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Peter Weigel
Reading Aquinas's Five Ways

Thomas Aquinas's famous five arguments for God's existence, or 'Five Ways,' in Summa theologiae Ia q.2 a.3 are a cornerstone of thought and discussion about God and are still much debated today. In this b…

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Ockham's 'Summa Logicae'

"William of Ockham's Summa Logicae (The Sum of Logic), composed in the mid-1320s, is a major work in the history of Western philosophy. It was highly influential for several centuries following its a…

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James Ormiston M'William
Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger During the Years 1841-2, Comprising an Account of the Fever which Led to Its Abrupt Termination

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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James Ormiston M'William
Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger During the Years 1841-2, Comprising an Account of the Fever which Led to Its Abrupt Termination

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

De Gruyter Reference

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and techniques used to decorate medieval books, their different spaces and textures, their senso…

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Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions

Thomas Aquinas's Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's best-known work; this first standalone edition elucidates the work's historical and philosophical significance. This…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisati…

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
The Emperor and the Elephant

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the cou…

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Steven Nadler
Why Read Maimonides Today?

Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval period, but also one of history's greatest philosophers. As the autho…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Victoria Botana de Beauvau-Craon,
Château de Haroué

A dazzling tour of Château de Haroué, the epitome of opulent French style and one of today's must-see examples of vibrant eighteenth-century architecture and design.Located in a remote village in the Lorr…

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Jeremy Phillip Brown
A World of Piety

A World of Piety examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.What were the aims of the celebrated works of rabbinic wisdom fashioned d…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Peter Weigel
Reading Aquinas's Five Ways

A clear and accessible reading of Aquinas's famous five arguments for God's existence. Provides the necessary background to understand the arguments, drawing on an array of historical and contemporary sou…

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Medieval Philosophical Writings on the Powers of the Soul

Philosophers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries held that organisms are alive by virtue of possessing a soul, and that the soul endows an organism with various powers. This volume presents a rich …

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Joseph Stenberg
Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness

Aquinas sees the key elements of his ethics - happiness, law, virtue, and grace - as an interconnected whole. However, he seldom steps back to help his reader see how they actually fit together. In this b…

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Renaissance Aristotelianism in Southeast Europe

In this volume, leading scholars explore aspects of Renaissance Aristotelianism in the overlooked region of Southeast Europe.Uncovering forgotten texts, neglected topics, and little-known authors, ten cha…

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Alison Weir
Queens at War

The tumultuous period in English history that marked the end of the medieval era and the rise of the Tudors comes to stunning life in the final volume of Alison Weir's four-part Medieval Queens series, fi…

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Henryk Szlajfer
Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the w…

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