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Condizione: New. These essays, written by scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Editor(s): Bloomer, W. Martin. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481. . 2005. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condizione: New. These essays, written by scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Editor(s): Bloomer, W. Martin. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481. . 2005. paperback. . . . .…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to the third century CE--the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound in black cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Six chapters, a list of word order and pronunciation, figuration, conclusion and a list of authors consulted. From the publisher's blurb, "Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible. Bloomer revives this classic text to examine how, why, and for whom Valerius composed this collection of rhetorical examples. He argues that the work expresses the concerns and anxieties of literate first-century Romans and shows that it creates paradigms for a new culture." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. vi [2], 2-287 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Near Fine- hardcover, all corners lightly bumped, in a Near Fine- dust jacket, now protected in a Brodart. A clean, attractive copy.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. As New in all respects, clean and unmarked. A beautiful copy looks to be unread / unopened. First printing, full number line. "In this sympathetic, lucid re-evaluation, Bloomer gives meaning and significance to the work of a Roman author once popular, but long forgotten. The literature, rhetoric, and history of the Late Republic and Early Empire are all illuminated by it."--Richard J. A. Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillA Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute, Professor Bloomers research interests focus on Roman literature, ancient rhetoric, and the history of education. His books include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome, and The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education.Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to the third century CE--the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.…

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 287 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Audience and design -- The proem and Valerius' audience -- The organization of the collection -- The process of arrangement -- Part III: Sources and reading -- Reading, writing, and "originality," -- Margins of reading: the individual sources -- Conclusions -- Valerian historiography: the case of the civil wars -- Valerius' explicit judgments -- Valerian overviews -- Chapters of civil strife -- Part V: The fallen restored and the republic's restorers -- The opponents of Julius Caesar -- The caesars -- Part VI: Valerian rhetoric and ideology -- Diction -- Word order -- Phrasing and colometry -- Figuration. Subjects; Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Didactic literature, Latin History and criticism. Authors and readers Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Nobility Rome. Orators Rome ; Biography. Historiography. Tiberius. 1 Kg.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Number line beginning with 1. Fine, if not new hardback in fine, if not new unpriced, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. Index. vii, 287 pp.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Near Fine. Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor shelfwear.; Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible, but the work's vision of ancient history and its author's literary style have since fallen into disrepute. Bloomer (classics, Stanford U. ) revives the classic to examine how, why, and for whom Maximus composed this collection of rhetorical examples.; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 296 pages.…

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Condizione: New. 2017. First. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.