Michel Scot, traducteur arabisant, médicin, astrologue-encyclopédiste au service de l'empereur Frédéric II, eut dès son siècle une aura quelque peu mystérieuse d'un savant qui «semble avoir connu vraiment les jeux trompeurs de la sorcellerie», si l'on croit Dante qui le jugea digne de son Enfer (XX, 115-17). Mais ses contemporains ont su apprécier aussi sa contribution à la marche triomphale de l'aristotélisme. Par rapport à ses traductions, son oevre magistrale propre, le Liber introductorius (ca. 1220-1235), eut une diffusion relativement restreinte et une tradition manuscrite compliquée. Aujourd'hui, cet auteur ne risque plus de passer aux oubliettes de l'histoire des idées et des sciences. Cette édition n'a pas l'ambition de ressusciter un soldat inconnu, mais de lui rendre justice, en faisant connaître deux de ses traités dont la paternité ne fait pas de doute: le Liber particularis et le Liber physionomie. Ils forment la deuxième et la troisième partie du Liber introductorius. Tout en participant à un project commun, chacun possède sa structure, sa problématique, voire son style. Le Liber particularis traite particulariter, «en détails», les grandes thèmes de la cosmologie médiévale. Le deuxième est le premier livre de l'Occident médiéval consacré exclusivement à la physiognomonie, un savoir à succès prodigieux jusqu'au XIXe siècle.

• Martyrdom of Nicholas the Younger
• Encomium of Nicholas the Younger / by the Presbyter Achaikos
• Funeral oration for Athanasios, Bishop of Methone / by Peter, Bishop of Argos
• Life of Peter, Bishop of Argos / by Theodore, Bishop of Nicaea
• Life and miracles of Theokletos, Bishop of Lakedaimon
• Life of Theodore of Kythera / by Leo
• Commemoration of Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra.

Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history-when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea. This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.
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"The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah tells the story of two siblings who convert to Christianity under the tutelage of Mar Mattai, a monastic leader and wonderworker from the Roman Empire. After the children refuse to worship pagan gods, they are killed by their own father, the Persian king. Strangely, he is identified as Sennacherib the Assyrian, a pre-Christian ruler better known from the biblical Book of Kings. This is not the only chronological oddity with the text. Although Behnam and Sarah is set in the fourth century, during the golden age of martyrdom in the Sasanian Empire, the text was not composed until hundreds of years later. The composition of the narrative about the two martyers seems to have coincided with the construction of a twelfth-century shrine that was built in their honor by Syrian Orthodox monks on the Nineveh Plain, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The beautiful martyrium, which housed intricate relief sculptures and inscriptions in several langauges, was an important pilgrimage site for Christians, Muslims, and Yezidis until it was destroyed in 2015. In this volume of the "Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac" series, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Kyle Smith provde the first critical edition and English translation of this fascinating martyrdom narrative, a text that was once widely popular among numerous communities throughout the Middle East"--Back cover.

• dai 1-kan. An'ei 2-nen yori An'ei 4-nen ni itaru

• 第一卷. 自安永二年至安永四年 --

Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and Greek philosophy, which is as remarkable for its conceptual sophistication as for its labyrinthine style of composition. On Di-culties in Sacred Scripture, presented here for the first time in a complete English translation (including the 465 scholia), contains Maximos's virtuosic theological interpretations of sixty-five difficult passages from the Old and New Testaments. Because of its great length, along with its linguistic and conceptual difficulty, the work as a whole has been largely neglected. Yet alongside the Ambigua to John, On Di-culties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios deserves to be ranked as the Confessor's greatest work and one of the most important patristic treatises on the interpretation of Scripture, combining the interconnected traditions of monastic devotion to the Bible, the biblical exegesis of Origen, the sophisticated symbolic theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and the rich spiritual anthropology of Greek Christian asceticism inspired by the Cappadocian Fathers.
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Treatise on Sanskrit poetics, as interpreted by the Chaitanya school in Vaishnavism.

• Editions of ancient Latin authors. Julius Firmicus, Astronomica; Manilius, Astronomica (October 17, 1499)
• Lucretius (December 1500)
• Prudentius, Prosper, John of Damascus, Christian poets, volume
• 1 (January 1501)
• Vergil (April 1501)
• Horace (May 1501)
• Juvenal, Persius (August 1501)
• Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (January 1502)
• Cicero, Letters to friends (April 1502)
• Lucan (April 1502)
• Sedulius, Iuvencus, Arator, Christian poets, volume
• 2 (June 1502)
• Statius (August 1502)
• Valerius Maximus (October 1502)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses (October 1502)
• Ovid, Heroides, Amores, Ars amandi, Remedia amoris, etc. (December 1502)
• Ovid, Fasti, Tristia, Ex ponto (February 1503)
• Origen, Homilies (after April 4, 1503)
• Vergil (December 1505)
• Pliny the Younger, Letters (November 1508)
• Horace (after March 30, 1509)
• Sallust (April 1509)
• Cicero, Letters to Atticus, Brutus and his brother Quintus (June 1513)
• Festus, On the meaning of archaic words (November 1513)
• Julius Caesar (December 1513)
• Cicero, Rhetorical works (March 1514)
• Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, On agriculture (May 1514)
• Quintilian (August 1514)
• Vergil (October 1514)
• Lucretius (January 1515) --

• Editions of humanistic authors. Aldus Manutius, Instructional principles of Latin grammar (March 5, 1493)
• Lorenzo Maioli, Gleanings in dialectics (July 1497)
• Angelo Poliziano, Complete works (July 1498)
• Niccolò Perotti, Cornucopiae (July 1499)
• Aldus Manutius, Rudiments of Latin grammar (February--June 1501)
• Gianfrancesco Pico, On imagination (April 1501)
• Giorgio Interiano, The land and customs of the Zygians (October 1502)
• Giovanni Pontano, Urania, Meteora, The gardens of the Hesperides etc. (May--August 1505)
• Adriano Castellesi, On hunting (September 1505)
• Erasmus of Rotterdam, Adages (September 1508)
• Tito and Ercole Strozzi, Poems (January 1513)
• Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia (September 1514) --

• Appendices. Letter to Aldus (Spring 1497) / Lorenzo Maioli
• Letter to Valerio Superchio (March 1, 1499) / Girolamo Avanzi
• Letter to Aldus Manutius (December 20, 1501) / Sigismund Thurzó
• Warning to the typographers of Lyons (March 16, 1503) / Aldus Manutius
• Letter to Giuliano de' Medici (April 1513) / Giovanni Giocondo
• Letter to Pope Leo X (May 15, 1514) / Giovanni Giocondo
• Eulogy of Aldus Manutius (April 1515) / Giambattista Egnazio
• The authorship of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (September 19, 1491) / Raffaele Regio
• The authorship of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (1515/16) / Niccolò Angeli of Bucine
• Aldus on how to assemble your own bilingual text / by Randall McLeod.

"Aldus enjoyed widespread fame as a scholar-printer-publisher. Aldus' mission in life was less to display his own erudition than to serve the scholarly needs of his contemporaries, whether they were young students, educated readers, learned academics or distinguished authors. To this end Aldus accomplished much; his contribution to the promotion of classical languages and literature was a considerable one, and was recognized as such by his contemporaries. This volume contains editions of Ancient Latin authors, Humanistic authors, and others."-- Provided by publisher.

Arabic literature; history and criticism.

Hadith; authorities; criticism, interpretation, etc.

"הפירושים במהדורה זו נכתבו לפני כחמש מאות שנה באיטליה על ידי מחבר לא ידוע והם חלק מחיבור מקיף על חמשת חומשי התורה. החיבור האנונימי התפרסם בעולם המחקר בשלהי המאה התשע עשרה, והעסיק בעיקר את חוקרי התלמוד והמדרש שהתעניינו בנוסח המדרשים המצוטט בו". -- from the introduction.

Grammatical analysis of commentaries of Sankaracarya on Prasthanatrayi (Brahmasūtra, Bhagavadgītā, Upanishad).

• Introduction
• Life and works
• Praxagoras and the history of medicine and philosophy
• The present study
• Part I. The fragments
• Introduction to the fragments and source-authors
• The fragments
• The source-authors
• Part II. The doctrines of Praxagoras
• Praxagoras on arteries and pulse
• What are the arteries?
• The origins of Praxagoras' conception of arteries
• The role of pneuma
• Conclusion
• The doctrines of Praxagoras
• Praxagoras in context : the place of his doctrines in the history of Greco-Roman medicine and philosophy.

The distinction that Praxagoras of Cos (4th-3rd c. BC) made between arteries and veins and his views on pulsation and pneuma are two significant turning points in the history of ideas and medicine. In this book Orly Lewis presents the fragmentary evidence for this topic and offers a fresh analysis of Praxagoras' views on the soul and the functions of the heart and pneuma. In so doing, she highlights the empirical basis of Praxagoras' views and his engagement with earlier medical debates and with Aristotle's physiology. The study consists of an edition and translation of the relevant fragments (some absent from the standard 1958 edition) followed by a commentary and a synthetic analysis of Praxagoras' views and their place in the history of medicine and ideas.
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• Res publica-princeps di Cicerone
• Iudicia legitima, arbitria honoraria e Advoatio di pro quinto roscio comoedo, 5,15 nel sistema lessicale-giuridico di Cicerone
• Note alla scienza nuova di G.B. Vico
• Recht e Gerechtiskeit nel Faust di Goethe
• Mantissa: Ius naturale di Ulpiano.

Senecas Schrift "De beneficiis" ist einzigartig in der uns überlieferten Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike. Gleichwohl gehört "De beneficiis" in eine lange Reihe ? für uns leider nicht überlieferter ? themengleicher Traktate, die ebenfalls von Stoikern verfasst wurden. Das Interesse an der Materie entspringt deren Relevanz für die stoische Ethik: Diese kreist um die Frage gemeinschaftlichen Miteinanders, welches als die dem Menschen gemäße Lebensform gilt. 0In der römischen Literatur finden sich ? wenngleich weniger ausführlich und mit je anderem Fokus ? bei Cicero und Laktanz ebenfalls stoisch rückgebundene Annäherungen an die Thematik. Doch wenngleich Cicero, Seneca und Laktanz die Überzeugung der gemeinschaftsstiftenden Kraft von Wohltaten teilen, sind ihre Begründungen, in welcher Weise wohltätiges Verhalten gemeinschaftliches Miteinander befördert, sehr verschieden. Und auch in ihren Vorstellungen, welche Form von Gemeinschaft durch Wohltaten gestiftet bzw. gestärkt wird, unterscheiden sie sich maßgeblich voneinander.

• Text and translation / Jeffrey C. Anderson
• The Harvard manuscript and the history of the Horologion of the Greek liturgical psalter / Stefano Parenti ; translated from the Italian.

• Accounts and inventories of the Revels Office, 1541-1546 / edited by Eleanor Lowe, Martin Wiggins, and Janette Dillon
• Two London Lord Mayor's Shows by John Squire (1620) and John Taylor (1634) / edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson
• Entertainment and poems by Lady Rachel Fane / edited by Marion O'Connor
• The Amazon by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury / edited by Cristina Malcolmson, Matteo Pangallo, and Eugene Hill.

Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society's pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents relating to English theatre and drama before 1642. It is likely to be of special interest not only to early theatre historians but to those working on Tudor and Stuart court and civic culture, manuscript writing, household drama and early modern women's writing, as it publishes new material in each of these fields. The book includes items such as Revels Office accounts, a playscript fragment, entertainments, poems and civic shows. Many of these documents are previously unpublished, and have been freshly edited and transcribed; each has an introduction giving details of its date, authorship and historical importance. The volume will be essential reading for postgraduates and university teachers in early modern drama, theatre history and women's writing.
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How do sounds reach the soul? How does the soul judge them? How can the movement of a melody be accounted for? These and others are the questions that Porphyry of Tyre tries to answer in his Commentary on Claudius Ptolemy's Harmonics. This book collects the vast amount of philological work that has been carried out on this imposing work since Ingemar Düring's 1932 edition and presents the reader with a reliable and up-to-date text.

Islamic law; interpretation and construction; early works to 1800.

• Prefatory note / by James Hankins
• Introduction
• Prefaces. I. Constantine Lascaris, Grammar (March 8, 1495) ; II. Musaeus, Hero and Leander (ca. 1495/97) ; III. Aristotle, Organon (November 1, 1495) ; IV. Theodore Gaza, Introduction to grammar; Apollonius Dyscolus, On syntax (December 25, 1495) ; V. Theocritus, Hesiod, Theognis, Selected works (February 1496) ; VI. The treasury, The cornucopia of Amalthea, and The Gardens of Adonis (August 1496) ; VII. Aristode, Natural philosophy (February 1497) ; VIII. Aristotle, Zoological works (June 1, 1497) ; IX. Aristotle, Metaphysics, mechanics, and problems; Theophrastus, Botanical writings (June 1, 1497) ; X. Joannes Crastonus, Greek dictionary (December 1497) ; XI. Urbano da Belluno, Greek grammar (January 1498) ; XII. Aristotle, Moral philosophy (June 1498) ; XIII. Aristophanes, Nine comedies (July 13, 1498) ; XIV. The Greek epistolographers (April 17, 1499) ; XV. Dioscorides, The materials of medicine; Nicander, Theriaca and Alexipharmaca (July 8, 1499) ; XVI. Julius Firmicus Maternus, Astronomica; Marcus Manilius, Astronomica; Aratus, Phaenomena; Proclus, Sphaera (October 14, 1499) ; XVII. Constantine Lascaris, The eight parts of speech (December 1501?) ; XVIII. Stephanus Byzantius, On cities (March 18, 1502) ; XIX. Julius Pollux of Naucraris, Onomasticon (April 11, 1502) ; XX. Thucydides, Histories (May 14, 1502) ; XXI. Sophocles, Seven tragedies (August 1502) ; XXII. Herodotus, Histories (September 1502) ; XXIII. Euripides, Seventeen tragedies (February 1503) ; XXIV. Ammonius of Alexandria, On Aristotle's "De interpretatione" (October 17, 1503) ; XXV. Xenophon, Hellenica; Pletho, Events in Greece after the Battle of Mantinea; Herodian, History from the death of Marcus Aurelius; Greek Scholia on Thucydides (November 14, 1503) ; XXVI. John Philoponus, Commentary on the posterior analytics; Anoriymous, Commentary on the posterior analytics (March 1504) ; XXVII. Aristotle and Theophrastus, Zoological and botanical writings; Pseudo-Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata, translated into Latin by Theodore Gaza (March 27, 1504) ; XXVIII. Philostratus, Life cf Apollonius of Tyana; Eusebius of Caesarea, Against Hierocles (May 1504) ; XXIX. Gregory of Nazianzus, Poetry (June 1504) ; XXX. Homer, Iliad (October 31, 1504) ; XXXI. Homer, Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, Hymns (October 31, 1504) ; XXXII. Demosthenes, Sixty-two speeches; Libanius, Life of Demosthenes and summaries of the speeches; Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes (October 1504) ; XXXIII. Hours in praise of the most Blessed Virgin; Seven penitential psalms; Athanasian creed; Sacrifice in praise of the most Holy Virgin (July 1505) ; XXXIV. Aesop's Fables and related texts (October 1505) ; XXXV. The Greek rhetoricians, volume
• 1 (November 1508) ; XXXVI. Plutarch, Moralia (March 1509) ; XXXVII. The Greek rhetoricians, volume
• 2 (May 21, 1509) ; XXXVIII. Chrysoloras, Erotemata (1512) ; XXXIX. Constantine Lascaris, The eight parts of speech (New edition, October 1512) ; XL. Pindar, Odes; Callimachus, Hymns; Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the world; Lycophron, Alexandra (January 1513) ; XLI. The Greek orators, volume
• 1 (April 1513) ; XLII. The Greek orators, volume
• 2 (May 6, 1513) ; XLIII. Plato, Complete works (September 1513) ; XLIV. Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on the topics of Aristotle (February 15, 1514) ; XLV. Suidas, Lexicon (February 1514) ; XLVI. Hesychius, Lexicon (August 1514) ; XLVII. Athenaeus, The learned banqueters (August 1514)
• Appendices. I. Marsilio Ficino on textual errors in his translations of Platonica (July 1, 1497) ; II. Musurus on Aristophanes (1498) ; III. Musurus on the Epistolographi graeci (1499) ; IV. William Grocyn's letter to Aldus (August 27, [1499]) ; V. Statutes of the New Academy (1502?) ; VI. Aldus' preface to Bessarion's In calumniatorem Platonis (July 1503) ; VII. Letter of Scipione Forteguerri to Aldus in the
• 1503 edition of the Greek anthology ; VIII. The title page of Aldus' Aesop (October 1505) ; IX. Aldus' preface to Erasmus' translation of Euripides (December 1507) ; X. Musurus' poem on Plato, in the Complete works (1513).

Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the first time into English. They provide unique insight into the world of scholarly publishing in Renaissance Venice.
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Sufi poetry, Arabic; laudatory poetry, Arabic; history and criticism; early works to 1800.

• IntroductionMedicamina Faciei Femineae: Latin text and translationCommentarySelected passages from Ars Amatoria and Amores: Latin text and translationCommentarySelect BibliographyIndex.
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The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy which showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of a moralistic, instructive form and trivial subject and meter. Exploring female beauty and cosmetics, with particular emphasis on the concept of `cultus', the poem also presents five practical recipes for cosmetic treatments used by Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit, vivacity and importance. The first full study devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an in-depth introduction which situates the poem within its literary heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and attitudes to female beauty in Roman society. The Latin text is presented on parallel pages alongside a new literal and quality translation, and all Latin phrases are translated for the non-specialist reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual phrases still further.The volume also contains related passages with translations and commentaries from Ovid's Ars Amatoria 3.101-250, on dress, appearance and make-up, and Amores 1.114, on hair dye and resulting baldness.Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates this witty, subversive yet significant poem, as well as contextualises its importance for gender and sexuality studies, women's life in antiquity, eroticism, aesthetics and social attitudes to women and beauty in Ancient Rome.
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• 1.Introduction: Writing the Gunpowder Plot 2."like Sampson's foxes": Creating a Jacobean Myth of Deliverance 3."And no religion beinds men to be traitors": The Plot on Stage 4."In marble records fit to be inrold": Epic Monuments for a Protestant Nation 5"fit audience find, though few": Militant Protestants and Forgotten Monuments 6."For God and the King": Preaching on the Plot Anniversary 7.Conclusion: Echoes and Reverberations Works Cited.
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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.
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Islamic law; Shafiites; interpretation and construction; early works to 1800.

Sufi poetry, Arabic; early works to 1800.

Hadith; criticism, interpretation, etc.; early works to 1800.

Hadith; criticism, interpretation, etc.; early works to 1800.

Islamic law; interpretation and construction; early works to 1800.