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GRADY, F., The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 320p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language. (Publisher's information). € 24.26 (New) (MD)

GRAF, F., Griechische Mythologie. Eine Einführung. Artemis, München, 1987. 198p. Sewn. Name and date on half title. Series: Artemis Einführungen, 16.Diese Einführung will nicht einfach Mythen nacherzählen: vielmehr richtet sie, nach einem ausführlichen Überblick über die Forschung zeit dem Beginn der Neuzeit, ihr Augenmerk besonders auf die griechische Kultur zwischen Homer und Platon, geht der Rolle nach, den der Mythos hier spielte, von seinem ersten Niederschlag in den Werken von Homer und Hesiod bis hin zu den Umdeutungen in der späteren Philosophie und den nachklassischen Auslegungen. (Publisher's information). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

GRAF, F., Roman Festivals in the Greek East: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 380p. Hardback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy? (Publisher's information). € 114.10 (New) (MD)

GRAF, F., Roman Festivals in the Greek East: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 379p. Paperback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy? (Publisher's information). € 38.83 (New) (MD)

GRAF, O., Die Divina Comedia als Zeugnis des Glaubens. Dante und die Liturgie. Mit 5 Bildtafeln nach Mosaiken von Ravenna. Herder, Freiburg (...), 1965. XX,530p. ills. Cloth. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

GRAF, T. P., The Sultan's Renegades. Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610. Oxford University Press, 2017. 286p. Hardback. The study illuminates the relationship between con?icting religious truths and state formation through the lens of individual converts and their careers. [The book] provides fascinating insights into the culture of conversion and an early modern Christian-Islamic cosmopolitanism. Alexander Schunka, Journal of Ecclesiastical History |a 30/10/2019 (Publisher's information). € 135.88 (New) (MD)

GRAFEN, A. R., Richard Dawkins. How a scientist changed the way we think. Oxford University Press, 2007. 298p. Paperback. € 21.73 (New) (MD)

GRAFTON, A., Creativity and duplicity in western scholarship. Collins & Brown, London, 1990. X,157p. Bound wrps. 'Grafton makes clear that the master forger must also be (...) a scholar (...) as knowledgeable as those whom he is trying to fool. (...) This elegant monograph ranges from Porphyry through Isaac Casaubon (...) on to Scaliger, Chatterton and others, though its focus remains the transmission of classical texts. Or, rather, pseudo-classical texts.' (Washington Post). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

GRAFTON, A., Joseph Scaliger: I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis. Clarendon Press, 1983. 376p. Hardback. Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies. A work of rare excellence, a masterpiece that fuses fastidious philological analysis and deft intellectual synthesis and that addresses the traditional concerns of the classicist and the historian with equal sophistication and high accuracy. Speculum (Publisher's information). € 305.72 (New) (MD)

GRAFTON, A., What Was History?: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 330p. Paperback. Series: Canto Classics. From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What Was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?. (Publisher's information). € 19.41 (New) (MD)