Scrinium Classical Antiquity

WIRSZUBSKI, C., Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome during the Late Republic and Early Principate. Cambridge University Press, 1950. 196p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed during the first century AD. Libertas, while identified with the republican constitution during the Republican period, continued to be a popular slogan and a constitutional principle under the Principate, and C H Wirszubski questions whether the political content of Roman libertas changed as the Roman constitution was transformed. He explores the general characteristics of libertas before engaging with both the background and the major points that were at issue, concluding his analysis with consideration of libertas in the context of the Principate. Originally published in the 1950s, Wirszubski's classic study has been digitally reprinted for a new generation of scholars. (Publisher's information). € 111.66 (New) (MD)

LIBERTAS. DER KAMPF DER PLEBS UM SOZIALE GERECHTIGHKEIT. Textauswahl aus Livius, ab urbe condita 1. Dekade. Mit Begleittexten. Ausgewählt und kommentiert von M. Schulz. Schöningh, Paderborn, n.d.(>1981). 157p. Wireless. Series: Lateinische Klassiker, 10739. € 4.00 (Antiquarian)

BROCK, P., Liberty and Conscience. A Documentary History of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2002. 208p. Hardback. € 116.85 (New) (MD)

BROCK, P., Liberty and Conscience. A Documentary History of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2002. 208p. Paperback. Peter Brock's fine documentary history is a welcome addition to the scant literature on the history of conscientious objection.Brock's work makes it clear that those who refute the state in the name of transcendent values, today and in the future, are heirs to a rich historical legacy. Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Publisher's information). € 91.04 (New) (MD)

SKINNER, Q., Liberty before Liberalism: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 152p. Paperback. Series: Canto Classics. This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Liberty before Liberalism is based on Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, delivered in 1997. (Publisher's information). € 18.19 (New) (MD)

RYHOLT, K. B., Libraries before Alexandria. Ancient Near Eastern Traditions. Oxford University Press, 2019. 512p. Hardback. The material presented provides an insightful overview that, together with detailed case studies and analyses, raises new questions and provokes fresh ideas that will doubtless foster continued study to further progress our understanding of the role and nature of libraries and the past practices of collecting texts of tradition. Kathryn E. Piquette, University College London, LIBRARY & INFORMATION HISTORY Apr 2022 |a 20/04/2022 (Publisher's information). € 169.85 (New) (MD)

CLARK, J.W., Libraries in the Medieval and Rennaissance Periods. (The Rede Lecture, delivered June 13, 1894). (With: Bibliotheca Argonautica, Catalogue of Scholarly books on Mediaeval Studies, Byzantium, Americana, History and Numismatics). Argonaut Publishers, Chicago, 1968. Photomechanical Reprint ed.1894. 62p. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

TERTULLIANUS, Libri de Patientia, de Baptismo, de Paenitentia edidit J.W.Ph. Borleffs. Daamen, Den Haag, 1948. 115p. Cloth. Name on free endpaper. Series: Scriptores Christiani Primaevi. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

TERTULLIANUS, Libri de Patientia, de Baptismo, de Paenitentia edidit J.W.Ph. Borleffs. Daamen, Den Haag, 1948. 115p. Cloth wrps. Series: Scriptores Christiani Primaevi. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

OPPENRAAY, R. van, Libri De Republica Atheniensium CC.I-IV. Van Leeuwen, Lugduni Batavorum, 1893. 115p. Sewn. Cover little bit worn, back repaired with paper tape. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)