 | Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0268030839 | ISBN-13: 978-0268030834| Edition: 1st Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked persona...
 |  | Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
Publication Date: 1993Where the boundary lies between falsehood and fiction, between an actual untruth and an admitted invention, has set off many debates in intellectual circles. In classical studies, this issue has gained prominence through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and through recent work on the rhetorical character of ancient historiography. This pathfinding collection of essays charts the borderland between falsehood and fiction in the ancient world, especially by considering how far "lying" was distinguished from "fiction" at different periods and in different genres...
|  | Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0812216547 | ISBN-13: 978-0812216547Seldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of Medieval Europe have much to tell us about the society that defined them. More than just a fascinating cast of characters, the visionaries and sexual dissidents, the suicidal and psychologically unbalanced, the lepers and converts of Medieval times reveal the fears of a people for whom life was made both meaningful and terrifying by the sacred.After centuries of historical silence, these and other disenfranchised members of the medieval public have be...
|  | The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn
Publication Date: March 24, 2012This is a new English translation of a classic of medieval Islamic learning, which illuminates the intellectual debates of its age and speaks vividly to the concerns of our own. It is the most famous work of the Brethren of Purity, a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad.In this rich allegorical fable the exploited and oppressed animals pursue a case against humanity. They are granted the gift of speech and presented as subjects with views and interests of their own. Over the course of the hearing they rebuke and criticise human weakness...
|  | Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture
Publication Date: November 15, 2006In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its three crowns: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social. The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir t...
|  | Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Series Q)
Publication Date: September 22, 1999| Series: Series Q In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to current issues in cultural studies. In the process, she makes important connections between past and present cultures that until now have not been realized. In her pursuit of his...
|  | The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry
Publication Date: November 19, 1987Milman Parry, who died in 1935 while a young assistant professor at Harvard, is now considered one of the leading classical scholars of this century.Yet Parry's articles and French dissertations--highly original contributions to the study of Homer--have until now been difficult to obtain. The Making of Homeric Verse for the first time collects these landmark works in one volume together with Parry's unpublished M.A. thesis and extracts from his Yugoslavian journal, which contains notes on Serbo-Croatian poetry and its relation to Homer.Adam Parry, the late ...
|  | Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past (ND Poetics of Orality and Literacy)
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0268020329 | ISBN-13: 978-0268020323| Edition: 1st Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers, In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on written sources...
|  | The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: October 22, 2012| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 161) The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 bce) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with t...
|  | Elizabeth I and the Sovereign Arts:: Essays in Literature, History, and Culture (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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|  | Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
Publication Date: December 7, 2006With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy ...
|  | Aristotle's Poetics
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|  | A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
Publication Date: April 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0802065481 | ISBN-13: 978-0802065483| Edition: 4th This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in prose are indicated, and references are given to the passages in which they occur. First published in 1894, this is a reprint of the fourth edition (Cambridge University Press, 1960). ...
|  | Lucian: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: December 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521603048 | ISBN-13: 978-0521603041| Edition: 1 Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the original Greek illustrating his range, wit and literary sophistication. Texts include both more and less well-known texts such as The Dream, The Fly, Timon, A Literary Prometheus, Sigma versus Tau and Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. The Introduction discuss...
|  | Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander, Books 5-7. Indica. (Loeb Classical Library No. 269)
Publication Date: January 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0674992970 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992979| Edition: Revised Text and TranslationArrian's Anabasis of Alexander in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. Indica, a description of India and of Nearchus's voyage therefrom, was to be a supplement. A student of Epictetus, Arrian took notes at his lectures and published them (in eight books of which we have four, The Discourses) and also the Encheiridion or Manual of Epictetus. Both works are available in the Loeb Epictetus edition. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Arria...
|  | A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition)
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|  | Dialogi (Oxford Classical Texts)
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|  | Julian, Volume III (Loeb Classical Library, No. 157)
Publication Date: January 1, 1923| ISBN-10: 0674991737 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991736Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate", Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar", and made him governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overth...
|  | Select Letters of Seneca (College Classical Series)
Release Date: June 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0862921201 | ISBN-13: 978-0862921200In Latin, with supporting materials in English. ...
|  | The Development of Arthurian Romance
Publication Date: May 24, 2000Painstakingly researched and brimming with scholarly insight, the masterly study examines the evolution of fiction surrounding the Arthurian legend — from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and the Welsh tales known as The Mabinogion, to Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian stories, as well as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d'Arthur. ...
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