The gateway to the Middle Ages - ITALY
by SHIPLEY DUCKETT, ELEANOR
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good copy.
- ISBN 10
- 0880294671
- ISBN 13
- 9780880294676
- Seller
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
New York: Dorset Press, 1990. Originally published in 1938. This 1990 reprint includes the preface for the 1960 edition. Jacket design by Terry Dill. This is the story of the struggle to defend Italian lands against the Eastern Goths and the wave of barbarians from the North. Theodoric the Great dreams of a Roman Empire re-invigorated with Gothic blood, with the imprisones Boethius, last of the Roman philosophers and first of the scholastics, writes his immortal work of suffering and consolation. Contents: I). The historical scene in Italy. II). The Gothic rule in Italy: Cassiodorus, secretary of Theodoric the Great. III). The gothic rule in Italy: Jordanes and Ennodius. IV). Philosophy in the Sixth century. With notes, select bibliography and index. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (commonly called Boethius (ca. 480 - 524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880 - 1976) was an English-born philologist and medieval historian who spent most of her career in the United States. (18) + 219 pag. . Reprint of the 1966 edition. Half cloth with dustjacket. Good copy.. 21cmx13,5cm.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027254
- Title
- The gateway to the Middle Ages - ITALY
- Author
- SHIPLEY DUCKETT, ELEANOR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good copy.
- Edition
- Reprint of the 1966 edition
- ISBN 10
- 0880294671
- ISBN 13
- 9780880294676
- Publisher
- Dorset Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- italia amalasuntha boethius cassiodorus gothic theodoric the great jordanes ennodius justinian witigis anicius manlius severinus boëthius
- Size
- 21cmx13,5cm
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