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To some, the Chalcolithic (4700/4500-3700/3600 BC cal.), as the
first period with metallurgy, large sprawling villages, rich
mortuary offerings, and cult centres, represents a developmental
stage on the road to the urban Bronze Age, the "dawn of history".
Others have called it 'the end of prehistory'. More recent
scholarship focuses upon the diversification of the subsistence
economy, elaborated craft production, and expanded networks for
resource acquisition. Many of today's Chalcolithic specialists were
taught by biblical archaeologists, such that the culture history
paradigm remains deeply embedded. This volume grew out of a
workshop held in Madrid in 2006 and aims to kick start a dialogue
about how to move beyond culture history and chronology in order to
re-engage with larger theoretical discourses. A vast swathe of
research in the region ignores these issues and considers theory to
be irrelevant. One has the impression that the political realities
of the region (including a predilection for biblical archaeology)
has left a large proportion of archaeologists in the region,
including prehistorians, lost without a map. Contributors to this
volume recognize that culture history is the platform upon which
current archaeological research is discussed but differ in the
degree of emphasis placed on previously defined entities or phases.
Delineating levels of difference and similarity between temporal
boundaries is critical in this process. The two themes of this
volume - culture and chronology - combine the need for theoretical
engagement with the establishment of broader, more precise
empirical data using explicit classificatory schemes. This is,
essentially, the rock and the hard place where much archaeological
debate is wedged, and as such the volume will have resonance for
scholars of other periods and regions.
One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary
accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among
Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in
it. In the notes to this edition, Professor Lovell has assembled in
the appropriate place comments on and corrections of Medwin's
account by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, E.J. Trelawny, Sir
Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert
Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Sir Walter
Scott, Countess Teresa Guiccioli William Fletcher, and others. The
result is a continuing dialogue as one. witness debates with
another. The text is based upon Medwin's own copy of the third
London edition of 1824, heavily annotated by the author. Originally
published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Based upon the London edition of 1834, this text uses a copy
annotated, underlined, and marginally marked by Byron's last
mistress, Countess Teresa Guiccioli. Originally published in 1969.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary
accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among
Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in
it. In the notes to this edition, Professor Lovell has assembled in
the appropriate place comments on and corrections of Medwin's
account by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, E.J. Trelawny, Sir
Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert
Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Sir Walter
Scott, Countess Teresa Guiccioli William Fletcher, and others. The
result is a continuing dialogue as one. witness debates with
another. The text is based upon Medwin's own copy of the third
London edition of 1824, heavily annotated by the author. Originally
published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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Christian Standards in Life (Paperback)
J Lovell (John Lovell) 1874- Murray, Frederick Morgan 1886-1929 Harris, Sunday School Council of Evangelical Den
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R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
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Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin--literary
adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune
hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil
paintings. Poet, novelist, translator of Aeschylus, cousin and
boyhood friend of the poet Shelley, he was a man of fiery temper,
fierce hatreds, and enduring loves.
Although an intimate friend of Lord Byron, he was so dangerous
(or disreputable) that his Lordship warned Teresa Guiccioli, his
last mistress, not to be alone in Medwin's company. Later, Medwin
introduced Byron's daughter to her future husband, Lord Lovelace,
and so determined the poet's line of descent.
Friend of Washington Irving, gentleman of the old school,
neglected Boswell of the nineteenth century, Medwin reported the
conversations of Byron, Shelley, Trelawny, Hazlitt, Canova the
sculptor, and others. His life and adventures light up little-known
aspects of the nineteenth-century literary, military, social, and
publishing world--in England, India, Italy, France, Switzerland,
and Germany.
Medwin served as midwife to the words of a dead man--Lord
Byron--who returned to laugh and sneer at the living from the
Captain's pages. The Conversations of Lord Byron thus became the
most controversial book of the day, going through a dozen editions,
in six countries, and being translated into French, German, and
Italian. It aroused the wrath, indignation, or enthusiastic
interest of such individuals as Goethe, Lady Byron, Lady Caroline
Lamb, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, John Cam Hobhouse (later Lord
Broughton), Sir Walter Scott, John Murray, and Washington Irving.
Medwin, whose long and adventurous life extended from the rise and
flowering of the Romantic Period to the mid-Victorian Age (which he
regarded as a dreary decline from the great heights of his youth),
was an influence of the first magnitude in determining the early
public image of Byron and the reputation of Shelley.
This often amusing story, as engrossing as a novel, is drawn
from all the available accounts, including many important sources
never before published. In effect a new contribution to the
biographical study of Byron and Shelley, it clarifies Medwin's
relations not only with these two poets but also with many other
important and interesting figures of the day.
Based upon the London edition of 1834, this text uses a copy
annotated, underlined, and marginally marked by Byron's last
mistress, Countess Teresa Guiccioli. Originally published in 1969.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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