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Alexander Pushkin

Complete Prose Fiction

By: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Paul Debreczeny,Walter W. Arndt

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Alexander Pushkin

Complete Prose Fiction

By: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Paul Debreczeny,Walter W. Arndt

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. This is a new translation of all his prose fiction, from his famous story "The Queen of Spades" down to unfinished stories and fragments that appear in English for the first time. Pushkin's non-fictional A History of Pugachev, also translated into English for the first time, is included because it furnished the historical background of his novel The Captain's Daughter. The translator has taken care to achieve a balance between faithfulness to the original and readability in English, and several Russian editions have been collated to establish an accurate text. The translations are annotated to place each work in its historical context, and to eluvidate passages not easily understandable to today's reader. Appendixes present a chapter that Pushkin deleted from The Captain's Daughter; fictional fragments; Pushkin's outlines of projected works; and the apocryphal novella The Lonely Cottage on Vasilev Island.

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Stanford University Press

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0804718008

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9780804718004

Barbarian Tides

The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

By: Walter Goffart

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Barbarian Tides

The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

By: Walter Goffart

The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" setting and reimagining the role of foreigners in the Later Roman Empire. The Empire was not swamped by a migratory Germanic flood for the simple reason that there was no single ancient Germanic civilization to be transplanted onto ex-Roman soil. Since the sixteenth century, the belief that purposeful Germans existed in parallel with the Romans has been a fixed point in European history. Goffart uncovers the origins of this historical untruth and argues that any projection of a modern Germany out of an ancient one is illusory. Rather, the multiplicity of northern peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity. Most relevant among these was the long militarization that gripped late Roman society concurrently with its Christianization. If the fragmented foreign peoples with which the Empire dealt gave Rome an advantage in maintaining its ascendancy, the readiness to admit military talents of any social origin to positions of leadership opened the door of imperial service to immigrants from beyond its frontiers. Many barbarians were settled in the provinces without dislodging the Roman residents or destabilizing landownership; some were even incorporated into the ruling families of the Empire. The outcome of this process, Goffart argues, was a society headed by elites of soldiers and Christian clergy—one we have come to call medieval.

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384

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200284

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9780812200287

The Uses of the Old Testament in the New

By: Walter C. Kaiser

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The Uses of the Old Testament in the New

By: Walter C. Kaiser

The debate over whether New Testament writers were entirely accurate in their quoting from the Old Testament has raged since before the turn of the century. This fundamental question has been one starting point in thought for both redaction and canon criticism. A majority of contemporary scholars have even agreed that New Testament writers (and readers) permissively interpreted the Old Testament text. Author Walter Kaiser, Jr., elucidates how this state of doctrinal affairs came about. He references the Old Testament text for accurate exegesis and content to answer the one question symbolizing the entire work: ÒHave the New Testament writers fairly cited the Old Testament quotations according to their real truth-intention and original writer's meaning in their attempt to show that the Messiah and many of the events in the first century A.D. church had indeed been anticipated by the O.T. writers?Ó The apostles preached and wrote while utterly convinced that Old Testament writing had anticipated the marvelous events they proclaimed. Did they give meaning to meaningless Old Testament texts? Did they squeeze fulfilled prophecy out of a dry passage? These are the central questions answered in this work.

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287

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1579108253

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9781579108250

Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire

By: Walter Emil Kaegi

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Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire

By: Walter Emil Kaegi

Professor Kaegi studies the response of the eastern half of the Roman Empire to the disintegration of western Rome, usually dated from the sack of the city of Rome in A.D. 410. Using sources from the fifth and sixth centuries, he shows that the eastern empire had a clear awareness of, interest in, and definite opinions on the disasters that befell Rome in the west. Religious arguments, both Pagan and Christian, tended to dominate the thinking of the intellectuals, but economic and diplomatic activity also contributed to the reaction. This reaction, the author finds, was in a distinctly eastern manner and reflected quite naturally the special conditions prevailing in the eastern provinces. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400879558

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9781400879557

Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Techniques of Accommodation

By: Walter Goffart

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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Techniques of Accommodation

By: Walter Goffart

Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and shows that they were based on the procedures of Roman taxation, rather than on those of military billeting (the so-called hospitalitas system), as has long been thought. Resident proprietors could be left in undisturbed possession of their lands because the proceeds of taxation,rather than land itself, were awarded to the barbarian troops and their leaders.

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294

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Princeton University Press

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0691216312

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9780691216317

The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

By: Walter T. Wilson

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The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

By: Walter T. Wilson

This commentary on the Greek text of the Jewish-Hellenistic Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, a sapiential poem of the first century BCE or first century CE, offers a full treatment of its sources, structure, perspective, and purpose as well as a verse-by-verse translation and analysis. The Greek text is given as appendix. The cross-cultural nature of these moral teachings is emphasized through extensive interaction with Biblical, Hellenistic Jewish, and Greco-Roman comparative materials.

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317

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110892766

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9783110892765

The Way it was

Walter Lord on His Life and Books

By: Walter Lord,Jenny Lawrence,Evan Thomas,Robert A. Caro,Thea Karas (book designer.)

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The Way it was

Walter Lord on His Life and Books

By: Walter Lord,Jenny Lawrence,Evan Thomas,Robert A. Caro,Thea Karas (book designer.)

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0615259731

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Barbarian Tides

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The Uses of the Old Testament in the New

The Uses of the Old Testament in the New

Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire

Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire

Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

The Way it was

The Way it was

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