Scrinium Classical Antiquity

CARROLL, M.P., The Cult of the Virgin Mary. Psychological Origins. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1986. XV,253p. Cloth (bit stained). Name cut away from free endpaper. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

CARRUBBA, R.W., The Epodes of Horace. A Study in Poetic Arrangement. Mouton, The Hague / Paris, 1969. 114p. Card bourd cover with dust wrps. Signature on half title. Series: Studies in Classical Literature 9. (Rare). ‘Perfunctory ‘chapters’ chronology and meter lead up to the real meat of this study, some sixty pages in which Carruba details a thematic pattern superimposed on the more obvious metrical arrangement of the ‘Epodes’. He sees the book composed of two halves (1-8 and 9-17), with numerous aspects of similarity too complex to outline here. A final chapter serves to undermine the view that Horace’s order was determined by that of Archilochus. (…) Even so slim a volume devoted to the arrangement of seventeen relatively short poems might seem rather lavish treatment. However, C.’s subtitle is somewhat misleading. He analyses the structure not only of the book as a whole but also of many individual pieces. (…) these latter discussions, while not strictly relevant to the central topic, contain much of interest; and their inclusion can, in a way, be justified, since C. finds some of the same principles of organisation operative on the level of both poem and book. The analyses display considerable acuteness. There is, perhaps, a slight tendency to overinterpret a circumstance of text.(…) C. can teach us much, and his study performs a valuable service for this most neglected of Horace’s works.’ (THOMAS A SUITS in The Classical World, 1970, pp.91-92). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

CARRUTHERS, M., The Craft of Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 4th impr. XVII,399p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 34. The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing. (Publisher's information). € 38.00 (New)

CARRUTHERS, M., The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2009. 2nd ed. XVI,519p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 70. Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion). (Publisher's information). € 32.00 (New)

CARSTENN, M. (ed.), Welt und Leben des deutschen Mittelalters in lateinischem Gewande. Heft 1. Heft 2. Teubner, Leipzig/Berlin, 1927. 2 parts. 32,32p. Sewn. Spine with library mark. Series: Eclogae Graecolatinae 32/33. € 9.50 (Antiquarian)

CARSTENSEN, R., (ed.), Griechische Sagen. Bisher erschienen unter dem Titel (!): G. Schwab: Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums. Mit Namen- und Sachregister. Ensslin&Laiblin, Reutlingen, n.d. 288p. Bound wrps. Plastified. Library marks. € 10.50 (Antiquarian)

CART, A., J. LAMAISON, e.a. Grammaire Latine. Nathan, Paris, 1964. 194p. Bound. Corners bit bumped. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

CARTIANU, A., L. LEVITICHI, and V. STEFANESCU-DRAGANESTI, A Course in Modern Rumanian. Publishing House for Scientific Books, Bucharest, 1958. 359p. Cloth wrps. Edges and wrps. a bit stained. (Rare). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

CARTLEDGE, P., Aristophanes and his Theatre of the Absurd. Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, 1990. 82p. ills.(B&W). Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'In the Preface the author poses 4 questions: is it feasible to look for any serious message underlying comic drama; if so, is the standpoint anti-democratic or just sceptical towards authority; does the Artistophanic hero represent the ordinary Athenian of about 400 B.C.; does Aristophanic fantasy necessarily carry any practical implications? In answering these questions the author endeavours to provide enough material on Athenian society to make the plays' contexts intelligible. (...) The author does provide interesting solutions to the problems poses and offers some stimulating interpretations of the plays.' (CHARLES MACLACHLAN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1991, pp.468-69). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

CARTOCCI, S. and G., Rom - Gestern. Die ewige Stadt vor dreihundert, zweihundert, hundert Jahren: Bilder von Gestern und Wirklichkeit von heute. Übersetzung von H. Hecht und V. Guerrieri. Plurigraf, n.p., 1980. 128p. Richly ills. Sewn. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)