La Cite Antique (Academia Renascens, #4) (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)
by Fustel de Coulanges
La Cite Antique is the best-known work by the nineteenth-century French historian Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), who pioneered an objective approach to the study of history, and the use of primary rather than secondary sources. This reissue is of the 1866 edition of the book, which was originally published in 1864 while the author was professor of history at Strasbourg. It explores the influence of religion and kinship on the development of the laws and political institutions of ancient Greek...
A heartwarming story set in old London about the life of an aging Grandfather caring for his small granddaughter who shows up unexpectedly at his door.
Booke of Gostlye Grace (Studies and Texts of the Pontifical Institute, #46)
Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of which have never been adequately reported before. The extensive commentary explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realiti...
Macrobe, Saturnales. Tome II (Collection Des Universites de France Serie Latine)
The Autobiography of a Quack, and the Case of George Dedlow
by S Weir Mitchell
La comtesse de Segur - Integrale - volume 2 (La Comtesse de Segur, #2)
by Sophie Rostopchine Comtesse De Segur
Libellus de Diversis Ordinibus et Professionibus qui Sunt in Aecclesia (Oxford Medieval Texts)
The Libellus de Diversis Ordinibus was written in the 1130s or 1140s, probably in the diocese of Liege, a recognized centre of religious and intellectual activity at the time. It is a description of the similarities and differences among the various orders of monks, canons, and hermits, and, though clearly a contribution to a contemporary debate, is more analytical than polemical. Its unknown author, 'R', perhaps a regular canon, builds his case by demonstrating how each order and profession co...
The Journal of Philology: Volume 35 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)
Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910), William George Clark (1821-78), and William Aldis Wright (1831-1914), this biannual journal was a successor to The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Unlike its short-lived precursor, it survived for more than half a century, until 1920, spanning the period in which specialised academic journals developed from more general literary reviews. Predominantly...
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other w...