Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics, 

Автор: Mortimer, Nigel (eton College)
Название: Medieval and early modern portrayals of julius caesar
ISBN: 0198847564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198847564
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Julius Caesar has been a subject of controversy for more than two centuries: over time almost every conceivable characteristic has been attributed to him. New translations of texts written between 1170 and 1574 in French, Latin, Italian, and Middle English are accompanied by commentaries which chart the evolution of this complex, ambiguous figure.

Автор: Stephen G. Nichols, Joachim Kupper, Andreas Kablitz
Название: Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture
ISBN: 1433143178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433143175
Издательство: Peter Lang
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From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest empires and centers of civilization, the Mediterranean generated globalization and multiculturalism. It gave birth to the three great monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—religions of the book, of the land and of the sea. Over the centuries, the Mediterranean witnessed the rise and fall of some of the oldest civilizations in the world. And as these cultures succeeded one another, century after century, each left a tantalizing imprint on later societies. Like the ancient artifacts constantly washed up from its depths, the lost cities and monuments abandoned in its deserts or sunk beneath its waves, Mediterranean topography and culture is a chaotic present spread over a palimpsest many layers deep.

No region grappled more continuously with, nor was more deeply marked by Mediterranean culture and history than Europe. Europe’s religions, its languages, its learning, its laws, its sense of history, even its food and agriculture, all derived from Greek, Roman, and—in the Middle Ages—Muslim and Jewish cultures. The essays in this book lay bare the dynamics of cultural confrontation between Europe and the Mediterranean world from medieval to modern times. One momentous result of this engagement was the creation of vernacular languages and the diverse body of literature, history, and art arising from them. The achievements of the arts reveal—to borrow a geological metaphor—the grinding tectonic pates of Mediterranean cultures and languages butting up against pre-existing European strata.

Автор: Patrick Baker, Ronny Kaiser, Maike Priesterjahn, Johannes Helmrath
Название: Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts
ISBN: 3110472368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110472363
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

Автор: Reviel Netz
Название: Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
ISBN: 1108481477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108481472
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the `canon` made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms of such quantifiable questions. The end result explains why the Greeks were unique in creating a culture based on pluralistic debate.

Автор: Steel
Название: The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
ISBN: 0521729807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521729802
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A comprehensive introduction to Cicero`s writings for students and non-specialists. Draws on recent transformative research on the political and literary culture of the late Roman Republic and presents important new research on Cicero`s reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards.

Автор: Langum
Название: Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN: 1137465581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137465580
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphorfor sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to beangry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers anaccount of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions inreligious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioraldiscussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical andtheological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works ofreligion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated,explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.

Автор: Eran Almagor, Lisa Maurice
Название: The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory
ISBN: 9004347712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004347717
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.

Автор: Roller, Matthew B. (the Johns Hopkins University)
Название: Models from the past in roman culture
ISBN: 1107162599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107162594
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book investigates historical examples in Ancient Roman culture, presenting a coherent model for understanding their rhetorical, moral, and historiographical functions. It will engage anyone interested in how societies, from Ancient Rome to today, evaluate and commemorate past actors, and invoke them as norms or models for later imitation.

Автор: Lundblad Michael
Название: The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture
ISBN: 0190231580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190231583
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Birth of a Jungle probes the historical emergence of the jungle as a discourse in the U.S during the Progressive Era through readings of fiction by Jack London, Frank Norris, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others alongside nonfiction by Darwin, Freud, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Jennings Bryan.

Автор: Soroudi Sorour S.
Название: Persian Literature and Judeo-Persian Culture: Collected Writings of Sorour S. Soroudi
ISBN: 0674053427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674053427
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: S. S. Soroudi`s research concentrated on modern Persian poetry, particularly of the constitutional era; Judeo-Persian literature and folk culture; and the history and culture of Iranian Jewry, which she situated in the larger context of Iranian history. This collection includes one previously unpublished piece and one newly translated into English.

Автор: Noble L.
Название: Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
ISBN: 1349292672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349292677
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.

Автор: Gilhuly Kate
Название: Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
ISBN: 0367594641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367594640
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the question how does a place "get a reputation." The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the meaning of the sexualization of place, and traces the repercussions of these projections. Focusing on Cor