Kehler. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England : Her Life and Representation.

by Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler.

$ 22.00

Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England : Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2003 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 242 pp

“The eleven essays are arranged under four sub-headings, designed to examine by turn the celebration of celibacy, the deferral of marriage, the liminality of widowhood, and finally the significance of virginity (this last sub-section would likely make more sense if placed at the beginning rather than at the end of the volume).
 Part I: Celebrating Celibacy focusses on the medieval period, with essays on Anglo-Norman single woman saints (Jane Zatta), variations on the fifteenth-century legends of St. Katherine of Alexandria (Paul Price), and Malory’s use of the single woman as a determining signifier of the masculine (single man) virtue of chivalry (Dorsey Armstrong).
Part II: Repudiating Marriage considers the versatility of money-lending as an occupation that allowed late Tudor and Stuart Englishwomen to remain single by choice (Judith M. Spicksley), and John Lyly’s alternatives to marriage as a generic conclusion for comedy in the Elizabethan court (Jacqueline Vanhoutte). Women
Part III: Imaginary Widowhood includes Amtower’s and Jeanie Grant Moore’s re-assessments of Chaucer’s widows, and Allison Levy’s examination of widow portraiture as an expression of masculine anxiety in the Restoration period. Amtower’s consideration of Chaucer’s Dido and Cleopatra (from Legend of Good Women), Criseyde, and the Wife of Bath as widows, presents a wide-ranging set of characteristics for this sub-category of the single woman. From pathetic to noble, from self-silenced iconic figures to more or less successful speakers, the widow for individually determined status.
 Part IV: Sexuality and Revirgination traces the connections between female desire and its representations in virginal women. Perhaps the most compellingly nuanced essay in the collection, by Tracey Sedinger, considers how “[w]omen were usually represented as strangely ‘class-less’…even though their virtue implicitly signified an elevated social status” in versions of maidservant-lady relationships in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (Book 4), Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Book 2), and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing . Sedinger, unlike some of the other authors in this collection, notes explicitly the anachronism of some feminist approaches to the medieval and early modern female subject, which places priority on agency as a contingency of subjectivity.” Seventeenth Century News
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Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys. Rules and the Summa. Greek and Latin Music Theory.

by Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys.

$ 37.00

Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys. Rules and the Summa. Greek and Latin Music Theory. University of Nebraska Press 1991  Hardcover.  Good, Remainder mark   Octavo 403 pp

“For this edition, Lefferts has thoroughly reexamined, edited, and appraised the single extant source of each treatise. Full descriptions of these sources are provided and the documents are illustrated with a plate from each. Each treatise is presented in its original Latin, with a fully annotated translation on facing pages. Leffert’s introduction discusses the authors, places the treatise in the context of the theoretical traditions of fourteenth-century France and England, and reviews their contents in detail. Indexes of terms, names, and subjects are included. Appendixes provide a concordance to the music examples from the Regule that recur in the Summa and transcriptions of two English motet fragments that exhibit insular notational practices discussed in the treatises. Leffert’s work will be seen as a major contribution to our understanding of medieval English music.”
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Farmer, Sharon. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris

by Farmer, Sharon.

$ 37.00

Farmer, Sharon. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation and Gendered Experience. University of Pennsylvania Press 2017 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 354 pp

“Sharon Farmer analyzes the evidence concerning the medieval silk industry, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, labor migration, intercultural exchange, and gendered work.”
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English, Stephen. Mercenaries in the Classical World to the Death of Alexander.

by English, Stephen.

$ 27.00
English, Stephen. Mercenaries in the Classical World to the Death of Alexander. Pen & Sword 2012 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 212 pp

“It will examine the role of the mercenaries and their influence on the wars of the period down to the death of Alexander the Great, who employed them and why, and will also look at the social and economic pressures that drove tens of thousands to make a living of fighting for the highest bidder, despite the intense dangers of the ancient battlefield. “

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Alison Keith and Jacqueline Fabre-Serris .  Women and War in Antiquity.

by Alison Keith and Jacqueline Fabre-Serris . 

$ 42.00
Alison Keith and Jacqueline Fabre-Serris .  Women and War in Antiquity. Johns Hopkins University Press 2015  Pictorial hardcover. Like New Unused Octavo 341 pp

“The martial virtues of courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these .”virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored

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Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts  Medieval Spain.

by Garza, Randal.

$ 22.00
Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts  Medieval Spain. Peter Lang Pub 2008 Pictorial hardcover. Very Good Unused  Octavo 119 pp

“Such a study concerning Spain has been conspicuously absent until now. The present investigation is among the first to bring together information that documents the pernicious behavior of the disease in Spain and to demonstrate how it changed the societies it afflicted. Studying the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain, reveals that the disease did, in fact, help change the perceived role of the medical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of death and dying.”

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Susan Johnston and Bernard Wailes. Dun Ailinne : Excavations at an Irish Royal Site, 1968-1975. 

by Susan Johnston and Bernard Wailes.

$ 42.00

Susan Johnston and Bernard Wailes. Dun Ailinne : Excavations at an Irish Royal Site, 1968-1975.  University of Pennsylvania 2007 Maroon cloth hardcover with gold lettering. Like New Unused Quarto 232 pp Figural drawings in text. CD in back

“The site of Dún Ailinne is one of four major ritual sites from the Irish Iron Age, each said to form the center of a political kingdom and thus described as “royal.” Excavation has produced artifacts ranging from the Neolithic (about 5,000 years ago) through the later Iron Age (fourth century CE), when the site was the focus of repeated rituals, probably related to the creation and maintenance of political hegemony. A series of timber structures were built and replaced as each group of leaders sought to claim ancient descent from a deep past and still create something unique and lasting. Pam J. Crabtree and Ronald Hicks provide analyses on, respectively, biological remains and Dún Ailinne’s role in folklore, myth, and the sacred landscape, while Katherine Moreau examines bronze and iron artifacts and Elizabeth Hamilton, slag.”  University Museum Monograph, 129
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Cashtown During the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863

by Suzanne Mickley Youngblood

$ 17

Cashtown During the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863 was compiled and written by Cashtown resident Suzanne Mickley Youngblood in advance of the 150th anniversary of the battle, in 2013.

The Rock Top Book Shop, located in Cashtown, PA, has received permission to reprint this long out of print book.

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History of Ricketts’ Battery – Battery F, 1st PA Light Artillery

by Dr. Richard A. Sauers & Peter Tomasak

$ 20

A “new” history of Battery F, 1st PA Light Artillery.

There was no original history of the battery written by any of the veterans. As far as a regimental history goes – this one is as solid as any written. Well illustrated with portraits and maps, and indexed.

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