Opening the door for beginners who seek a thorough grounding in the first arts of human understanding, this book explains the nature of logic, grammar, and rhetoric - the three of the seven liberal arts - and how they relate to one another. In Renaissance universities, the trivium (literally, the crossing of three part way) formed the essence of ...
Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the ...
Available in its entirety for the first time in a half-century, this textbook is the first and only to present, in a complete manner, a general theory of rhetoric in Renaissance England. This examination provides a handbook of the Renaissance theory of composition and shows, with ample illustration from his plays and poems, how Shakespeare used ...
Expanded to include the recent developments in Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Libya and the nuclear black market, "Deadly Arsenals" is an invaluable resource for policy makers, media, academics, and students. A "Choice" outstanding academic title, "Deadly Arsenals" provides a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment on global proliferation dangers, with a ...
This is a study of the dangers nations face from weapons of mass destruction and the successes and failures of international nonproliferation efforts. This proliferation atlas documents with maps, charts, and graphs the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems. The book describes the weapons and the regimes ...
First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including ...
This series will trace the history, describe the invention or discovery, generally for honorable reasons, and the transition to illegal and 'recreational' use.
This series will trace the history, describe the invention or discovery, generally for honorable reasons, and the transition to illegal and 'recreational' use.
An illustrated history of the development of illicit drugs, which focuses on the use of the recreational drug, ecstasy. It traces the history of the drug and explains the chemistry behind its effects.
Is it possible to speak of western racism before the eighteenth century? The term 'racism' is normally only associated with theories, which first appeared in the eighteenth century, about inherent biological differences that made one group superior to another. Here, however, leading historians argue that racism can be traced back to the attitudes ...
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