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ISBN 9781842174722

Title Tools, Textiles and Contexts

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Edition ID 42837

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Tools, Textiles and ContextsTextile Production in the Aegean and EasternMediterranean Bronze Age

Edited by Eva Andersson Strand & Marie-Louise Nosch

Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and EasternMediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborativework offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue ofarchaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques thatwere used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed.

The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored throughexperimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The resultsbring new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made bysuch tools. This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single mostimportant and plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production inthe archaeological record.

The combination of experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and findcontexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile production at different sites,regions and time periods. A collaboration between archaeologists specialised in theirsite and textile tool specialists has produced data sets of a large number of textile toolsfrom several Bronze Age settlements, including Khania, Malia, Midea, Tiryns, Troiaand Tel Kabri. The results of these analyses provide unique insights into both theproduction processes and, significantly, into the range of types of textiles that couldhave been produced at specific sites. These results illustrate the central, social andeconomic impact of textile production in the Aegean and Eastern MediterraneanBronze Age societies.

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CONTRIBUTORS:Eva Andersson StrandMarie-Louise Nosch

PAGES:484pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:210 illus

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DIMENSIONS:279mm x 215mm

PUBLICATION DATE:31 March 2015

READER INTERESTS:Aegean PrehistoryTextiles & Weaving, Clothing &Stitchery

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ISBN 9781904597339

Title Design and Techniques in Early Medieval CelticMetalwork

Title ID 238031

Edition ID 14142

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Design and Techniques in EarlyMedieval Celtic MetalworkBy Niamh Whitfield

Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland andScotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremelyaccomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of itsmanufacture. She has also been concerned to place Early Medieval Celtic design in itsEuropean context, and to analyse its relationship with Anglo-Saxon and continentalwork, as well as its debt to traditions which ultimately originated in the Classicalworld. Dr Whitfield has written about subjects as diverse as the origins of the goldused in early Medieval Ireland and Scotland, the development of animal ornament andgeometrical principles of design. Her archival studies have succeeded in identifying thefind-spot of the celebrated 'Tara' brooch and in documenting panels of ornament whichare now missing. In addition, she has explored early Irish texts for attitudes tojewellery and clothing, considered the brooch as an emblem of status, looked at how brooches were worn, and whether descriptions of clothing and accessories in an earlyIrish saga provide an accurate description of contemporary finery.


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READER INTERESTS:Anglo-Saxon & VikingBritish & Irish PrehistoryEuropean Iron Age Medieval Art Medieval Art & Architecture

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ISBN 9781907975769

Title The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-CenturyEurope

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The Reinvention of Theatre inSixteenth-Century EuropeTraditions, Texts and Performance

Edited by Catarina Fouto & T. F. Earle

The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In theIberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actorsexperimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. They prepared theway for the better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own vernaculars. The populartheatre of the Middle Ages gave endless material for reinvention by playwrights, andthe legacy of the ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy. Assoon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they were changed again,taking new forms as the first experiments were themselves modified and reinvented.Writers constantly adapted the texts of plays to meet new requirements. These andother issues are explored by a group of international experts from a comparativeperspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great European comic dramatists,the Portuguese Gil Vicente.

Tom Earle is King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford. Catarina Fouto is aLecturer in Portuguese at King's College London.


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ISBN 9781842173596

Title Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society

Title ID 487479

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Agricultural and PastoralLandscapes in Pre-Industrial SocietyChoices, Stability and Change

Edited by Althea Davies, Fèlix Retamero & Inge Schjellerup

Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with thetechnological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thriveacross a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured into threesections to draw out particular commonalities and contrasts in the choices made by pre-industrial communities in the construction of varied landscapes and cultural heritage:

Landnam, from the Old Norse for ‘taking of land’, deals with colonisation, includingthe drivers and processes through which colonisers developed an understanding of theproductive potential and limitations of their new lands.

Fields and field systems: Field-walls are a distinctive and apparently timelesscharacteristic of many pre-industrial farming landscapes but they present many thechallenges to their study, such as the effects of ploughing, abandonment and land-usechange and of urban development in fertile lowland zones which may eradicate, reduceor conceal past systems of land-use and division. The importance of indirect and proxyevidence is illustrated and the value of interdisciplinary and modelling approachesemphasised.

Agro-pastoralism: focuses on the complex ‘time-space adaptations’ devised formanaging cultivation and livestock production, particularly the need to prevent stockincursions into arable fields during the growing season whilst making effective use ofseasonal grazing resources. The contributions focus on mountainous areas, wheretemporary migrations, in the form of transhumance, provided access to a diversity ofresources based around seasonal constraints on their availability and productivity.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Althea DaviesFèlix RetameroInge Schjellerup

PAGES:280pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:Colour throughout

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DIMENSIONS:297 x 210


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ISBN 9781907975882

Title German Narratives of Belonging

Title ID 488055

Edition ID 83085

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German Narratives of Belonging Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-FirstCentury

By Linda Shortt

Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation,family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest forbelonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post-modern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives ofbelonging by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Angelika Overath, Florian Illies, JuliZeh, Stephan Wackwitz, Uwe Timm and Peter Schneider, Shortt examines how the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled by disturbances of lineage and tradition. In thisway, she combines an analysis of supermodernity with an enquiry into Germanmemory contests on the National Socialist era, 1968 and 1989 that continue to shapeidentity in the Berlin Republic. Exploring a spectrum of narratives that range fromagitated disavowals of place to romances of belonging, this study illuminates thetopography of belonging in contemporary Germany.


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ISBN 9781909662254

Title Samuel Butler against the Professionals

Title ID 493406

Edition ID 89919

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Samuel Butler against theProfessionalsRethinking Lamarckism 1860–1900

By David Gillott

In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becomingas well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientificauthority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monographdevoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-neededreappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole ofButler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, heargues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermineprofessional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against theProfessionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer,and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades followingpublication of the Origin of Species.


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ISBN 9781782978244

Title English Inland Trade 1430-1540

Title ID 494468

Edition ID 91334

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English Inland Trade 1430-1540Southampton and its region

Edited by Michael Hicks

The Southampton brokage books are the best source for English inland trade beforemodern times. Internal trade always matched overseas trade. Between 1430 and 1540the brokage series records all departures through Southampton’s Bargate, the owner,carter, commodity, quantity, destination and date, and many deliveries too. Twelvesuch years make up the database that illuminates Southampton’s trade with itsextensive region at the time when the city was at its most important as the principalpoint of access to England for the exotic spices and dyestuffs imported by the Genoese.If Southampton’s international traffic was particularly important, the town’s commercewas representative also of the commonplace trade that occurred throughout England.Seventeen papers investigate Southampton’s interaction with Salisbury, London,Winchester, and many other places, long-term trends and short-term fluctuations. Therise and decline of the Italian trade, the dominance of Salisbury and emergence of Jackof Newbury, the recycling of wealth and metals from the dissolved monasteries allfeature here. Underpinning the book are 32 computer-generated maps and numeroustables, charts, and graphs, with guidance provided as to how best to exploit and extendthis remarkable resource.

An accompanying web-mounted database (http://www.overlandtrade.org) enables thechanging commerce to be mapped and visualised through maps and trade to be trackedweek by week and over a century. Together the book and database provide a uniqueresource for Southampton, its trading partners, traders and carters, freight traffic andthe genealogies of the middling sort.


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PAGES:184pp

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READER INTERESTS:Medieval BritainMedieval History


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ISBN 9781909662414

Title Byron, Shelley and Goethe’s Faust

Title ID 494751

Edition ID 91730

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Byron, Shelley and Goethe’s FaustAn Epic Connection

By Ben Hewitt

The first part of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust (1808), one of the great works ofGerman literature, grabbed the attention of Byron and Percy Shelley in the 1810s,engaging them in a shared fascination that was to exert an important influence overtheir writings. In this comparative study, Ben Hewitt explores the links between Faustand Byron’s and Shelley’s works, connecting Goethe and the two English Romanticpoets in terms of their differing, intricately related experiments with epic. In so doing,Hewitt enters the three writers into a literary and philosophical dialogue concerning‘epic’ and ‘tragic’ perspectives on human knowledge and potential – perspectivescrucial to the very structure and significance of Goethe's masterpiece – and illuminateshitherto unacknowledged affinities between these key figures in Romantic literature,and between British and German Romanticisms.


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ISBN 9781909662490

Title Leopardi and Shelley

Title ID 494754

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Leopardi and ShelleyDiscovery, Translation and Reception

By Daniela Cerimonia

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed pathsduring their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent figures who challenged and contributed to the Romantic debate, Leopardi and Shelley hold important roles in the history of their respectivenational literatures, but paradoxically experienced a controversial and delayedreception outside their native lands. Cerimonia's wide-ranging study brings togetherthese two poets for the first time for an exploration of their afterlives, through a closereading of hitherto unstudied translations. This intriguing journey tells the story, fromits origins, of the two poets’ critical fortune, and examines their position in the culturaldebates of the nineteenth century; in disputes regarding translation theories andpractices; and shows the configuration of their identities as we understand their legacytoday.


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ISBN 9781909662506

Title Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum

Title ID 494758

Edition ID 91736

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Oscar Wilde and the SimulacrumThe Truth of Masks

By Giles Whiteley

Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxfordundergraduate to cause célèbre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, theproper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. TakingWilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking bookplaces his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke fromhis peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using theparadoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde’s work in relation to both hisprecursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley’s study reads Wilde through Deleuze andpostmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum.In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both OscarWilde’s aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask.His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacrathrough which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy thatconstitutes an ethics of joy.


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ISBN 9781909662421

Title Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Title ID 494759

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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe(Un)timely Meditations

By John McKeane

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) was a professor of philosophy, and also a poet,a translator and a playwright. His life and work were dedicated to the philosophical andpolitical movements of the post-1968 era, from his communal life together with Jean-Luc Nancy to his collaborations with Jacques Derrida. These movements also carriedhim towards disparate modes of writing such as poetry and theatre. The tensionbetween Lacoue-Labarthe's timely and untimely meditations governs the approach inthis study, the first to attempt an accessible and comprehensive account of this forcefulthinker.


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ISBN 9781909662445

Title Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980sSpain

Title ID 494761

Edition ID 91739

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Urban Space, Identity andPostmodernity in 1980s SpainRethinking the Movida

By Marite Usoz de la Fuente

During the 1980s, the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed theSpanish cultural landscape, particularly in the country’s capital, Madrid. After a four-decade long dictatorship, artists and thinkers sought to make the most of their newlyfound freedoms. The vibrancy, optimism and aesthetic heterogeneity of the period arebest captured in contemporary ephemera – in the fanzines and magazines that providedmovida participants with an immediate and largely unmediated outlet for their creative experiments. Among them, monthly arts magazine La Luna de Madrid is arguably themost iconic, and its preoccupation with urban space, identity, and postmodernitysuggests that la movida was indeed more than ‘just a teardrop in the rain’, as some of its critics have suggested.


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READER INTERESTS:Hispanic StudiesLate Antique & ByzantineArchaeology


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ISBN 9781782978480

Title The Archaeology of Cremation

Title ID 494763

Edition ID 91741

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The Archaeology of Cremationburned human remains in funerary studies

Edited by Tim Thompson

Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, whileconsiderable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively littlework has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite theirvisibility through time. It has been argued that this is the result of decades ofmisunderstanding regarding the potential information that this material holds, combined with properties that make burned bone inherently difficult to analyse. Assuch, there is a considerable body of knowledge on the concepts and practices ofinhumation yet our understanding of cremation ritual and practice is by comparison, woefully inadequate.This timely volume therefore draws together the inventive methodology that has beendeveloped for this material and combines it with a fuller interpretation of the archaeological funerary context. It demonstrates how an innovative methodology, when applied to a challenging material, can produce new and exciting interpretationsof archaeological sites and funerary contexts.

The reader is introduced to the nature of burned human remains and the destructiveeffect that fire can have on the body. Subsequent chapters describe importantcremation practices and sites from around the world and from the Neolithic period tothe modern day. By emphasising the need for a robust methodology combined with anuanced interpretation, it is possible to begin to appreciate the significance and wide-spread adoption of this practice of dealing with the dead.


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SERIES:Studies in Funerary Archaeology

CONTRIBUTOR:Tim Thompson

PAGES:256pp

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READER INTERESTS:Anthropology & SociologyArchaeological Method & Theory

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ISBN 9781782978565

Title Autopsy in Athens

Title ID 494768

Edition ID 91754

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Autopsy in AthensRecent Archaeological Research on Athens andAttica

Edited by Margaret M. Miles

This is an exciting time to study in Athens. The “rescue” excavations of recent years,conducted during construction of the Metro system and in preparation for the 2004Olympics Games, combined with major restoration projects and a new enthusiasm forfresh examination of old material, using new techniques and applications, brings newperspectives and answers on many aspects of the ancient city of Athens and life, politics and religion in Attica.

