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Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 90-04-33236-7

Series Statement: Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; v. 4

Content: In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk , a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ , al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule.

Note: Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh - fifteenth centuries) -- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings -- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history -- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg -- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo -- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk -- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings -- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih -- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories -- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah -- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler -- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth - twentieth centuries) -- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438) -- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth - twentieth centuries) -- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history. , English

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ISBN: 9789004441163 , 9789004441156

Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 68

Content: A varied collection of articles on early Hebrew printing, encompassing motifs on title pages such as lions, eagles, and fish as well as the entitling of Hebrew books. The next section is on authors and places of publication addressing such diverse topics as a much republished book opposed to gambling, authors of books on philology and on the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-49); of articles on diverse and disparate places of printing, Chierie, Hamburg, Offenbach, Verona, and Slavuta, generally small barely remembered publishers of interesting works, and in the last location properly identifying the printer of the highly regarded Slavuta press. Included is a section on Christian-Hebraism with articles on Altdorf where polemical books were published and another on William Wotten, a Christian vicar who published the first English translation of Mishnayot. The result is a wide-ranging series of articles highlighting the activities of early Hebrew presses and printers.

Note: Contents -- Preface -- part 1: Hebrew Book Arts -- 1 The Eagle Motif in 16th and 17th Century Hebrew Books -- Appendix: Biblical Verses Containing References to the Eagle as [ים] נשר [מ][כ][ה] -- 2 The Lion Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and Pressmarks -- 3 The Fish Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and as Pressmarks -- 4 Keter Shem Tov: A Study in the Entitling of Books, Here Limited to One Title Only -- 1 Discourses, Literal and Kabbalistic, on the Torah -- 2 Halakhah and Minhag -- 3 Biographical and Related Anecdotal Works -- 4 Miscellanea -- 5 Summary -- 5 Entitling Hebrew Books from Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs) -- 1 Song of Songs 1 -- 2 Song of Songs 2 -- 3 Song of Songs 3 -- 4 Song of Songs 4 -- 5 Song of Songs 5 -- 6 Song of Songs 6 -- 7 Song of Songs 7 -- 8 Song of Songs 8 -- 9 Additional Hebrew Books from Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs) -- part 2: Makers and Places of Hebrew Books -- 6 Belvedere and Kuru Tsheshme: Sephardic Printing in Late-Sixteenth-Century Constantinople -- 1 Books Printed at Belvedere -- 2 Books Printed at Kuru Tsheshme -- 3 Conclusion -- 7 Kesef Nivhar, Kesef Mezukkak, Kesef Zaruf, and Other Works: The Career and Books of Rabbi Josiah ben Joseph Pinto -- 8 The Laniados: A Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Family of Sages in Aram Zova (Aleppo, Haleb) and the Books That They Wrote -- 9 Benjamin ben Immanuel Mussafia: A Study in Contrasts -- 10 Sur me-Ra Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena's Popular and Much Reprinted Treatise against Gambling -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 11 R. Nathan Nata ben Moses Hannover: The Life and Works of an Illustrious and Tragic Figure -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 12 Offenbach Revisited: An Enigma Reexamined. , 13 An Early-Seventeenth-Century Hebrew Press in Chieri: A Passing Phenomenon, a Brief Mirage -- I -- II -- III -- 14 Hamburg: A Varied Early Hebrew Press -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 15 Hebrew Printing in Verona Resumed, but Briefly -- 16 On the Identity of the First Printers in Slavuta -- Part 3: Christian-Hebraism -- 17 Hebrew Printing in Altdorf: A Brief Christian-Hebraist Phenomenon -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 18 Christian-Hebraism in England: William Wotten and the First Translation of the Mishnah into English -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Part 4: Book Varia -- 19 Concise and Succinct: Sixteenth-Century Editions of Medieval Halakhic Compendiums -- 20 Unicums, Fragments, and Other Hebrew Book Rarities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Incunabula: Editions of Rashi's Torah Commentary -- 3 Early Soncino Family Editions of the Bible -- 4 A Unicum Tehilim (Psalms) -- 5 Talmud Rarities -- 6 Books Burned in Italy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- 7 From the Cairo Genizah -- 8 Constantinople Imprints -- 9 Meshal ha-Kadmoni -- 21 Who Can Discern His Errors? Misdates, Errors, Deceptions, and Other Variations in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise: Revisited -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 22 Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts -- 1 Amsterdam-Benveniste Talmud -- 2 Frankfurt on the Oder-Michael Gottschalk -- 3 Marcheses and de Palasios and Solomon Proops -- 4 Frankfurt on the Main Talmud -- 5 Aftermath -- 23 Adversity and Authorship: As Revealed in the Introductions of Early Hebrew Books -- 24 Seventeenth-Century Potpourri on Megillat Esther -- 25 Yitzi'at Mitzra'im (The Exodus) in Print: The First Editions of the Printed Haggadah -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Bibliography.

