Author: Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Author: Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France
Author: Jan R. VeenstraPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004109254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This volume presents a critical edition of Laurens Pignon's treatise "Contre les devineurs" (1411) and examines its literary and historical context of courtly magic and astrology in Burgundy and France during the reign of Charles VI.
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
Author: Nuria de CastillaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311077965X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and, most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the intellectual history of the manuscript age.
Verrius, Festus, & Paul
Author: Fay GlinisterPublisher: University of London Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Burned, water-damaged, lost for centuries - the text we know today as 'Festus' barely survived to the modern era, but since its re-discovery in the fifteenth century it has exercised some of the greatest minds in the history of scholarship. Today the sole surviving manuscript lies in the airy calm of the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples, a precious link to the great outpouring of scholarship during the last centuries of the Roman Republic. Festus' Lexicon took shape over several centuries through the efforts of three men in particular: Verrius Flaccus, the antiquarian who rose from humble origins to enjoy a successful career in the service of the emperor Augustus; Festus, an obscure intellectual who abridged Verrius' monumental work, partially saving it condemning the rest to oblivion; and Paul the Deacon, the eighth-century monk whose own epitome of Festus formed part of the resurgence of interest in ancient Roman culture at the court of Charlemagne. In this volume, an international group of scholars brought together by the Festus Lexicon Project of UCL's Department of History explores this rich, if problematic, resource. They furnish new interpretations of the text, re-evaluate the careers and scholarship of the three men responsible for its composition and offer fresh insights into its origins, development and textual transmission. Together these papers demonstrate the many ways in which this important text can be used to shed light on a wide range of historical problems.
Harvard University Bulletin
Author: Catalogue of Books
Author: Howell, Edward, firm, booksellers, LiverpoolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description