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D. Jolowicz et J. Elsner (éd.), Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

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Daniel Jolowicz et Jaś Elsner (éd.), Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire, Cambridge, 2023.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
300 pages
ISBN : 9781108484909
£ 85.00

This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. Within the volume a distinguished group of scholars explores topics such as the affirmation of identity via language choice in epigraphy; the use of genre (dialogue, declamation, biography, the novel) to express resistant positions; identity negotiation in the scintillating and often satirical Greek essays of Lucian; and the place of religion in resisting hegemonic power.

 

Source : Cambridge University Press

 

William Guast, Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire

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William Guast, Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire, Cambridge, 2023.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
216 pages
ISBN : 9781009297158
99.20 €

A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. This first monograph on Greek declamation for nearly forty years re-evaluates a genre that was central to Greek imperial literature and to ancient and modern notions of the 'Second Sophistic'. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', this book considers the significance of Greek declamation's re-enactment of classical history for its own times, and integrates the genre into the wider history of the period. It shows through extended readings how the genre came to constitute a powerful and subtle instrument of identity formation and social interaction, and a site for free thinking on issues of major contemporary importance such as imperialism and inter-polis relations.

 

Source : Cambridge University Press

 

Guillaume de Moerbeke, Geomantia IV,5 - VIII

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Guillaume de Moerbeke, Geomantia IV,5 - VIII. A cura di Elisa Rubino, Florence, 2023.

Éditeur : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Testi e Studi, 28
XIII-219 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-243-5
46 €


Il volume offre la seconda parte (particulae IV,5-VIII) della Geomantia di Guglielmo di Moerbeke e porta così a compimento la prima pubblicazione in forma critica di un trattato geomantico medievale. In conformita` alle norme editoriali della prima parte del trattato moerbecano (parti I-IV,4), pubblicata nel 2021 per la serie del Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi, il testo è presentato secondo la recensione del codice di Kassel, 4° Ms. astron. 16 (recensio Cassellana), collazionata con il manoscritto di Wolfenbüttel, 76. 1 Aug. 2°. L'edizione è preceduta da una breve introduzione della curatrice.


Source : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

 

Pseudo-Basile, Epistula consolatoria

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Pseudo-Basile, Epistula consolatoria olim De consolatione in aduersis (CPL 999), éd. Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, 102
lii-346 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60097-0
280 €


La Epistula consolatoria o De consolatione in aduersis (CPL 999) es un texto tradicionalmente impreso entre las obras latinas del Padre de la Iglesia Griega Basilio Magno. Se trata de una adaptación cristiana de la consolatio antigua que adopta la forma de una carta dirigida a un genérico frater para ofrecerle consuelo ante la adversidad —en particular, ante la enfermedad y, específicamente, la lepra— y concienciarlo de que la adversidad es el castigo divino del pecador y un estímulo para el justo. El interés de una nueva edición es triple. Por un lado, en el aspecto textual, se ha empleado por primera vez el códice 275 de la Biblioteca municipal de Angers, que constituye el mejor testimonio de la tradición manuscrita. Su lectura permite, en segundo lugar, un examen detallado de la lengua de la obra, que presenta las particularidades propias del latín merovingio. Por último, las abundantes citas bíblicas pertenecen todavía en su mayoría a la Vetus Latina e incluyen versiones y pasajes de gran valor. El estudio de fuentes, lengua y tradición manuscrita permite deducir que no se trata de una traducción del griego, sino de una obra genuinamente latina, compuesta en época tardoantigua (s. V-VI) probablemente en la Galia.

 

Source : Brepols

 

Maestro Bernardo, Rationes dictandi

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Maestro Bernardo, Rationes dictandi. Edizione critica a cura di Elisabetta Bartoli, Florence, 2023.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d'Italia, 66
VII-289 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-220-6
66 €


Le Rationes dictandi, opera giovanile di maestro Bernardo dedicata alla scrittura in prosa, sono un testo fondamentale per lo studio artigrafico del XII secolo, in cui il noto dettatore propone una fortunata sistematizzazione della materia epistolare che rimarrà stabile anche nelle due opere successive, Summa e Introductiones. Delineati nel primo e approfonditi nel secondo libro, si leggono nelle Rationes i capisaldi del magistero di Bernardo, da quelli legati all'ambito più propriamente epistolare, come la scansione in cinque parti della lettera, fino a quelli retorici o afferenti all'eufonia del dettato, come la gestione della mutatio o la teoria dell'appositio, propedeutica al cursus e illustrata qui per la prima volta. Le Rationes contengono inoltre la prima ricca esemplificazione di salutationes e un'importante collezione di exordia, con brani che verranno tutti riutilizzati nelle raccolte successive: questi aspetti, preziosi per lo studioso moderno, costituirono la base del Fortleben dell'opera, visibile in autori francesi e tedeschi già alla fine del XII secolo.

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Peter of Ireland, Writings on Natural Philosophy

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Peter of Ireland, Writings on Natural Philosophy. Commentary on Aristotle's On Length and Shortness of Life and the Determinatio Magistralis, éd. Michael W. Dunne, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Brepols Library of Christian Sources, 9
226 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60568-5
50 €


Peter of Ireland (Petrus de Ybernia) was born sometime around the beginning of the thirteenth century in Ireland, probably of a Norman family. He probably left Ireland aged around age 15 to pursue his studies abroad. His interest in medical and scientific questions would suggest a stay at Oxford, whereas his approach to logic would suggest a Parisian influence. By the middle of the century he was Professor of Logic and Natural Philosophy at the University at Naples. Peter is perhaps one of the best known of medieval Irish thinkers on the continent owing to the fact that he was held to be the teacher of the young Thomas Aquinas at Naples University from 1239–44. As such, it would be he who, in all likelihood, first introduced Thomas to the study of Aristotle and perhaps also to the commentaries of Avicenna and Averroes. The works presented here date from at least a decade later, and relate to lectures given at Naples in the 1250s and 1260s. The extent to which he was held in respect by his contemporaries is to be seen in his solution (determinatio) to the disputed question on the origin of the design of an animal's body which was held before King Manfred around 1260. It was, perhaps the culmination of a famous scholarly career.

 

Source : Brepols

 

Coluccio Salutati, De verecundia

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Coluccio Salutati, De verecundia, Traduction française de Florence Garambois-Vasquez, édition et notes de Laurent Baggioni, Paris, 2023.

Éditeur : Chemins de traverse
Collection : Chartae neolatinae
114 pages
ISBN : 978-2-313-00663-4
20 €


Cet ouvrage est la première traduction française du traité Sur la Vergogne, de l'humaniste florentin Coluccio Salutati. Il s'agit d'une traduction assortie de notes et d'une introduction qui fait le point sur l'oeuvre de ce savant.

 

Source : BNF

 


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