Additional Edition: Print version: Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004441156

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Format: CD-ROMs , Handbuch , 12 cm

Series Statement: K.G. Saur electronic publishing

Note: Hauptsacht. vom Label , Ersch. 2x jährl.; Druckausg. ersch. als Monographie u.d.T.: Saur allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Benutzeroberfläche dt. oder engl.

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online Berlin : De Gruyter, 2005 ISSN 1865-0511

Former: Vorg. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank

Later: Forts. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Internationale Künstlerdatenbank / Deutsche Benutzeroberfläche

Later: Forts. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Internationale Künstlerdatenbank / English user interface

Language: German

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Künstler ; Künstler ; Zeitschrift ; Biografie ; CD-ROM

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ISBN: 9789047415756

Series Statement: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 47

Content: This is a Festschrift volume for the British Semitist Edward Ullendorff. It contains papers written by leading scholars in the fields of Semitic philology and Near Eastern history and literature. The contributions are wide-ranging, including linguistic studies of Ethiopian Semitic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, also papers on ancient Near Eastern, biblical, Islamic and Ethiopian history and papers on Amharic and Modern Hebrew literature.

Note: Preliminary Material / , INTRODUCTION / , UPDATE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDWARD ULLENDORFF / , SEMITIC TRIRADICALISM AND THE BIRADICAL QUESTION / , REFLEXES OF QATL FORMS IN GƎ'ƎZ / , THE DECAY OF QATTALA/QĀTALA IN GƎ'ƎZ / , DEFINITE MARKERS IN MODERN ETHIOPIAN SEMITIC LANGUAGES / , IS NEO-ARAMAIC A SEMITIC LANGUAGE? / , SOME PARALLELS IN LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN BIBLICAL HEBREW AND NEO-ARAMAIC / , THE DATIVUS ETHICUS IN MEDIEVAL JUDAEO-ARABIC / , FORM X OF THE VERB IN THE ARABIC DIALECTS OF EASTERN ARABIA / , A CHRISTIAN TRADITION OF HEBREW VOCALISATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND / , THE SCRIPT OF TAIMAN / , VENEZIA E LIVORNO NELLA TOPONOMASTICA ARABA / , THE ETYMOLOGY OF 'ΆNΘPΩΠOΣ A SUGGESTION / , EHEU, FUGACES / , MORE THAN MARGINAL UGARIT IN ITS EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SETTING / , A QUESTIONABLE THEORY OF EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON A GENRE OF HEBREW LITERATURE / , ISAIAH, MICAH AND QUMRAN / , PSALM 135(136):25 IN A JEWISH GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM NICAEA / , DINAH IN A SYRIAC POEM ON JOSEPH / , TWO NOTES ON THE ETHIOPIC TEXT OF EZEKIEL / , DIE ÄTHIOPISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DER SAMMLUNG BONGARSIANA CODICES / , AN ARCHAIC AMHARIC POEM ON CONDEMNING WEALTH AND GLORY / , INNOVATION AND MISONEISM DURING THE REIGN OF EMPEROR YOHANNES IV OF ETHIOPIA (1872-1889) / , TOWARDS A BIOGRAPHY OF NIẒĀM AL-MULK THREE SOURCES FROM IBN AL-'ADĪM / , JEAN JUSTER AND THE STUDY OF JEWS UNDER ROMAN RULE / , DANTE AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE / , HUMOUR IN THE NOVELS OF PERETZ SMOLENSKIN / , INDEXES / , STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS / , Chiefly in English with one contribution in Italian and one in German.

