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  • Introducing Roman Declamation

    A New Cultural and Anthropological Perspective

    by Mario Lentano ...
    Translated by William Short ...
    Series series Exeter Language and Lexicography
    Introducing Roman Declamation provides an overview of school declamation, that is, the themes on which students of the Roman rhetorical schools cut their teeth and proved their talent. Beginning in the late Republican period and throughout the entire imperial age, the rhetorical schools were an obligatory step in the curriculum of elite education.Despite its huge importance and the sizeability of ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Long Live Latin

    The Pleasures of a Useless Language

    by Nicola Gardini ...
    A "fascinating" meditation on the joys of a not-so-dead language ( Los Angeles Review of Books).From acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, this is a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it "dead" or not.What use is Latin? It's a question we're often ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • What Was History?

    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    by Anthony Grafton ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Murder Was Not a Crime

    Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic

    by Judy E. Gaughan ...
    Series series Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture
    "Explore[s] with impressive scholarship cases of unlawful killing in the regnal period, the early and mid-republic and the post-Sullan era." —UNRV.comEmbarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    by Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Roman Friendship

    by Craig A. Williams ...
    This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus

    by Pamela Gordon ...
    The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical community, and a way of seeing the world, Epicureanism had a centuries-long life in Athens and Rome, as well as across the Mediterranean.The Invention and Gendering of Epicurusstudies how the Garden's outlook on pleasure captured Greek and Roman ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • A History of Balance, 1250–1375

    The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought

    by Joel Kaye ...
    The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Polish Culture in the Renaissance

    Studies in the arts, humanism and political thought

    by Lepri, Valentina (a cura di), Facca, Danilo (a cura di) ...
    During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international appointment for experts of Renaissance culture, this is the first time that characteristic features of sixteenth-century Poland were the subject of analysis and debate. The interest ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus