Anthologies - Livre I

Anthologies - Livre I
Author: Vettius Valens d'Antioche
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004301410

Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times

Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004341862

Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.

Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors

Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors
Author: Andrew Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351878956

In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the twentieth century, while concentrating its gaze upon the dissemination of scientific ideas and knowledge from Antiquity to the industrial age. In this shift of focus it departs from previous editions, and for the first time a chapter on Islamic science is included. Recurrent themes in several of the ten essays in the present volume are the definition of ’science’ itself, and its transmutation by publishing media and the social context. Two essays on the collecting of scientific books provide a counterpoint, and the book is grounded on a rigorous chapter on bibliographies. The timely publication of Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors comes at the coincidence of the advent of electronic publishing and the millennium, a dramatic moment at which to take stock.

Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)

Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)
Author: Teresa Seruya
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027271437

Among the numerous discursive carriers through which translations come into being, are channeled and gain readership, translation anthologies and collections have so far received little attention among translation scholars: either they are let aside as almost ungraspable categories, astride editing and translating, mixing in most variable ways authors, genres, languages or cultures, or are taken as convenient but rather meaningless groupings of single translations. This volume takes a new stand, makes a plea to consider translation anthologies and collections at face value and offers an extensive discussion about the more salient aspects of translation anthologies and collections: their complex discursive properties, their manifold roles in canonization processes and in strategies of cultural censorship. It brings together translation scholars with different backgrounds, both theoretical and historical, and covering a wide array of European cultural areas and linguistic traditions. Of special interest for translation theoreticians and historians as well as for scholars in literary and cultural studies, comparative literature and transfer studies.

Hellenistic Astrology

Hellenistic Astrology
Author: Chris Brennan
Publisher: Amor Fati Publications
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2017-02-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0998588903

Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was practiced in the Mediterranean region from approximately the first century BCE until the seventh century CE. It is the source of many of the modern traditions of astrology that still flourish around the world today, although it is only recently that many of the surviving texts of this tradition have become available again for astrologers to study. Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune is one of the first comprehensive surveys of this tradition in modern times. The book covers the history, philosophy, and techniques of ancient astrology, with a special focus on demonstrating how many of the fundamental concepts underlying the practice of western astrology originated during the Hellenistic period.

Canadian Books for Young People/Livres canadiens pour la jeunesse, 3e

Canadian Books for Young People/Livres canadiens pour la jeunesse, 3e
Author: Irma McDonough
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 1980-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487586426

This third, completely revised edition contains hundreds of new entries for a total of almost 2,000 children's books and magazines carefully selected and described by a team of children's librarians. Entries are arranged by subject, with reading levels indicated where necessary, and are also listed in a separate author-title index. A list of prize-winning Canadian children's books and a basic book list for librarians, teachers, and parents are included in this charmingly illustrated volume.

Ancient Astrology

Ancient Astrology
Author: Tamysn Barton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134836538

An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world, Ancient Astrology examines the theoretical development and changing social and political role of astrology.

French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)

French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1638
Release: 2007-11-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9047422449

This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.

The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology

The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology
Author: Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004306218

In The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum investigates for the first time the concept of the daimon (daemon, demon), normally confined to religion and philosophy, within the theory and practice of ancient western astrology (2nd century BCE – 7th century CE). This multi-disciplinary study covers the daimon within astrology proper as well as the daimon and astrology in wider cultural practices including divination, Gnosticism, Mithraism and Neo-Platonism. It explores relationships between the daimon and fate and Daimon and Tyche (fortune or chance), and the doctrine of lots as exemplified in Plato’s Myth of Er. In finding the impact of Egyptian and Mesopotamian ideas of fate on Hellenistic astrology, it critically examines astrology’s perception as propounding an unalterable destiny.

Canadian Reference Sources

Canadian Reference Sources
Author: Mary E. Bond
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 1102
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780774805650

In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR