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Probo's Amazing Trunk

By: David R. Collins

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Probo's Amazing Trunk

By: David R. Collins

Text and photographs depict the life of an African elephant from birth to death.

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0813651840

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9780813651842

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

By: David Butterfield

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The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

By: David Butterfield

This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.

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Cambridge University Press

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110703745X

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9781107037458

Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius

Dialogi tres in Lactentium Critical Latin Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes

By: David Rutherford,Paul Schulten

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Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius

Dialogi tres in Lactentium Critical Latin Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes

By: David Rutherford,Paul Schulten

Antonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius’ works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to his broad Quattrocento recovery, many profound cultural and intellectual shifts had transpired. Consequently, Rho’s dialogues engage topics arising from scholastic and other debates in jurisprudence, cosmology, astrology, geography, philosophy, and theology. He was convinced that insights from these fields would elucidate errors of Lactantius that his readers had overlooked. This reveals much about the cultural and intellectual developments that shaped readers’ efforts to recover, comprehend, and define Lactantius as an author. Significantly, the list of Lactantius’ errors discussed in the dialogues was printed with nearly every edition of Lactantius through the sixteenth century and beyond.

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990

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BRILL

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900453766X

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9789004537668

The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395

By: David S. Potter

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The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395

By: David S. Potter

The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire, setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students, this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period.

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986

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Routledge

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1134694849

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9781134694846

Corporate Human Rights Violations

Global Prospects for Legal Action

By: Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte

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Corporate Human Rights Violations

Global Prospects for Legal Action

By: Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.

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Routledge

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1317216059

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9781317216056

Plautus: Pseudolus

By: David Christenson

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Plautus: Pseudolus

By: David Christenson

Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant linguistic play, creative appropriation of comic tradition, interrogation of convention and social norms, the projection of an air of improvisation and a fresh comic universe, and exploration of dramatic mimesis itself. The extensive Introduction analyses Plautus' delightful comedy as a stage-performance, the comic playwright's translation and adaptation practices, his innovative deployment of language and metrical and musical virtuosity, as well as the play's transmission and reception. In addition to detailed elucidation of the Latin text, the Commentary examines Pseudolus as a lens into Roman slave society at the time of its debut at the Megalensian festival of 191 BCE. The edition engages throughout with current criticism and issues of interest to both students and scholars.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108889344

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9781108889346

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

By: David Noy

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Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

By: David Noy

The first readily-accessible and completely up to date survey of the Jewish inscriptions of Western Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521619777

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9780521619776

Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800-1930, Volume 3

By: David Nash

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Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800-1930, Volume 3

By: David Nash

Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040288146

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9781040288146

Southern Green Criminology

A Science to End Ecological Discrimination

By: David Rodríguez Goyes

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Southern Green Criminology

A Science to End Ecological Discrimination

By: David Rodríguez Goyes

Southern Green Criminology focuses on the threat the western world poses to the rest of the globe, and how Western imposed ideas of progress are damaging the planet, especially the southern hemisphere.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787692310

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9781787692312

David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries

Volume II

By: David Rosenmann-Taub

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David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries

Volume II

By: David Rosenmann-Taub

A collection of sixty commented poems of contemporary Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub, David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries continues Kenneth Gorfkle's exposition of the Chilean poet's work in English. Except for the poet's explanations in his own books Quince and Glosa, these commentaries are unique in illuminating the poet's work. Of the many topics that the poems treat, consciousness in all its aspects is the poet's primary concern. It comprises a full half of the poems in the book and reverberates in other poems as well.

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UNC Press Books

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1469678055

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9781469678054

Book's by David Probo

Probo's Amazing Trunk

Probo's Amazing Trunk

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius

Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius

The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395

The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395

Corporate Human Rights Violations

Corporate Human Rights Violations

Plautus: Pseudolus

Plautus: Pseudolus

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800-1930, Volume 3

Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800-1930, Volume 3

Southern Green Criminology

Southern Green Criminology

David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries

David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries

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