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Hans Blumenberg did not formulate a theory of reading, but in his dissertation of 1946-47 he had already established a connection between reception and theory formation. This can be traced through the history of metaphor from the "Book of Nature" to the late glosses. This study describes the importance of reading for Blumenberg's writings, developing a post-hermeneutic concept of readability

• Preface / Foreword List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Chronological and Historical Framework
• 2 History of Research
• 3 Sources of Information for the Investigation of Aelia Capitolina
• 2 The Camp of the Legion X Fretensis
• 1 The Camp's Fortifications and Related Structures
• 2 Structures, Roads and Installations inside the Camp
• 3 The Roman Dump on the Slopes of the Southwestern Hill
• 4 A Few Comments Relating to the Army in Aelia Capitolina
• 3 Aelia Capitolina
• 1 The Foundation of the Colony
• 2 The Urban Layout: The City Gates
• 3 Streets and Plazas
• 4 The Buildings of Aelia Capitolina
• 4 Aelia Capitolina in the Fourth Century
• 1 The Expansion of the City's Limits
• 2 The Construction of a Wide-Circumference City Wall
• 3 The Identity of the Population
• 4 The Christianization of the Cityscape
• 5 Aelia/Hierosolyma in the Fourth Century: Summary and Conclusions
• 5 Water Supply: Cisterns, Pools and Aqueducts
• 6 The City's Cemeteries
• 1 The Northern Cemetery
• 2 The South and Southwest Cemeteries
• 3 The East Cemetery
• 7 The Rural Hinterland of Aelia Capitolina
• 1 The Imperial Roads
• 2 Military Sites in the Rural Hinterland of Aelia Capitolina
• 3 Settlements and Residential Buildings
• 4 Rural Cemeteries
• 5 Road Stations
• 8 The City and Its Population 70 CE-c. 400 CE: Discussion and Summary
• 1 From Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina-Aspects of Change and Continuity
• 2 The Urban Development of Aelia Capitolina In Light of Archaeological Research, a Synthesis
• 3 Epilogue
• Bibliography Index.
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The book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem in the Roman period (70-400 CE) following a chronological order, from the establishment of the Tenth Roman Legion's camp on the ruins of Jerusalem in 70 CE, through the foundation of Aelia Capitolina by Hadrian, in around 130 CE, and the Christianization of the population and the cityscape in the fourth century. Cemeteries around the city, the rural hinterland, and the imperial roads that led to and from Aelia Capitolina are discussed as well. Due to the paucity of historical sources, the book is based on archaeological remains, suggesting a reconstruction of the city's development and a discussion of the population's identity.
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Missverständnisse, Eingriffe und Druckfehler prägen die Rezeption eines Werkes, das im Laufe der Jahre zwar Liebhaber*innen, aber nie ein Massenpublikum gewinnen konnte und mittlerweile dem Vergessen anheimfällt. Zum einen zeigt die Studie auf, dass Klassifizierungen als Nonsens-, Kinder- oder Trinkerliterat dem Westberliner Malerpoeten Günter Bruno Fuchs nicht gerecht werden. Anhand exemplarischer Interpretationen wird die Komplexität der vermeintlich einfachen Texte aufgezeigt. Fuchs verfasst keinen Unsinn, er schreibt vielmehr gegen blinde Staatsgewalt, gegen alles Militärische, Spießige, Bornierte an. Zum anderen bietet die Arbeit ein nahezu vollständiges Verzeichnis von Medien (Text, Bild, Ton), die mit seinem Namen in Verbindung stehen. Die Auswertung dieser umfangreichen Materialsammlung offenbart eine Vielzahl an Irrtümern und Verfälschungen. Diese "Fehlergeschichten" machen die vorliegende Monographie zu einer durchaus unterhaltsamen Lektüre

• Volume I. Temporale

This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea (ca. 1267), a collection of legends for the feasts of saints (the Sanctorale) and other major days of the liturgical year (the Temporale). The Legenda aurea was one of the most popular and influential books in the later medieval Western world; it circulated widely, and was repeatedly translated into many vernacular languages. This volume reproduces Caxton's original text of the Temporale with modern punctuation and capitalization, notes on content, syntax and lexis, a detailed glossary, and an index of proper names. Caxton's complex combination of sources is given particular attention: the principal one was a little-known reworking of the French translation made by Jean de Vignay, but he also used the Latin original and a previous English translation, the Gilte Legende, and made some personal additions. The Introduction considers the structure of the entire book that Caxton created, but focuses on the Temporale and the set of Old Testament legends that will follow in volume 2. It discusses their sources and language, highlighting the differences between the first two volumes and the notable number of new words and senses. It also gives a detailed bibliographic account of this printing in its historical context and descriptions of all surviving copies.
