Benedict XIV and the enlightenment : art, science, and spirituality /

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John Henry Wigmore and the rules of evidence : the hidden origins of modern law / by Porwancher, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual influences -- 3. Wigmore's Treatise -- 4. Law & society -- 5. Judging -- 6. Contemporary recognition -- Epilogue.…”
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Philo of Alexandria, On the life of Abraham : introduction, translation, and commentary /

Table of Contents: “…Sterling -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Place of the Treatise in Philo's Works -- 2 The Place of the Treatise in Philo's Life -- 3 Genre, Aims, and Audience -- 4 Structure, Content, and Exegetical Approaches -- 5 Use and Interpretation of the Bible -- 6 Major Themes -- 7 Intellectual and Cultural Influences -- 8 Previous Scholarship -- 9 Shared and Distinctive Features and Their Implications -- 10 Nachleben -- 11 The Text of the Treatise -- 12 Some Notes on the Method Used in the Translation and Commentary -- Translation: Philo of Alexandria, De Abrahamo -- Part One: Introduction, ʹʹ 1-59 -- Part Two: The Life of Abraham, ʹʹ 60-276 -- Notes to the Text and Translation -- Commentary -- Title of the Work -- Part One: Introduction, ʹʹ 1-59 -- A Prologue, ʹʹ 1-6 -- B The First Triad, ʹʹ 7-47 -- C The Second Triad -- Part Two: The Life of Abraham -- A The Piety of Abraham -- B The Humanity of Abraham, ʹʹ 208-261 -- C Conclusion, ʹʹ 262-276 -- Bibliography -- Index --…”
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Patrick Neison Lynch : third Catholic bishop of Charleston / by Heiser, David C. R.

Table of Contents: “…Formative years -- Priest in Charleston -- Advancement in the 1850s -- Slaveholdings -- The war -- Rome mission -- Slavery treatise -- War's end and return home -- Baltimore second plenary -- Reconstruction -- 1870s to his death.…”
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The first emperor : selections from the Historical records / by Sima, Qian, approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the first emperor -- An assassination attempt -- The biography of the chief minister of Qin -- The builder of the Great Wall -- The annals of Qin -- The treatises -- The story of the rebel Xiang Yu -- The story of the rebel Chen Sheng.…”
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Patrick N. Lynch, 1817-1882 : third Catholic bishop of Charleston / by Heisser, David C. R.

Table of Contents: “…Formative years -- Priest in Charleston -- Advancement in the 1850s -- Slaveholdings -- The war -- Rome mission -- Slavery treatise -- War's end and return home -- Baltimore second plenary -- Reconstruction -- 1870s to his death.…”
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The acts of the witnesses : the autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and other early Muggletonian writings /

Table of Contents: “…The acts of the witnesses (1699) / Lodowick Moggleton -- A transcendent spiritual treatise (1652) / John Reeve and Lodowich Muggleton -- The articles of true faith (1675) / John Saddington -- The white divell uncased / Thomas Tomkinson -- Letters -- Songs and miscellaneous.…”
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Jean-Henry D'Anglebert and the seventeenth-century clavecin school / by Jerold, Beverly, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The times -- D'Anglebert : Life and works -- Style and tempo -- Ornamentation -- Ornament performance : Treatises by St.-Lambert and Rousseau -- Transcriptions, arrangements, and variations -- The organ works -- Classical suite order in France -- The unmeasured preludes -- The keyboard dances -- Appendix 1 : sources and editions -- Appendix 2 : newly discovered pieces by D'Anglebert -- Appendix 3 : transcriptions by D'Anglebert.…”
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Commodore squib : the life, times and secretive wars of England's first rocket man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828 / by Earle, James

Table of Contents: “…LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; INVENTIONS AND TREATISES OF SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE,1772-1828; NOTES; INDEX…”
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The uses of humanism : Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the republic of letters in East Central Europe / by Almási, Gábor

Table of Contents: “…-- The multiple identities of the humanist : "vates, medicus bonus, historicusque" -- The case of Andreas Dudith -- The curious career of a heterodox humanist -- The making of the humanist : self-fashioning through letters and treatises -- Epilogue: Sambucus and Dudith encounter confessionalisation.…”
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Sinan's autobiographies : five sixteenth-century texts / by Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- PREFACE: SOURCES, THEMES, AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF S304;NAN8217;S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- AUTHORS8217; NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- SYNOPSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS -- WORKS CITED -- [UNTITLED TREATISE] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [TREATISE ON ARCHITECTURE] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [CHOICE GIFT OF THE ARCHITECTS] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [RECORD OF BUILDINGS] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [RECORD OF CONSTRUCTION] -- Translation -- Transcription -- COLLATIONS OF TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE -- COLLATIONS OF TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-B220;NY256;N -- NOTE ON THE FORMAT OF APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I CITATION INDEX OF BUILDINGS LISTED IN TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE FRIDAY MOSQUES -- APPENDIX II SEQUENCE OF CITATIONS IN INVENTORIES LISTED IN TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE FRIDAY MOSQUES -- APPENDIX III COMPARISON OF PROSE INTRODUCTION IN AR, RM, TM, AND TE -- FACSIMILES -- TKS Ar351;ivi, D 1461/3 (AR) -- TKS Ar351;ivi, D 1461/4 (RM and TM) -- Ayverdi Manuscript (S) -- S252;leymaniye, Hac230; Mahmud 4911 (Hm 4911) -- S252;leymaniye, Nuri Arlasez 81/18211;2 (NA) -- INDEX.…”
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Copernicus and his successors / by Rosen, Edward, 1906-1985

