cornell university press 2011 medieval and renaissance studies catalog
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This catalog features Cornell University Press's new and recent titles in medieval and renaissance studies. Categories included in this catalog are: Medieval art, Medieval philosophy, early middle ages, medieval France, medieval Europe and the Near East, apocalypticism, astrology, magic, the occult, Renaissance and early modern England, Renaissance and early modern Europe, The Classical Age, Late Antiquity. Books distributed for Leuven University Press and in the Islandica series are also included in this catalog.TRANSCRIPT
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New and Recent Books in
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESSwww.cornellpress.cornell.edu
Cornell University Press
T a b l e o f C o n T e n T s
Medieval Art………………………………………..1General interest…………………………….………3Medieval Philosophy……………………………….4early Middle Ages………………………………….5Medieval France……………………………………6Medieval europe and the near east………………9Apocalypticism, Astrology, Magic, and the occult……………………………..10 islandica……………………………………………12 leuven University Press…………………………..13renaissance and early Modern england………..15renaissance and early Modern europe………..18the Classical Age and late Antiquity……………20
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Also of Interest
the AnnAles sChoolAn Intellectual HistoryAndré Burguière
TrAnslATed By JAne MArie Todd Foreword By TiMoThy TAckeTT
“This is a lively and very personal account of the single most influential school of history of our time. André Burguière offers just the right mix of inside infor-mation, careful explanation, and provocative reinterpretation of who and what mattered during the halcyon years of the Annales school.”
—lynn hunT, uclA2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4665-8 | 328 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
Why FrAnCe?American Historians Reflect on an Enduring FascinationediTed By lAurA lee downs And sTéphAne gerson
AFTerword By roger chArTier
“This eminently readable book is a must-read for all teachers of French civilization.”
—French review
2009 (2006) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7570-2 | 256 pages | $21.95 $17.56 catalog price
Cover Illustration: Pre-Christian kings and prophets examining codices and looking to the heavens, from the fourteenth-century Austrian manuscript, Losbuch in deutschen Reimpaaren (Cod. S.n. 2652, fol. 2v), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Photograph copyright ÖNB Vienna.
Featured on the jacket of A Kingdom of Stargazers (see page 10).
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Medieval arT
AnGlo-sAXon Artleslie weBsTer
This is the first new introduction to Anglo-Saxon art in twenty-five years and the first book to take account of the 2009 discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard—the largest cache of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, and illustrated with many of the most impres-sive artifacts, it will be the authoritative book on the subject for years to come.
From its first manifestations in the metalwork and ceramics of the early settlers, Anglo-Saxon art displays certain inherent and highly distinctive stylistic and iconographic features. Despite the many new influences that were regularly absorbed and adapted by Anglo-Saxon artists and craftsmen, these characteristics con-tinued to resonate through the centuries in the great manuscripts, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture of this inventive and creative culture. Anglo-Saxon Art—which features 150 color and black-and-white illustrations—is arranged thematically while following a broadly chronological sequence. An introduction highlights the character of Anglo-Saxon art, its leitmotifs, and its underlying continuities. Leslie Webster places this art firmly in its wider cul-tural and political context while also examining the significant conceptual relationship between the visual and literary art of the period. 2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7766-9 | 256 pages$29.95 $23.96 catalog price | 140 color illustrations
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Medieval arT
Art oF the Celts700 B.C. to A.D. 700ediTed By Felix Müller
“This informative book begins in 700 B.C. with colorful display pot-tery and proceeds through the centuries to book illuminations created in Christian monasteries in the eighth century. This book concentrates on ornamentation as the Celts’ main form of expression: weapons, hel-mets, chariots, pottery, jewelery, and coinage are shown in color and black-and-white photographs.”
—The Globe & Mail (ToronTo)2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4869-0 | 304 pages | $70.00 $56.00 catalog price450 illusTrATions
introdUCtion to MAnUsCriPt stUdiesrAyMond cleMens And TiMoThy grAhAM
“This beautifully illustrated, skillfully organized resource is an ideal survey of the field, valuable for presenting information critical to new students and veteran scholars, for teaching the history and scope of the medieval manu-script.”
—choice
2007 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8708-8 | 320 pages | $39.95 $31.96 catalog price150 pAges oF ArT, color ThroughouT
sPlendoUr oF the BUrGUndiAn CoUrtCharles the Bold (1433–1477)ediTed By susAn MArTi, Till-holger BorcherT, And gABriele keck
The essays in Splendour of the Burgundian Court—biographies of rul-ers, political history, and analyses of court art—form a comprehensive portrait of the Burgundian court. Its splendid full-color illustrations vividly bring to life both the brilliance and the drama of the epoch.2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4853-9 | 384 pages | $80.00 $64.00 catalog price350 color illusTrATions
Also of Interest
eAtinG BeAUtyThe Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle AgesAnn w. AsTell
“This magisterial theo-aesthetic study forges new territory as it historicizes varying medieval interpretations of the eucharistic sacrament in medieval Christianity. Astell’s nuanced Eating Beauty demonstrates in every dimension how the Eucharist yokes the human to the divine in a via pulchritudinis.”
—Bonnie wheeler, souThern MeThodisT universiTy
2006 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4466-1 | 312 pages | $39.95 $31.96 catalog price11 color phoTogrAphs, 1 hAlFTone
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general inTeresT
THEGOODWIFE’SGUIDE
Le Ménagier de Paris
A Medieval
Household Book
Translated by
Gina L . Greco &
Christine M. Rose
the Good WiFe’s GUide (le mÉNAGIer De PArIS)A Medieval Household Book
TrAnslATed By ginA l. greco And chrisTine M. rose
“The Good Wife’s Guide is a highly interesting medieval work: this anonymouscompilation of instructive materials drawn from different branches of knowl-edge has all the good qualities of a summa, but it also has controversial mes-sages about a woman’s subservient roles in family and society. Greco and Rose offer not only a modern and integral rendition of the Old French text but also
a reinterpretation of it.”—SPeculuM
2009 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7474-3 | 384 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog price
MerlinKnowledge and Power through the Ages
sTephen knighT
“Stephen Knight’s wide-ranging, thorough, insightful, and comprehensive studyof the fi gure of Merlin should become the standard resource on the well-known wizard. Knight shows real familiarity with the major traditions relating to the fi gure of Merlin and to Arthurian literature in general—which is no mean feat
when covering such a large body of material.”—AlAn lupAck, AuThor oF The oxFord Guide To arThurian
liTeraTure and leGend
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4365-7 | 296 pages | $27.95 $22.36 catalog price
New in Paperback
roBin hoodA Mythic BiographysTephen knighT
“Knight’s book documents the enormous scope of the myth—revolutionary,reactionary, chivalric, homosexual, patriotic, or whatever the audience will allow, even slapstick. A fi nal mythic trait of Robinalia is its ability to parody
itself.”—arThurian liTeraTure and leGend
2009 (2003) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8992-1 | 272 pages | $19.95 $15.96 catalog price
Also of Interest
GilGAMesh AMonG UsModern Encounters with the Ancient Epic
Theodore ziolkowski
“Theodore Ziolkowski is immensely learned and has read a staggeringarray of modern publications that somehow or other use Gilgamesh. He is interested to know why the epic evokes such a response and links it to vari-ous movements in the arts and literature, especially in the United States, as
well as to specifi c social conditions in Germany.”—BenJAMin r. FosTer, TrAnslATor oF The
norTon criTicAl ediTion oF The ePic oF GilGaMeSh
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-5035-8 | 248 pages | $35.00 $28.00 catalog price
2010 Choice Magazine
OutstandingAcademic Title
Winner of theMythopoeic Scholarship
Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
given by the Mythopoeic Society
Cornell University Press4
Medieval PhilosoPhy
MedievAl PolitiCAl PhilosoPhyA Sourcebook, Second ediTion
ediTed By JoshuA pArens And Joseph c. MAcFArlAnd
Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, has been a classroom standard since its publication in 1963. The new edition, revised and enlarged by Joshua Parens and Joseph C. Macfarland, makes accessible to today’s students the insights of the major medieval thinkers from all three Western monotheistic tra-ditions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Prior to the modern separa-tion of religion from politics, medieval thinkers explored a variety of approaches to the relation between religion and politics—approaches still relevant in a world divided over how best to relate the two.2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7681-5 | 424 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog priceAgorA ediTions
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AQUinAs’s MorAl theoryEssays in Honor of Norman KretzmannedTed By scoTT MAcdonAld And eleonore sTuMp
“The volume demonstrates the truth of two of Kretzmann’s most deeply heldbeliefs about medieval philosophy: that philosophers today can still profit from care-ful study of Aquinas and that, despite the excellent work already being done in this field, there is much more work to be done.”
—Journal oF The hiSTory oF PhiloSoPhy
2008 (1999) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7413-2 | 296 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
Table of ConTenTs
ParT i—PoliTiCal PhilosoPhy in islaM, ediTed by Joshua Parens
1. Alfarabi, The Enumeration of the Sciences; 2. Alfarabi, The Book of Religion; 3. Alfarabi, The Political Re-gime; 4. Alfarabi, The Attainment of Happiness; 5. Alfarabi, Plato’s Laws; 6. Avicenna, On the Divisions of the Rational Sciences; 7. Avicenna, Healing: Metaphysics; 8. Alghazali, The Deliverer from Error; 9. Ibn Bajja, The Governance of the Solitary; 10. Ibn Tufayl, Hayy the Son of Yaqzan; 11. Averroes, The Decisive Treatise
ParT ii—PoliTiCal PhilosoPhy in JudaisM, ediTed by Joshua Parens
12. Saadya Gaon, The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs; 13. Judah Halevi, The Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion, or, The Kuzari; 14. Maimonides, Logic; 15. Maimonides, The Guide of the Per-plexed; 16. Maimonides, Eight Chapters; 17. Maimonides, Letter on Astrology; 18. Isaac Polgar, The Support of Religion; 19. Abravanel, Commentary on the Bible
ParT iii—PoliTiCal PhilosoPhy in ChrisTianiTy, ediTed by Joshua Parens
20. Roger Bacon, Opus Maius: Moral Philosophy; 21. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics; 22. Thomas Aquinas and Peter of Auvergne, Commentary on the Politics; 23. Boethius of Dacia, On the Supreme Good; 24. Condemnation of 219 Propositions; 25. Giles of Rome, On Ecclesiastical Power; 26. Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers; 27. Dante Alighieri, Monarchy; 28. Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of the Peace; 29. William of Ockham, The Dialogue
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early Middle ages
WoMen And AristoCrAtiC CUltUre in the CArolinGiAn World
vAlerie l. gArver
“This fascinating book should appeal to medievalists in all fields, particularly thoseinterested in gender history and art history. Valerie L. Garver successfully argues that women played fundamental roles in defining and transmitting aristocratic cul-
ture in the period from c. 700 to 925.”—JAne schulenBurg, AuThor oF ForGeTFul oF Their Sex
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4771-6 | 336 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
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strUGGle For eMPireKingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817–876
eric J. goldBerg
“A highly readable and well-illustrated account of an important stage of the early Middle Ages.”—aMerican hiSTorical review
2009 (2006) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7529-0 | 416 pages | $27.95 $22.36 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
the divorCe oF lothAr iiChristian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World
kArl heidecker
TrAnslATed By TAnis M. guesT
“This is a solid analysis of an intriguing episode in Late Carolingian history that not only examines the juridical aspects of the case but also pays much attention to realpo-litik. In Heidecker’s lucid treatment, the ninth-century scandal becomes a fascinating
study of family dynamics, changing mental attitudes, and Carolingian reform”—wAlTer siMons, dArTMouTh college
2010 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3929-2 | 240 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
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eMotionAl CoMMUnities in the eArly Middle AGes
BArBArA h. rosenwein
“Historians have always been puzzled by medieval descriptions of emotions. They interpreted them in simplistic terms, or at best explained displays of emotion as ritual performances quite unconnected to what people really felt. Rosenwein, using recent psychological theory, opens doors to a completely new understanding of past emotions.”
—wAlTer pohl, universiTy oF viennA
2007 (2006) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3 | 248 pages | $21.00 $16.80 catalog price
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the PeACe oF GodSocial Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000
ediTed By ThoMAs heAd And richArd lAndes
During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunderwent unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initia-tive known as the Peace of God, perhaps history’s earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the move-
ment and episodes in its history. 1992 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8021-8 | 384 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog price
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Medieval franCe
Out Of lOve fOr my kin Aristocrat ic family life in the lands of the loire, 1000–1200
A m y L i v i ngs ton e
the serF, the KniGht, And the historiAndoMinique BArThéleMy
TrAnslATed By grAhAM roBerT edwArds
“Dominique Barthélemy’s willingness to challenge received opinion marks an im-portant contribution which all those interested in medieval France at a critical period will find stimulating.”
—TiMeS liTerary SuPPleMenT
2009 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7560-3 | 368 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
oUt oF love For My KinAristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000–1200AMy livingsTone
“Amy Livingstone has addressed a central question about medieval family structure. Out of Love for My Kin is clearly based on an intimate knowledge of an enormous amount of primary information—to the extent that she often appears personally ac-quainted with the families discussed—and she is up to date on the vast modern lit-erature as well.”
—consTAnce BriTTAin BouchArd, universiTy oF Akron
2010 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4841-6 | 296 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
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BeGGinG PArdon And FAvorRitual and Political Order in Early Medieval FrancegeoFFrey koziol
“Begging Pardon and Favor is immensely well informed, reasoned, insightful, and stimulating.”
—SPeculuM
2011 (1991) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7753-9 | 480 pages | $35.00 $28.00 catalog price
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holy entrePreneUrsCistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century BurgundyconsTAnce BriTTAin BouchArd
“In addition to being an important revisionist study of Burgundian Cistercianeconomic practices, this clear book is an excellent brief introduction for anyone wish-ing to understand twelfth-century charters and cartularies.”
—aMerican hiSTorical review
2009 (1991) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7525-2 | 260 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog price
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sWord, Miter, And CloisterNobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1198consTAnce BriTTAin BouchArd
In Sword, Miter, and Cloister, Constance Brittain Bouchard provides a fresh perspective on social and ecclesiastical life in the High Middle Ages. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources, she reveals the surprisingly close relationship between the nobility and reformed monasteries in Burgundy.2009 (1987) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7526-9 | 464 pages | $35.00 $28.00 catalog price
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Medieval franCe
the holy BUreAUCrAtEudes Rigaud and Religious Reform in Thirteenth-Century Normandy
AdAM J. dAvis
“Davis has come as close to writing the biography of a thirteenth-century bishopas is achievable. A very fi ne study, more scholarly though not less fascinating than
Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou, and deserving just as wide a readership.”—bioGraPhy
2006 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4474-6 | 288 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
New in Paperback
the MAKinG oF sAint loUisKingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages
M. ceciliA gAposchkin
“This elegant and thoroughly researched book makes a signifi cant contributionto our understanding of late medieval sanctity, the relationship between sanctity and kingship, and the way that sermons, liturgy, and hagiography shaped the construc-
tion of memory.”—aMerican hiSTorical review
2010 (2008) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7625-9 | 352 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
CreAtinG CisterCiAn nUnsThe Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in
Thirteenth-Century ChampagneAnne e. lesTer
“In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester makes a number of important and compelling arguments that will change our views of the relationship between the Cistercian order and women in the thirteenth century, the institutional shape and function of Cistercian nunneries, and the range of institutional responses to the urge
to live the apostolic life in thirteenth-century France.”—shAron FArMer, AuThor oF SurvivinG PoverTy in Medieval PariS
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4989-5 | 264 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
Now Available from Cornell with a New Introduction
FriendshiP And CoMMUnityThe Monastic Experience, 350–1250
BriAn pATrick Mcguire
“McGuire shows the development of medieval ideals of friendship and communityfrom antiquity to the high Middle Ages. Current interest on the topic is high, in
large part due to McGuire’s book.”—c. sTephen JAeger, universiTy oF illinois AT urBAnA-chAMpAign
2010 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7672-3 | 648 pages | $35.00 $28.00 catalog price
so GreAt A liGht, so GreAt A sMoKeThe Beguin Heretics of Languedoc
louisA A. BurnhAM
“This book is an incredibly thorough piece of work, immensely readable, and stuffed with fascinating stories. I particularly like the fact that Louisa A. Burnham
solved a couple of age-old mysteries during the course of her research.”—cATherine Jinks, AuThor oF The SecreT FaMiliar
2008 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4131-8 | 240 pages | $39.95 $31.96 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
Honorable Mention, 2008 James P. Hanlan
Book Award given by the New England Historical
Association
alSo oF inTereST
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Medieval franCe
GUillAUMe de MAChAUtSecretary, Poet, MusicianelizABeTh evA leAch
“This must be the best, and is surely the fi rst really complete, treatment of Machaut,the fi rst to treat him as poet and musician and courtier and show why it’s important to do so. I have never read anything that did nearly so good a job of showing how musical and poetic language interact.”
—winThrop weTherBee, cornell universiTy
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4933-8 | 360 pages | $59.95 $47.96 catalog price
Also of Interest
sUnG BirdsMusic, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle AgeselizABeTh evA leAch
“This is a fi ne book and is useful for bringing the technical skills of the medievalmusicologist to bear on issues important to any historian of medieval court life and the complex interplay between orality and literacy.”
—aMerican hiSTorical review
2006 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3 | 368 pages | $57.95 $46.36 catalog price
sACred FollyA New History of the Feast of FoolsMAx hArris
“In this bracingly revisionist book, Max Harris overturns long-held assump-tions about the nature and functions of the Feast of Fools. Denounced by fi fteenth-century French theologians as a wanton and ungodly rite, the Feast of Fools was in reality, as Harris shows, a reverential, not a rowdy, holiday.”
—clAire sponsler, universiTy oF iowA
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4956-7 | 336 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
KnoWinG PoetryVerse in Medieval France from the Rose to the RhétoriqueursAdriAn ArMsTrong And sArAh kAy
“Does verse convey a different kind of knowledge than prose in the later Middle Ages? Yes and no, according to the authors of this erudite and entertaining book. Verse can convey knowledge as profound as does prose, but it does so differently: verse links the quest for knowledge to orality, performance, and personifi cations and thus invites its readers to engage in a different kind of epistemology: ‘verse’s ways of knowing.’”—renATe BluMenFeld-kosinski, universiTy oF piTTsBurgh
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4973-4 | 256 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
A CoMMon stAGeTheater and Public Life in Medieval ArrascArol syMes
• Winner of the 2008 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize given by the American Historical Association
• Winner of the David Pinkney Prize given by the Society for French Historical Studies
• Winner of the 2008 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies given by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4581-1 | 376 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
Studies
Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize given by the Medieval
Academy
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Medieval euroPe and The near easT
eneMies And FAMiliArsSlavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
deBrA BluMenThAl
“Enemies and Familiars is a terrifi c piece of work that provides complete and bold newvistas on the lives of slaves during the transition to modernity and on the eve of the Atlantic slave trade. I have seldom seen a book with such a wealth of truly interesting
material, nor have I often seen such evidence so artfully used.”—TeoFilo F. ruiz, uclA
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4502-6 | 328 pages | $42.50 $34.00 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
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the sePhArdiC FrontierThe Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
JonAThAn rAy
“Ray’s book fi rmly places the Jewish communities that he studies in a medieval Span-ish setting and, as such, reduces the ‘background noise’ generated by the ultimate fate of these settlements in 1492 and of their European successors in the twentieth cen-tury. By this very feat, Ray’s book qualifi es as a truly remarkable accomplishment.”
—SPeculuM
2008 (2006) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7451-4 | 224 pages | $21.00 $16.80 catalog price
idols in the eAstEuropean Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
suzAnne conklin AkBAri
“Idols in the East makes clear how wide a range of evidence there is for a discourseof medieval Orientalism and how such a discourse might be understood in the present.”
—iAin MAcleod higgins, universiTy oF vicToriA
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4807-2 | 336 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
Winner of the 2010 Premio Del Rey given by the
American Historical Association
Cowinner of the 2010 John
Nicholas Brown Prize given by the
Medieval Academy of America
heresy And the PolitiCs oF CoMMUnityThe Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
MArinA rusTow
“By integrating Jewish and Islamic history into a seamless whole, Rustow illumi-nates both fi elds and thereby fully engages the scholarly discipline of history rather than occupying its margins. This book is one of the most accomplished syntheses of Geniza sources available, building upon the pivotal work of S. D. Goitein, who tried
to study medieval Jewish history in all its dimensions, especially the social.”—aMerican hiSTorical review
2008 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4582-8 | 472 pages | $57.95 $46.36 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
Winner of the 2008 Salo W. Baron Prize given by the American
Academy for Jewish Research
PAssion And orderRestraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
cArol lAnsing
“This is a bold and generous book. Carol Lansing addresses central historical issuesin this wide-ranging and immensely stimulating cultural history of the expression of grief in medieval Italian cities. Her learned and thoughtful exposition will engage
both experts and students alike. ”—MAureen c. Miller, universiTy oF cAliForniA, Berkeley
2008 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4062-5 | 264 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
Winner of the 2008
Howard R. Marraro Prize given by the American Catholic
Historical Association
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aPoCalyPTiCisM, asTrology, MagiC, and The oCCulT
A KinGdoM oF stArGAzersAstrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of AragonMichAel A. ryAn
“A Kingdom of Stargazers affords a welcome glimpse into the ambiguous positionof astrology, magic, prophecy, and divination in the royal court of Aragon in the later Middle Ages.”
—lAurA AckerMAn sMoller, AuThor oF hiSTory, ProPhecy, and The STarS
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4984-0 | 232 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
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disCerninG sPiritsDivine and Demonic Possession in the Middle AgesnAncy cAciolA
“The groundbreaking work on exorcism manuals and the impressive rangeof sources handled throughout the book are particularly noteworthy. More-over, the striking visual evidence is clearly presented, lucidly analyzed, and tightly interwoven with the rest of the argument.”
—SPeculuM
2006 (2003) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7334-0 | 352 pages | $22.95 $18.36 catalog priceconJuncTions oF religion And power in The MedievAl pAsT
Back in Print—Now Available in Paperback from Cornell
the PoWers oF ProPheCyThe Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the EnlightenmentroBerT e. lerner
“This is an important book for anyone who wishes to understand better the late medieval mind, who is fascinated by popular history, and for those who study the history of eschatology. It is also a book to be enjoyed by the serious scholar as well as by the general reader as it offers stimulating insights into the human mentality.”
—aMerican hiSTorical review
2009 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7537-5 | 264 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog price
A Backlist Favorite
the APoCAlyPse in the Middle AGesediTed By richArd k. eMMerson And BernArd Mcginn
This richly interdisciplinary collection of seventeen eesays by an impressive array of medievalists offers an overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages. Each one fo-cuses on some aspect of John’s great visionary text, specifically analyzing its interpretation, representation, and manipulation in medieval culture, his-tory, religion, art, and literature.1993 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9550-2 | 448 pages | $34.95 $27.96 catalog price
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the seCret history oF herMes trisMeGistUsHermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times
FloriAn eBeling
TrAnslATed By dAvid lorTon
Foreword By JAn AssMAnn
“The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus skillfully introduces the reader to the many gods, philosophers, scholars, and authors who comprise the Her-metic tradition. In this excellent book Florian Ebeling makes accessible a rich chapter of intellectual history, hitherto basically the preserve of a small group of specialists.”—richArd JAsnow, The Johns hopkins universiTy
2011 (2007) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7749-2 | 176 pages | $19.95 $15.96 catalog price
the oCCUlt MindMagic in Theory and Practice
chrisTopher i. lehrich
“This book is an intriguing hermeneutical analysis of magical consciousness that provides insight into the logic and internal meaning of occult traditions and
texts, while illuminating the thought of seminal scholars of religion.”—choice
