, and even language'. This volume presents the lives of two recluses, Yvette of Huy, whose life was recorded by her spiritual friend, the Premonstratensian Hugh of Floreffe, and Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, whose lessons were recorded by her confessor, the Dominican John of Magdeburg (introduced and translated by Jo Ann McNamara, and Gertrud Jaron Lewis and Tilman Lewis respectively). The anchoress Eve of Saint-Martin was an author herself. Her memoir in French on her friend Juliana's and her own labour for the new Feast of Corpus Christi forms the basis of the Latin Life of Juliana of Cornillon (introduced and translated by Barbara Newman). Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, VIII+551 p., 628 b/w ill. + 23 colour ill., 200 x 260 mm. ISBN 9782503525174. En 1624, quelques mois apres l'accession de Urbain VIII au trone de Saint Pierre, plusieurs esperaient un inflechissement de la condamnation de 1616 visant a interdire l'enseignement du mouvement de la Terre autour du Soleil. Etait de ceux-la l'inspirateur des theses de 1624, le jesuite Gregoire de Saint-Vincent, ne a Bruges : il avait d'ailleurs activement participe a la seance du College Romain lorsque Galilee en 1611 avait commente ses observations au telescope de planetes comme Saturne, et fait ?« murmurer les philosophes ?» ainsi que le commente Gregoire lui-meme. Les theses de 1624 montrent une extraordinaire representation de Saturne. Voila un exemple parmi bien d'autres des surprises de ces theses. Onze chapitres, suivis d'une bibliographie, organisent l'enquete sur les theses, celles-ci etant presentees et traduites au chapitre IX. On commence par presenter le document, et les problemes qu'il pose aussitot a l'historien. Puis on choisit de parler du moment meme des theses, de l'imaginaire des hommes de cette periode, et des positions epistemologiques des theses, tant pour le texte que pour les images. Vient l'enquete sur les acteurs des theses, et deux recits possibles, le recit historique de la journee des theses, et le recit scientifique du contenu. A ce point on peut entrer d'une part dans la tradition des theses universitaires, d'autre part dans la tradition du livre illustre. Ce qui, a partir des travaux des historiens de la mecanique, permet d'aboutir a une discussion sur la place de ces theses dans une histoire qui a tant servi a constituer les diverses philosophies des sciences, dont le positivisme. Apres la traduction proposee, il convient de revenir a titre de justification sur le detail de chaque theoreme et de chaque vignette, et de terminer par le vocabulaire meme des theses. Cette demarche est tout le contraire de la demarche dogmatique si naturelle a l'histoire des sciences, discipline dont il faut se rappeler qu'elle doit beaucoup au positivisme. Si l'enquete dans les textes et les images s'avere beaucoup plus longue que les courtes theses, le plaisir n'est-il pas au final de retrouver la coherence d'un des mondes du baroque a l'aube de la science moderne ? L'interet est en particulier de surprendre la facon dont un intellectuel issu d'un ordre religieux connu pour son obeissance disciplinaire, parvient malgre la rigoureuse orthodoxie recemment mise en place, a raisonnablement donner sa place a une nouvelle imagination, sans entrer en dissidence mais sans ceder, cherchant sans aucun doute a liberer la pensee religieuse de la pensee scientifique, et s'aidant alors de la pensee toute profane d'un peintre d'emblemes. Languages : French.
Hardback, XIV+456 p., 7 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503525808. This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions - both oral and written - in medieval Scandinavia and the interpretation and re-interpretation of them over time. Theoretical frameworks for understanding Old Norse literature is the initial topic of the collection, which then moves on to present recent work on Old Norse myth and society; current perspectives on oral traditions in performance and text; and reflections on medieval ideas about language, both vernacular and Latin. The collection is rounded off by a section on prolonged traditions - the transformation of local and imported traditions into new literary forms. Individual essays in the volume offer significant primary research as well as reconsiderations of key issues in scholarship, their subjects ranging widely, both conceptually and chronologically, around the twin themes of learning and understanding. Like the research of the volume's honorand, Margaret Clunies Ross, Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World exemplifies the diversity and vigour of current research in the field of Old Norse and draws together philological, literary, historical and anthropological perspectives on the subject. Languages : English, Old Norse.
