Astrology in Roman Law and Politics by Frederick H. Cramer
Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore by Michael J. Curley
By Michael J. Curley
Essentially the most renowned and commonly learn books of the center a long time, Physiologus includes allegories of beasts, stones, and timber either genuine and imaginary, infused by way of their nameless writer with the spirit of Christian ethical and mystical teaching. observed via an creation that explains the origins, heritage, and literary price of this curious textual content, this quantity additionally reproduces twenty woodcuts from the 1587 model. initially composed within the fourth century in Greek, and translated into dozens of models throughout the centuries, Physiologus will pride readers with its historical stories of ant-lions, centaurs, and hedgehogs—and their allegorical significance. “An dependent little booklet . . . nonetheless diverting to examine this day. . . . The woodcuts reproduced from the 1587 Rome variation are on my own well worth the fee of the book.”—Raymond A. Sokolov, long island instances booklet evaluate
Obras by Espinosa Alarcón, Andrés; Zaragoza Botella, Juan; Llucià,
By Espinosa Alarcón, Andrés; Zaragoza Botella, Juan; Llucià, ca. 120-ca. 190.; Alsina Clota, Josep; Navarro González, José Luis
Gender and Medieval Drama by Katie Normington
By Katie Normington
The point of interest of this learn is upon the Corpus Christi performs, supplemented via different functionality practices akin to festive and social entertainments, civic parades, funeral processions and public punishments. the most argument pertains to the conventional techniques to women's non-performance within the Corpus Christi dramas, yet different elements are thought of and analysed, together with the semiotics of the cross-dressed actor and the importance of the visible and spatial language of the processional level to gender debates. In end, there's a sequence of readings which reconsider the dramatic portrayal of a variety of holy and vulgar ladies - the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Mrs Noah and Dame Procula. The emphasis through the booklet is upon a performance-based research. proof from files of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural resources are drawn jointly with a view to examine how performances in the past due heart a while have been either formed via, and formed, the general public picture of ladies. KATIE NORMINGTON is Lecturer in Drama, Royal Holloway, London.
A history of classical scholarship / Vol. 2, From the by John Edwin Sandys
By John Edwin Sandys
Sir John Edwin Sandys (1844-1922) was once a number one Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's university. His most famed paintings is that this three-volume background of Classical Scholarship, released among 1903 and 1908, which continues to be the single large-scale paintings at the topic to span the total interval from the 6th century BCE to the top of the 19th century. The background of classical experiences used to be a favored subject throughout the 19th century, relatively in Germany, yet Sandys sticks out for the formidable scope of his paintings, even if a lot of it was once in line with prior scholarship. His chronological account is subdivided via style and quarter, with a few chapters dedicated to quite influential members. quantity 2 covers the interval from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.