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• List of figures and tables Keith Michael Baker Preface Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe Introduction: Digitizing Enlightenment I. Digital projects, past and present Robert Morrissey and Glenn Roe The ARTFL Encyclopedie and the aesthetics of abundance Nicholas Cronk Electronic Enlightenment: recreating the Republic of Letters Dan Edelstein Mapping the Republic of Letters: history of a digital humanities project Howard Hotson Cultures of Knowledge in transition: Early Modern Letters Online as an experiment in collaboration, 2009-2018 Jeffrey S. Ravel The Comedie-Francaise Registers Project: questions of audience Angus Martin and the late Richard Frautschi Towards a new bibliography of eighteenth-century French fiction Simon Burrows The FBTEE revolution: mapping the Ancien Regime book trade and the future of historical bibliometric research Alicia C. Montoya Shifting perspectives and moving targets: from conceptual vistas to bits of data in the first yearof the MEDIATE project II. Digital methods and innovations Catherine Nicole Coleman Seeking the eye of history: the design of digital tools for Enlightenment studies Elizabeth Andrews Bond and Robert M. Bond Topic modelling the French pre-Revolutionary press Katherine McDonough Putting the eighteenth century on the map: French geospatial data for digital humanities research Laure Philip The illegal book trade revisited: an insight into database protocols and pitfalls Melanie Conroy and Chloe Summers Edmondson The empire of letters: Enlightenment-era French salons Clovis Gladstone and Charles Cooney Opening new paths for scholarship: algorithms to track text reuse in Eighteenth Century Collections Online Sean Takats Conclusion: beyond digitizing Enlightenment Bibliography Index of persons Index of titles General index.
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Digitizing Enlightenment explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured projects are some of the best known, well-funded and longest established research initiatives in the emerging area of 'digital humanities', a field that has, particularly since 2010, been attracting a rising tide of interest from professional academics, the media, funding councils, and the general public worldwide. Advocates and practitioners of the digital humanities argue that computational methods can fundamentally transform our ability to answer some of the 'big questions' that drive humanities research, allowing us to see patterns and relationships that were hitherto hard to discern, and to pinpoint, visualise, and analyse relevant data in efficient and powerful new ways. In the book's opening section, leading scholars outline their own projects' institutional and intellectual histories, the techniques and methodologies they specifically developed, the sometimes-painful lessons learned in the process, future trajectories for their research, and how their findings are revising previous understandings. A second section features chapters from early career scholars working at the intersection of digital methods and Enlightenment studies, an intellectual space largely forged by the projects featured in part one. Highlighting current and future research methods and directions for digital eighteenth-century studies, the book offers a monument to the current state of digital work, an overview of current findings, and a vision statement for future research. Featuring contributions from Keith Michael Baker, Elizabeth Andrews Bond, Robert M. Bond, Simon Burrows, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Melanie Conroy, Charles Cooney, Nicholas Cronk, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Summers Edmondson, the late Richard Frautschi, Clovis Gladstone, Howard Hotson, Angus Martin, Katherine McDonough, Alicia C. Montoya, Robert Morrissey, Laure Philip, Jeffrey S. Ravel, Glenn Roe, and Sean Takats.
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• Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables
• In Search of Lost Wines: Perspectives and Limits
• 1 History of Investigations
• 2 Sources and Methodology
• 3 Primary Commodity or Multi-purpose Containers?
• 4 Reuse-Exception or Rule?
• 5 Identifying the Origin of Amphoras
• 6 Identifying the Content of Amphoras
• 7 Tituli picti
• 8 Pros and Cons of an Interdisciplinary Approach
• 9 Synopsis
• 1 Vinum contra temetum: the Role of Wines from the Eastern Mediterranean in the Origins of Viticulture and Winemaking in Italy
• 1 From vitis silvestris to vitis domestica
• 2 Wine: a Local Invention or a Foreign Influence?
