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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450874003321

Autore

Kane George

Titolo

The Piers Plowman glossary [[electronic resource] ] : Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best : a glossary of the English vocabulary of the A, B, and C versions as presented in the Athlone editions / / by George Kane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2005

ISBN

1-281-29491-8

9786611294915

1-84714-379-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

821.1

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Glossary as an Undertaking; Choosing Instances; Arrangement; Etymologies; Abbreviations; GLOSSARY

Sommario/riassunto

This Glossary is designed as a companion to William Langland's dream vision poem, Piers Plowman, widely regarded as the greatest literary work in Middle English before Chaucer. It glosses and explains over 5000 English words, and foreign words used as if English, in the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman printed in the critically-acclaimed Athlone editions. Where possible, it illustrates words with examples from all three versions.The first glossary to Piers Plowman was compiled in 1886 by Sir William Skeat but there has been no attempt, until now, to provide a new glossary that takes account o



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794936203321

Titolo

Death as a process / / edited by John Pearce and Jake Weekes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78570-326-9

1-78570-324-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Studies in Funerary Archaeology ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

393/.930937

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Rome

Human remains (Archaeology)

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: death as a process in Roman funerary archaeology / John Pearce -- Space, object, and process in the Koutsongila Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai, Greece / Joseph L. Rife and Melissa Morison -- Archaeology and funerary cult: the stratigraphy of soils in the cemeteries of Emilia Romagna (Northern Italy) / Jacopo Ortalli -- Funerary archaeology at St Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury / Jake Weekes -- Buried Batavians: mortuary rituals of a rural frontier community / Joris Aarts and Stijn Heeren -- They fought and died but were covered with Earth only years later: mass graves on the ancient battlefield of Kalkriese / Achim Rost and Susanne Wilbers-Rost -- Some recent work on Romano-British cemeteries / Paul Booth -- Funerary complexes from imperial Rome: a new approach to anthropological study using excavation and laboratory data / Paola Catalano, Carla Caldarini, Flavio De Angelis and Walter Pantano -- Animals in funerary practices: sacrifices, offerings and meals at Rome and in the provinces / Sébastien Lepetz -- How did it go? Putting the process back into cremation / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Afterword: process and polysemy: an appreciation of a cremation burial / Jake Weekes.