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Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028-1740 by Jason Stoessel
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45This collection presents numerous discoveries and fresh insights into music and musical practices that shaped distinctly localized individual and collective identities in pre-modern and early modern... -
Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology by Scott MacDonald 9780801497797
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €36.87The intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical tradition that includes Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas; but surprisingly,... -
Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology by Scott MacDonald 9780801423123
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €51.05The intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical tradition that includes Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas; but surprisingly,... -
Resisting Representation by Elaine Scarry 9780195089646
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €71.48Resisting Representation brings together some of the most provocative essays by leading scholar Elaine Scarry. Through her readings of texts by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others, Scarry... -
Politics Hacks Julian Flanders 9781788400404
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85Understanding the history and significance of today's political climate can be confusing and daunting. Politics Hacks is here to give you quick definitions and background on 100 key political... -
Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature by R. Barton Palmer 9780813069517
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €62.34The rise of an influential new family of poetry in the Middle AgesThis book is the first collective examination of Late Medieval intimate first-person narratives that blurred the lines between... -
Musical Theory in the Renaissance Cristle Collins Judd 9781032918020
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €41.09This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the... -
The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages by Catherine Leglu 9781403976192
Booksplease Price: €55.62This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors,... -
Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography by John V. Fleming
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral... -
Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics: Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci Andrea Falcon 9781032177854
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are... -
The Portable Roman Reader by Various 9780140150568
Booksplease Price: €19.92THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING:... -
Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology by 9781032337005
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call... -
Striving with Grace: Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England by Aaron J Kleist 9780802091635
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €75.96The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace... -
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz by Dr. John Marenbon
Booksplease Price: €30.62From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the... -
The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology by Reinhardt Grossmann
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20Originally published in 1992. The history of Western philosophy can be seen as a battle between those that insist that the "physical universe" exists and those would claim that there is a much larger... -
Platonism Pagan and Christian: Studies in Plotinus and Augustine by Gerard O'Daly
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €42.17This title was first published in 2001. A collection of fifteen studies which explore topics in the psychology and philosophy of mind of Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius, as well as the development... -
Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England by Michiko Ogura 9783631655863
RRP: €39.87Booksplease Price: €36.72This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or... -
C. S. Lewis's List: The Ten Books That Influenced Him Most by Dr David Werther 9781628924138
Booksplease Price: €32.82In 1962, The Christian Century published C. S. Lewis’s answer to the question, “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?” Lewis responded with ten titles,... -
The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology by Reinhardt Grossmann 9780367193898
Booksplease Price: €128.66Originally published in 1992. The history of Western philosophy can be seen as a battle between those that insist that the "physical universe" exists and those would claim that there is a much larger... -
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz by Dr. John Marenbon 9780691142555
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.95From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the... -
C. S. Lewis's List: The Ten Books That Influenced Him Most by Dr. David Werther 9781628924145
Booksplease Price: €122.70In 1962, The Christian Century published C. S. Lewis's answer to the question, "What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?" Lewis responded with ten... -
Aquinas by Eleonore Stump 9780415378987
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €56.28Few philosophers or theologians exerted as much influence on the shape of medieval thought as Thomas Aquinas. He ranks amongst the most famous of the Western philosophers and was responsible for... -
The Sacred Cosmos: Theological, Philosophical, and Scientific Conversations in the Twelfth Century School of Chartres by Peter Ellard 9781589661400
Booksplease Price: €53.15The School of Chartres was a bold intellectual movement of the twelfth century that introduced the World Soul and the Chartrian cosmology to Christendom. In his controversial book, "The Sacred... -
Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. John Marenbon 9780199663224
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval... -
Essays on Medieval German Literature and Iconography by F.P. Pickering 9780521159340
Booksplease Price: €38.22In making this selection of twelve essays spanning the period 1953-77 for this 1980 volume, Professor Pickering bore in mind that many of his recent readers are not students of German, but of... -
Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories by S. Strange 9781780934310
Booksplease Price: €48.05Porphyry (AD 232/3 - C.305) is of crucial importance for the history of Aristotelian studies. Born in Tyre and a student of Plotinus in Rome, he later defended Aristotle's Categories against... -
Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda by Anthony Cirilla
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem... -
Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Arthur Hyman 9781603842082
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €49.22Thomas Williams' revision of Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh's classic compendium of writings in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish medieval philosophical traditions expands the breadth of coverage... -
Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature by George D. Economou 9780268029548
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €69.13The concept of the goddess Natura-one of the most significant allegorical figures of medieval Latin and vernacular poetry-drew upon many strands of classical and Christian thought, from Plato's... -
The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the Non-Aristotelian Traditions by John Marenbon 9789004164871
Booksplease Price: €122.58Medieval logic is usually divided into the branches that derived from Aristotle's organon - the 'logica vetus' and 'logica nova', and those invented in the Middle Ages, the 'logica modernorum'. In... -
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England Erica Weaver 9780198922094
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €88.36Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life. Distraction opened the... -
The Conversion and Therapy of Desire: Augustine's Theology of Desire in the Cassiciacum Dialogues by Mark J. Boone 9780227176665
Booksplease Price: €31.02The first fruits of the literary career of St Augustine, the great theologian and Christian philosopher par excellence, are the dialogues he wrote at Cassiciacum in Italy following his famous... -
Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th centuries: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 2 Sten Ebbesen 9781138265332
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over decades of dedicated research. His crisp and lucid style and his philosophical penetration of often... -
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €74.62Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval... -
The History of Music (Art and Science): From the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Roman Empire by William Chappell 9781108003711
Booksplease Price: €51.93This 1874 account of the music of ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome was the only volume of the author's proposed history of music to be published. William Chappell, eldest son of the founder of... -
Medieval Dream-Poetry by A. C. Spearing 9780521290692
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €24.29A 1976 study of the medieval English dream-poem, set against the background of classical and medieval visionary and religious writings and the theory of dreams from classical times down to Freud and... -
The Testament of Love by Thomas Usk
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.68Shoaf here presents a hitherto neglected Middle English text for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms: Thomas Usk's The Testament of Love. Left unpublished since the nineteenth century, Usk's... -
Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo by Antonio Donato 9783030036102
RRP: €95.19Booksplease Price: €90.56This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni's Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi's The... -
Prayer after Augustine: A study in the development of the Latin tradition by Jonathan D. Teubner 9780198767176
Booksplease Price: €134.05The influence of the theology and philosophy of Augustine of Hippo on subsequent Western thought and culture is undisputed. Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition...