Author: Christopher Allmand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to the late Middle Ages, suggesting how the written word may have influenced the development of military practice in that period. While emphasising that success depended on a commander's ability to outwit the enemy with a carefully selected, well-trained and disciplined army, the De Re Militari inspired other unexpected developments, such as that of the 'national' army, and helped create a context in which the role of the soldier assumed greater social and political importance. Allmand explores the significance of the text and the changes it brought for those who accepted the implications of its central messages.
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900421500X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1964
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French Books III & IV complete a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all books published in France in the first age of print. It lists over 40,000 editions printed in France in languages other than French during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries together with bibliographical references, an introduction and indexes. It draws on the analysis of over 3,000 collections situated in libraries throughout the world. French Books will be an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. I & II please go to French Vernacular Books.
Author: John Thomas Payne
Publisher:
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Thomas Grenville
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The library owned by Samuel Jeake of Rye, nonconformist and local activist, was one of the most remarkable of its time. It is of particular importance in that relatively little information has hitherto been available about the ownership of books in the English provinces, or the reading habits of intellectuals who -- like Jeake --were outside London and university circles from which most surviving libraries have come down to us. The collection of some 1500 volumes includes an extraordinary assemblage of radical pamphlets from the English Revolution alongside works of theology, literature, scholarship and science. Other books reflect astrological and magical interests, and the collection also includes a medical library. Jeake's library catalogue, published here, gives much information about titles that are now lost, about the penetration of foreign books into provincial England, and about book prices. The introduction places Jeake's collection in context, and makes a significant contribution to the history of the book in the early modern period; appendices list surviving volumes from the library and give a complete list of the Jeake manuscripts now in Rye Museum.MICHAEL HUNTER is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London; GILES MANDELBROTE is a Curator, British Collections 1501-1800, at the British Library; RICHARD OVENDEN is Deputy Head, Rare Books Division of the National Library of Scotland; NIGEL SMITH is Reader in English at the University of Oxford.
Author: John Thomas Payne
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: Michael Gagarin
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195170725
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 3369
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Author: Father Leslie J. Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113611324X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
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Previously out of print for three years, this classic translation by the late Father Leslie J. Walker has long been acknowledged as the best English language version of this seminal work in political theory.
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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