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The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual = Studies in Archaic and Classic…
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also thei…
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- 9789004314849
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- 404 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements
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The Land of the English Kin =The Land of the English Kin
This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke’s work has made on her peers and …
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- 9789004421899
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- 718 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval d…
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- Volume: 12
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- 978-90-04-36377-9
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An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kin…
Author: Stefania Pastore In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner spirituality was a widespread response to the increasing repression of religious dissent enacted by the Inquisition. Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims…
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- Volume: 85
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- 978-90-04-71423-6
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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to M…
In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of t…
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- Volume: 11
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- 9789004255722
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A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume there…
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- Volume 7
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- 9789004523067
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A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and It…
This volume discusses the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet, the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation which was written in Greek in the 10th century and has greatly influenced subsequent dreambooks in Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin, and modern European languages. By comparing the Oneirocriticon with the 2nd-century A.D. dreambook of Artemidoros (translated into Arabic in the…
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- Volume: 36
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- 9789004473461
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Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists
This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography and intellectual contexts, his manuscript remains, and a partial edition of his annotations on Macrobius and Proclus. Through a close analysis of the three prefaces to the …
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- Volume: 1
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- 978-90-04-46548-0
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Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands
This chapter discusses the aims and objectives of the study, a short historiography, a justifcation of the study’s delimitations and the book’s structure.
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- 9783030888671
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- XII, 140
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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500
This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the early, high, and later Middle Ages, covering both the medieval East and West, and representing a wide variety of disciplinary angles and sources. …
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- 978-3-031-48561-9
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- The New Middle Ages
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- XVII, 500
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