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Product Description: Cicero has indeed refused to die, despite the fact that he, in the year 43 BC, was savagely put to death, a preposterous event that brought an end to the long and illustrious career of a lawyer, politician, statesman, praetor, consul, and above all, intellectual, philosopher, writer...read more
By Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9789004243446 | Brill Academic Pub, June 20, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Cicero has indeed refused to die, despite the fact that he, in the year 43 BC, was savagely put to death, a preposterous event that brought an end to the long and illustrious career of a lawyer, politician, statesman, praetor, consul, and above all, intellectual, philosopher, writer.

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Product Description: The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and presentmobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs...read more
By Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9789004212459 | Brill Academic Pub, December 31, 2011, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and presentmobs are clearly of much importance today.

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Product Description: An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist...read more

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9780275994129, titled "The Cultural Context of Medieval Music" | Praeger Pub Text, October 31, 2011, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist.

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Product Description: Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history. Careful and detailed portraits of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life in the region shed new light on the city, the court, the school and university, the economy, and prevailing ideas, and expand our vision of the interplay between religion, politics, music and memory...read more
By Piotr Gorecki (editor) and Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9781845118518 | Tauris Academic Studies, March 15, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history.

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Product Description: Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures...read more
By Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9789004166714 | Brill Academic Pub, June 30, 2008, cover price $138.00 | About this edition: Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures.

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Product Description: The impact of Alexander the Great's legacy `was unsurpassed in terms of cultural impact for subsequent centuries'. This collection of twelve essays explores Alexander's cultural ideals that lived on after his death in various spheres of life, including education, literature, art, philosophy, music and the cultural imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jon Ma Asgeirsson (editor), Vincent Corrigan (contributor), James D. Hester (contributor), Ronald F. Hock (contributor) and Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9789979545132 | Univ of Iceland Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The impact of Alexander the Great's legacy `was unsurpassed in terms of cultural impact for subsequent centuries'.

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Product Description: The Psalms were an important part of the education, daily life, and spiritual development of medieval clerics and monks, and they had a significant impact on lay culture as well. The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages surveys their influence, giving a unique window into the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional culture of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Nancy Van Deusen (editor)

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9780791441299 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: The Psalms were an important part of the education, daily life, and spiritual development of medieval clerics and monks, and they had a significant impact on lay culture as well.

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9780791441305 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The Psalms were an important part of the education, daily life, and spiritual development of medieval clerics and monks, and they had a significant impact on lay culture as well.

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Product Description: Universities, in the early Middle Ages and now, are monuments to cultivation--monuments to the fact that complex, hidden things and issues do, in fact, exist, to be slowly exposed through a lifetime of patient, daily effort. This is the seat of the power of the university and the crux of its message as an institution as it actively forms a polarity to exigency and daily necessity-a contrast to what is obviously, hastily, conveniently perceived...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781879288836 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, March 1, 1998, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Universities, in the early Middle Ages and now, are monuments to cultivation--monuments to the fact that complex, hidden things and issues do, in fact, exist, to be slowly exposed through a lifetime of patient, daily effort.

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9781879288843 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Despite a good deal of research and writing concerning the development and intellectual transformation in the period of the early university, the subject remains in many respects enigmatic.

Product Description: This collection of symposium papers deals with patterns of medieval thought and their applications in several disciplines, including algebra, music, aesthetics, and philosophy.

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9780889462670 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This collection of symposium papers deals with patterns of medieval thought and their applications in several disciplines, including algebra, music, aesthetics, and philosophy.

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