Antiphon the Athenian
Title | Antiphon the Athenian PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gagarin |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780292781832 |
Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.
An Advent of Antiphons
Title | An Advent of Antiphons PDF eBook |
Author | Fr Jonathan Munn OblOSB |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2019-03-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0244772533 |
Many Benedictine Oblates use the Monastic Diurnal to pray their Daily Offices. In Advent, each day has particular antiphons written for it at Lauds and Vespers. Each antiphon is a short verse, or an allusion to a verse from the Gospel reading for the Sunday that begins each week. This little collection of Reflections arises from Lectio Divina on these antiphons and it is hoped that they will allow the reader to find some assistance in the practice of devotion during Advent.
Waiting on the Word
Title | Waiting on the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Guite |
Publisher | Canterbury Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-08-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1848258003 |
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.
The Antiphons of the Ambrosian Office
Title | The Antiphons of the Ambrosian Office PDF eBook |
Author | Terence Bailey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Title | Harvard Dictionary of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Willi Apel |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 968 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780674375017 |
Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
The Liturgical Year
Title | The Liturgical Year PDF eBook |
Author | Adrien Nocent |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2013-09-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814635946 |
When Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year was published in the 1970s, it was the very first comprehensive commentary on the three-year lectionary in relation to the Sacramentary/Missal as these were revised following the Second Vatican Council. Expressed on nearly every page was Nocent's conviction that the liturgy and the Word of God proclaimed within it have something important to say to real people of every culture and time. He constantly returns to the question: What does this passage have to say to us today? Now this extraordinary work of applied, postconciliar liturgical scholarship has been emended and annotated by one of today's leading liturgical scholars. Paul Turner has provided many helpful explanatory notes on history, culture, language, and, of course, liturgy. He has also updated the liturgical texts to conform to The Roman Missal, Third Edition. The result is a resource that promises to enrich and inspire a new generation of presiders, preachers, liturgy planners, and students. On the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II's Sacrosanctum Concilium, encounter the vibrant scholarship and pastoral wisdom of Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year again or for the first time! Volume 1 covers the liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.
The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
Title | The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Margot E. Fassler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 2000-08-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780195352382 |
The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages. However, its richness, the great diversity of its manuscripts, and its many variations from community to community have made it difficult to study, and it remains largely unexplored terrain. This volume is a practical guide to the Divine Office for students and scholars throughout the field of medieval studies. The book surveys the many questions related to the Office and presents the leading analytical tools and research methods now used in the field. Beginning with the Office in the early Middle Ages, the book covers manuscript sources and their contents; regional developments and variations; the relationship between the Office, the Mass, and other ceremonies and repertories; and the deep links between the Office and medieval hagiography. The book concludes with a discussion of recent technical advances for handling the enormous amounts of evidence on the Office and its performance, in particular CANTUS, the vast electronic database developed by Ruth Steiner of Catholic University for the analysis of chant repertories. The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages is an essential resource for anyone studying medieval liturgy. Its accessible style and broad coverage make it an important basic reference for a wide range of students and scholars in art history, religious studies, social history, literature, musicology, and theology.