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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Flora's Dictionary. [A treatise on the language of flowers. With a series of poetical extracts.] By a Lady
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Author: Flora's Dictionary
Author: Elizabeth Washington WirtPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Oxford Dictionary of English
Author: Angus StevensonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199571120
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 2093
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.
A Philosophical Dictionary
Author: VoltaireThe Popol Vuh
Author: Lewis SpencePublisher: New York : AMS Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Debate of the Romance of the Rose
Author: Christine de PizanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226670147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365–1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose,” David Hult collects, along with the debate documents themselves, letters, sermons, and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from City of Ladies—her major defense of women and their rights—that give context to this debate. Here, Pizan’s supporters and detractors are heard alongside her own formidable, protofeminist voice. The resulting volume affords a rare look at the way people read and thought about literature in the period immediately preceding the era of print.
The Study of Sociology
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher: London, D. Appleton
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
Author: ApiciusPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome" by Apicius is the oldest known cookbook in existence. There are recipes for cooking fish and seafood, game, chicken, pork, veal, and other domesticated animals and birds, for vegetable dishes, grains, beverages, and sauces; virtually the full range of cookery is covered. There are also methods for preserving food and revitalizing them in ways that are surprisingly still relevant.
Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Author: John O. WardPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004368078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture. It is commonly believed that medieval writers were interested only in Christian truth, not in Graeco-Roman methods of ‘persuasion’ to whatever viewpoint the speaker / writer wanted. Dr Ward, however, investigates the content of well over one thousand medieval manuscripts and shows that medieval writers were fully conscious of and much dependent upon Graeco-Roman rhetorical methods of persuasion. The volume then demonstrates why and to what purpose this use of classical rhetoric took place.
Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal
Author: Thomas KrenPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.