• 3 The Beginnings of the Consumption of Wines from the Eastern Mediterranean
• 4 The Economic Transformation of Italy during the 5th and 4th c. BC
• 5 Eastern Wines in Italy: Types and Chronology
• 6 Conclusions
• 2 De gustibus disputandum est-'Fame' or Ordinary Wines?
• 1 In Search of Lost Tastes-Wines in Classical Antiquity
• 2 Republican Wines of Some Repute
• 3 Imperial Common Imports
• 4 Epigraphic Enigmas
• 5 Conclusions
• 3 Mass or Limited? Wine Importations to Italy during the Early Imperial Age
• 1 Roma-the Eternal City
• 2 Campania felix
• 3 Portus and Its Neighbourhood
• 4 Adriatic Italy
• 5 ORBIS Transport Costs and Wine Importations
• 6 Conclusions
• 4 Aristocratic Luxuries or Mass Beverages?
• 1 Luxuries for the Elite
• 2 Wines for Common People
• 3 Conclusions
• 5 Petty Traders or Wealthy Wholesalers? Who Imported Wines to Italy?
• 1 Free Romans and Local Elites
• 2 Italian Freedmen
• 3 Free Greeks, Slaves and Greeks with Roman Citizenship
• 4 Incerti
• 5 Conclusions
• 6 Twilight or Bloom: Eastern Mediterranean Wines in Italy during Late Antiquity
• 1 Amphoras or Barrels?
• 2 Late Roman Wines in the Urbs
• 3 Late Roman Wines in Adriatic Italy (Aquileia, Verona, Padua)
• 4 ORBIS Transport Costs and Wine Importations
• 5 Conclusions
• Conclusions: The Economics of the Wine Trade
• Appendix 1: A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Texts That Mention Wines from the Eastern Mediterranean
• Appendix 2: List of Authors That Mention Eastern Mediterranean Wines Quoted by Athenaeus
• Appendix 3: Catalogue of Amphoras Classified as Wine Containers Discovered in Italy between the 1st c. BC and Late Antiquity Bibliography Index.
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Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy is an interdisciplinary and multifaceted study concerning wine commerce and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity. Wine was one of the main consumption goods in the Mediterranean during antiquity, and the average Roman adult male probably consumed between 0,5 - 1 litre of it per day. It is therefore clear that the production and trading of wine was essential for the Roman economy. This book demonstrates that wines from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean region in particular, played a crucial part in wine commerce. Moreover, it sheds new light on economic dilemmas that have long puzzled scholars, such as growth and market integration during antiquity.
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• 1 Introduction: The Economics of Friendship
• 1 Friendship: Money Can't Buy It?
• 2
• 3 An Economic Mentality
• 4 Apparatus and Argument
• 2 Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of
• The Argument
• 1 Three Cases of Isomorphism
• 2
• and Successful Interaction
• 3 Perception and meconnaissance
• 4 Conflicts and Cynicism
• 5 Concluding Remarks
• 3 The Most Ancient of Obligations: The Nature of Filial Duty
• 1 The Parent-Child Bond: A Paradigm-Case
• 2 The Debtor Paradigm of Obligation
• 3 The Gratitude Theory
• 4 The Gratitude Theory Analysed
• 5 Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of
• 6 Concluding Remarks
• 4 A Debtor Paradigm of Obligation: Principles of Moral Accounting
• 1 Moral Bookkeeping
• 2 Morality as Paying Debts
• 3 Debts, Gifts and Morality
• 4 Concluding Remarks: The Ledger under Taboo
• 5 Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Proper Use of Friends The Argument
• 1 Framing Socratic Conversation
• 2 False Friends, Part One: Utility, Ancient and Modern
• 3 False Friends Part Two: Economics, Ancient and Modern
• 4 Education and the Logic of Wage-Earning
• 5 Concluding Remarks: The Givenness of the Good
• 6 Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction The Argument
• 1 Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavour
• 2 The Hunter Hunted: Role Reversals and the Paradox of the Hetaera
• 3 Desire Management
• 4 The Secrets of Love Magic
• 5 The Socratic Principle: Pay It Forward
• 6 Concluding Remarks: Language Games at the Market Frontier
• 7 Relational Economics: Aristotle on Value and Equivalence
• 1 Aristotle Discovers the Economy?
• 2 Equivalence
• 3 Value and Values
• 4 The Politics of Need
• 5 Concluding Remarks
• Epilogue: Hostile Worlds
• Bibliography Index.
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In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century Greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis, conspicuous in sources from the Classical Period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the Classical Period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle) on what it is that binds people together.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: theater, emotions, science of man Diderot's relational drama From religious theaterphobia to theatrical innovation Affect, intentionality, and the history of emotions
• Chapter 1: Theaterphobia and the transformational power of performance Anti-theatrical criticism: goals and strategies Corneille, Nicole, and the reality of emotions Learning dangerously from the passions: Pierre Nicole's Traite de la comedie Debating theatrical emotions in the wake of Nicole's Traite
• Chapter 2: "Que sur la superficie de notre coeur": Jean-Baptiste Dubos's theatrical emotions Emotional debates: past and present A different path to aesthetic appreciation The political case for pleasure Dubos's cognitive-affective sequences
• Chapter 3: Beyond affect: from Dubos's "passions superficielles" to Houdar de La Motte's "sentiments raisonnables" La Motte, the Querelle, and the Regency La Motte's "sentiments raisonnables" The dramaturgical power of interet
• Chapter 4: From the page to the stage: La Motte's theatrical inquiry into the emotions Context and emotion in Les Macchabees (1721) Intentionality and suspense in Romulus (1722) Ines de Castro (1723) and the emotional politics of interet
• Chapter 5: Strategic passions: Marivaux's Moderne subjectivities Marivaux's trajectory from Moderne to bel esprit to scientist of man Learning from the "organs": Marivaux's intuitive ethics Sentimental strategies: Marivaux's theories of emotion in Le Triomphe de l'amour (1732)
• Chapter 6: Learning through multiplicite: emotion and distance in the comedie larmoyante The decline and rebirth of Nivelle de La Chaussee's emotional poetics Meaning-making through the romanesque The piece-cadre: emotion, multiplicite, and spectatorship in La Fausse Antipathie (1733)
• Conclusion: avant-gardes, emotion, and Enlightenment
• Works cited Index .
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The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its undergirding rules to a new, relational discourse on the emotional power of theater. Through a diverse cast of religious theaterphobes, government officials, playwrights, art theorists and proto-philosophes, Connors shows the concerted effort in early Enlightenment France to use texts about theater to establish broader theories on emotion, on the enduring psychological and social ramifications of affective moments, and more generally, on human interaction, motivation, and social behavior. This fundamentally anthropological assessment of theater emerged in the works of anti-theatrical religious writers, who argued that emotional response was theater's raison d'etre and that it was an efficient venue to learn more about the depravity of human nature. A new generation of pro-theatrical writers shared the anti-theatricalists' intense focus on the emotions of theater, but unlike religious theaterphobes, they did not view emotion as a conduit of sin or as a dangerous, uncontrollable process; but rather, as cognitive-affective moments of feeling and learning. Connors' study explores this reassessment of the theatrical experience which empowered writers to use plays, critiques, and other cultural materials about the stage to establish a theatrical science of man-an early Enlightenment project with aims to study and 'improve' the emotional, social, and political 'health' of eighteenth-century France.
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• INTRODUCTION The Eneados and its Author The Text of the Eneados Later Editions The Present Edition Appendix to the Introduction: Priscilla J. Bawcutt, 'Gavin Douglas and the Text of Virgil', originally published in Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 (1973), pp. 213-31 COMMENTARY.
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Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book. D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision. This new edition will provide a corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants in subsequent volumes. The first volume, here, the Introduction and Commentary, offers a wealth of new scholarship, comparing Douglas's text to his exact Latin source (first identified by Professor Bawcutt in a 1973 essay reprinted here); vastly expanding the Commentary; offering detailed new analysis of the manuscript and print witnesses to the text and its early reception and circulation; and surveying modern Douglas criticism. There is also a new Bibliography. PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She has edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, including her foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus.
