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  • The Dynamics of Paratextuality in Late Antique Literature

    Stumbling Texts

    Edited by Christian Guerra, Markus Kersten, Ann-Kathrin Stähle ...
    Series series sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception
    Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts.Paratexts such as headings, prefaces, letters et al. have largely been skimmed over or completely disregarded in favour of the main ancient work. However, there is now a new wave of scholarship that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • 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

    $12.99 USD

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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

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    by Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

    $22.99 USD

  • Pause and Effect

    An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West

    by M.B. Parkes ...
    From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly debates among writers, literary critics, philosophers, linguists, rhetoricians, palaeographers and all those who study the use of language. To ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Erasmus, Man of Letters

    The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

    by Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine ...
    The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • 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

    $43.99 USD

  • A Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters ... Read more

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  • Critics, Compilers, and Commentators

    An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE

    by James E.G. Zetzel ...
    "To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural identity. Put plainly, philology-the study of language and texts-was important at Rome. Critics, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD