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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Volume 3

By: José Manuel García Valverde,Peter Maxwell-Stuart

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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Volume 3

By: José Manuel García Valverde,Peter Maxwell-Stuart

The first full modern English version of Del Río’s treatise, unrivalled in its breadth, detail, and scholarship, on the occult sciences as they were understood, experienced, and combatted at the end of the sixteenth century.

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9004468935

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Unimpeded Sailing

A Critical Edition of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio Libera (Extended 1698 Edition)

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,Steve Murdoch,Leos Müller

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Unimpeded Sailing

A Critical Edition of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio Libera (Extended 1698 Edition)

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,Steve Murdoch,Leos Müller

The original Latin text of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio libera has never before been translated into any modern vernacular language. Gröning’s intention was to set out the position of neutral nations (in this case the Danes and Swedes), and their right to pursue trade during the wars of the great maritime powers (particularly the English and the Dutch). It specifically sought to engage with and refute the work of Hugo Grotius while taking cognisance of the critique of Gröning’s work by Samuel Pufendorf. The text serves as a bridge between 17th-century polemical discourse surrounding the ‘free sea’ versus ‘enclosed sea’ debate and later 18th-century legal literature on the rights of neutrals and the continuation of free trade in time of war.

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9004352708

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9789004352704

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Volume 1

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,José Manuel García Valverde

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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Volume 1

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,José Manuel García Valverde

The most comprehensive treatise on all aspects of magic, witchcraft, and allied subjects produced in the early modern period.

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9004441530

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9789004441538

John Francis Bentley

Architect of Westminster Cathedral

By: Peter Howell

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John Francis Bentley

Architect of Westminster Cathedral

By: Peter Howell

This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his daughter Winefride de l’Hôpital’s Westminster Cathedral and its Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and went to London to work in the office of Henry Clutton, a distinguished High Victorian architect who became a Roman Catholic in 1856. Bentley also converted, and, after setting up his own practice in 1860, came to be widely recognised as the best Catholic architect of his time. He built comparatively few complete churches, but did extensive work in adding to and furnishing other architects’ churches. He had remarkable skill in the design of woodwork, metalwork, stained glass, and organ cases, all of which are covered in the book. His finest parish church is Holy Rood, Watford, but the climax of his career was the commission in 1894 to design Westminster Cathedral, which was almost complete when he died in 1902.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800346735

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Promise-Giving and Treaty-Making

Homer and the Near East

By: Peter Karavites

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Promise-Giving and Treaty-Making

Homer and the Near East

By: Peter Karavites

This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics that they reflect only the institutions and ideas of the Dark Ages, during which they were composed, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Comparing evidence from the Near East with the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites argues that the epics actually contain much that harks back to the Mycenaean Age, and that the two eras may not be completely discontinuous after all. Most contemporary scholars maintain that the mighty Mycenaean period was almost completely separated from the Dark Ages and that virtually no evidence of the former remains, with the exception of the archeological finds and the meager testimony of the Linear B tablets. However, the Near Eastern evidence about treaties and other forms of promising suggests that the Iliad and Odyssey may indeed provide historical pictures of the Mycenaean times featured in their narratives.

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9004329153

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Promise-Giving and Treaty Making

Homer and the Near East

By: Peter Karavites,Thomas E. Wren

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Promise-Giving and Treaty Making

Homer and the Near East

By: Peter Karavites,Thomas E. Wren

This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics, according to which they reflect only the institutions and ideas of their own time, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Using a comparative analysis of evidence from the Near East and the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites comes to the bold conclusion that the epics actually contain much that harks back to the Mycenaean Age, and that the two eras may not be completely discontinuous after all. Most contemporary scholars maintain that the mighty Mycenaean period was almost completely separated from the Dark Ages and that virtually no evidence of the former remains, with the exception of the archeological finds and the meager testimony of the Linear B tablets. However, the Near Eastern evidence about treaties and other forms of promising suggests that the Iliad and Odyssey may indeed provide historical pictures of the Mycenaean times featured in their narratives.

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9004095675

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9789004095670

Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols)

A Work on Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Theology

By: José Manuel García-Valverde,Peter Maxwell-Stuart

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Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols)

A Work on Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Theology

By: José Manuel García-Valverde,Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Nearly a century before Descartes, Gómez Pereira published the Antoniana Margarita with the purpose of demonstrating the thesis of animal automatism, among many other things. The author included in his book several proofs of animal insensitivity and an original model aimed at explaining animal behaviour in the grounds of a purely mechanical system. In this sense, Pereira's work represents a critical appraisal of the traditional scholastic theory of the animal mind, as well as one of the first efforts to develop this question in the field of empirical observation and physio¬logical knowledge. It is precisely for this reason that Gómez Pereira must be recognized as one of the most valuable thinkers of the Spanish Renaissance. The editors, García Valverde and Maxwell-Stuart, offer the first critical edition of the Latin text, a careful translation and an extensive study that contextualizes its content in the philosophy of the sixteenth century.

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9004395040

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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Unimpeded Sailing

Unimpeded Sailing

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

John Francis Bentley

John Francis Bentley

Promise-Giving and Treaty-Making

Promise-Giving and Treaty-Making

Promise-Giving and Treaty Making

Promise-Giving and Treaty Making

Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols)

Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols)

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