2009 (2007) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7535-1 | 272 pages | $19.95 $15.96 catalog price
PythAGorAsHis Life, Teaching, and Influence
chrisToph riedweg
TrAnslATed By sTeven rendAll
“Christoph Riedweg fully treats the archaic school or cult founded byPythagoras. He gives a rich picture of Pythagoras as a figure of legend, with abundant details from the Neoplatonist ‘Lives’ of Pythagoras, including many
supernatural exploits and edifying stories.”—chArles h. kAhn, AuThor oF PyThaGoraS and The PyThaGoreanS
2008 (2005) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7452-1 | 198 pages | $19.95 $15.96 catalog price
MeAsUrinG heAvenPythagoras and His Influence on Thought and
Art in Antiquity and the Middle AgeschrisTiAne l. JoosT-gAugier
“Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier offers a comprehensive survey of the bio-graphical fragments, legends, and myths around the life of Pythagoras and impressively compiles early interpretations of Pythagorean philosophy and the
web of influence Pythagoreanism has had on Western philosophy,culture, science, and art. Well written and useful to many disciplines,
Measuring Heaven is an invaluable resource.”—Arielle sAiBer, Bowdoin college
2007 (2006) | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7409-5 | 384 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog price
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islandiCa: a series in iCelandiC and norse sTudiesPublished by Cornell universiTy library and disTribuTed by Cornell universiTy Press
“sPeAK UseFUl Words or sAy nothinG”Old Norse StudiesJoseph hArris
ediTed By susAn e. deskis And ThoMAs d. hill
This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of Joseph Harris’smost important essays underscores the range of his work from critical readings of canonical texts to philological elucidation of Old Norse and Old English literary works to discussions of larger theoretical issues such as oral theory.2009 | Paper ISBN 978-0-935995-13-8 | 264 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
neW norse stUdiesJeFFrey Turco
New Norse Studies features thirteen original contributions on medieval Icelandic literature and society by an international constellation of established and emerging voices in the field. Topics include Norse mythology; skal-dic poetics; the proverb, ballad, and exemplum; Biblical typology and saga narrative; psychological, postcolo-nial, and gender-studies approaches to medieval Icelandic literature; and the Latin background of saga-writing. 2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-935995-23-7 | 250 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
WordMonGersManuscript Culture in the Age of Print and the Case of Nineteenth-Century IcelanddAvid olAFsson
This book is a study of manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. While the first part explores theflourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond during the last generation and advocates a radical revision of traditional dichotomies in favor of more complex paradigms, the second part focuses on literary and scribal culture in nineteenth-century Iceland, both the societal framework of textual creation and consumption and the specific case of the farmer, fisherman, and scribe Sighvatur Grímsson (1840–1930) and his cultural environment. 2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-935995-11-4 | 250 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog price
roMAnCe And love in lAte MedievAl And eArly Modern iCelAndEssays in Honor of Marianne KalinkeediTed By kirsTen wolF And JohAnnA denzin
Marianne Kalinke made profound contributions in Old Norse-Icelandic literatureover her distinguished career of teaching and writing. She is perhaps best known for her Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, also in the Islandica series. This volume in her honor features new essays by fourteen authors on the theme of Old Norse–Icelandic romance and love. 2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-935995-15-2 | 384 pages | $65.00 $52.00 catalog price
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—williAM iAn Miller, universiTy oF MichigAn
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sCienCe trAnslAtedLatin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval EuropeediTed By Michéle goyens, pieTer de leeMAns, And An sMeTs
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FrAnCisCi de MArChiAQuaestiones in secundum librum sententiarum (Reportatio IIA)ediTed By TiziAnA suArez-nAni, williAM o. duBA, eMMAnuel BABey, And girArd J. eTzkorn
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shAKesPeAre And the GrAMMAr oF ForGivenesssArAh BeckwiTh
“Sarah Beckwith brings to her rich study of Shakespeare’s late plays both a deep knowl-edge of late medieval and Reformation religious culture and a clear and subtle sense of the philosophical issues at stake. Her book needs to be well and widely read, as it offers important insights into what Shakespeare was up to in these last, often elusive works.”
—ToM Bishop, universiTy oF AucklAnd
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4978-9 | 248 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
BroKen hArMonyShakespeare and the Politics of Music
Joseph M. orTiz
“The beautifully written Broken Harmony makes a splendid contribution to Shakespeare and Renaissance studies by examining not only Shakespeare’s strategic deployment of music in a dozen or so plays but also the cultural politics that informed this choice.”
