"Exempla" in Context
Author: Fritz Kemmler
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9783878084464
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Models from the Past in Roman Culture
Author: Matthew B. Roller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1107162599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.
Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome
Author: Rebecca Langlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-13
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1107040604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--
Livy's Exemplary History
Author: Jane D. Chaplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780198152743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman historian Livy saw the past as a storehouse of lessons. This text examines how his historical figures manipulate the shifting meaning of the past and reveals Livy's acute sensitivity to contemporary problems.
Tales in Context
Author: Rella Kushelevsky
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 0814342728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim. In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that becameSefer ha-ma'asim,the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe.The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover's wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant's daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories' meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight. The first part of Kushelevsky's work, "Cultural, Literary and Comparative Perspectives," presents the thesis that Sefer ha-ma'asim is a product of its time and place, and should therefore be studied within its literary and cultural surroundings, Jewish and vernacular, in northern France. An investigation of the scribe's techniques in reworking his Jewish and non-Jewish sources into a medieval discourse supports this claim. The second part of the manuscript consists of the tales themselves, in Hebrew and English translation, including brief comparative comments or citations. The third part, "An Analytical and Comparative Overview," offers an analysis of each tale as an individual unit, contextualized within its medieval framework and against the background of its parallels. Elisheva Baumgarten's epilogue adds social and historical background toSefer ha-ma'asim and discusses new ways in which it and other story compilations may be used by historians for an inquiry into the everyday life of medieval Jews. The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.
Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1137531169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.
Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts
Author: Roy Gibson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 900420234X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work.
Like a Captive Bird
Author: Lunette Warren
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2023-04
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1643150391
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Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism
Author: Robert Schuett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 1474423299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.
Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome
Author: Rebecca Langlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-13
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1108640443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking study conveys the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. Its account of 'exemplary ethics' explores how and what Romans learnt from these moral exempla, arguing that they disseminated widely not only core values such as courage and loyalty, but also key ethical debates and controversies which are still relevant for us today. Exemplary ethics encouraged controversial thinking, creative imitation, and a critical perspective on moral issues, and it plays an important role in Western philosophical thought. The model of exemplary ethics developed here is based on a comprehensive survey of Latin literature, and its innovative approach also synthesizes methodologies from disciplines such as contemporary philosophy, educational theory, and cultural memory studies. It offers a new and robust framework for the study of Roman exempla that will also be valuable for the study of moral exempla in other settings.
