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Jean-Marie Martin

"Ce volume présente la réédition de trente articles, contributions à des colloques et à d’autres volumes collectifs, publiés entre 1980 et 2009, et rassemblés de façon thématique, indépendamment de la date de leur première publication. Ils sont regroupés en deux sections ; la première (nos 1-12) a pour objet l’Italie méridionale byzantine et l’action de l’Empire et de l’Église byzantine dans cette région ; la seconde (nos 13-30) est consacrée à certains aspects de l’histoire médiévale de l’Italie méridionale, lombarde et normande aussi bien que byzantine, et regroupe des textes qui concernent l’économie (nos 13-18), la société – du droit personnel aux pratiques sociales (nos 19-22), certains éléments institutionnels (nos 23-25), enfin quelques aspects de l’histoire religieuse – du culte des images à l’hagiographie et aux cartulaires (nos 26-30). On s’est efforcé de mettre à jour la bibliographie et, parfois, de mettre en perspective certains points qui ont fait l’objet de recherches ultérieures."--

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Evan S. Connell

"The Crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Moslems in the Holy Lands. Battles will continue for the next two hundred years. Every able man becomes a soldier of the Cross. When a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, join to fight alongside their husbands and fathers. Two centuries long, this common cause is the defining war of what was becoming the spirit of the Western world.". "The author has commented, "I think of this as a book about the Crusades, not an 'historical novel' - a term that suggests imaginary experiences and unlikely conversations. Monologues and dialogues in this book are paraphrased or condensed from those in medieval documents. Every meeting, every conversation, every triumph or defeat, no matter how small, was recorded centuries ago.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Gloria Whelan

One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go. Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju knows she cannot allow this to happen to her sister. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return. With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.

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Pierre Louÿs

This was "the only only complete English version extant" of a novel originally in French about a courtesan living in ancient Alexandria. The book is lavishly illustrated, but is sloppy in other ways. For instance, every time there is a full page illustration (and there are many) the page numbering skips, and the margins of the page are not evenly wide. This is the kind of book that you had to cut the pages with a knife before you could read it. You could call the story erotica, but it is no worse than The Decameron or Chaucer. It must have been pretty hot reading in 1906. The book has a page stating "This Edition on Large Paper is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No......" but nobody bothered to fill in the number, so I would guess that more than 1,000 of these were printed.