Guittard Ch (5 results)

Condition: Good. Volume 8 book 8 . This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:2251013342.…

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Condition: Very Good. Bon état. Fort in8. 2000. broché. 595 pages. Un vol. couv. imp. int. frais. Very Good.

Brossura. Condition: nuovo. Pages: 369 p.Language(s):French. Publication Year:2007. ISBN: 978-2-503-50954-9. Brepols. Paperback - Summary The privileged form of expression of Roman prayer, before Christianism, was the carmen, a « religious formula » carefully scanned, with an aura often archaic and mysterious, if not magical. This book offers a systematic inquiry into the carmen. The author examines its technical aspects within the realm of archaic latin meter, then, based upon the latest research, pursues in-depth studies of the oldest manifestations of this type of prayer : the carmina of the ancient sodalities of Rome, the Salians and the Arval Brothers and the carmina of the corpus of Cato the Elder (the « Censor »), who provides us with precepts and prayers stemming from the earliest beliefs of the farmers of Latium. He adds a study of the carmen taken in another sense, although under foreign influence, that of « oracular formula », « prophetic discourse », a discourse which was assumed to come from the divinity itself. The most famous were the oracles of the Sibyl, entrusted to the strange Sibylline Books, which allowed divination, notably in times of crisis. The Romans also had recourse to the oracles of Etruscan divination, to the renowned « responses » of the haruspices. Charles Guittard thus analyses fundamental aspects and concepts of the Roman religion of the Pagan age, matters upon which Pagans and Christians will greatly debate in later periods.…