Hardback, XX+411 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888449061. Edward Lye (1694-1767) was an important contributor to the advancement of our understanding of the structure of the English language, its vocabulary, and its literature. Compared with the work of more celebrated pre-nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonists and antiquaries, Lye's was a scholarly output of less original talent and reach (the role he gave himself was to 'remove the rubbish out of the way, as an underworkman'), but in the course of editing, improving, and publishing the hitherto unpublished work of others he made genuine advances in scholarship, particularly in the areas of English lexicography and Gothic studies. The Lye correspondence - in the main a collection of scholarly letters that are also sometimes the personal communications of friends - indicates how varied his interests were, how widely he read, and how frequently he discussed texts, elucidated cruces, and established correct textual readings, often for the first time. This edition presents the 193 letters known to have passed between Edward Lye and forty-five correspondents between 1729 and Lye's death in 1767. English translations are provided for letters written in Latin, Greek, and Swedish, as well as for words and passages in other languages (e.g. Old English, Gothic, Hebrew) discussed in the correspondence. The introduction provides a biography of Lye and a detailed examination of his major scholarly accomplishments: the edition of Franciscus Junius's Etymologicum Anglicanum, published in 1743 with extensive improvements and additions by Lye; the publication in 1750 of Eric Benzelius's edition and Latin translation of the Gothic Gospels (Sacrorum evangeliorum versio Gothica), together with Lye's own contribution of corrections and notes, preface, and a Gothic grammar; the Dictionarium Saxonico- et Gothico-Latinum, completed posthumously by Owen Manning and published in 1772; and an unfinished translation into Latin of the Old English poems of the Caedmon manuscript (Oxford, Bodl. MS. 11). Supporting materials, including biographical records and documents relevant to the edited letters and Lye's publications, are presented in several appendices; there are also biographical notes on Lye's correspondents and a bibliography of manuscripts and printed works. Like A Chorus of Grammars, edited by Richard L. Harris and published in the same series, this book will be of value to all those interested in Germanic philology, the history of Old English and Gothic scholarship, and the work of the sixteenth- to the eighteenth-century antiquaries in England and northern Europe. Languages : English.
Hardback, X+476 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528366. Saints Edith and AEthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton Abbey and the English royal family. St AEthelthryth, who retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages, also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century, allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse texts are presented here in the original and in translation with explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody. These primary source texts are important contributions to the study of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's studies. Languages : English, Middle English.
Paperback, 2 vol., XXIV+1039 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 9782503512556. Latin Culture in the Eleventh Century is a collection of approximately sixty papers presented at the Third International Conference on Medieval Latin Studies held at the University of Cambridge in September 1998. The collection embraces a wide range of fields related to Medieval Latin, including poetry, hymnology, music, theology and philosophy, historiography, and inscriptions, in addition to Latin linguistics and metrics. Contributions are drawn from leading scholars from many European countries as well as from North America and Australia. The volume should prove invaluable to all students of this period. Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, 762 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503511962. Le Compendy de la praticque des nombres, second traite du manuscrit S-XXVI-6 conserve a la Bibliotheque Malatestiana de Cesena en Italie, est au centre de ce travail. Il s'agit d'un traite d'algorisme affilie au groupe des "arithmetiques commerciales" francaises de la fin du Moyen Age. Ecrit au milieu du XVe siecle par le frere dominicain Barthelemy de Romans, il fut remanie par son auteur qui acheva en 1476 la redaction du texte que nous possedons. Le Compendy est un relais essentiel dans la transmission de l'algorisme. Inspire par un traite anonyme compose a Pamiers dans les premieres decennies du siecle, il a aussi puise a d'autres sources, proches du Liber abbaci de Leonard de Pise. Nicolas Chuquet s'en est par la suite fortement inspire pour les parties arithmetiques du Triparty en la science des nombres et comme fonds documentaire pour le choix des problemes. Barthelemy est un lettre, docteur en theologie, qui s'est interesse par ailleurs a la formation mathematique des marchands. Toutefois, dans le cas du Compendy, l'environnement commercial est surtout un pretexte a reflechir sur la resolution generale de quelques types de problemes lineaires. L'auteur souhaite affiner l'intelligence de ses lecteurs ; manifestement son ouvrage ne s'adresse pas au debutant et presente peu d'interet pour qui veut se former aux mathematiques du negoce. Le Compendy est une ?uvre originale et forte, a la frontiere entre manuel de pratique et essai de theorisation, qui se demarque nettement des autres arithmetiques commerciales de l'epoque. La premiere partie de ce livre est une etude autour du Compendy de la praticque des nombres, qui tente d'abord de cerner la place du traite dans le reseau des arithmetiques marchandes meridionales, puis se recentre sur les problemes lineaires privilegies par Barthelemy : analyse mathematique, regard sur les methodes, examen des sources historiques des problemes etudies. Une etude de la langue vient a la fin, qui scrute ses caracteres marquants et observe la maniere dont l'ecriture soutient a la fois des ambitions scientifiques inhabituelles et une volonte enseignante forte. La seconde partie est consacree a l'edition commentee du traite ; le texte est double d'une traduction en francais moderne pour la partie qui fait l'interet et l'originalite de l'ouvrage de Barthelemy. Languages : French.
Paperback, VIII+98 p., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9780888442918. The birth and flowering of canonical jurisprudence in the twelfth century is one of the most striking and fruitful developments of the age, marking an important turn in the history of the Church and in framing the essential elements of the rule of law in political and social life. Raymond of Penyafort was an important participant in these developments. Born near Barcelona in 1175, he became a teacher of canon law at Bologna, the greatest centre of legal studies. He joined the newly founded Order of Preachers (Dominicans), and championed multilingual education of the friars for a more effective evangelization of Muslims and Jews. He became Master General of the Order in 1238, and died in 1275. He was canonized in 1601 and has been declared the patron saint of canon lawyers. Pope Gregory IX appointed Raymond to produce a comprehensive compilation of papal legal decisions. The result, the Decretals of Gregory IX (1234), would remain normative in the Catholic Church until 1917. Raymond drew on it to compose his Summa on Marriage, a summary of learned reflection on the law of marriage, to aid his Dominican brothers in hearing confessions, where numerous problems touching on marriage would have been encountered. The definition of marriage and of its ends, stages and impediments, arrangements and consequences are the subject of the work. This translation of it offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive presentation of the medieval teaching on marriage - learned in content, practical in orientation. Languages : English, Latin.
2005Paperback, XCVII+237 p., 207 b/w ill., 210 x 297 mm. ISBN 9782503518404. The book contains editions of nine Old Uighur translations of Buddhist magical texts, which are compared to their Chinese and/or Tibetan counterparts. No parallel could be found for one sutra, which may be considered as an original Uighur composition and thus deserves special interest. These works based on Central Asian fragments from several Turfan and Dunhuang collections, mainly from the collection of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, through new light into the history of the well established domain of Uighur Tantric Buddhism during the 11th through 14th centuries. Six of these sutras are newly identified texts, while the edition of the well-known sutra on the Great Bear has been improved. German translations and notes accompany the transliterated and transcribed texts. A glossary as well as plates of the edited fragments conclude the volume. Languages: German.
