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From original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters - English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean - from the 7th century to the 15th, as monuments of thought and composition parallel to the literary and epigraphic traditions of these islands. This revolutionary analysis presents charters of local variety but underlying unity, in which complex self-authenticating mathematical structures produce works of art of astonishing and apprehensible beauty.
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Very Good, A very good, near fine copy in black cloth boards with a very good dust jacket. Previous owners' discreet inscription to upper ffep. David Howlett. 266 p.
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Howlett (classics, U. of Oxford) has long argued that there is a tradition of thought and composition in which accounts of the Creation in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin afforded models for human artistic composition in both literary and diplomatic genres. Here he finds evidence of this same tradition in inscriptions in Britain and Ireland in those langu
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