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• List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations James Fowler and Marine Ganofsky, Introduction: virtue and the secular turn, 1680-1794 Michael Moriarty, Virtue before the Enlightenment Nicholas Treuherz, Vertu et Lumieres: Bayle's 'virtuous atheist' and its afterlives James Fowler, Secular virtue: echoes of Shaftesbury in Diderot Alicia C. Montoya, From the religious virtues to Enlightenment virtue Ioana Galleron, Bernard-Joseph Saurin, the comedie de moeurs and the civic function of plays Karen Nehlsen Manna, Acting honnete: effeminacy, masculinity and the ethos of social virtue in Enlightenment comedy Jean-Alexandre Perras, The softness of the petit-maitre and the decay of virtus Mathilde Chollet, 'La vera nobilta non consiste in altro che nella virtu': a woman's view on virtue, or Henriette de Marans's nobility Marine Ganofsky, Virtue and invisibility: libertine variations on the myth of Gyges Lydia Vazquez, Female virtue and bliss in the eighteenth century Pierre Saint-Amand, The politics of virtue: Reflexions sur le proces de la reine by Mme de Stael Patrice Higonnet, Robespierre's virtue in Marx and Tocqueville Daniel Brewer, Virtue and the ethics of the virtual Summaries List of works cited Index.
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In a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an 'emanation of virtue'. In adapting the concept of virtue to Republican ends, Robespierre was drawing on traditions associated with ancient Greece and Rome. But Republican tradition formed only one of many strands in debates concerning virtue in France and elsewhere in Europe, from 1680 to the Revolution. This collection focuses on moral-philosophical and classical-republican uses of 'virtue' in this period - one that is often associated with a 'crisis of the European mind'. It also considers in what ways debates concerning virtue involved gendered perspectives. The texts discussed are drawn from a range of genres, from plays and novels to treatises, memoirs, and libertine literature. They include texts by authors such as Diderot, Laclos, and Madame de Stael, plus other, lesser-known texts that broaden the volume's perspective. Collectively, the contributors to the volume highlight the central importance of virtue for an understanding of an era in which, as Daniel Brewer argues in the closing chapter, 'the political could not be thought outside its moral dimension, and morality could not be separated from inevitable political consequences'.
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• List of figures Acknowledgements Melissa Percival - Introduction Emmanuel Faure-Carricaburu - The fantasy figures of Jean-Baptiste Santerre and the limits of generic frameworks of interpretation Christophe Guillouet - The Parisian world of printmaking at the heart of the invention of a genre? Poilly, Courtin and Bonnart's fantaisies (1713-1728) John Chu - Windows of opportunity: the French fantasy figure and the spirit of enterprise in early-eighteenth-century Europe Martin Postle - Modelling for the fancy picture in eighteenth-century England Benedicte Miyamoto - The influence of drawing manuals on the British practice and reception of fancy pictures Guillaume Faroult - A galant fantasy: Fragonard's fantasy figures and The Music lesson in relation to Van Dyck, Watteau and Carle Vanloo Pierre-Henri Biger - Fans, fantasy and fancy Melissa Percival - Fancy as a mode of consumption Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding - 'A butterfly supporting an elephant': chinoiserie, fantaisie and 'the luxuriance of fancy' Laurent Chatel - The garden as capriccio: the hortulan pleasures of imagination and virtuality Beatrice Laurent - Grand Tour capricci Xavier Cervantes - Venetian reminiscences and cultural hybridity in Canaletto's English-period capricci and vedute Adrian Fernandez Almoguera - From the private cabinet to the suburban villa: caprices and fantasies in eighteenth-century Madrid Andrew Schulz - Satire and fantasy in Goya's Caprichos Alice Labourg - 'Fancy paints with hues unreal': pictorial fantasy and literary creation in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels Summaries List of contributors Bibliography Index.
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Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym, caprice - as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
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• Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke and Naomi Weiss
• Part 1 Keynote Address
• 1 Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the "Newest Sappho" Gregory Nagy
• Part 2 Genre, Generification, and Performance
• 2 Linus: The Rise and Fall of Lyric Genres Andrew Ford
• 3 Sappho's Parachoral Monody Timothy Power
• 4 The Speaking Persona: Ancient Commentators on Choral Performance Francesca Schironi
• Part 3 Genre Mixing
• 5 Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric Deborah Steiner
• 6 Generic Hybridity in Athenian Tragedy Naomi Weiss
• 7 Athens and Apolline Polyphony in Bacchylides' Ode 16 Margaret Foster
• Part 4 Affect, Materiality, and the Body: The Somatics of Genre
• 8 Is Korybantic Performance a (Lyric) Genre? Mark Griffith
• 9 Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax Mario Telo
• 10 Experiencing Elegy: Materiality and Visuality in the Ambracian Polyandrion Seth Estrin
• 11 Pindar, Paean
• 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge Sarah Olsen
• Bibliography Index Locorum General Index.
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Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
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For centuries the society and politics of Old Regime Europe relied on the strong connection between past, present, and future and on a belief in the unstoppable continuity of time. What happened during the eighteenth century when the Age of Revolutions claimed to cancel the previous social order and announced the dawn of a new era? This book explores how antiquarianism provided new political bodies with allegedly time-hallowed traditions and so served as a source of legitimacy for reshaping European politics. The love for antiquities forged a common language of political communication within a burgeoning public sphere. To understand why this happened, Marco Cavarzere focuses on the cultural debates taking place in the Italian states from 1748 until 1796. During this period, governments tried to establish regional "national cultures" through erudite scholarship, with the intent of creating new administrative and political centralization within individual Italian states. Meanwhile, other sectors of local societies used the tools of antiquarianism in order to offer a counter-narrative on these political reforms. Ultimately, this book proposes a localized way of reading antiquarian texts. Far from presenting timeless knowledge, erudition in fact gave voice to specific tensions which were linked to restricted political arenas and regional public opinion. -- Provided by publisher.

• List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Historical perspective: the peaceable kingdom of Louis XV The painters Toward a new artistic idiom I. Historia in stasis
• Chapter 1: The action de repos Prolegomena to the theory and practice Meditation, contemplation The dynamic body suspended Narrative disrupted Moments in the present and the future
• Chapter 2: Corporeality and repose Fontenelle's ideal Corporeal conversations Figures of seduction The expression of repose From narrative representation to figural presentation II. The figure in artistic practice
• Chapter 3: Figure/study/artwork Copying the figure
• The whole and the part The emergence of corporeal repose The new body language
• Chapter 4: The story beyond the figure From study to subject Autonomous figures in painting Repertoires of models Life study and historical subject III. The fabrication of a new grand genre
• Chapter 5: Before the painting The figure: from the idea to the painting The emergence of new creative practices The single body and the multiplication of bodies The figure: from reuse to quotation
• Chapter 6: Epilogue: on novelty in painting Brand new beauties The painting of the present Bibliography Index.
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French painting of Louis XV's reign (1715-74), generally categorized by the term rococo, has typically been understood as an artistic style aimed at furnishing courtly society with delightful images of its own frivolous pursuits. Instead, this book shows the significance and seriousness underpinning the notion of pleasure embedded in eighteenth-century history painting. During this time, pleasure became a moral ideal grounded not only in domestic life but also defining a range of social, political, and cultural transactions oriented toward transforming and improving society at large. History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV reconsiders the role of history painting in creating a new visual language that presented peace and happiness as an individual's natural rights in the aftermath of Louis XIV's bellicose reign (1643-1715). In this new study, Susanna Caviglia reinvestigates the artistic practices of an entire generation of painters born around 1700 (e.g. Francois Boucher, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Carle Vanloo) in order to highlight the cultural forces at work within their now iconic images.
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Iran and a French Empire of Trade examines the understudied topic of Franco-Persian relations in the long eighteenth century to highlight how rising tensions among Eurasian empires and revolutions in the Atlantic world were profoundly intertwined. Conflicts between Persia, Turkey, India and Russia, and European weapons-dealing with these empires occurred against a backdrop of climate change and food insecurities that destabilized markets. Takeda shows how the French state relied on "entrepreneurial imperialism" to extend commercial activities eastwards beyond the Mediterranean during this time, from Louis XIV's reign to Napoleon Bonaparte's First Empire. Organized as a collection of microhistories, her study showcases a colourful set of characters-rogue merchants from Marseille, a gambling house madam, a naturalized Greek-French drogman, and a bi-cultural Genevan-Persian consul, among others-to demonstrate how individuals on the fringes of French society spearheaded projects to foster ties between France and Persia. Considering the Enlightenment as a product of a connected world, Takeda investigates how trans-imperial adventurers, merchants, consuls, and informants negotiated treaties, traded commodities and arms, transferred knowledge, and introduced industrial practices from Asia to Europe. And she shows the surprising ways in which Enlightenment debates about regime changes from the Safavid to Qajar dynasties and Persia's borderland wars shaped French ideas about revolution and policies related to empire-building.
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