Tenue est mendacium

Tenue est mendacium
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Publisher : Barkhuis
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9789493194502
ISBN-13 : 9493194507
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Download or read book Tenue est mendacium written by Klaus Lennartz and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries, and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. The exposure of fraud and the pursuit of truth may still be valid scholarly goals, but they implicitly demand that we confront the status of any text as a focal point for matters of belief and conviction. Recent approaches to forgery have begun to ask new questions, some intended purely for the sake of debate: Ought we to consider any author to have some inherent authenticity that precludes the possibility of a forger's successful parody? If every fake text has a real context, what can be learned about the cultural circumstances which give rise to forgeries? If every real text can potentially engender a parallel history of fakes, what can this alternative narrative teach us? What epistemological prejudices can lead us to swear a fake is genuine, or dismiss the real thing as inauthentic? Following Splendide Mendax and Animo Decipiendi?, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world - its literature and culture, its history and art - appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha. How does scholarship tell the truth if evidence doesn't? But fabula docet: The falsum does not simply make the great, annoying stone before the door of the truth (otherwise this here would really be a "council of antiquarians and paleographers"). The falsum makes a delicate, fine tissue. It allows the verum to shine through, in nuances and reliefs that were less noticeable without its counterpart, really tied at the head. And, treated differentiated, it becomes even itself perlucidum, shines out with "hidden values."

The Book of Peace

The Book of Peace
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780271056562
ISBN-13 : 0271056568
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Download or read book The Book of Peace written by Karen Green and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put forth a strict moral code to which she believed all governments should aspire. The text’s intended recipient was the dauphin, Louis of Guyenne; Christine felt that Louis had the political and social influence to fill a void left by years of incompetent leadership. Drawing in equal parts from the Bible and from classical ethical theory, the Livre de paix was revolutionary in its timing, viewpoint, and content. This volume, edited by Karen Green, Constant J. Mews, and Janice Pinder, boasts the first full English translation of Pizan’s work along with the original French text. The editors also place the Livre de paix in historical context, provide a brief biography of Pizan, and offer insight into the translation process.

Dictionary of European Proverbs

Dictionary of European Proverbs
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9781134864607
ISBN-13 : 1134864604
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Download or read book Dictionary of European Proverbs written by Emanuel Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has trawled through innumerable collections of proverbs in all languages, from early printed books and rare items to the latest theses and journals, and grouped together many thousands of proverbs in sets of equivalent meaning. Comprehensive indexes for each language provide access to any proverb by way of its key words. A critical bibliography musters some 500 items, from incunabula to the current decade.

Juvenal: Satires Book I

Juvenal: Satires Book I
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0521356679
ISBN-13 : 9780521356671
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Download or read book Juvenal: Satires Book I written by Juvenal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of the Satires as an organic structure.

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Publisher : Brill Archive
Total Pages : 174
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Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets

Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets
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Total Pages : 850
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030796678
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Download or read book Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphor and Comparison in the Epistulae Ad Lucilium of L. Annaeus Seneca

Metaphor and Comparison in the Epistulae Ad Lucilium of L. Annaeus Seneca
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015009138499
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Download or read book Metaphor and Comparison in the Epistulae Ad Lucilium of L. Annaeus Seneca written by Charles Sidney Smith and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: