
Orations, Volume II - Aristides Theodorus, Publius Aelius
Aelius Aristides (117'-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…
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Aelius Aristides (117'-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…
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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC'-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome''s rise from…
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From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic 'stagflation,'…
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Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. In…
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From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas…
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Nigel of Canterbury''s Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales…
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Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important…
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The Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great''s guide for aspiring…
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Paolo Giovio''s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…
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Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of…
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The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and…
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Francesco Petrarca (1304'-1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive…
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This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first…
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Marco Girolamo Vida (1485'-1566), humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clement…
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Kalidasa''s The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuva?sa, belongs to the literary tradition of mahakavya, or court poem. It…
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Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history…
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The Life of Saint Neilos of Rossano is a snapshot of a distinctive moment before the schism between the churches of Rome and…
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Shah Abdul Latif''s Risalo is acknowledged as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this collection of Sufi verses,…
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Francesco Filelfo''s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de'' Medici, discussing the…
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During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…
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Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…
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In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from…
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In the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine''s Soliloquia, which explores…
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John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…
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Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313'-1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous…
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Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems…
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Aldus Manutius (c. 1451'-1515) was the most important scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was…
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American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other economically advanced countries. Americans…
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A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…
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A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…
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Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…
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Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from…
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John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the development of philosophical…
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Theft of a Tree, by the sixteenth-century poet Nandi Timmana, recounts how Krishna stole the parijata, a wish-granting tree,…
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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…
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Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the…
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The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery…
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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…
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The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…
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John Geometres''s Life of the Virgin Mary, a work of outstanding theological sophistication animated by deeply felt devotion…
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Angelo Poliziano (1454'-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…
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Marsilio Ficino (1433'-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival…
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Writings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…
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Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean is a treasure trove of widely translated stories on how to conduct oneself and…
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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…
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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. Critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets…
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Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination…
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