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Book Titulus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Sharpe
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Titulus written by Richard Sharpe and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern perceptions of texts are often not related to the way in which medieval readers understood them conventional titles, for example, are often those supplied by early modern editors rather than by the manuscript tradition. This essay on the fundamental principles of medieval bibliography argues that the tituli and colophons accompanying a text in manuscript should be treated as evidence for the texts bibliographical data and therefore recorded in descriptive catalogues of manuscripts and in bibliographical repertories of texts. The value of medieval library catalogues in showing medieval bibliographical perceptions is illustrated. Bibliographical co-ordinates of author, title, and incipit are discussed in some detail, and the historical accumulation of bibliographical tradition is examined. Reference books intended to assist manuscript cataloguers and students of medieval Latin texts are subjected to criticism; an annotated handlist of such books is included. Many texts in the middle ages were ascribed to various writers, and the habits of titling were far from constant, but the evidence of the manuscripts provides a better basis for understanding the changing perception of texts than has been recognized in the reference literature. Two extended examples demonstrate, on the one hand, a text consistently ascribed in the manuscripts but much misattributed by modern scholars and, on the other, one whose authorship and title were the subject of much medieval alteration but can none the less still be recovered from the tituli.

Book The Publications of the Surtees Society

Download or read book The Publications of the Surtees Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of publications, v. 1-132, in v. 132.

Book The Roman Law of Slavery

Download or read book The Roman Law of Slavery written by William Warwick Buckland and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic and scholarly description of the principles of the Roman law regarding slavery. With appendices and a thorough index. xii, [2], 735 pp.

Book Anachronic Renaissance

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  • Author : Alexander Nagel
  • Publisher : Zone Books
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1942130341
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Anachronic Renaissance written by Alexander Nagel and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or “image made without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.

Book Apocalypsis Explicata Secundum Sensum Spiritualem

Download or read book Apocalypsis Explicata Secundum Sensum Spiritualem written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roman Martyrs

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  • Author : Michael Lapidge
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0198811365
  • Pages : 750 pages

Download or read book The Roman Martyrs written by Michael Lapidge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Martyrs contains translations of forty Latin passiones of saints who were martyred in Rome or its near environs, during the period before the "peace of the Church" (c. 312). Some of the Roman martyrs are universally known-SS. Agnes, Sebastian or Laurence, for example-but others are scarcely recognized outside the ecclesiastical landscape of Rome itself. Each of the translated passiones is accompanied by an individual introduction and commentary; the translations are preceded by an Introduction which describes the principal features of this little-known genre of Christian literature, and are followed by five Appendices which present translated texts which are essential for understanding the cult of Roman martyrs. This volume offers the first collection of the Roman passiones martyrum translated into a modern language. They were mostly composed during the period 425-675, by anonymous authors who were presumably clerics of the Roman churches or cemeteries which housed the martyrs' remains. It is clear that they were composed in response to the explosion of pilgrim traffic to martyrial shrines from the late fourth century onwards, at a time when authentic records (protocols) of their trials and executions had long since vanished, and the authors of the passiones were obliged to imagine the circumstances in which martyrs were tried and executed. The passiones are works of fiction; and because they abound in ludicrous errors of chronology, they have been largely ignored by historians of the early Church. Although they cannot be used as evidence for the original martyrdoms, they nevertheless allow a fascinating glimpse of the concerns which animated Christians during the period in question: for example, the preservation of virginity, or the ever-present threat posed by pagan practices. As certain aspects of Roman life will have changed little between the second century and the fifth, the passiones shed valuable light on many aspects of Roman society, not least the nature of a trial before an urban prefect, and the horrendous tortures which were a central feature of such trials. The passiones are an indispensable resource for understanding the topography of late antique Rome and its environs, as they characteristically contain detailed reference to the places where the martyrs were tried, executed, and buried.

Book The Historical Bulletin

Download or read book The Historical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Touching Parchment  How Medieval Users Rubbed  Handled  and Kissed Their Manuscripts

Download or read book Touching Parchment How Medieval Users Rubbed Handled and Kissed Their Manuscripts written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late middle ages (ca. 1200-1520), both religious and secular people used manuscripts, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of their use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, public reading, and memorializing the dead, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. This second volume, Social Encounters with the Book, delves into the physical interaction with books in various social settings, including education, courtly assemblies, and confraternal gatherings. Looking at acts such as pointing, scratching, and ‘wet-touching’, the author zooms in on smudges and abrasions on medieval manuscripts as testimonials of readers’ interaction with the book and its contents. In so doing, she dissects the function of books in oaths, confraternal groups, education, and courtly settings, illuminating how books were used as teaching aids and tools for conveying political messages. The narrative paints a vivid picture of medieval reading, emphasizing bodily engagement, from page-turning to the intimate act of kissing pages. Overall, this text offers a captivating exploration of the tactile and social dimensions of book use in late medieval Europe broadening our perspective on the role of objects in rituals during the middle ages. Social Encounters with the Book provides a fundamental resource to anybody interested in medieval history and book materiality more widely.

Book John 18 28 19 22 and the Paradox of Judgement

Download or read book John 18 28 19 22 and the Paradox of Judgement written by Blake Wassell and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Blake Wassell applies new Roman and Jewish contexts to a Johannine ambiguity, which is Pilate declaring Jesus both innocent and guilty of making himself King of the Ἰουδαῖοι. Pilate repeats that he finds in Jesus no basis for the accusation, and yet he also writes the content of the accusation in the inscription on the cross. The paradox leads readers into another paradox: the Ἰουδαῖοι make themselves the accused as they make the accusation, and Jesus conquers as he is conquered. The author analyses how they destroy the temple of his body, so that he can raise it and how they exalt him, so that he can reveal himself.

Book Dialogue Against the Jews

Download or read book Dialogue Against the Jews written by Alfonsi Petrus and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before translated into English, this work presents to the reader perhaps the most important source for an intensifying medieval Christian-Jewish debate.

Book Ovid s Revisions

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  • Author : Francesca Martelli
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-12-05
  • ISBN : 1107037719
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Revisions written by Francesca Martelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizes Ovid's tendency to edit his major works and advertise their revised status, a distinctive feature of his literary career.

Book Tradition and Change

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  • Author : Diana Greenway
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-18
  • ISBN : 9780521524995
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Tradition and Change written by Diana Greenway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the cultures of England and Normandy in the period after the Norman Conquest.