Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Virgil, an Exhibition of Early Editions and Facsimiles of Manuscripts Commemorating the Two-thousandth Anniversary of His Birth, 70 B.C.-1930 A.D.
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Early Illustrated Book
Author: Sandra Hindman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
American Book Collectors and Bibliographers
Author: Arthur Jesse Kaul
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Essays on American booksellers and librarians in addition to book collectors and bibliographers. Discusses how collectors, booksellers, bibliographers and librarians interact as well as the bibliophile's role in scholarship. Provides information on thehistory of book culture in America.
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Essays on American booksellers and librarians in addition to book collectors and bibliographers. Discusses how collectors, booksellers, bibliographers and librarians interact as well as the bibliophile's role in scholarship. Provides information on thehistory of book culture in America.
The Gospel of Scholarship
Author: John V. Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. With appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, course offerings, graduate students, and selected sermons.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. With appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, course offerings, graduate students, and selected sermons.
Cumulated Index to the Books
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
The Codex Fori Mussolini
Author: Han Lamers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474226973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin? The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. Placed under the obelisk with future excavation and rediscovery in mind, the Latin text was an attempt at directing the future reception of Italian Fascism. This book renders the Codex accessible to scholars and students of different disciplines, offering a thorough and wide-ranging introduction, a clear translation, and a commentary elucidating the text's rhetorical strategies, historical background, and specifics of phrasing and reference. As the first detailed study of a Fascist Latin text, it also throws new light on the important role of the Latin language in Italian Fascist culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474226973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin? The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. Placed under the obelisk with future excavation and rediscovery in mind, the Latin text was an attempt at directing the future reception of Italian Fascism. This book renders the Codex accessible to scholars and students of different disciplines, offering a thorough and wide-ranging introduction, a clear translation, and a commentary elucidating the text's rhetorical strategies, historical background, and specifics of phrasing and reference. As the first detailed study of a Fascist Latin text, it also throws new light on the important role of the Latin language in Italian Fascist culture.
Sirius
Author: Jay B. Holberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038748941X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars. This is the first book to integrate the cultural history of Sirius with modern astrophysics in a way which provides a realistic view of how science progresses over time.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038748941X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars. This is the first book to integrate the cultural history of Sirius with modern astrophysics in a way which provides a realistic view of how science progresses over time.
Timelines of Nearly Everything
Author: Manjunath.R
Publisher: Manjunath.R
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2658
Book Description
This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.
Publisher: Manjunath.R
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2658
Book Description
This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.
Pagan City and Christian Capital
Author: John R. Curran
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199254200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
'a welcome addition to this distinguished series... the author has new insights to offer in every chapter... an impressive achievement, a work of great learning and meticulous documentation yet never dull and always readable.' -Fred S. Kleiner, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewAn original and lively study of the transformation of the landscape, civic life, and moral values of the pagan city of Rome following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century. It examines the effects of the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire, which laid the foundation for the capital of medieval Christendom.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199254200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
'a welcome addition to this distinguished series... the author has new insights to offer in every chapter... an impressive achievement, a work of great learning and meticulous documentation yet never dull and always readable.' -Fred S. Kleiner, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewAn original and lively study of the transformation of the landscape, civic life, and moral values of the pagan city of Rome following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century. It examines the effects of the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire, which laid the foundation for the capital of medieval Christendom.
The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
Author: David Lowenthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521635622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521635622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.