Cunningham Margaret B (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. FLAT SIGNED BY THE EDITOR MIKI CONN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1999 Routledge hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover 'The papers in this volume, by a group of international scholars, explore the many different aspects of Byzantine perceptions towards their own humanity and the frailties of that humanity. Using evidence from archaeology, art history, and literary texts, ranging from sermons to legal documents, these chapters reveal writings about love, both secular and religious; images of sexuality and sensuality; the law; and Byzantine attitudes to bodies and the senses.' Contents: Preface Section I Love Letters? 1. Margaret Mullett: From Byzantium, with love 2. Mary B. Cunningham: 'Shutting the gates of the soul': spiritual treatises on resisting the passions Section II Do as your Father tells you 3. Kathy L. Gaca: The sexual and social dangers of Pornai in the Septuagint Greek stratum of patristic Christian thought 4. Aideen Hartney: Manly women and womanly men: the subintroductae and John Chrysostom 5. Joseph A. Munitiz: Anastasios of Sinai's teaching on body and soul 6. Dirk Krausmuller: Divine sex: Patriarch Methodios's concept of virginity 7. Peter Hatlie: The city a desert: Theodore of Stoudios on porneia Section III Problems with Bodies 8. Bernard Stolte: Desires denied: marriage, adultery and divorce in early Byzantine law 9. Antony Eastmond: Body vs. column: the cults of St Symeon Stylites 10. Beatrice Caseau: Christian bodies: the senses and early Byzantine Christianity 11. Charles Barber: Writing on the body: memory, desire, and the holy in iconoclasm Section IV Fine Manly Bodies 12. Kathryn M. Ringrose: Passing the test of sanctity: denial of sexuality and involuntary castration 13. Dion C. Smythe: In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium 14. Shaun Tougher: Michael III and Basil the Macedonian: just good friends? Section V Byzantine Erotica 15. Marc Lauxtermann: Ninth-century classicism and the erotic muse 16. John Hanson: Erotic imagery on Byzantine ivory caskets 17. Barbara Zeitler: Ostentatio genitalium: displays of nudity in Byzantium Section VI Conclusion 18. Averil Cameron: Desire in Byzantium - the Ought and the Is.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A collection of the best novels from 1950 to 1989 selected by editors Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil. This is a very unique and one of a kind copy signed at their respective selected novel pages by, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Michael Cunningham, Louis Be Berniere, Roddy Doyle, Bret Easton Ellis, Shirley Hazzard, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, Elmore Leonard, Patrick McGrath, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Rice, Marilynne Robinson, Will Self, Jane Smiley, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Winton. Samantha Harvey, Penelope Lively and Yann Martel have signed at the Booker Prize winner list page. Anne-Marie MacDonald and Kerri Sakamoto have signed at the Commonwealth Prize winner list page. Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Adams Richards, Greg Hollingshead, Richard B. Wright and Miriam Toews have signed at the Governor General's Literary Award winner's list page. Robert Olen Butler has signed at the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction Winner's page. Signed by Author(s).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 74 pages. Features: College fashion cover illustration; Bright red Canada brand Lobster ad inside front cover; Salute to a People, by Margaret Lawrence; Nice one-page photo ad for RCA Victor radios features the Model A-32; Come to the Fair (fiction); Two pages of black and white photos of college fashions for ladies; By Design - watch out when a pretty girl starts studying model trains!; Ugly Duckling - Jan worries about blonde Judith; Light Was Her Laughter (continued); "I'm glad we're friends with Canada", said FDR's mother to S.G. Moyer; Nice color ad for Campbell's Soups; Woodbury soap ad features photo of 'noted societal commentator' Cholly Knickerbocker; Women Face the Second Year of WWII; One-page ad for Fleischmann's Yeast features photos of locomotive cleaning and manually loading a horse-drawn wagon; Woodbury cold cream ad features photo of Andrea Leeds; One-page photo ad for Magic Baking Powder features young girl at chalkboard; The Bath Through the Ages; Teach the Children Music; Beauty News; Half-page ad for Mercury sportswear features photo of U.B.C. (UBC) outstanding woman athlete Ruth Wilson wearing her UBC top and Mercury campus stockings; Nice bright colourful ad for Hewetson Shoes inside back cover; Fantastic colour-photo ad for Crown Brand Corn Syrup on back cover features young man in necktie gobbling pancakes, plus an endorsement by Mrs. Percy Bone of Thornhill, Ontario, and a small colour photo of Kate Aitken; and much more. Moderate wear. Small address label upon front cover. A quality vintage copy. Woods, Rex (cover art); Ball, Seymour; Davenport, Ernest; Nurick, Irving; Scott, F.; Moyer, S.G. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wonderfully illustrated front cover by Rex Woods depicts two medieval musicians performing a Christmas tune. 96 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Green Giant canned tomatoes inside front cover includes map of Essex County, Ontario, where "the swankiest tomatoes in Canada' are grown; Nice one-page ad for the 1937 Chevrolet; Christmas 1936-2000 - a thoughtful article on the the future of the church and those born in 1936; Gorgeous one-page colour ad for the new 1937 V-8 Ford cars, featuring a maroon sedan; Lucky Keyes - short story by A.D. Divine; Silver Legs - short story by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Christmas poems; I Was A Stranger - a true Canadian story as told to Janet Erskine Scott; Santa Claus for a Quarter - short story by Emma-Lindsay Squier; The Transit of Venus - short story by Gertrude Macaulay Sutton; Fog Over Fundy - short story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Marvelous one-page colour-illustrated Campbell's Soup ad features grocer talking to well-heeled lady; Teens and Twenties; Fulfill Wishes - by Eva Nagel Wolf; Nice one-page ad for Jane Seymour Beauty Preparations; Movie reviews of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Gorgeous Hussy", "Craig's Wife", and "Seven Sinners"; A Peek at the Books - Margaret Lawrence reports on the Toronto Book Fair; One-page Carnation Milk ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Lovely one-page colour ad for Five Roses flour features Christmas baking; Eight delicious-looking recipes by Mona Parr for Christmas puddings and sauces - Rich Plum, Plum, Simple Dark Fruit, Carrot, Fluffy Mocha, Chilled Moulded Plum, Hard Sauce, Brown Sugar Sauce; One-page Libby's baby food ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Fashion ideas - 'Dresses for Dates'; Delightful page of illustrations to be cut out entitled "Mary Lou and Bobby's Christmas" by Lydia Fraser; and more. A quality copy of this heartwarming depression-era piece of Christmas Canadiana. Woods, Rex; Fischer, Anton Otto; Klett, Walter; Wilcox, C.R.; Ball, Seymour; Dahlberg, Edwin; Merwin, Decie (illustrator).…