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In his plays Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who exercise tyranny or are the victims of tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to…
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Nicholas Hammond
Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715)
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Provides an introduction to seventeenth-century French writing. Nicholas Hammond shows in eight vignettes what, in fact, made this period the golden age of French drama, philosophy, and literary creativity.
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In what respects was Alexander ‘Great’? In this fascinating study Nicholas Hammond undertakes to answer this question with enthusiasm.
A guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.
Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge University)
An interpretation of early modern Paris demonstrating that sound was as important as vision during the reign of Louis XIV. Discloses myriad ways in which sound generated an interpenetration of…
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N.G.L. Hammond
Philip was a versatile genius who made Macedonia the greatest military power in the Western world. This book examines the Macedonian state, its people who made Philip’s success possible, and…
Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy, through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors…
Neil Kenny
The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe’s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne’s Essays , Rabelais’ comic fictions, Ronsard’s poetry, Calvin’s…
Reflects the author’s scholarly interest in the interface between religion, rhetoric and literature in the period 1500-1800. In this book, the contributors consider subjects including the eloquence of oration from…
Nicholas Hammond (Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, University of Birmingham)
This is the first comprehensive work on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms depicting the central subject of the Pensees, the human condition. Giving and in-depth…
With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades…
Designed for a first reading of Plautus, the book also includes a lexicon of words prescribed by the second-year College Boards Examination and questions on interpretation of scenes.
A collection of papers dealing with a broad range of topics in mathematical economics, game theory and economic dynamics. The papers were presented in a special symposium co-hosted by the…
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow.
