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A history of tapestry, from the earliest times until the present day
Wakefield, EP Publishing 1973 xxiv + 596pp.with some figures in text and many plates out-of-text of which some folding, 3rd edition with revisions, 27cm., editor's hardcover in red cloth, illustrated dustwrapper, good condition, S87639
Corpus Christianorum. Willelmus Meldunensis monachus Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, LI+387 p., 2 b/w ill., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503540870.
William of Malmesbury's Commentary on Lamentations is one of the rare works of biblical commentary produced by an English Benedictine in the twelfth century. Surviving complete in a single manuscript, and in burnt fragments of another, it is here edited for the first time. Although the work is explicitly based upon the ninth-century commentary by Paschasius, it is enriched by William's own wide and deep reading of the Bible, the Fathers and the Latin Classics. Here we find the great historian grappling with theological and moral issues both universal and personal, as he attempts to understand God's disciplining of His people, whether understood as the Jews, the Church, or the English of William's own day. Languages: Latin, English.
Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540. Essays in Honour of John O. Ward,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2003 Hardback, X+270 p., 1 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513409.
The essays in this volume, presented in honour of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelard (1079-1142) to Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540). Ward, who has taught for many years at the University of Sydney, has been an influential and creative force in medieval and Renaissance studies both in Australia and internationally. This volume opens with a personal memoir and bibliography of Ward's publications, as well as an overview of the study of medieval rhetoric. The first of the three sections, 'Abelard and Rhetoric', relates Abelard's rhetoric to his logic, his theology, and his relationship to Heloise. A second section, 'Voices of Reform', considers various writers (William of Malmesbury, John of Salisbury, Richard FitzNigel, and William of Ockham) who bring rhetorical techniques to bear upon analysis of social conditions. A third section, 'Rhetoric in Transition', deals with the evolution of rhetorical theory between the late fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The volume will be of interest not just to specialists in rhetoric, but to all concerned with issues of reform and renewal in European culture during the period 1100-1540. Languages : English.
