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Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991) was one of the most renowned scholars of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. In this book seven of his classic essays on aspects of eighth and ninth century culture appear for the first time in English. They include an investigation of the role of books in the transmission of culture from the sixth to the ninth century, and studies of the court libraries of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, as well as of writing centers and libraries associated with major monastic and cathedral schools. This rich collection provides a full, coherent study of...

This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text that throws new light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The Biblical commentaries represent the teaching of two gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East: Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury and his colleague Hadrian. They taught the Bible to a group of Anglo-Saxon scholars, who recorded their teaching. The resulting commentaries constitute the high point of Biblical scholarship between late antiquity and the Renaissance. The edition is introduced by substantial chapters on the...

Die "Physik der Sitten und des Rechts" ist ein Schlüsseltext zum Verständnis vom Emile Durkheims Werk. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Vorlesungsreihe, die Durkheim zwischen 1890 und 1900 zweimal in Bordeaux, zwischen 1902 und 19115 mehrfach in Paris gehalten hat.§Nach Beendigung seiner religionssoziologischen Studie "Die elementaren Formen des religiösen Lebens" hatte Durkheim noch mit dem großangelegten Versuch begonnen, seine gesammelten Erkenntnisse zur Soziologie der Moral in einem Buch mit dem Titel "Die Moral" zusammenzufassen, ein Vorhaben, das ihm durch seinen frühen Tod verwehrt...