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Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo by Antonio Donato 9783030036102
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £76.10This 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... -
Plato Revived: Essays on Ancient Platonism in Honour of Dominic J. O'Meara by Filip Karfik 9783110324402
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24The essays compiled in this volume individually address the varied forms in which the revival of Platonism manifested itself in ancient philosophy. It pays special attention to the issues of unity... -
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Literature and Ethics: Essays Presented to A.E. Malloch by Gary Wihl 9780773506626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £5.36Part I examines literary conventions as forms of ethical indecision in studies of Empson, Hamlet, and Elizabethan portraiture. Part II defines the "ethics of the unsaid" as an act of resistance and... -
Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-8 by David L. Blank 9781472558442
Booksplease Price: £40.38Aristotle's On Interpretation, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, analysed in this volume, explain what... -
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music by John Hawkins 9781108029933
Booksplease Price: £49.54Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's... -
Prayer after Augustine: A study in the development of the Latin tradition by Jonathan D. Teubner 9780198767176
Booksplease Price: £112.65The 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... -
The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780241670125
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was... -
Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People Elan Justice Pavlinich 9781032458748
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted in... -
Medieval Thought by David Luscombe 9780192891792
Booksplease Price: £47.22The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine's Christian conversion in 312 to the early sixteenth century. During this time there was remarkable continuity of... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Clemoes 9780521038331
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.12Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while... -
The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature by Anders Cullhed 9783110310863
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £82.48Anders Cullhed's study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary... -
The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature by Anders Cullhed 9783110559248
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.10Anders Cullhed's study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary... -
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393925883
Booksplease Price: £24.38The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of... -
God, Eternity, and Time by Christian Tapp
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful... -
Emotional Practice in Old English Literature by Dr. Alice Jorgensen 9781843847052
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts. Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature... -
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World: Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections by Albrecht Classen 9783110737127
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £77.62Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short... -
Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook by Joshua Parens 9780801449628
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.80Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, has been a classroom favorite since its publication in 1963. When it first appeared, it was the only anthology of... -
Reading Philosophy of Religion Graham Oppy (Monash University, Australia) 9781405170819
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £28.07Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a... -
Reading Philosophy of Religion by Graham Oppy 9781405170826
Booksplease Price: £90.27Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a... -
Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets by David R. Slavitt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.39David R. Slavitt does not believe in literary criticism so much as in 'remarks', and in this witty and unusual work, he remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American... -
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom by David Bradshaw 9780521035569
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius... -
Chaucer`s Philosophical Visions by Kathryn L. Lynch
Booksplease Price: £96.11New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning. Chaucer's Philosophical Visions dramatically extends our sense of the fourteenth-century poet's... -
Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative: From Prudentius to Alan of Lille by Jeffrey Bardzell
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book... -
The Wisdom of the Middle Ages Michael K. Kellogg 9781633882133
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the Middle Ages... -
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard by Dr. John Marenbon 9780521553971
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £70.50This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one... -
The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme: Proof and Belief in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Fosca Mariani Zini 9781350248847
Booksplease Price: £30.54The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme provides a historical-logical analysis of Aristotle's rhetorical syllogism, the enthymeme, through its Medieval and Renaissance interpretations. Bringing together... -
Aurea luce by Cecilia McDowall 9780193378063
Booksplease Price: £5.81for SATB (with divisions) and organ Commissioned and first performed by the choir of Liverpool Cathedral, this anthem is ideal for use during the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The choral lines... -
The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages: A Decorum of Convenient Distinction by Judson Boyce Allen 9781442651395
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably... -
Fifty Key Christian Thinkers by Peter McEnhill
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Fifty Key Christian Thinkers provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. This guide provides an overview of... -
De Nobilitate Animi by Guillelmus
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70Guillelmus de Aragonia was known as a philosopher for his commentary on Boethius and his works on physiognomy, oneirology, and astronomy; he was also a physician, perhaps a personal physician to the... -
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England by Jordan Kirk 9780823294466
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble,... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 95 by W. V. Clausen 9780674379435
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43This volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, "The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Aeschylus, Eumenides 64-88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo"; G. Zuntz,... -
Robert of Chester's Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version: Volume I by H. L. Busard 9783034897082
Booksplease Price: £88.90The Latin "Version II", till now attributed to Adelard of Bath, is edited here for the first time. It was the most influential Euclid text in the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries... -
Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus by Dr Amy Faulkner
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20A new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian principles of use and enjoyment to uncover how these works explore the material... -
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard by Dr. John Marenbon 9780521663991
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.71This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one... -
Robert of Chester's Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version: Volume I by Robert of Chester 9783764326586
Booksplease Price: £91.68The Latin "Version II", till now attributed to Adelard of Bath, is edited here for the first time. It was the most influential Euclid text in the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries... -
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England by Jordan Kirk
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble,... -
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom by David Bradshaw 9780521828659
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius... -
Book of Fortune and Prudence (Llibre de Fortuna i Prudencia) by Bernat Metge
Booksplease Price: £21.04A medieval Catalan verse fantasy by Bernat Metge, the most important Catalan writer of the fourteenth century, Written around 1381 by Bernat Metge, the most important Catalan writer of the...