Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome
Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome

Author: Kaj Sandberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-12-05

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 9004355553

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This edited volume brings a variety of approaches to the problem of how the Romans conceived of their history, what were the mechanisms for their preservation of the past, and how did the Romans come to write about their past. Building on important recent work in historiography, and the recent memory turn, the authors consider the practicalities of transmission, literary and generic influences, and the role of the city of Rome in preserving and transmitting memories of the past. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the role history played in Roman life, and the kinds of evidence which could be deployed in constructing Roman history.

POND
POND

Author: Paul T. Gibson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1387065238

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Two women. Two planets. Two mysteries. Only one solution. Follow a girl with no memories as she maneuvers her way through a world of desolation, encountering monsters and mysteries, while searching for a past to explain her present. Delve into her desert-filled dreams, which become disturbingly closer to reality than her waking hours.

Fac et Spera: Joannes Maire, Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657
Fac et Spera: Joannes Maire, Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657

Author: R. Breugelmans

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 900447465X

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During the seventeenth century, Holland's Golden Age, printing and publishing became a flourishing industry. In Leiden, where the presence of a university contributed to that success, Joannes Maire built up, in the course of more than fifty years, a list of at least 527 titles, especially in the fields of medicine, theology and classical philology. Although he is nowadays chiefly remembered as the original publisher of René Descartes's Discours de la methode (1637), his contemporaries knew him better from his numerous editions of works of Desiderius Erasmus. Maire's cooperation in his earlier years as a publisher with the Raphelengii and Thomas Erpenius, professor of Oriental languages in Leiden, and the availability of his books at the fairs of Frankfurt and Leipzig spread his name rapidly in academic circles. Dr Breugelmans's book has several interesting elements. It is the first one to pay attention to a single Leiden printer/publisher on such a large scale. Extensive bibliographical descriptions of Maire's books form the greater part of this publication and the inclusion of their title-pages on a CD-ROM is a novelty too. An introduction, giving substantial information on Maire and his authors and on other aspects of his list, such as the phenomenon of "parallel editions", supplies valuable further information on the working methods of a printer of that period. The inventory of Maire's estate proved to be an important source for his contacts with his colleagues, among them the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp.

Blood Libel
Blood Libel

Author: Magda Teter

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0674240936

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A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges that Jews poisoned wells and desecrated the communion host waned over the years, the blood libel survived. Initially blood libel stories were confined to monastic chronicles and local lore. But the development of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century expanded the audience and crystallized the vocabulary, images, and “facts” of the blood libel, providing a lasting template for hate. Tales of Jews killing Christians—notably Simon of Trent, a toddler whose body was found under a Jewish house in 1475—were widely disseminated using the new technology. Following the paper trail across Europe, from England to Italy to Poland, Magda Teter shows how the blood libel was internalized and how Jews and Christians dealt with the repercussions. The pattern established in early modern Europe still plays out today. In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” The following year white supremacists gathered in England to honor Little Hugh of Lincoln as a sacrificial victim of the Jews. Based on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Blood Libel captures the long shadow of a pernicious myth.