Scrinium Classical Antiquity

IRVINE, M., The Making of Textual Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 628p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 19. This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates that grammatica, though the first of the liberal arts, was not simply one discipline among many: it had an essentially constitutive function, defining language, meaning and texts for other medieval disciplines. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture - literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, biblical interpretation, the literary canon and linguistic thought - in order to disclose the more far-reaching social effect of grammatica, chief of which was the making of textual culture in the medieval West. (Publisher's information). € 57.03 (New) (MD)

IRVINE, M., The Making of Textual Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 628p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 19. This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates that grammatica, though the first of the liberal arts, was not simply one discipline among many: it had an essentially constitutive function, defining language, meaning and texts for other medieval disciplines. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture - literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, biblical interpretation, the literary canon and linguistic thought - in order to disclose the more far-reaching social effect of grammatica, chief of which was the making of textual culture in the medieval West. (Publisher's information). € 242.76 (New) (MD)

IRVINE, S., Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues. Oxford University Press, 2023. 320p. Hardback. € 176.64 (New)

IRVINE, W. B., On Desire. Why We Want What We Want. Oxford University Press, 2007. 336p. Paperback. € 17.65 (New) (MD)

IRVINE, W. B., A Guide to the Good Life. The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Oxford University Press, 2009. 336p. Hardback. regardless of what one thinks of Stoicism, one can still applaud a book that seeks to breathe new life into the idea of philosophy as a reflection on and practical guide to the way we live. Emrys Westacott, The Philosopher's Magazine 20/08/2012 (Publisher's information). € 20.37 (New) (MD)

IRWIN, D., Neoclassicism. Phaidon, London, 2011. Reprint 1st ed.1997. 447p. Richly ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Nice copy. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

IRWIN, E., Solon and Early Greek Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 368p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This 2005 book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek poetry, and the role this poetry had in articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the stance of exhortation adopted in early Greek elegy, and to the political poetry of Solon. Part I of this study argues that the singing of elegiac paraenesis in the elite symposium reflects the attempt of symposiasts to assert a heroic identity for themselves within this wider polis community. Part II demonstrates how the elegy of Solon both confirms the existence of this elite practice, and subverts it; Part III looks beyond Solon's appropriations of poetic traditions to argue for another influence on Solon's political poetry, that of tyranny. (Publisher's information). € 44.90 (New) (MD)

IRWIN, E., Solon and Early Greek Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 366p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This 2005 book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek poetry, and the role this poetry had in articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the stance of exhortation adopted in early Greek elegy, and to the political poetry of Solon. Part I of this study argues that the singing of elegiac paraenesis in the elite symposium reflects the attempt of symposiasts to assert a heroic identity for themselves within this wider polis community. Part II demonstrates how the elegy of Solon both confirms the existence of this elite practice, and subverts it; Part III looks beyond Solon's appropriations of poetic traditions to argue for another influence on Solon's political poetry, that of tyranny. (Publisher's information). € 127.45 (New) (MD)

IRWIN, T., Classical Thought. Oxford University Press, 1989. 288p. Paperback. Series: A History of Western Philosophy. an exciting, and rigorous, introduction to the subject which is a delight Greece and Rome (Publisher's information). € 54.34 (New) (MD)

IRWIN, T., Aristotle's First Principles. Clarendon Press, 1990. 720p. Paperback. € 67.25 (New) (MD)