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France 86as19 Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis. A Symposium. Edited by Paula Liber Gerson.New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 304 pages, many black and white illustrations, plans. The front bottom cover of the dust jacket is missing the tip. Overall, very good in dust jacket. $22.50 Box A 2
Contents: Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Preface / Paula Lieber Gerson -- Introduction: Suger's life and personality / John F. Benton -- Suger's monastic administration / Giles Constable -- Suger, theology, and the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition / Grover A. Zinn -- The liturgy at Saint-Denis: a preliminary study / Niels Krogh Rasmussen -- Suger's views on kingship / Andrew W. Lewis -- Suger and the Capetians / Eric Bournazel -- A note on Suger's understanding of political power / Michel Bur -- Good words, social ties, and the hope for salvation / Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis / Clark Maines -- Suger and the symbolism of royal power: the seal of Louis VII / Brigitte Bedos Rezak -- Suger's church at Saint-Denis:… Read More

France113adl Alain de Lille, c. 1128 – 1202/03. Alan of Lille: Anticlaudianus, or the Good and Perfect Man Translation & commentary by James J. Sheridan. (Series:Medieval Sources in Translation, No. 14). Toronto, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1987, 251 pages, bib, index. Paperback, in very good to fine condition, clean and tight. Only detraction is a pretty minor scrape to front cover. $30.00 Box A 113
Alain de Lille (Alan of Lille) (Latin: Alanus ab Insulis; c. 1128 – 1202/03) was a French theologian and poet. He was born in Lille, some time before 1128. His exact date of death remains unclear as well, with most research pointing toward it being between 14 April 1202, and 5 April 1203. As a theologian, Alain de Lille opposed scholasticism in the second half of the 12th century. His philosophy is characterized by rationalism and mysticism. Alan claimed that reason, guided by prudence, could discover most truths about the physical order without help; but in order to… Read More

Middle Ages deac Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. Alcuin, friend of Charlemagne, his world and his work. New York: Macmillan, 1951, xii, 337p, bib, index. Good to very good. $19.50 Box 27
Contents: Alcuin in York -- Continental background, 717-782 – The Frankish court and school -- The world outside the court -- Alcuin in Frankland, 782-796: writings for the church -- Alcuin in Tours: earlier years -- Alcuin in Tours: later.
In this work, the author describes the times in which Alcuin lived, both in Anglo-Saxon England and on the continent of Europe. The author also covers Alcuin's work as head of the School of York, as head of the Palace School of Charlemagne, and as abbot of the Monastery and School of Tours; his revision of the text of the Liturgy and of the Bible; his various writings on education and on doctrine; his connection with the famous Caroline script; and his part in various secular and ecclesiastical movements.

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Bec, Pierre, 1921- Anthologie de la prose occitane du Moyen Age: XIIe-XVe siècle: textes avec traductions, une introduction et des notes. Volume 1. Vidas et razons, chroniques et lettres, prose narrative. (Series: Les Classiques d'Oc). Avignon: Aubanel, 1977, 254 pages, bib. Fine copy of the paperback. (There was a second volume published 10 years later. Not present here). $20.00

France ehah Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598. Apologie pour Hérodote: satire de la société au XVIe siècle. Nouvelle édition; faite sur la première et augmenteé de remarques de P. Ristelhuber. Two volumes. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879, xlviii, 431 pages; 505 pages, notes. Hardbound volumes bound with marbled boards and lining papers, banded leather spines with gilt lettering. Sadly, there is fraying to the head and heel of Volume I, mostly at the head with maybe a half inch deep, splitting to edge of spine, re-glued. Volume II also has some fraying to head of spine but not as badly as in Volume I. The original velin wrappers bound in. The two volumes: $85.00 Box 1234
Henri Estienne, 1528 or 1531 – 1598, was a French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually take over the Estienne printing firm which his father owned in 1559 when his father died. His most well-known work was the… Read More

Ancient world 402 Bender, Barbara. The Archaeology of Brittany, Normandy and the Channel Islands. An introduction and guide. London: Faber & Faber, 1986, 254p, bib, index, illus. Fine in dust jacket. $15.00

France pizan (Christine, de Pisan, ca.1364-ca.1431). Colloque international sur Christine de Pizan (3rd : 1998 : Université de Lausanne). Au champ des escriptures: IIIe. Colloque international sur Christine de Pizan/ Études réunies et publiées par Eric Hicks; avec la collaboration de Diego Gonzalez et Philippe Simon. (Series: Études christiniennes, 6). Paris: Honore Champion, 2000, x, 851 pages, bib, illustrations.Essays in English and French.Has signature of well-known medievalist on front free endpaper. Fine copy of the hardcover. $55.00 Box A 121
Notes: Conference held at the University of Lausanne on 18-22 July 1998. The book also published to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the founding of the University of Lausanne.Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431--Criticism and interpretation.

