New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

enaissance studies Librairie Droz
Répertoire du théâtre français
imprimé entre 1630 et 1660
by Alain Riffaud
With more than a thousand references, the
Répertoire du théâtre français imprimé offers the
most comprehensive inventory available, distinguishing
between editions and issues, pirated and
authorized editions, and citing all new editions.
Together with an inventory of production year by
year, the Répertoire provides charts on authors, indexes
for the titles of plays, libraries, printers, and
illustrators. Meant for booksellers and researchers
alike, it opens new horizons to the history of books
and theater. French text.
448p, 53 illus, paperback, 9782600012577,
$110.00(s), Librairie Droz, October 2009,
Travaux du Grand Siècle 32.
La Renaissance décentrée
Actes du Colloque de Genève,
28–29 septembre 2006
edited by Frédéric Tinguely
These articles present an interdisciplinary look at the
decentralizing dynamics of the Renaissance in fields
such as cosmology, philosophy, literature, painting,
geography, botany and religious polemics. The analyses
suggest that the questioning of ancient models
did not abolish the idea of center, but created new
centers and concepts of centrality, without necessarily
seeking to be subversive. French text.
224p, 9 illus, hardback, 9782600012164, $85.00(s),
Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 440.
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Scholarly Knowledge
Textbooks in Early Modern Europe
edited by Emidio Campi, Simone De Angelis, Anja-Silvia Goeing and Anthony T Grafton
Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers and pupils must begin with the sobering
realization that the field includes many books that the German word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind.
The early modern classroom was shaken by the same explosion of knowledge that took place in individual scholars’ libraries and
museums, and transformed by the same printers, patrons and vast cultural movements that altered the larger world it served. In
the 15th–17th centuries, the curricula of universities fused humanistic with scholastic methods in radically novel ways, claiming
a new status for the overt and tacit knowledge that made their work possible. This collected volume presents case studies.
448p, 34 illus, hardback, 9782600011860, $110.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 447.
Ultima Thulé
Histoire d’un lieu et genèse d’un mythe
by Monique Mund-Dopchie
This is the story of an island that cannot be located on a map. Many locations
have been proposed, but their identification with Thule was often guided by
ideological debates and national pride; Thule has thus become a primary source
of dreams for poets and novelists. With the “Ballad of the King of Thule”, Goethe
contributed to Thule’s transformation into a ‘country of nowhere.’ Monique
Mund-Dopchie describes this process as the start of a new myth. French text.
496p, 22 illus, paperback, 9782600012348, $72.00(s), Librairie Droz,
October 2009, Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire 449.
Nicolas Bourbon: Nugae (Bagatelles) 1533
edited by Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine
This book is an edition and translation of the 584 Latin epigrams of the
French neo-Latin poet Nicolas Bourbon, edited in Basel by Cratander in 1533,
entitled Nugae. It begins with a long introduction, dealing with the life of
Bourbon and the poetics of Nugae, followed by the text and translation of the
epigrams, with many notes explaining family names and cultural references,
and providing literary commentary. French & Latin text.
1064p, paperback, 9782600012263, $172.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 446.
République des Lettres, République des Arts
Mélanges en l’honneur de Marc Fumaroli, de l’Académie française
edited by Christian Mouchel and Colette Nativel
This volume of “Mélanges” testifies to Marc Fumaroli’s scholarly influence, demonstrating the numerous ties that
he has built throughout his career. The thirty-three contributing authors propose their original research among
the multiple aspects of the history of culture and representations that aroused Fumaroli’s interests, from the
Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century. French text.
760p, paperback, 9782600011938, $125.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 445.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009