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1979

From Memory to Written Record: England 1066 - 1307

history

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medieval

medieval-history

M.T. Clanchy - 1979

The second edition of Michael Clanchy's widely-acclaimed study of the history of the written word in the Middle Ages is now, after a much lamented absence, republished in an entirely new and revised edition.

The text of the original has been revised throughout to take account of the enormous amount of new research following publication of the first edition. The introduction discusses the history of literacy up to the present day; the guide to further reading brings together over 300 new titles up to 1992. In this second edition there are substantially new sections on bureaucracy, sacred books, writing materials, the art of memory, ways of reading (particularly for women), the writing of French, and the relationship of script, imagery and seals.

Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic - 1979

Drawing on the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy, "Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature" argues that loneliness has been the universal concern of mankind since the Greek myths and dramas, the dialogues of Plato, and the treatises of Aristotle.Author Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, whose insights are culled from both his theoretical studies and his practical experiences, contends that loneliness has constituted a universal theme of Western thought from the Hellenic age into the contemporary period.

"In Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature," he shows how man has always felt alone and that the meaning of man is loneliness.Presenting both a discussion and a philosophical inquiry into the nature of loneliness, Mijuskovic cites examples from more than one hundred writers on loneliness, including Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Clark Moustakas, Rollo May, and James Howard in psychology; Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe and William Golding in literature; and Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre in philosophy.Insightful and comprehensive, "Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature" demonstrates that loneliness is the basic nature of humans and is an unavoidable condition that all must face.