the 1st finished research of early Celtic cursing, this paintings analyses either medieval and old expressions of Celtic imprecation: from the binding pills of old Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval interval, and different strains of Celtic stipulation and binding basically speculated on in previous scholarship. It offers the 1st complete evaluation and analyses of the traditional Celtic use of binding curses (as attested in previous Celtic and Latin inscriptions) and examines their mooted effect in later medieval expressions. historic reveals (among them lengthy Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse drugs chanced on from the Alpine areas to Britain, and fragments of outdated Brittonic pills excavated from Roman tub) are subjected to rigorous new interpretations, and medieval reflections of the sooner culture also are considered.
BERNARD MEES received his PhD from the college of Melbourne.
Opposite to the frequent view that girls exercised financial autonomy purely in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital prestige used to be now not the manager determinant of women's fiscal actions within the mid-fourteenth century andВ that girls controlled their very own wealth to a much higher volume than formerly well-known.
What value does the voice or projected personality within which a textual content is written have for our realizing of the which means of that textual content? This quantity explores the personality of the writer in antiquity, from Homer to past due antiquity, taking into consideration either Latin and Greek authors from more than a few disciplines.
Plautine developments: reports in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective quantity released as a Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. Raios (University of Ioannina), goals to give a contribution to the present, severe dialogue on Plautine drama and interact with lots of the issues which lie on the leading edge of modern scholarship on вЂ�literary PlautusвЂ™.