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  • Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium

    Edited by Kristoffel Demoen, Floris Bernard ...
    Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with a wide variety of subjects. Only now are we beginning to perceive the possibilities that this poetry offers for our knowledge of Byzantine culture in general, for the intellectual history of Byzantium, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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    by Richard Popkin ...
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  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

    A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre

    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

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  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

    by Éric Rebillard ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, Jeanine Routier-Pucci ...
    Series Book 59 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Where is Medieval Philosophy going?

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 13 February 2014

    by Alain de Libera ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Where is medieval philosophy going? It is going to where philosophy is. And it is there where philosophy is going. It became medieval once the Middle Ages were over. It was only philosophy when the Middle Ages were still saeculum modernorum, the “century of the Moderns”, for those living in it. Today, it is going there where she or he who wants to recount, that is, to relate its history, must go. ... Read more

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  • Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

    Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

    by David Jacoby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. This volume is a sequal to the two published in the Variorum Reprints series,in 1975 and 1979 respectively under the following titles: Société et démographie. ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Dei gesta per Francos

    Etudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

    by Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar ...
    Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy, he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli, published in 1945, is still the standard work on the ... Read more

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  • Reconsidering Roman power

    Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

    Edited by Katell Berthelot ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

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  • Constantinople and its Hinterland

    Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

    by Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled ... Read more

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  • Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

    by Max Pearson Cushing ...
    Diderot, writing to the Princess Dashkoff in 1771, thus analysed the spirit of his century: Chaque siècle a son esprit qui le caractérise. L'esprit du nôtre semble être celui de la liberté. La première attaque contre la superstition a été violente, sans mesure. Une fois que les hommes ont osé d'une manière quelconque donner l'assaut à la barrière de la religion, cette barrière la plus formidable ... Read more

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