The 15 paper presented here contribute new findings that result from intensive, first-hand examinations of the archaeological and epigraphical evidence. They illustratehow much may be gained by re-examining material from older excavations, and fromthe methodological shift from documenting information to closer analysis and largerhistorical reflection. They offer a variety of perspectives on a range of issues: theambience of the ancient city for passersby, filled with roadside shrines; techniques ofarchitectural construction and sculpting; religious expression in Athens include cults ofAsklepios and Serapis; the precise procedures for Greek sacrifice; how the borders ofAttica were defined over time, and details of its road-system. In presenting this volumethe contributors are continuing in a long tradition of autopsy – in the sense of 'personalobservation' – in Athens, that began even in the Hellenistic period and has continuedthrough the writings of centuries of travellers and academics to the present day.


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ISBN 9781782978602

Title The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpineregion

Title ID 494809

Edition ID 91869

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The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine regionEdited by Francesco Menotti

After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the manylake-dwellings’ around the Circum-Alpine region ‘suddenly’ came to an end.Throughout that period alternating phases of occupation and abandonment illustratehow resilient lacustrine populations were against change: cultural/environmentalfactors might have forced them to relocate temporarily, but they always returned to thelakes. So why were the lake-dwellings finally abandoned and what exactly happenedtowards the end of the Late Bronze Age that made the lake-dwellers change their wayof life so drastically? The new research presented here draws upon the results of a four-year-long project dedicated to shedding light on this intriguing conundrum. Placing aparticular emphasis upon the Bronze Age, a multidisciplinary team of researchers hasstudied the lake-dwelling phenomenon inside out, leaving no stones unturned, enablingidentification of all possible interactive socio-economic and environmental factors thatcan be subsequently tested against each other to prove (or disprove) their validity. By re-fitting the various pieces of the jigsaw a plausible, but also rather unexpected,picture emerges.


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CONTRIBUTOR:Francesco Menotti

PAGES:208pp


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ISBN 9780861591947

Title Dea Senuna

Title ID 494923

Edition ID 92062

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Dea SenunaTreasure, Cult and Ritual at Ashwell,Hertfordshire

By Gilbert Burleigh & Ralph Jackson

The hoard of Roman-British temple treasure discovered at Ashwell in 2002, providesfascinating new insights into the ritual of Roman religion.

• First full publication of the Ashwell treasure since its high profile discovery in 2002• Features a detailed, highly illustrated discussion of the beautiful gold and silver votive plaques as well as the figurine of the previously unknown goddess Senuna• Will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Roman religion, especially inRoman Britain, as well as historians and archaeologists


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CONTRIBUTORS:Gilbert BurleighRalph Jackson

PAGES:285pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:300 illustrations

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ISBN 9780861592005

Title The Mildenhall Treasure

Title ID 494924

Edition ID 92063

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The Mildenhall TreasureLate Roman Silver Plate from Suffolk, EastAnglia

By Richard Hobbs

Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is one of the most importantcollections of Late Roman silver tableware from the Roman Empire. The objects werefound during ploughing near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, in January 1942or '43 and were declared Treasure Trove in 1946. Although no coins were found togive a reliable date, the tableware's style and decoration is typical of the fourth centuryAD. The artistic and technical quality of the silver objects is outstanding, and though we do not know who owned them, it was probably a person or family of considerablewealth and high social status.

• Features some of the finest pieces of Roman craftsmanship known from throughoutthe Roman Empire• Offers new perspectives on the Treasure and its significance within the wider Romanworld• Essential reading for archaeologists, historians and those with an interest in RomanBritain


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ISBN:9780861592005

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CONTRIBUTOR:Richard Hobbs

PAGES:297pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:500

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ISBN 9781782978756

Title What the Victorians Threw Away

Title ID 495029

Edition ID 92191

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What the Victorians Threw AwayBy Tom Licence

The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm ofyellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appearoverly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ourselves. Nor is ittoo late for us to encounter them so intimately that we might catch ourselves worryingthat we have invaded their privacy. Digging up their refuse is like peeping through thekeyhole. How far off are our grandparents in reality when we can sniff the residues oftheir perfume, cough medicines, and face cream? If we want to know what they boughtin the village store, how they stocked the kitchen cupboard, and how they fed,pampered, and cared for themselves there is no better archive than a rubbish tip withinwhich each object reveals a story. A simple glass bottle can reveal what people weredrinking, how a great brand emerged, or whether an inventor triumphed with a newdesign. An old tin tells us about advertising, household chores, or foreign imports, andeven a broken plate can introduce us to the children in the Staffordshire potteries, whopainted in the colours of a robin, crudely sketched on a cheap cup and saucer.

In this highly readable and delightfully illustrated little book Tom Licence reveals howthese everyday minutiae, dug from the ground, contribute to the bigger story of howour great grandparents built a throwaway society from the twin foundations ofpackaging and mass consumption and illustrates how our own throwaway habits wereformed.


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ISBN:9781782978756

PRICE:£9.99

IMPRINT:Oxbow Books

CONTRIBUTOR:Tom Licence

PAGES:208pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:90 colour illustrations

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ISBN 9781910572009

Title The Poem of Fernán González

Title ID 495032

Edition ID 92197

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The Poem of Fernán GonzálezBy Peter Such & Richard Rabone

Fernán González lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of afearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim andChristian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security andharmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achievingindependence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of León.

The Poema de Fernán González was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life anddeeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzasthat is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against adetailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account ofthe life and achievements of Fernán González. The political situation of the time inwhich the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history’ it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of apre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sourcesemployed by the poet in constructing the poem.


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Orca PG 1B

ISBN:9781910572009

PRICE:£50.00

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SERIES:Hispanic Classics

CONTRIBUTORS:Peter SuchRichard Rabone

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ISBN 9781910572016

Title The Poem of Fernán González

Title ID 495032

Edition ID 92198

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The Poem of Fernán GonzálezBy Peter Such & Richard Rabone

Fernán González lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of afearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim andChristian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security andharmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achievingindependence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of León.

The Poema de Fernán González was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life anddeeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzasthat is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against adetailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account ofthe life and achievements of Fernán González. The political situation of the time inwhich the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history’ it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of apre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sourcesemployed by the poet in constructing the poem.


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Orca PG 1B

ISBN:9781910572016

PRICE:£19.95

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ISBN 9781909686588

Title North Downs Landscapes

Title ID 495199

Edition ID 92538

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North Downs LandscapesExploring the Glorious English Countryside onLondon’s Doorstep

By Doug Kennedy

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip ofEngland, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge ofLondon, so for a long time have offered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape to,or for a home to commute to work from. A hundred years ago, they were still quite remote, but London has grown, spreading onto Downland, and rail and road links haveensured that the many towns across the hills have also grown substantially in size.Despite development there is still a lot of unspoilt landscape, from farmland, to deepwoods, to open grassland ridges with fantastic views across the weald of Surrey andKent; and it is these places that are the focus of this book. North Downs Landscapestakes the reader on a journey from the White Cliffs of Dover, through the rolling Kentish farm land with its open vistas and small villages, across the River Medway atRochester, with its’ castle and cathedral, on to the wooded ridges past Sevenoaks, intoSurrey and across the River Mole to explore Leith Hill, then to Guildford and the RiverWey, and over the Hogs Back to Farnham.

The core of this book are beautiful full-page colour photographs illustrating the beautyand distinctive landscapes of the Downs. The text explores the history, geography,geology and ecology of the countryside and some of its towns and villages. Togetherphotographs and text capture the character and atmosphere of a special part of theBritish Isles.


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Orca PG 1G

ISBN:9781909686588

PRICE:£14.99

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ISBN 9781782979395

Title Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts andTraditions

Title ID 495204

Edition ID 92554

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Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient IndiaThrough Texts and TraditionsContributions to Current Research in IndologyVolume 3

Edited by Jessie Pons & Robert Leach

Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology GraduateResearch Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volumepresents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languagesand literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles offer abroad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subjects including classicaland medieval philosophy, esoteric knowledge and practices in the Vedas, Kālidāsa'sgreat poem Meghadūta ('The Cloud Messenger'), soteriology in a 17th century Jaintext, identity, orality and the songs of the Bauls in 20th century Bengal, and Sanskritpedagogy.


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Orca PG 1A

ISBN:9781782979395

PRICE:£28.00

IMPRINT:Oxbow Books

SERIES:PUSPIKA

CONTRIBUTORS:Jessie PonsRobert Leach

PAGES:128pp


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ISBN 9780854312993

Title Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset

Title ID 495220

Edition ID 92582

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Sherborne Old Castle, DorsetArchaeological investigations 1930–90

By Alan Cook & Peter White

Roger, Bishop of Salisbury (1102–39, built Sherborne Old Castle within his episcopalestate at Sherborne, in north-west Dorset, in about 1122–35. The fortified palace wasone of several major building projects undertaken by Bishop Roger; among the otherswere the rebuilding of Old Sarum cathedral and castles at Devizes and Malmesbury.Although Sherborne Old Castle was altered over the next four centuries, most of itsoriginal structural elements were retained until the buildings were slighted in 1645.

This report describes and analyses the information obtained from all the archaeologicalinvestigations undertaken at the castle since the early twentieth century, includingthose of A E Rawlence (1932), C E Bean (1932 to 1954), and the authors of this report,Peter White, then Inspector of Ancient Monuments, between 1968 and 1980and the late Alan Cook (1980–95).

An analysis of the results, together with continuing historical research, have revealedmuch more about the major periods of the castle’s construction and use. It is nowpossible to describe and source more exactly the sophisticated design of Roger’s castleand the high quality of the craftsmanship employed in its construction and decoration;the later phases of development during the medieval period including theimprovements to the castle’s defences and accommodation when held by the Crown between 1183 and 1354; the post-1357 alterations after the castle had been regained byBishop Wyvil of Salisbury, and the important fifteenth-century building programmecarried out by Bishop Thomas Langton. A much clearer assessment has been made ofthe impact of the works undertaken by Sir Walter Ralegh in his abortive attempt toremodel the castle as his country seat after he obtained the estate in 1592.

Finally, although much of the fabric of the castle was destroyed following its surrenderto a Parliamentary army in 1645, new documentary evidence and structural analysishas revealed how, during the eighteenth century, the Digby family developed andmaintained the ruins as a romantic feature on the northern boundary of their landscapedpark.


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Orca PG 8H

ISBN:9780854312993

PRICE:£35.00

IMPRINT:Society of Antiquaries of London

CONTRIBUTORS:Alan CookPeter White

PAGES:200pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:97 illustrations

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ISBN 9781937679484

Title A Clearance

Title ID 495581

Edition ID 93126

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A ClearanceBy Fiona Wilson

“In this long-awaited and masterful debut, Fiona Wilson gives us astonishing anduncommon poems that may have emerged from the Scottish and American traditionsbut can be found somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, while her readers come ‘tothe edge of a question’ by either shore. Wilson’s formal brilliance is all workedthrough with chagrin, wit, and modesty. The mind at play in these poems is thrilled,distracted, enchanted by the feeling of words in the mouth—the mustardy ‘sonsy,’ thegray wet velvet of ‘mizzle,’ the scandal of ‘cramasie’—and by slips and turns ofphrase, which she turns over like stones, like coins, as they become talismanic—toconsole, perhaps, as if the secret to transformation were to be found in language itself.”—Saskia Hamilton


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781937679484

PRICE:£13.00

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CONTRIBUTOR:Fiona Wilson

PAGES:80pp

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READER INTEREST:Poetry


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ISBN 9781931807951

Title A Fat Girl's Manifesto

Title ID 495582

Edition ID 93127

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A Fat Girl's ManifestoA Thin Book on Living Fat in America

By Cyr V. Daniel

Cyr V. Daniel offers an honest, openhearted and hilarious account of her journey tofind self-acceptance as an overweight woman living in America. From her days as anude model, to her loving marriage and motherhood, to her current retirement quest torelocate to Tahiti (where they love heavy bodies), Cyr tells it like it is! Her inspiringmanifesto is leading countless others who are breaking free from the Fat Is Bad (FIB)doctrine to live their lives in peace and harmony - with chocolate and a treadmill.Citing national experts such as Glenn Gaesser and accepted research about the geneticsof obesity, plus the economics of the war on obesity, Cyr stands up proudly for thecause. Her revolution is just beginning...


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781931807951

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CONTRIBUTOR:Cyr V. Daniel

PAGES:96pp

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ISBN 9781942155003

Title Elle & Buddy

Title ID 495601

Edition ID 93146

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Elle & BuddyBy K. D. Rausin & Muza Ulasowski

Elle is afraid to ride the Ferris wheel at the local fair. She prefers to keep her wheels onthe ground with her huge, slobbering dog, Buddy. On the way home she see someathletes using racing wheelchairs and becomes excited. After her mom surprises her with a racing wheelchair of her own, she and Buddy train together. Elle's confidencegrows and when the fair returns Elle now has the courage to conquer her fear and go on the ride.


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781942155003

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CONTRIBUTORS:K. D. RausinMuza Ulasowski

PAGES:32pp

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ISBN 9781937679422

Title Impersonation

Title ID 495614

Edition ID 93159

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ImpersonationBy Joy Ladin

"Impersonation was originally conceived as the first book of a triptych charting gendertransition; however, the second and third books in the sequence, Transmigration andComing to Life, were published first, and this collection kept growing. Impersonationnow bookends the sequence, collecting poems written before and after the stages oftransition marked by Transmigration and Coming to Life." - From the Author's Note


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781937679422

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CONTRIBUTOR:Joy Ladin

PAGES:72pp

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ISBN 9781933880525

Title Love's Labors

Title ID 495631

Edition ID 93176

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Love's LaborsBy Brent Newsom

In a debut remarkable for its formal control and emotional range, Brent Newsom tunesnarrative and lyric impulses to an idiom rooted in his native Louisiana. Love's Laborsplumbs themes of family, work, and sex, from a perspective both tempered andtroubled by the language and traditions of Christian faith.


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Orca PG 8X

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PAGES:78pp

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ISBN 9781611687675

Title Nathan Hale

Title ID 495635

Edition ID 93180

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Imprint Name ForeEdge from University Press of New England


Nathan HaleThe Life and Death of America's First Spy

By M. William Phelps

Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have one life left to give for my country." But who was the realNathan Hale?

M. William Phelps charts the life of this famed patriot and Connecticut's state hero,following Hale's rural childhood, his education at Yale, and his work as aschoolteacher. Even in his brief career, he distinguished himself by offering formallessons to young women. Like many young Americans, he was soon drawn into thecolonies' war for independence and became a captain in Washington's army. When thegeneral was in need of a spy, Hale willingly rose to the challenge, bravely sacrificinghis life for the sake of American liberty.

Using Hale's own journals and letters as well as testimonies from his friends andcontemporaries, Phelps depicts the Revolution as it was seen from the ground. Fromthe confrontation in Boston to the battle for New York City, readers experience whatlife was like for an ordinary soldier in the struggling Continental Army.

In this impressive, well-researched biography, Phelps separates historical fact fromlong-standing myth to reveal the truth about Nathan Hale, a young man who deservesto be remembered as an original American patriot.


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781611687675

PRICE:£15.00

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CONTRIBUTOR:M. William Phelps

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ISBN 9781931807968

Title Oil, Ice & Bone

Title ID 495638

Edition ID 93183

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Oil, Ice & BoneArctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom

By Helen Hiller Frink

In 1860 fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Ransom followed his five older brothers into thedank foc'sle of a whaling vessel. For fifteen years he hunted seventy-ton bowheads inArctic waters, for the many uses of "bone," blades of flexible baleen from theleviathan's enormous jaw, raised its value, even as petroleum replaced whale oil as asource of lighting. In 1871 Ransom survived the loss of thirty-two whaling vessels inthe frigid waters off Alaska's Icy Cape. With him he carried a journal - and kept it, ashe and his shipmates jettisoned weapons and warm clothing to save their very lives.His eyewitness account of whaling's brutal slaughter and sudden losses is enriched bythe author's affection for an ancestor she discovered through his journals a centuryafter his death.


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ISBN:9781931807968

PRICE:£22.00


CONTRIBUTOR:Helen Hiller Frink

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ISBN 9781611687361

Title Rebound!

Title ID 495646

Edition ID 93191

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Rebound!The Incredible Story of UConn Basketball'sComeback from Defeat to Dominance

By David Borges

In September 2012, legendary University of Connecticut men's basketball coach JimCalhoun - who had won three national championships, the last in 2011 - abruptlyretired. His handpicked replacement was Kevin Ollie, a former UConn player andlongtime NBA journeyman who had returned two years earlier to be Calhoun'sassistant. Ollie was widely praised as a "basketball savant" and respected by virtuallyeveryone who knew him. But he had no head coaching experience - at any level -before taking the UConn job. He was also inheriting a mess. Due to past academicproblems, UConn was barred from postseason play in 2013, and largely because ofthis, several top players left the program, either for the NBA draft or for other schools.On top of that were the uncertainties of a greatly changed conference, as well asdifficulties on the recruiting trail. Despite it all, a dedicated core of players stayed andwon twenty hard-fought games, even with no tournament chances to hope for.

The following season, expectations for the team were modest, and the odds of achampionship were slim to none. But with the tournament ban lifted, a talented groupof players, led by Shabazz Napier, emerged and went on to upset Michigan State toadvance to the Final Four, causing millions of college hoops fans across the country torip up their carefully constructed brackets. When they beat preseason no. 1 Kentucky,with its "Fab 5" NBA-bound starters and celebrity coach John Calipari, to win the 2014title, theirs became one of the great comeback stories in all of sports, a rags-to-richestriumph for a storied program and its new head coach.