1936Cours recueillis par J. Messager et L. Semah, Elèves de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1 vol. in-4 br., Les Cours de Sorbonne, Certificat d'Etudes Supérieures de Calcul différentiel et intégral, Centre de Documentation Universitaire, Tournier & Constans, Paris, s.d. (circa 1936-1938), pp. 66-113 Fascicule 2 seul. Rare exemplaire de ce cours, provenant (avec quelques annotations et compléments) de la bibliothèque de L. Sémah, l'un des deux normaliens ayant mis en forme le cours de Denjoy. Etat satisfaisant (dos abîmés couv. frottée, bon état avec annotations de Lucien Sémah). Français
1974Environ 110 000 termes, sous la rédaction de L. Vassiliev, G. Garovnikov, N. Trémassov, 1 vol. in-4 cartonnage vert éditeur, Editions "Russkij Jazyk", Moscou, 1974, 800 pp. Bon état Russe
1918RARE collection of articles on Jewish statistics and demography by the leading authorities in the field. [CONTENTS]: Vorwort - Dr. Bruno Blau. Einleitung - Geh. Sanitätsrat Dr. Maretzki / Zur Geschichte des Bureaus für Statistik der Juden in Berlin - Dr. Arthur Ruppin / Die Statistik der Juden und die Statistichen Ämter - Regierungsrat Knöpfel / Judenfrage und Statistik - Prof. Dr. Arthur Cohen / Jüdische Volkskunde und die Einteilung der Statistik der Juden - Dr. Joseph Jacobs / Statistik und Wohlfahrtspflege - Dr. Alfred Nossig / Die Juden in Dänemark, inbesondere in Kopenhagen - Cordt Trap / Die demographische Statistik nach den Konfessionen in den Niederlanden und in Amsterdam im besonderen und ihre Bedeutung für die Statistik der Juden - Falkenburg / Die preussischen Juden als Stadtbewohner / Ein Jubiläums-Projekt - Dr. Jakob Thon / Rassenzüchtung der Juden - Dr. Maurice Fishberg / Grundzüge einer Bevölkerungsstatistik der Juden - Jacob Segall / Die Statistik im Dienste der jüdischen Gemeinden - Dr. W. Hanauer / Die Gesundheitsverhätltnisse der Juden - Dr. Maretzki / Die bisherigen Leistungen und zukünftigen Aufgaben des Bureaus für Statistik der Juden - Dr. Bruno Blau. 225x150mm. 174 pages. Quarter-cloth marbled Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Text block upper edge dyed red. Cover, cover corners and edges rubbed/scratched. Spine edges rubbed and slightly bumped. Few pages and text block edges slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of statistical papers on Jews be eminent social scientists is in good condition.
Hardback, approx. 1200 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503541297. Ce nouveau volume de la Collection de travaux est a bien des egards exceptionnel. C'est l'oeuvre d'une vie, car pendant cinquante ans, jusqu'a sa mort en 2011, Roger Hahn a patiemment rassemble les lettres de Laplace eparses dans les collections publiques et privees. C'est aussi un document capital pour l'histoire du XVIIIe et du XIXe siecle, depuis l'Ancien Regime jusqu'a la Restauration, dans tous ses aspects. En effet, Laplace ne fut pas seulement un scientifique de premier ordre en mecanique celeste, en astronomie, en mathematique, il exerca d'importantes fonctions politiques et administratives sous les regimes successifs. Enfin, la correspondance apporte un temoignage de premiere main, souvent emouvant, sur la vie personnelle et sur l'evolution philosophique du ?« doyen des athees ?». Languages : French.
