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J. A. Burrow.
The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988 (previously issued in hardback, 1986).
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks.
ISBN 0198117558;
ISBN-13: 9780198117551.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: the University Printing House, Oxford.
Size: 137x214x13mm.
Page count: text xi,211pp; plates 12pp.
Main language: English; quotations usually given with a translation.
Overall condition fair to good: covers scuffed but not heavily worn; spine a little faded but uncreased; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £14.50
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[ACLS edn. in print at $35.00]
Weight without packaging: 323g.

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A study of the various schemes of aetates hominum, (usually 3, 4, 6 or 7 ages), as they appear in medieval culture, with some mention of their classical antecedents.

Contents: Nature; Time; Ideals of transcendence; Ideals of nature.
Appendix: Loci classici.

Illustrations: 12 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes


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