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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Lars Kjaer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.
The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
Language: en
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Authors: Lars Kjær
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that
The Classical Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 1188
Authors: Anthony Grafton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-25 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred
The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
Language: en
Pages: 802
Authors: Gilbert Highet
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1949-12-31 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949.
Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Marcia L. Colish
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surve