—williAM J. kennedy, cornell universiTy
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4931-4 | 280 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
shAKesPeAre’s ForeiGn WorldsNational and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
cArole levin And John wATkins
“In this book, Carole Levin and John Watkins move beyond current debates about thestatus of early modern studies vis-à-vis historicism to offer an original and much-
needed book that truly brings together the fi elds of literature and history.”—reBeccA leMon, universiTy oF souThern cAliForniA
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4741-9 | 232 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
royAl PoetrieMonarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England
peTer c. herMAn
“Royal Poetrie, the fi rst book on the writings of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs inEngland, is gracefully written, clearly organized, and thoroughly informed by all the relevant scholarship. Herman’s book offers smart, subtle, and consistently interesting readings of poetry that is understudied and deserves the wider audience one hopes
Royal Poetrie will gain for it.”—wAyne A. reBhorn, The universiTy oF TexAs AT AusTin
2010 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4835-5 | 248 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
A Blessed shoreEngland and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
AlFred ThoMAs
“Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare’s famous use of Bohemian motifs refl ects a fi nal era of rapport and contact between the two countries, before Counter
Reformation and the Thirty Years War swept them away into near oblivion.”—roBerT evAns, universiTy oF oxFord
2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4568-2 | 256 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
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TREASON BY WORDSLiterature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s England
Rebecca Lemon
the Art oF enGlish Poesya criTical ediTion
george puTTenhAM
ediTed By FrAnk whighAM And wAyne A. reBhorn
“Whigham and Rebhorn have undertaken an enormous task in annotating andmodernizing such a diffi cult text. Their readable, fully annotated version of Put-tenham’s treatise, in consultation with a facsimile of the 1589 text, will be extremely useful to students and seasoned literary critics.”
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2007 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8652-4 | 512 pages | $25.95 $20.76 catalog price
the AesthetiCs oF AntiChristFrom Christian Drama to Christopher MarloweJohn pArker
“Although his subtitle suggests a primary concern with medieval and earlymodern drama, John Parker’s book attempts nothing less than a master theory of Christianity. No critic before Parker has ever attempted such an ambitious project of reading the late-medieval cycle plays through modern scholarly debates about the formation of the biblical canon.”
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2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4519-4 | 272 pages | $39.95 $31.96 catalog price
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ChristoPher MArloWeA Renaissance LifeconsTAnce Brown kuriyAMA
“Although Kuriyama devotes plenty of space to the writer’s posthumous progress,the real value of her book lies in the prevailing skepticism with which she treats her subject: the documentary evidence and the conspiracy theories favored throughout
the past century.”—SixTeenTh cenTury Journal
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treAson By WordsLiterature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s EnglandreBeccA leMon
“Lemon’s book provides valuable New Historical leverage on how early modern English writers dealt with the problem of treason and tyranny, a problem becoming familiar again.”—renaiSSance QuarTerly
2007 (2006) | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-7449-1 | 256 pages | $22.95 $18.36 catalog price
shAKesPeAre And the MisMeAsUre oF renAissAnCe MAnpAulA BlAnk
“This book succeeds in combining wide-ranging interdisciplinary comment with minute scrutiny of language and verse. It is a satisfying read and one that will yield a wealth of interesting observations to scholars of Shakespeare and of early modern culture.”—TiMeS liTerary SuPPleMenT
2006 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4475-3 | 232 pages | $43.95 $35.16 catalog price
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WhAt else is PAstorAl?Renaissance Literature and the Environment
ken hilTner
“In What Else Is Pastoral?, Ken Hiltner establishes a versatile theoretical basis fromwhich to address Renaissance nature writing and ends with case studies that con-
vincingly establish a payoff.”—John p. ruMrich, The universiTy oF TexAs AT AusTin
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4940-6 | 200 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
FrAMe, GlAss, verseThe Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance
rAynA kAlAs
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time very much involved with each other.”—pATriciA FuMerTon, universiTy oF cAliForniA, sAnTA BArBArA
2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4541-5 | 272 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
Pretty CreAtUresChildren and Fiction in the English Renaissance
MichAel wiTMore
“Witmore’s analysis of the role of children as an agency of fi ction breaks new ground, making this book an original, valuable contribution to understanding both the fi gure of the child during the Renaissance and the Renaissance debate over the nature of
mimesis.”—choice
2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4399-2 | 248 pages | $41.95 $33.56 catalog price
MUrder AFter deAthLiterature and Anatomy in Early Modern England
richArd sugg
“Murder after Death communicates its complex subject matter without stylisticpretentiousness or affectation. This substantial book operates on a genuinely inter-disciplinary level, combining medical history with literary analysis to produce en-
lightening insights into early modern culture.”—John peAcock, universiTy oF souThAMpTon
2007 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4509-5 | 280 pages | $47.50 $38.00 catalog price
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BrUtAl reAsoninGAnimals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England
ericA Fudge
“At the heart of Brutal Reasoning is a contention that modern historiography has ignoredhow instrumental animals have been in forming humanity’s ideas of itself. Fudge ar-gues that scholars have imposed on the early modern world an anachronistic concept
of humanity separated from animals by an unbridgeable chasm.”—TiMeS liTerary SuPPleMenT
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By ForCe And FeArTaking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern EuropeAnne JAcoBson schuTTe
“In a persistent image in literature and history, cruel fate forced women like Diderot’sLa Religieuse and Manzoni’s nun of Monza into a convent prison. By studying 978 petitions to the pope for release from monastic vows, Anne Jacobson Schutte creates a surprising alternative vision of forced monachization.”