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781611687361

PRICE:£13.00

IMPRINT:University Press of New England

CONTRIBUTOR:David Borges

PAGES:232pp

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ISBN 9781942155027

Title Tadem, My Father's Village

Title ID 495663

Edition ID 93208

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Tadem, My Father's VillageExtinguished during the 1915 ArmenianGenocide

By Robert Aram Kaloosdian

Drawing on accounts from over a dozen witnesses, most never before published, theauthor recounts the life and death of one village. He follows his father, BoghosKezerian Kaloosdian, and other townspeople from the first intimations of violencethrough deportations, separations, massacres, and escapes, to the establishment ofdiasporal communities. With striking immediacy, the author presents Tadem as amicrocosm of the Genocide and argues that the Turks used the outbreak of World WarI as a cover for atrocities motivated by religious hatred and greed.


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ISBN:9781942155027

PRICE:£20.00


CONTRIBUTOR:Robert Aram Kaloosdian

PAGES:352pp

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ISBN 9781611687118

Title Why I Don't Write Children's Literature

Title ID 495698

Edition ID 93243

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Why I Don't Write Children'sLiteratureBy Gary Soto

Gary Soto is a poet and, in his previous writing life, author of children's literature.Moreover, he is an essayist whose works, such as Living Up the Street, A SummerLife, and What Poets Are Like, were celebrated for their openness and vivid image-making. In this collection, the poet again offers prose that is robust, confessional, and peculiar in its observations. He addresses time. He considers aging. If each day of theweek represented a decade, then Soto is now cruising late Saturday afternoon. As theclock's gears relentlessly grind, he's soon on Sunday - but Sunday morning! He still hastime to enjoy the world about him.

Soto is a master essayist. His sharply refined sentences are worth a second read, andoften a pencil in hand. Soto's world is quirky, captured in narrative that will softenreaders with laughter and empathy. Like many boomers, he laments his sense offailure. Like them, he shrugs off that failure to recast his remaining years. He befriendsdaffodils, praises theater and tribute bands, and snuggles up with his wife of nearlyforty years. This book is short enough to read in one sitting on the couch andencourages a second reading with deeper pleasure in bed.


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Orca PG 8X

ISBN:9781611687118

PRICE:£11.00

IMPRINT:ForeEdge from University Press ofNew England

CONTRIBUTOR:Gary Soto

PAGES:216pp

BINDING:Paperback


READER INTEREST:English Language & LIterature

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ISBN 9781909662360

Title Rewriting Les Mystères de Paris

Title ID 495747

Edition ID 93322

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Rewriting Les Mystères de ParisThe Mystères Urbains and the Palimpsest

By Amy Wigelsworth

Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalise on their success. But whatare the implications of this rewriting process? Such is the question addressed by thisdetailed study of several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris (1842-43),produced in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in response to the phenomenalsuccess of Sue’s archetypal urban mystery. Pursuing a compelling analogy betweencity and text, and exploring the resonance of the palimpsest trope to both, AmyWigelsworth argues that the mystères urbains are exemplary rewritings, which shednew light on contemporary reading and writing practices, and emerge as early avatarsof a genre still widely consumed and enjoyed in the 21st century.Amy Wigelsworth completed her PhD at Durham University. She currently holds apart-time lectureship in French at the Sheffield Business School (Sheffield HallamUniversity), and also teaches French at the University of York.


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Orca PG 1I

ISBN:9781909662360

PRICE:£55.00

IMPRINT:Legenda


CONTRIBUTOR:Amy Wigelsworth

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READER INTERESTS:Cultural StudiesLanguage & Literature


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ISBN 9780956838148

Title Varro Varius

Title ID 495810

Edition ID 93399

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Varro VariusThe Polymath of the Roman World

By D.J. Butterfield

With over seventy works to his name, Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 B.C.) wasarguably the greatest scholar of the Roman world. This volume of essays addresses hisoften neglected output, shedding new light on the intellectual activity of the lateRoman republic. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 39.


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Orca PG 3J

ISBN:9780956838148

PRICE:£45.00

IMPRINT:Cambridge Philological Society

SERIES:1

CONTRIBUTOR:D.J. Butterfield

PAGES:220pp

ILLUSTRATIONS:1 illustration

BINDING:Hardback


READER INTERESTS:Classical CivilizationCultural Studies


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