France btcf The Baptism and Temptation of Christ: The First Day of a Medieval Passion Play. The baptism and temptation of Christ; the First Day of a Medieval French Passion Play. Edited and translated by John R. Elliott, Jr. and Graham A. Runnalls.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, ix, 153p., b/w front., notes, bib. Has remains of an old pencilled price on front free endpaper, good to very good copy. $11.50 Box a114

Middle Ages 103ke (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153). Wolfenbütteler Symposion (27th: 1990). Bernhard von Clairvaux: Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit. Herausgegeben von Kaspar Elm. (Series: Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien; Bd. 6). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994, 436 pages: illustrations, bib, index. Fine bright copy of the hardcover. $65.00 Box A 103
Contents: Die Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte Bernhards von Clairvaux: Forschungsstand und Forschungsaufgaben/Ulrich Kopf -- Historischer Schriftsinn und ironische Weltbetrachtung: Buchmalerei im frơhen Citeaux und der Stein des Anstosses/ Ursula Nilgen -- Der heilige Bernhard von Clairvaux im Mittelalter von der historischen Person zur Kultgestalt/ Adriaan H. Bredero -- The reception of St. Bernard in England/ Christopher Holdsworth -- A saint's afterlife: Bernhard in the Golden legend and in other medieval collections/ Brian Patrick McGuire -- Bernhard von Clairvaux im spatmittelalterlichen Gebetbuchern/… Read More

France sevb Stoddard, Enoch Vine 1840- Bertrand Du Guesclin, constable of France; his life and times. New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897, xiii p., 1 l., 301 p. l pl., 5 port. (incl. front.) 3 maps, bib, index. Some minor fraying to head and heel of spine, bright red cloth, coat of arms on front cover in gilt and black, gilt lettering on spine. Good to good plus copy, clean and tight. $20.00 Box 711
Bertrand du Guesclin, 1320-1380, nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander on the French side during the Hundred Years' War. From 1370 to his death, he was Constable of France for King Charles V. He took part in seven pitched battles and won the five in which he held command.

IH 1055 The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad. Edited by L. M. Cullen, John Shovlin, and Thomas M. Truxes. London: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 2014, xxvi, 330p, index, frontispiece, plates. Like new in like new dust jacket. $85.00
The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people in a diasporic community during wartime. Written by sailors, merchants, servants, prisoners of war, priests, clerks, and many women, the letters vividly illustrate social and economic structures familiar to historians of early modern trade and the… Read More

RL 1325 Olson, Jeannine E.
Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the Bourse Francaise. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1989, 341 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $25.00

Middle Ages cecu Carolingian Essays. Edited byUta-Renate Blumenthal.(Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Early Christian Studies). Catholic University of America Press, 1983, x, 294p, index. Essays by Contreni, Bullough, Keefe, O'Meara, Reynolds, and Jeauneau. Essay on John Scottus and other material of Irish interest. New in like dust jacket. Bought them new from publisher. $23.50 Box 10

Middle Ages 752 Dolley, Michael and Karl Frederick Morrison. The Carolingian coins in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1966, ix, 46 p. 12 plates, tables. Good to very good copy in dust jacket, cover has a minor bowing. Dust jacket has some minor wrinkles. Nice, bright, clean, tight copy. $25.00

Middle Ages 70cc101 Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Translated by Bernhard Walter Scholz with Barbara Rogers. University of Michigan Press, 1970, x, 235 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $30.00 Box A 101

Middle Ages cei1994 Catharisme : l'édifice imaginaire : actes du 7e colloque du Centre d'études cathares/René Nelli, Carcassonne, 29 août-2 septembre 1994 preśentés par Jacques Berlioz et Jean-Claude Hélas ; traductions de Janice Valls Russel, Katja Roggenbuck et Anne Brenon.








[Villegly] : Centre d'études cathares, [1998] 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm





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Very good copy of an uncommon book

Ancient world 548 (Champollion).Lacouture, Jean. Champollion, une vie de lumières. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1988, 529 p.notes, index, [16] p. of plates: illus, paperback, very good. $13.50

France hacl Henry, Albert. Chrestomathie de la Litterature en ancien Francais, Volume I -Textes & Volume II - Notes Glossaire, Table des noms Propres. Quatrieme Edition.Bern: A. Francke Verlag, 1967, xi, 350 pages; 174 pages, index. Fine copy in dust jacket. Dust jacket has a few tears. The two volumes bound in one. $15.00 Box 2022

Ancient world 882 (Plato/Weil, Simone, 1909-1943). The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Edited by E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, xii, 252 pages, illus. Brand new hardcover, still in plastic wrap. $27.50
A group of renowned international scholars seek to discern the ways in which Simone Weil was indebted to Plato, and how her provocative readings of his work offer challenges to contemporary philosophy, theology and spirituality.
Contents: Simone Weil and Platonism: an introductory reading/ Louis Dupré -- The limits and significance of Simone Weil's Platonism/ Michel Narcy -- Transcendence, immanence, and practical deliberation in Simone Weil's early and middle years/ Michael Ross -- Simone Weil: completing Platonism through a consistent materialism/ Robert Chenavier -- The Christian materialism of Simone Weil/ Patrick Patterson and Lawrence E. Schmidt -- Simone Weil and the divine poetry of mathematics/ Vance G. Morgan -- To… Read More

France wcccp Willard, Charity Cannon. Christine de Pizan, her life and Works: a biography. New York: Persea Books, 1990, (1984) 266 pages, notes, bib, index. Paperback. Fine copy.
$5.00 Box 4118
Christine de Pizan or Pisan born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes.Venetian by birth, Christine served as a court writer in medieval France after the death of her husband. Christine's patrons included dukes Louis I of Orleans, Philip the Bold of Burgundy, and his son John the Fearless. Considered to be some of the earliest feminist writings, her work includes novels, poetry, and biography, and she also penned literary, historical, philosophical, political, and religious reviews and analyses. Her best known works include The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies, both written when she worked for John the Fearless of Burgundy. Her books of advice to princesses, princes, and… Read More