Table of Contents: “…; 3 Copernicus' Quotation from Sophocles; 4 The Alfonsine Table and Copernicus: (with the Assistance of Erna Hilf stein); 5 Copernicus and Al-Bitruji; 6 Copernicus' Alleged Priesthood; 7 Copernicus was not a 'Happy Notary': (with the Assistance of Erna Hilf stein); 8 Copernicus' Attitude toward the Common People; 9 Copernicus' Earliest Astronomical Treatise (with Erna Hilfstein); 10 Copernicus on the Phases and the Light of the Planets; 11 Copernicus' Axioms.…”
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Shibli : his life and thought in the sufi tradition / by Avery, Kenneth S., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The historical context -- Shibli in the sources -- Sarraj's Book of illuminations -- Kalabadhi's Book of understanding -- Sulami's generations of the sufis -- Abu Nuʻaym's Ornament of God's friends -- Qushayri's treatise -- Hujwiri's Revealing the veiled -- Ansari's Generations of the sufis -- Ruzbihan's Explanation of ecstatic sayings -- Ha??…”
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A world apart / by Herling-Grudziński, Gustaw, 1919-2000

Table of Contents: “…The Narrative as Chronicle; 7. The Narrative as Treatise; 8. The Narrative as Commentary; 9. Comparisons; 10. …”
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Reform in China Huang Tsun-hsien and the Japanese Model / by Kamachi, Noriko

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material -- Huang Tsun-hsien's Native Home -- Discovery of Japan: The Eastern Frontier of the Chinese World -- Westernization in Early Meiji Japan -- Japan's Aggression on China's Periphery -- California, 1882-1885: Confrontation with Racial Antagonism -- Reform Proposals for China: Completion of Treatises on Japan -- The Other Half of the Globe: Reflections in London and Singapore -- The Sino-Japanese War and the Post-War Reform Movement -- Master of the Jen-ching-lu: Hope for a New China -- Conclusion -- A Simplified Chart of the Genealogy of Huang Tsun-hsien -- A List of the Staff Members of the Chinese Diplomatic Mission in Japan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.…”
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The Maxwellians by Hunt, Bruce J. 1956-

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The life of David Hume / by Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 1907-1986

Table of Contents: “…Man of letters -- The Humes of Ninewells -- Boyhood at Ninewells -- Student days at Edinburgh -- Law versus literature -- Disease of the learned -- Recovery through catharsis -- Tranquility in France -- Fever of publication -- A treatise of human nature -- Essays moral and political -- Academic illusion -- The unfortunate tutor -- Spectator to a rebellion -- A military campaign -- A military embassy -- Achievement of ambition -- Leisure and laughter -- Citizen of Edinburgh -- Political discourses -- Pax ecclesiastica -- The opposition gathers -- The history of England -- Four dissertations -- Drum ecclesiastic -- The bard and the church -- Scotland's Augustans -- The indifference of England -- The call of France -- The adulation of France -- The Comtesse de Boufflers -- The philosophies -- Embassy secretary -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Under-secretary of state -- Autumnal serenity -- Disturbers of the peace -- Death comes for the philosopher -- The dignity of human nature.…”
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Suspicious moderate : the life and writings of Francis à Sancta Clara (1598-1680) / by Davenport, Anne Ashley

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Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and its reception / by Akopyan, Ovanes

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Early Greek poets' lives : the shaping of the tradition / by Kivilo, Maarit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hesiod: the tradition; origin and family of Hesiod; genealogies of Hesiod; Hesiod's life; the story of Hesiod's death; the works of Hesiod and on Hesiod; the date of Hesiod; formulaic themes and Orphic/Pythagorean influences in Hesiod's tradition; two modern views on the tradition of Hesiod; conclusion -- Stesichorus: the tradition; Stesichorus' family; Stesichorus' home and travels; Stesichorus' poetry and music; blindness, Helen, and the Palinode; Stesichorus and politics; Stesichorus' name and his death; the date of Stesichorus; the connections with the Pythagorean tradition; formulaic elements in the tradition; conclusions -- Archilochus: the tradition; Archilochus' family and his friends; Archilochus' home, journeys, and contests; Archilochus' encounter with the muses; the oracles in the tradition of Archilochus; Archilochus and the cult of gods; Lycambes and his daughters; the death of Archilochus; the cult of Archilochus; ancient criticism of Archilochus; the date of Archilochus; traditional elements in Archilochus' biography; conclusion -- Hipponax: the tradition; Hipponax' origin, home town and family; Hipponax' inventions and the story of Iambe; the quarrel with Boupalus; the death of Hipponax; ancient criticism and editions of Hipponax; the date of Hipponax; formulaic themes in Hipponax' tradition; conclusion -- Terpander: the tradition; Terpander's home and origin; Terpander in Sparta; the citharodes of Lesbos; the death of Terpander; Terpander's poetry and music; the date of Terpander; formulaic themes in Terpander's tradition; conclusion -- Sappho: the tradition; ancient portraits and appearance of Sappho; Sappho's home and family; Sappho and Phaon, her exile and death; Sappho's reputation, circle, and rivals; Sappho's inventions and music; the ancient editions of Sappho's poetry, and the treatises on her; the date of Sappho; conclusions -- The formation of biographical traditions -- Conclusion.…”
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