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Formation of a Provincial Nobility
In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility. Originally published in 1980. 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.
Translation Revisited
How realistic is it to expect translation to render the world intelligible in a context shaped by different historical trajectories and experiences? Can we rely on human universals to translate through the unique and specific webs of meaning that languages represent? If knowledge production is a kind of translation, then it is fair to assume that the possibility of translation has largely rested on the idea that Western experience is the repository of these human universals against the background of which different human experiences can be rendered intelligible. The problem with this assumption, however, is that there are limits to Western claims to universalism, mainly because these claims ...
Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Space, Time and Language in Plutarch
'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular, they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic, historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume's aim...
Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer
La 4e de couverture indique : "The theologian Gregory of Nyssa wrote biographies of his sister, a local bishop, and Moses. Allison L. Gray shows that he adapts techniques from Greco-Roman biographical writing in these texts to create narratives that are suited to a specifically Christian form of education, focused on virtue and scriptural interpretation."
Saint Augustin
Le Sermon Dolbeau 26 de saint Augustin développe l’identité du Christ comme unique Médiateur entre Dieu et les hommes. Cet ouvrage propose de montrer comment l’évêque d’Hippone, saint Augustin, après avoir réfuté les doctrines païennes, a insisté sur l’attitude du chrétien qui recherche Dieu. Du dialogue avec les païens à la définition de la foi chrétienne en Jésus, le Verbe incarné, Augustin nous invite à la conversion et à l’amour de l’Église. L’évêque d’Hippone présente ensuite le Christ comme étant le Vrai Médiateur. Il dénonce les faux médiateurs. Il critique l’orgueil des doctes et explique comment le Christ est la Tête de l’Église. L’originalité de cette réflexion est de proposer après chaque thématique relative à la médiation du Christ un texte d’Augustin en guise de méditation, montrant ainsi la corrélation et la cohérence de sa pensée entre ce sermon peu connu et ses autres écrits.
Thucydides' War Narrative
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative stru...
Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe
In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods.