1855Avec la nomenclature linnéenne et la classification de Cuvier, revue sur l'édition in-4° de l'Imprimerie Royale et annotées par M. Flourens, Nouvelle édition illustrée de 150 planches gravées sur acier d'après les dessins de MM. Traviès et Henry Gobin et coloriées avec le plus grand soin, 1 vol. in-4 reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, dos à 4 nerfs, Garnier Frères, Paris, s.d., (1855-1857), Tome 12 : Expériences sur les végétaux, arithmétique morale et Tables analytiques et raisonnées des matières contenues dans l'ouvrage entier, 824-6 pp. (avec la table de placement des planches) Bon état pour ce tome 12 et dernier de la nouvelle édition Garnier (rel. lég. frottée). Français
Hardback, 1018 p., 20 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528175. Lorsque Philippe d'Orleans devient, a la fin de 1715, regent de France, il est convaincu de l'"utilite des sciences" et resolu a encourager la restauration economique du royaume. Il prend l'initiative d'une grande enquete nationale pour faire l'inventaire des ressources naturelles de la France. Cette enquete est realisee sur le terrain par les intendants, mais sa direction scientifique est confiee a l'Academie royale des sciences et tout particulierement a Reaumur. C'est sur les instructions de celui-ci que, pendant les trois annees qui suivent, les intendants collectent une quantite impressionnante d'informations sur les minerais et les autres ressources minerales, sur les mines et les carrieres, et leur exploitation, sur l'industrie metallurgique, etc. Parviennent aussi a l'Academie des sciences des centaines d'echantillons qui vont etre analyses et titres dans son laboratoire. Les informations ainsi accumulees par l'Academie des sciences ont ete conservees, mais sont restees longtemps presque inconnues des historiens. Pourtant, elles constituent une source de premiere importance pour l'histoire economique et sociale de la France au debut du XVIIIe siecle ; elles concernent aussi l'histoire des sciences et des techniques, l'histoire administrative, l'histoire du langage et bien d'autres domaines. Ces documents sont presentes ici pour la premiere fois dans une edition critique, qui permet aux chercheurs de mieux connaitre l'etat de la France au debut de la Regence. On y trouvera des informations inedites et passionnantes sur l?histoire locale et sur les arts et metiers pratiques dans les differentes generalites (circonscriptions administratives) : Aix-en-Provence, Alencon, Alsace, Amiens, Picardie et Artois, Bordeaux (ou Guyenne), Bourges, Bretagne, Caen, Chalons (ou Champagne), Dijon (ou Bourgogne), Franche-Comte, Grenoble (ou Dauphine), La Rochelle et Aunis, Languedoc, Lille, Limoges, Lorraine, Lyon, Maubeuge (ou Pays-Bas), Metz, Montauban, Moulins, Navarre et Bearn, puis Auch et Bearn, Orleans, Paris, Perpignan (ou Roussillon), Poitiers, Riom (ou Auvergne), Rouen, Soissons, Tours. Languages : French.
1843Firmin Didot, Paris, 1843. Fort et petit In/4 reliure demi chagrin verte, ensemble de tableaux non paginés, une planche rempliée in-fine. Coiffes et mors usés, coins écrasées. Edition stéréotype (1795). Contient un “discours préliminaire sur l’explication, l’usage et la sommation des logarithmes et sur les application à l’astronomie, à la navigation, à la géométrie pratique, et aux calculs d’intérêts ; suivies de nouvelles tables plus approchées, et de plusieurs autres utiles à la recherche de longitudes en mer, etc”.
1879Ouvrage illustré de 4 photogravures et 200 gravures sur bois d'après les monuments de l'art, 2 vol. grand in-8 reliure demi-chagrin à coins rouge, dos à 5 nerfs dorés richement orné, filets dorés en mors et coins, tête dorée, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1879, XII-558 ; 51 8 pp. Agréable exemplaire très bien relié (petit frott. à un mors en queue, bel exemplaire par ailleurs). Français
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.
18901 vol. in-4 reliure d'époque demi-chagrin brun, dos à 4 nerfs dorés, Fanchon et Artus, Paris, s.d. (circa 1890), 896 pp., texte sur 2 colonnes Etat très satisfaisant (reliure lég. frotté avec accroc sans mq. à un plat, bon état par ailleurs) Français
Hardback, approx. X+455 pages ., 2 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503527543. Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by offering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, the chapters here emphasize the 'pragmatic' aspects of humanist study. The volume proposes that the classics continued to be studied in the medieval and Renaissance periods not simply for their cultural or 'ornamental' value, but also for utilitarian reasons, for 'life lessons'. Because the volume goes beyond analysing the educational manuals surviving from the premodern period and attempts to elucidate the teaching methodology of the premodern period, it provides a nuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual. The volume will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students interested in medieval and Renaissance history in general, as well as those interested in the history of educational theory and practice, or in the premodern reception of classical literature. Languages : English.