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"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.

Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.

Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

A new assessment of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest and bloodiest battle fought by U.S. forces in World War II, offers a balanced perspective that considers both the German and American viewpoints and discusses the failings of intelligence; Hitler's strategic grasp; effects of weather and influence of terrain; and differences in weaponry, understanding of aerial warfare, and doctrine.

Zbornik se sooča s temeljnimi vprašanji (samo)razumevanja narodov, etničnih in jezikovnih skupnosti v daljši historični perspektivi, in sicer od konca srednjega veka pa do današnjega časa. Problemsko segajo prispevki tudi po reartikulaciji omenjenih tematskih polj, ki bistveno sooblikujejo našo vizijo prihodnosti. Mednarodni simpozij je bil zamišljen kot srečanje in dopolnjevanje spoznanj ter izkušenj številnih avtorjev različnih humanističnih in družboslovnih ved. S svojimi prispevki v zborniku sodelujejo Igor Grdina, France Bernik, Janko Kos, Emidio Campi, Jan Andrea Bernhard, Erich Bryner, Marko Kerševan, Jonatan Vinkler, Kozma Ahačič, Miroslav Hroch, Peter Zajac, Oto Luthar, Wolf Moskovich, Heidemarie Uhl, András Gerő, Roman Holec, Rudolf Chmel, Stane Granda, Michal Stehlík, Marta Verginella, Kornelijus Platelis, Andrej Rozman, Tatjana Čepelevska in Nadežda N. Starikova.

This book studies the contributions of Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) and Rudolph Agricola (1444-1485) to rhetoric and dialectic. It analyses their influence on sixteenth century education, and on Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon and Ramus. It provides an introduction to the renaissance use of language.

Enthält: Hans Holbeins 'Icones' und die Bilderbibel im 16. Jahrhundert (S. 69-130). - Matthäus Merians 'Icones Biblicae' (S. 197-199).