—edwArd Muir, norThwesTern universiTy
2011 + Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4977-2 | 304 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
relAted livesConfessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750Jodi BilinkoFF
“This book illuminates the rich and compelling nature of the dynamic between maleconfessors and their female penitents, thereby adding tremendous dimension to our understanding of Catholic devotion in this period.”
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the Mirror, the WindoW, And the telesCoPeHow Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the UniversesAMuel y. edgerTon
“Edgerton’s very readable book provides a clear history of linear perspective,with a detailed reconstruction of the Brunelleschi experiment set against the reli-gious background of fifteenth-century Florence.”
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2009 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7480-4 | 224 pages | $19.95 $15.96 catalog price
the CUltUre oF CleAnliness in renAissAnCe itAlydouglAs Biow
“This witty, welcome book examines one of the major concerns defining the ItalianRenaissance: its preoccupation with dirt and cleanliness. Biow examines how various Renaissance writers between 1350 and 1600 used ideas of the clean and the dirty to conceptualize their world and their place in it.”
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sPAnish hUMAnisM on the verGe oF the PiCAresQUeJuan Maldonado’s “Ludus Chartarum,” “Pastor Bonus,” and “Bacchanalia”ediTed And TrAnslATed By wArren s. sMiTh And clArk colAhAn
The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado (c. 1485–1554), in his Latin essays, foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium on entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus.2009 | Paper ISBN 978-90-5867-708-2 | 300 pages | $69.50 $55.60 catalog pricedisTriBuTed For leuven universiTy press | suppleMenTA huMAnisTicA lovAniensiA
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FiCtions oF eMBAssyLiterature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe
TiMoThy hAMpTon
“Timothy Hampton is the most perceptive and erudite critic of early Modern European literature of our generation, and Fictions of Embassy is his career-defining achievement. This book argues for the rise of imaginative literature out of the practice of diplomacy.
It brings together drama, epic, and philosophy, Italy, France, and Iberia.”—seTh lerer, sTAnFord universiTy
2009 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4775-4 | 256 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
AGents oF eMPireSpanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy
MichAel J. levin
“Michael J. Levin is a masterful storyteller who has transformed good old-fashioned diplomatic history in a refreshing way to reinterpret one of the most fun-damental questions in European history—how the fiercely independent city-states of Renaissance Italy seemingly became pliant colonies of Spain during the sixteenth
century.”—edwArd Muir, norThwesTern universiTy
2005 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4352-7 | 238 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
viCo And nAPlesThe Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory
BArBArA Ann nAddeo
“Barbara Ann Naddeo makes a powerful new case for Vico’s originality as a socialthinker; and she does so with fine historical craftsmanship, setting his work back into the Naples he knew and the circles of lawyers and noblemen for whom he wrote. This
is high scholarship, as precise as it is imaginative.”—AnThony grAFTon, princeTon universiTy
2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4916-1 | 312 pages | $49.95 $39.96 catalog price
GiAMBAttistA viCo: Keys to the “neW sCienCe”Translations, Commentaries, and Essays
ediTed By ThorA ilin BAyer And donAld phillip verene
“This is a fine and comprehensive summary of a controversial and many-faceted thinker.It draws upon Vico’s lesser known writings in his long and complex pilgrimage from
humanist philology through jurisprudence and Homeric poetry to philosophy.”—donAld r. kelley, ruTgers universiTy
2008 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7472-9 | 224 pages | $18.95 $15.16 catalog price
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BroKerinG eMPireTrans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
e. nATAlie roThMAn
In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves,
merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters.2011 | Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4907-9 | 328 pages | $45.00 $36.00 catalog price
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the oriGin oF sinAn English Translation of the HamartigeniaprudenTius
TrAnslATed By MArThA A. MAlAMud
As Martha A. Malamud shows in the interpretive essay that accompanies her lapidary translation, the first new English translation in more than forty years, Hamartigenia is critical for understanding late antique ideas about sin, justice, gender, violence, and the afterlife.2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8872-9320 pages | $24.95 $19.96 catalog pricecornell sTudies in clAssicAl philology
the CAre oF the deAd in lAte AntiQUityèric reBillArd
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“This book strips away assumptions about the functioning of the church that derive from later pe-riods and forces us to think about the way in which clerics first began to expand their reach.”
—Bonnie eFFros, universiTy oF FloridA
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the jeWeled stylePoetry and Poetics in Late AntiquityMichAel roBerTs
“By analyzing the style of a number of the major poets of the period, Roberts makes it clear that late Roman poetry is just as sophisticated, in its own right, as the works of the early principate.”
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theBAidA Song of ThebessTATius
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on GreeK reliGionroBerT pArker
In On Greek Religion, Robert Parker offers a provocativeand wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century.2011 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7735-5328 pages | $29.95 $23.96 catalog pricecornell sTudies in clAssicAl philology
A PlAto PriMerJ. d. g. evAns
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AriAdne’s threAdA Guide to International Stories in Classical LiteraturewilliAM hAnsen
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• Winner of the 2002 AAP Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Award (Single Reference Humanities)
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