The Old English Martyrology
The Old English Martyrology

Author: Christine Rauer

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1843843471

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New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.

Roman Poetry and Prose, Greek Poetry, Etymology, Historiography
Roman Poetry and Prose, Greek Poetry, Etymology, Historiography

Author: Francis Cairns

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine); Virgil: a paradoxical poet? (P.R.Hardie); Herodotus warns the Athenians (John Moles); The magic of names: some etymologies in the Cyranides (David Bain).

Petrarch's Genius
Petrarch's Genius

Author: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0520910907

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Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides—Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer—studied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholars—theologians as well as literary critics and historians.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author: Charles Martindale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-02

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521498852

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

Medieval France
Medieval France

Author: William W. Kibler

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 2071

ISBN-13: 0824044444

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Arranged alphabetically, with a brief introduction that clearly defines the scope and purpose of the book. Illustrations include maps, B/W photographs, genealogical tables, and lists of architectural terms.

Prodigality, Liberality and Meanness
Prodigality, Liberality and Meanness

Author: David Holgate

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-08-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0567286665

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This monograph interprets the parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15.11-32) in the light of Graeco-Roman popular moral philosophy. Luke's special parables are rarely studied in this way, but the results of this study are very fruitful. The unity of the parable is supported, and it is shown to be deeply concerned with a major Lukan theme: the right use of possessions. The whole parable is read in terms of the moral topos 'on covetousness', and shown to be an endorsement of the Graeco-Roman virtue of liberality, modified by the Christian virtue of compassion.