Harvard University Press - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

Am I Making Myself Clear?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Cornelia Dean
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning—conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Anthony D’Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks.
Hardcover October 2009

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25, 2004 and 2005

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Edited by Samuel Jones
Edited by Aled Jones
Edited by Jennifer Dukes Knight
Hardcover September 2009

From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

William H. Bond
Introduction by Allen Reddick
Preface by William Stoneman
This checklist of Thomas Hollis’s gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond’s 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.
Hardcover July 2009

Voice and Vision

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Stephen J. Pyne
It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. This book is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. Stephen Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.
Hardcover May 2009

PHCC, 23, 2003

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Edited by Bettina Kimpton
Edited by Matthew Knight
Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;.
Hardcover April 2009

The Languages of Paradise

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Maurice Olender
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century.
Paperback February 2009