Author: W. Martin BloomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Valerius Maximus & the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Author: W. Martin BloomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Author: W. Martin BloomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807865095
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Valerius Maximus, ›Facta et dicta memorabilia‹, Book 8
Author: John BriscoePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110664372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
There is no modern commentary on the whole of Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia, though commentaries on books 1 and 2 have been published by, respectively, David Wardle (1998) and Andrea Themann-Steinke. Progress is likely to be made by further commentaries on individual books and John Briscoe contributes to this with a commentary on Book 8, of particular interest because of the variegated nature of its subject matter. The commentary, like those of Briscoe’s commentaries on Livy Books 31-45 (OUP, 1973-2012), deals with matters of content, textual issues, language and style, and literary aspects. An ample introduction discusses what is known about the author, the time of writing, the structure both of the work as a whole and of Book 8 itself, Valerius’ sources, language and style, the transmission of the text, editions of Valerius, and the methods of citation used in the commentary. The commentary is preceded by a text of Book 8, a slightly revised version of that in Briscoe’s edition in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (1998), with an apparatus limited to passages where the commentary discusses a textual problem. The book will give readers an understanding of an author once very popular, then long neglected and now enjoying a revival.
Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla
Author: Publisher: Historiography of Rome and Its
ISBN: 9789004499409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.
Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus
Author: Hans-Friedrich MuellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113448836X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Classica et Mediaevalia vol.49
Author: Ole ThomsenPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772895352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 49
Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Sophia PapaioannouPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110699621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, prayers, oracles and other religious matters and processes. The 13 contributions to this volume explore themes and topics that most succinctly describe the firm interrelation between religion and rhetoric mostly in, but not exclusively focused on, Greek and Roman antiquity, offering new, interdisciplinary insights into a great variety of aspects, from identity construction and performance to legal/political practices and a broad analytical approach to transcultural ritualistic customs. The volume also offers perceptive insights into oriental (i.e. Egyptian magic) texts and Christian literature.
The Mirror of Antiquity
Author: Caroline WintererPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
Conciliarism and Church Law in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Thomas E. MorrisseyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242189
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later cardinal, and as a major theorist in the conciliarist movement, Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417) tried to do what a good legal mind does: find and explicate a viable and legal solution to the crises of his time, a solution that would stand up in his own era and for the generations that followed. In this volume Thomas Morrissey looks at what he said, wrote and did, and places him and his thought in the context of the late medieval and early modern era, how he reflected that world and how he influenced it. Particular studies elucidate what he wrote on the authority and on the duty of the people in power, what they could do and should do, as well as what they should not do. They also show how he explored the area of early constitution law and human rights in civil and religious society and that his work leads down the road to our modern constitutional democratic societies. The volume includes two previously unpublished studies, on the situation in Padua c. 1400 and on a sermon from 1407, together with an introduction contextualizing the articles.
Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700)
Author: Karl A. E. EnenkelPublisher:
ISBN: 9058679365
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on by neo-Latin writers between 1400 and 1700.