Additional Edition: Print version: Semitic studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Note: At foot of title page: Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; also of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Faulder, in New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cornhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England. , Reproduction of original from British Library.

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ISBN: 9789004365957

Series Statement: African Sources for African History

Content: This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia's Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors' religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.

Note: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Map of Brava in Regional Context -- Introduction -- Note on the Primary Sources of This Publication -- Reference List to the Poets and Their Poems -- Annotated List of Islamic Scholars and Texts Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi -- The Poems -- Sheikh Uways -- Biography -- Aḻfeeni msaḻiḻeeni-Ask God to bless him two thousand times -- Sheikh Qasim -- Biography -- Daada Maasiṯi nsoomela duʾa-Dada Masiti, pray for me -- Chidirke ya Rasuuḻ Aḻḻah-Rescue us, O Prophet of God -- Salaaṯun saḻaamun ʿala aḻ-Musṯafa-Peace and blessings upon the Chosen One -- Meezi wa keendra-In the ninth month -- Hamziyyah, Jisi gani khpaandra mitume anbiya-Hamziyyah or How could the other prophets rise? -- Ḻa ilaaha ntaku Maʾabuudi wa haqi-There is no god but the true God -- Nakaanza khṯuunga marjaani-I start stringing coral beads -- Ya Sheekhi Abduḻqaadiri-O Shaykh ʿAbdulqādir -- Ya Nabiyi salaam ʿaleika-O Prophet, peace be upon you -- Ndruuza kasaani sowṯiya-O brothers, listen to my voice -- Dada Masiti -- Biography -- Baʾdi ya hayy ni mowṯi-After life comes death -- Sayyid Jamaladiini-Sayyid Jamaladdin -- Ya Rabbi ya Muṯaʾaali-O Lord, You who are Exalted -- Sharru ḻ-bilaadi-The evil that plagues the country -- Ya Rabbi ya Rahmaani-O Lord, You who are Compassionate -- Mowḻaana Muhyidiini-O our lord Muḥyī al-Dīn -- Aḻḻahu Akbar Aḻḻaahu-God is the Greatest, O God -- Sayyidi yiitu Siṯeeni-O our Lady -- Mallim Nuri -- Biography -- Shṯeenzi cha ahḻu al-sabri-The poem of those who were steadfast in adversity -- Shṯeenzi cha Aʾisha-The poem of Aʾisha -- Shṯeenzi cha Aamina-The poem of Amina -- Mooja mreheme Aṯeeni-O God, have mercy upon Ateni -- Chidirke Maana Faaṯima-Rescue us, O Lady Fatima! -- Shṯeenzi cha masadaaṯi-The poem of the Sharifs -- Shṯeenzi cha Hasani na Huseeni-The poem of Hassan and Hussein -- Shṯeenzi cha Haawa na Aadamu-The poem of Ḥawwāʾ (Eve) and Adam -- Shṯeenzi cha kibri-The poem of pride -- Madad madad-Come to our help O Prophet -- Shṯeenzi cha mahaaji-The poem of the pilgrims -- Shṯeenzi cha miʾraaji-The poem of the miʿrāj -- Mooja chiloongole-May God guide us -- Mooja ondrola d̲h̲ibu-O God, remove troubles -- Mṯawasuleeni Musṯafa-Seek the intercession of the Chosen One -- Shṯeenzi cha sabri-The poem of forbearance -- Shṯeenzi cha sala ṯimaamu-The poem of the correct prayer -- Shṯeenzi cha Sayyida Khadija-The poem of Lady Khadija -- Shṯeenzi cha Sheikh Nureeni-The poem of Sheikh Nureni -- Shṯeenzi cha Faaṯima-The poem of Fatima -- Shṯeenzi cha hijja-The poem of the pilgrimage -- Shṯeenzi cha soomu-The poem of fasting -- Shṯeenzi cha udhʾhiya-The poem of ritual sacrifice -- Zubadi-The Cream -- Sheikh Mohamed Sufi -- Biography -- Aadhaḻḻe aadha-Beware! Beware! -- Akhuaaniza kasaani-Listen to me, O brothers -- Salaaṯu na amaani-Blessings and peace upon the Prophet -- Susumuki-Will you not wake up? -- Iyi ni bishaara-These are glad tidings -- Abastide Mohamed Sheikh Abba -- Biography -- Yā man yarā wa lā yurā-O You who see and are not seen -- Sheekhi Imaamu aḻ-Ghazaali-O Sheikh Imam al-Ghazālī -- Mtume shtiilo galadi na fadhiila-Through the Prophet we attain God's support and favour -- Names of God Mentioned in the Sṯe.

