Author: Howard Elliot BlecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Engaging Terra Strenua
Author: Howard Elliot BlecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Nineveh and Its Remains
Author: Austen Henry LayardPublisher:
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage
Author: Warren S. SmithPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472026291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
The City of the God, Books XVII-XXII
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic
Author: William Warde FowlerPublisher:
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Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Black's Law Dictionary
Author: Bryan A. GarnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780314152343
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
Book Description
The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version
Author: JordanesEurope and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature
Author: Isabella Walser-BürglerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The history of European integration goes back to the early modern centuries (c. 1400–1800), when Europeans tried to set themselves apart as a continental community with distinct political, religious, cultural, and social values in the face of hitherto unseen societal change and global awakening. The range of concepts and images ascribed to Europeanness in that respect is well documented in Neo-Latin literature, since Latin constituted the international lingua franca from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature Isabella Walser-Bürgler examines the most prominent concepts of Europe and European identity as expressed in Neo-Latin sources. It is aimed at both an interested general audience and a professional readership from the fields of Latin studies, early modern history, and the history of ideas.
The Riddle of Jael
Author: P. Scott BrownPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364668
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication In The Riddle of Jael, Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a tent peg through his brain as he slept under her care, was a blessed murderess and an especially fertile moral paradox in the art of the early modern period. Jael’s representations offer insights into key religious, intellectual, and social developments in late medieval and early modern society. They reflect the influence on art of exegesis, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, humanism and moral philosophy, misogyny and the battle of the sexes, the emergence of syphilis, and the Renaissance ideal of the artist.
Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180
Author: Micol LongPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life.