In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered ...(展开全部)

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 弗雷德里克•乔治•凯尼恩爵士（Sir Frederic George Kenyon，1863—1952）是英国著名古典学家、圣经学家和古文书学家。1863年1月生于伦敦，先后就读于温切斯特公学和牛津大学新学院，毕业后1883年被遴选为牛津大学麦格达伦学院教研人员。1889年成为大英博物馆助理馆员，1898年被选为写本部副部长。1909年被任命为大英博物馆馆长、图书馆首席馆员，担任此职一直到1931年退休。其间，1912年被封为爵士，1913年担任古典学会会长，1917年成为英国人文与社会科学院院长，1918年成为英国皇家艺术学院古代史教授，1919年成为希腊学研究学会会长。 凯尼恩毕生致力于纸草文献的整理、研究和出版，著述颇丰，主要有：亚里士多德《雅典宪法》的首个校勘整理本以及英文翻译（1891, 1904, 1920），《大英博物馆所藏...(展开全部)

作者简介： 弗雷德里克•乔治•凯尼恩爵士（Sir Frederic George Kenyon，1863—1952）是英国著名古典学家、圣经学家和古文书学家。1863年1月生于伦敦，先后就读于温切斯特公学和牛津大学新学院，毕业后1883年被遴选为牛津大学麦格达伦学院教研人员。1889年成为大英博物馆助理馆员，1898年被选为写本部副部长。1909年被任命为大英博物馆馆长、图书馆首席馆员，担任此职一直到1931年退休。其间，1912年被封为爵士，1913年担任古典学会会长，1917年成为英国人文与社会科学院院长，1918年成为英国皇家艺术学院古代史教授，1919年成为希腊学研究学会会长。 凯尼恩毕生致力于纸草文献的整理、研究和出版，著述颇丰，主要有：亚里士多德《雅典宪法》的首个校勘整理本以及英文翻译（1891, 1904, 1920），《大英博物馆所藏...(展开全部)

Don McCullin’s view of England is rooted in two worlds—his wartime childhood, and his youth in 1950s Finsbury Park. His first published photograph was a picture of a gang from his neighborhood, which appeared in a newspaper after a local murder. McCullin always balanced his anger at the unacceptable face of the nation with tenderness or compassion, and in this collection, he en...(展开全部)

A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbi...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccac...(展开全部)