Additional Edition: Print version: 'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975): A Source Publication of Chimiini Texts and English Translations Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2018, ISBN 9789004362888

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ISBN: 9789401201162 , 9789042016118

Series Statement: Costerus New Series ; 150

Content: Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the volume exemplify a renewed awareness of the paradoxical nature of literary texts both as works of literary art and as documents embedded in and functioning within a writer's life and culture. Together they offer fresh and often interdisciplinary perspectives on twentieth-century American writers of more or less established status (Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros) as well as on those who, for reasons of fashion, politics, ideology, or gender, have been unduly neglected (Booth Tarkington, Julia Peterkin, Robert Coates, Martha Gellhorn, Isabella Gardner, Karl Shapiro, the young Jewish-American writers, Julia Alvarez, and writers of popular crime and detective fiction). Exploring the fruitful interactions and uneasy alliance between literature and ethics, film, biography, gender studies, popular culture, avant-garde art, urban studies, anthropology and multicultural studies, together these essays testify to the ongoing pertinence of an approach to literature that is undogmatic, sensitive and sophisticated and that seeks to do justice to the complex interweavings of literature, culture and biography in twentieth-century American writing.

Note: Preface -- Gert BUELENS: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady -- Peter RIETBERGEN: A Variety of Ambersons: Re-reading Booth Tarkington's and Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons -- Gonny van BEEK-van OVERBEEK: Stepping Through a Looking-Glass: The Worlds of Julia Peterkin (1880-1961) -- C.C. BARFOOT: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Sonnets: Putting "Chaos into Fourteen Lines" -- Edward MARGOLIES: Portraits of Gotham: Twentieth-Century American Culture and the Writers of New York City -- Mathilde ROZA: American Literary Modernisms, Popular Culture and Metropolitan Mass Life: The Early Fiction of Robert M. Coates -- Richard S. KENNEDY: E.E. Cummings and Marion Morehouse: The Later Years -- Inez HOLLANDER-LAKE: Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998): Femme Fatale of American Letters -- Susan CASTILLO: Reading Signs: Epistemological Uncertainty and the Southern Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood -- Diederik OOSTDIJK: "How Rough Can Editors Be?": Conrad Aiken, Edward Dahlberg, and Karl Shapiro in a Literary Row -- Marian JANSSEN: Postillion for Pegasus: Isabella Gardner and Poetry -- Jaap van der BENT: Nabokov's Unwanted Children: Lolita and the Writers of the Olympia Press -- René VERWAAIJEN: The Almighty's Own Purposes: Alfred Kazin's God and the American Writer -- Jan BAKKER: Saul Bellow and the Actual -- Derek RUBIN: Between Prominence and Obscurity: Jewish-American Writers at the Center of a Decentralized Literature -- Kathleen M. ASHLEY: Toni Morrison's Tricksters -- Hans BAK: Site of Passage: The City as a Place of Exile in Contemporary North-American Multicultural Literature -- Mary A. McCAY: Sandra Cisneros: Crossing Borders -- Loes NAS: Border Crossings in Latina Narrative: Julia Alvarez' How the García Girls Lost Their Accents -- Theo D'HAEN: Stalking Multiculturalism: Historical Sleuths at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Hans BERTENS: The English Tradition in Contemporary American Crime Fiction -- Notes on Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Uneasy Alliance : Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789042016118

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ISBN: 9789401211437

Series Statement: Text (Rodopi (Firm)) : studies in comparative literature, 75

Content: Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers' struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects' crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assign merit to productive lives well lived. The book's approach illuminates both differences in those traditions from the mid-eighteenth, to the twenty-first century and a convergence between them, evident in the experimental-cum-fictional devices in recent English-language biography. Outsider Biographies advances wide-ranging new interpretations of the biographical writing on each of its seven subjects, but does so in a way that invites the reader picking up the book out of a passion for just one of those subjects, to follow the thread onto another and yet another.

