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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Late Merovingian France
by Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.
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March 2003Aktion und Reaktion
Leben und Abenteuer eines Begriffspaares
by Jean Starobinski, Horst Günther
Die Wechselwirkung von Aktion und Reaktion, das Prinzip, daß eine Handlung zwangsläufig eine andere hervorruft, prägt heute unsere Vorstellung vom Zusammenhang der Welt. Das war keineswegs immer so: Der alte Wortschatz der lateinischen Sprache kannte »passio« als Gegenbegriff der »actio« und eröffnete somit ein gänzlich anderes semantisches wie theoretisches Feld. Jean Starobinski zeichnet den langen Weg der zwei Begriffe von der antiken Naturphilosophie bis zur Gegenwart nach, von den Naturwissenschaften bis zur geisteswissenschaftlichen sowie medizinischen Adaption. Die abenteuerliche Entwicklung des heute wie selbstverständlich spiegelsymmetrisch begriffenen Wortpaars erweist sich dabei als eine neue, zentrale und immer wieder überraschende Perspektive auf die europäische Ideengeschichte.
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September 2022Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa
A Christian Latin Reader
by Sarah Wear
Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader features the entirety of Tertullian’s To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian’s On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on Augustine’s Commentary on Psalm 121.6. The Latin text has facing vocabulary and theological, historical, philosophical, and grammatical notes. In the first three centuries, Roman Carthage produced some of the earliest literature composed originally in Latin by Christians. Tertullian’s Ad Martyras (197); Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (203), and Cyprian’s De Bono Patientiae (256) all embody the force of this new genre of Latin literature. With this literature, we see a variant of Latin often denoted “Christian Latin.” Christian Latin featured linguistic elements marked by characteristics of biblical Latin, later Latin, as well as vulgarisms. In addition to converging philologically, Tertullian, the author of the Passio, and Cyprian align themselves in topos: they all ask the question of how one can endure torment and anxiety in this world. Patience (patientia), derived from the verb for “to suffer” (patior), is a virtue that allows one to endure troubles, anxieties, and physical pains with the hope of eternal happiness and salvation in heaven. In this Reader, the student will find three different literary perspectives on this theme. The book also draws parallels to the works of Seneca and Cicero on patience and suffering.
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Etica dell'acquario
by Ilaria Gaspari
Gaia is beautiful, self-centred and unhappy. One day in November she returns to the city where she studied, after an absence of ten years. Nothing seems to have changed in Pisa, but everything has. Gaia meets up again with her old friends and the love of her university days, but now they are divided by the years they spent apart and the loss of a fellow student, Virginia, who died in obscure circumstances. The investigation into the mysterious suicide winds its way through the streets of the city and the colleges of the Scuola Normale, amidst buried memories and obsessions that come to light.
