Language: English
Published by University of Toronto Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0802090133 ISBN 13: 9780802090133
Seller: Samson Books, Trenton, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Former library copy with stamp on title page and barcode inside back cover; some wear and marking to covers. Contents - 1. The Inventionof Virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin; 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Flecther; 3. The Hipprocratic Parthenos in Sicknes and Health / Ann Ellis Hanson; 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State / Holt N. Parker; 5. 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiguity / Kate Cooper; 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art / Ilse Friesen; 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Wlater of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland; 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birht; 9. 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alis Grace.
Language: English
Published by University of Toronto Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0802090133 ISBN 13: 9780802090133
Seller: bibliomancy, BRIGHTON, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Uni. of Toronto hb 2007 with dj - minor wear, otherwise tight binding and clean text.
Language: English
Published by Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007
Seller: Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Germany
Condition: Gut. X, 204 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut. - Contents: Introduction (BONNIE MacLACHLAN) -- The Invention of Virginity on Olympus (ELEANOR IRWIN) -- The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus (JUDITH FLETCHER) -- The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health (ANN ELLIS HANSON) -- Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State (HOLT N. PARKER) -- 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity (KATE COOPER) -- Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art (ILSE FRIESEN) -- Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina (JENIFER SUTHERLAND) -- Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological No Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birth (THOMAS LENNON) -- 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (ANNE GEDDES BAILEY). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original hardcover with dust jacket.
Publication Date: 2002
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Art / Print / Poster Signed
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 380 x 565mm (image 279 x 407mm). Edition limited to 40, numbered and signed by the artist, and dated 2002. One of a series of seven prints commissioned from Scottish printmakers by the Cromarty Arts Trust, in co-operation with art.tm in Inverness (formerly the Highland Printmakers' Workshop, now the Highland Print Studio), to celebrate the bicentenary of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), the Cromarty stonemason who became one of the great writers of the Scottish nineteenth century. A fisherman clings to the edge of his boat in a high sea; two black birds hover overhead, two empty bottles loll in the wash. Miller tells the story of Stine Bheag in Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland (1835). Tarbat Ness is a peninsula at the mouth of the Dornoch Firth. There lived "an elderly woman, still known to tradition as Stine Bheag o' Tarbat, [and] famous at this time as one in league with Satan, and much consulted by seafaring men when windbound in any of the neighbouring ports. And her history, as related by her neighbours, formed, like the histories of all the other witches of Scotland, a strange medley of the very terrible and the very ludicrous . . .[Once,] a small sloop had been weather-bound for a few days in a neighbouring port; and the master applied to Stine for a wind. Part of his cargo consisted of foreign spirits; and on taking leave of the witch he brought with him two empty bottles, which he promised to fill, and send to her by the ship-boy. It was evening, however, before he reached the vessel; the boy would not venture on carrying the bottles by night to the witch's cottage; and on the following morning they were forgotten in the hurry of sailing. The wind blew directly off the land . . . it freshened as the land receded . . . until as the evening was darkening it had increased into a hurricane. The master stood by the helm, and in casting an anxious glance at the binnacle, to ascertain his course, his eye caught the two bottles of Stine Bheag. 'Ah, witch!' he muttered, 'I must get rid of thee;' and taking up one of the bottles he raised his arm to throw it over the side, when he was interrupted by a hoarse croaking above-head, and on looking up saw two ravens hovering round the vane. The bottle was replaced. An immense wave came rolling behind in the wake of the vessel; it neared; it struck the stern, and, rushing over the deck, washed everything before it, spars, coops, cordage; but only the bottles were carried overboard. In the moment they rose to the surface the ravens darted upon them like seagulls on a shoal of coal-fish; and the master, as the vessel swept along, could see them bearing the bottles away . . ." Judith MacLachlan (1940-) lives in Waternish on Skye, where she moved in the 1960s and ran Three Camuslusta, a gallery only approachable from the beach. Signed by Author(s).
Publication Date: 2002
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Art / Print / Poster Signed
US$ 104.26
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 380 x 565mm (image 278 x 408mm). Edition limited to 40, numbered and signed by the artist, and dated 2002. One of a series of seven prints commissioned from Scottish printmakers by the Cromarty Arts Trust, in co-operation with art.tm in Inverness (formerly the Highland Printmakers' Workshop, now the Highland Print Studio), to celebrate the bicentenary of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), the Cromarty stonemason who became one of the great writers of the Scottish nineteenth century. Sunrise, a startled face, a scene of some desolation. In Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland (1835), Miller tells the story of Tam McKechan who vanished one night after daring to spend it, playing his bagpipes, in the mill of Eathie, said to be inhabited by the fairies. In a spirit of enquiry, the farmer of Eathie, Jock Hossack, spent the night there too. The fairies arrived in force and, just when he thought his end had come, "a cock crew outside the building, and after a sudden breeze had moaned for a few seconds among the cliffs and the bushes, and then sunk in the lower recesses of the dell, he found himself alone. He was married shortly after to the sister of the lost jockey, and never again saw the good people, or, what he regretted nearly as little, his unfortunate brother-in-law." Judith MacLachlan (1940-) lives in Waternish on Skye, where she moved in the 1960s and ran Three Camuslusta, a gallery only approachable from the beach. Signed by Author(s).