Note: Preliminary Material -- OUTSIDER BIOGRAPHY: DEFINITIONS AND CORPUS -- PARTIAL BIOGRAPHIES BY SAMUEL JOHNSON AND RICHARD HOLMES -- DE SADE ACCORDING TO SAINTE-BEUVE, APOLLINAIRE, LELY AND LEVER -- BARTHES' AND PAUVERT'S QUESTIONING OF DE SADE BIOGRAPHY -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: ANDREW MOTION'S THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT 1794-1847 -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: PETER CAREY'S NED KELLY 1855-1880 -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S BILLY THE KID 1859-1881 -- 'FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES' OF RIMBAUD, FOLLOWED BY SCEPTICISM AND ANTI-BIOGRAPHY -- ARTHUR RIMBAUD: STEINMETZ'S BIOGRAPHY AND MICHON'S BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION -- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AND SAINT GENET -- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AFTER SAINT GENET -- THE OUTSIDER'S SOLITUDE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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ISBN: 9789047401803 , 9789004128651

Series Statement: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; 16

Content: In this major intellectual biography of Alcuin (d. 804), the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Donald Bullough deploys a lifetime's expertise in the study of early medieval manuscripts. Concentrating on Alcuin's early years in Northumbria and then his time at the Carolingian court, Bullough reassesses the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, assesses his use of patristic and insular writings, and explores the contemporary significance of his large output. At the core of this book lies a fundamental reassessment of the dating of Alcuin's letters: in so doing, it reveals the patterns of intellectual exchange and textual community that characterised the first phase of the Carolingian Renaissance. It thus offers a uniquely detailed and nuanced exploration of the life and ideas of the most influential early medieval scholar.

Note: Publisher's Note. xi -- Donald Bullough Memoir. xiii -- by Giles Contable -- Preface. xvii -- Chronology. xxiii -- List of Abbreviations. xxv -- PART ONE -- In Defence of the Biographical Approach. The Sources. 3 -- Theme and Variations. 3 -- The Modern Reputation and the Contemporary Period. 12 -- Posthumous Reputation. 17 -- Alcuin Revealed?. 24 -- The Evidence of the Letters. 35 -- Transmission of the Letters: the Beginnings. 43 -- Salzburg Copies of the Letters. 51 -- The 'Basic Tours Collection' of the Letters. 57 -- Omissions from the 'Basic Tours Collections'. 66 -- Manuscripts of the T Collection in England. 68 -- An Anomalous Collection. 71 -- A 'Personal' Collection of Letters?. 75 -- The English Collections of the Letters. 81 -- The Development of the Letter-Collections: the Evidence -- summarised. 101 -- Author, Notaries and Copyists. 103 -- Amicitia, and Sexual Orientation. 110 -- The Possibility and Limitations of 'Biography'. 117 -- Additional Note I. 120 -- Additional Note II. 122 -- Additional Note III. 123 -- PART TWO -- Chapter One Northumbrian Alcuin: Patria, Pueritia and -- Adoliscentia. 127 -- The Eight-Century Regnum northanhumbrorum. 129 -- Northumbrian Society. 135 -- Patres familias. 146 -- York, a City Emerging. 153 -- York and a Wider North. 160 -- The York Infans. 164 -- York Cathedral Community. 165 -- The Liturgy as Schooling. 176 -- "De Laude Dei" and the York Liturgy. 193 -- Hymns. 200 -- Mass-books. 204 -- New Liturgical Commemorations. 215 -- Calendar and Computers. 217 -- 'Grammatica': The Practice of Writing and Reading. 220 -- Biblical Study. 224 -- 'Vita quidem qualis fuit magistri?': Bede and Egbert. 227 -- Master and School. 236 -- A New Regime and a Wider World. 238 -- From York to Rome. 242 -- York Consecrations, 767. 247 -- Chapter Two Northumbrian Alcuin: 'Discit ut doceat'. 252 -- York books?. 255 -- 'Veterum vestigìa patrum'. 260 -- From the Other Island?. 274 -- Christian and Pre-Christian Poets. 277 -- Grammarians and pre-Christian Prose Writers. 282 -- Mastering 'Computus'. 287 -- The Beginnings of Letter-Writing. 293 -- Alcuin and the Vernacular. 301 -- Teacher and Perpetual Deacon. 304 -- 'Without the City Walls'. 309 -- A 'Public' Figure?. 314 -- The Cathedral Community. 326 -- Chapter Three Between Two Courts. 331 -- To Rome for the Pallium. 333 -- The Move to Francia. 336 -- 786: the Synodal Decrees. 346 -- At the Frankish Court: Beginnings. 356 -- Renovatio, Imitatio, Correctio. 371 -- 'The English Connection'. 391 -- Northumbria: Promise Unfulfilled. 395 -- Royal Counsellor. 401 -- Return to Francia. The Sack of Lindisfarne. 410 -- The Adviser at Frankfurt. Defender of Orthodoxy. 419 -- Chapter Four Unsettled at Aachen. 432 -- A Court Remembered in Verse. 437 -- England. 442 -- Court and Popes. 445 -- At the Aachen Court. Last months. 461 -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Alcuin : Achievement and Reputation. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789004128651

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ISBN: 0-19-107688-0

Content: A study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or ""countries"" associated with their lives and works.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover ; Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: Tours, Texts, Houses, and Things; ENGLISH PROFESSORS ON PILGRIMAGE; PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM; A GRAMMAR OF TOURISTIC MOTIVES; MAKING A TOUR AND WRITING IT: HOMES AND HAUNTS NARRATIVES; COUNTRY HOUSES, GOTHIC, AND TOURISM WITH JANE AUSTEN; LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, MUSEUMS, AND THE SMALL EPONYMOUS COLLECTION; THE BLUE PLAQUE SCHEME; AUTHOR COUNTRY; READING THE HAUNTED SPACES OF MUSEUMS; THINGS; 2: Verifying Pilgrimage , VOICE, RHETORIC, AND THE NONFICTION OF PROSOPOGRAPHYWASHINGTON IRVING AS BELATED PILGRIM; IRVING ON AVON; THE ENGLISH DEER-SLAYER: MANLY ROMANCE; WILLIAM HOWITT ARRIVES AT HOMES AND HAUNTS; ANNA MARIA HALL AND S. C. HALL: A COLLABORATION; ADVERTISING ELBERT HUBBARD; 3: Ladies with Pets and Flowers; with Graveyards and Windswept Moors; EN ROUTE TO OUR VILLAGE; WOMEN, MEN, AND PETS IN A LITERARY GALLERY; THE PILGRIMAGE TO THREE MILE CROSS; ELIZABETH GASKELL IN KNUTSFORD AND PLYMOUTH GROVE; IN HAWORTH WITH THE BRONTËS; 4: Tenants in Author Country , WORDSWORTHSHIRE: HOWITT, MARTINEAU, AND THE TURF OF THE LAKESLONGFELLOW IN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS; PARK SERVICE; A CONCORD ENCOUNTER; HAWTHORNE'S (BRIEFLY) HOME; JAMES IN AND AROUND SHAKESPEAREAN HOMES; A "LITTLE" PAST ON THE HUDSON RIVER; HAUNTING LAMB HOUSE; 5: The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover: Reconstructing a Literary House Museum with Virginia Woolf; CARLYLE PRODUCTIONS: PORTRAITS OF HOME LIFE; POSTHUMOUS NO. 24 CHEYNE ROW; VIRGINIA WOOLF AND HAUNTING MEMORIAL HOUSES; LITTLE JOURNEYS TO CHELSEA, BLOOMSBURY, AND MONK'S HOUSE; 6: Haunting Dickens World: To Be Continued , BibliographyIndex

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-19-107689-9

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