John Wilkins

Shaun Hill

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD. Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order. Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites. Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes. Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.

Food in the Ancient World

Robin Nadeau

A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity. • Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world • Addresses all aspects of food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption during antiquity • Features original scholarship from some of the most influential North American and European specialists in Classical history, ancient history, and archaeology • Covers a wide geographical range from Britain to ancient Asia, including Egypt and Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, regions surrounding the Black Sea, and China • Considers the relationships of food in relation to ancient diet, nutrition, philosophy, gender, class, religion, and more

A Companion to Food in the Ancient World

Claudia Wegener

The Discovery of a World in the Moone

Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). Together with an abstract of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Languages, ' a sketch of the life of the author and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay on the Universal Language Movement in England, France and Germany in the 17th and 18th century by Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker.

Shewing how a Man May with Privacy and Speed Communicate His Thoughts to a Friend at Any Distance ; Together with an Abstract of Dr. Wilkins's Essays Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

Mercury, Or, The Secret and Swift Messenger

With a Discourse Concerning the Probability of a Passage Thither. Unto which is Added, A Discourse Concerning a New Planet, Tending to Prove, That 'tis Probable Our Earth is One of the Planets : In Two Parts

A Discovery Of A New World Or A Discourse Tending to Prove that 'tis Probable There May be Another Habitable World in the Moon

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1691 Edition.

Or the Wonders That May Be Performed by Mechanical Geometry

Mathematical Magic

Wherein All English Words According to Their Various Significations, are Either Referred to Their Places in the Philosophical Tables, Or Explained by Such Words as are in Those Tables

An Alphabetical Dictionary

And a Philosophical Language

An Essay Towards a Real Character

To which is Prefix'd the Author's Life, and an Account of His Works

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

In 2 Bookes. ¬A Discovrse concerning A New Planet : Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets. The second Booke

A Discourse Concerning A New World & Another Planet

F. David Harvey

Michael J. Dobson

Mike Dobson

University of Exeter Press

Food as a cultural symbol was as important in antiquity as in our own time, and Food in Antiquity investigates some of the ways in which food and eating shaped the lives and thoughts of the indigenous peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, thirty contributors consider aspects of food and eating in the Greco-Roman world. This is the most comprehensive exploration of questions relating to food in antiquity in this country. The authors, some specialists in this field, others with expertise in other areas, use a range of approaches to investigate the production and distribution of food, social, religious and political factors, medicine and diet, cultural identity and contrasts with neighbouring cultures, and food in literature. The volume is designed for both Classicists and those interested in the history of food. The aim is both to illuminate and to entertain, and at the same time to remind the reader that the Greeks and Romans were not only philosophers and rulers of empires, they were also peasant farmers, traders and consumers of foods who considered that what and how they ate defined who they were.

Food in Antiquity

A Discourse Concerning a New World and Anoth[er] Planet. In 2 Bookes [The First Book. The Discovery of a New World. Or, a Discourse Tending to Prove, that 'tis Probable There May be Another Habitable World in the Moone. With a Discourse Concerning the Possiblity of a Passage Thither. The Third Impression. A Discourse Concerning a New Planet. Tending to Prove, that 'tis Probable Our Earth is One of the Planets. The Second Booke, Now First Published

Tim Whitmarsh

Christopher Gill

"This volume of new essays is based on a conference with the same title held at the University of Exeter in 2005. All those speaking on that occasion have written chapters in this volume, along with Riccardo Chiaradonna whose chapter has been specially prepared for the volume. The aim of this volume, like the conference on which it is based, is to contribute to the upsurge of new research on Galen by focusing on a topic that bridges the interests of specialists in ancient medical history and Classicists and philosophers more generally. The conference also represents the convergence of two current focuses of research in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Exeter, on ancient medicine especially Galen and on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek culture more generally"--Provided by publisher.

Galen and the World of Knowledge

Bound with the author's An alphabetical dictionary. London, 1668.

An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language

Matthew Wright

Richard Seaford

Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of self and soul, understood in a broad sense - and, as in the work of the honorand himself, they are distinguished by a diversity of approach and subject matter, ranging widely across disciplinary boundaries to cover ancient philosophy, psychology, medical writing, and literary criticism. They can be read separately or together, taking the reader on a journey through topics and themes as varied as money, love, hope, pleasure, rage, free will, metempsychosis, Roman imperialism, cookery, and the Underworld, yet all committed to examining central issues about the experience of being a person and the question of how best to live. The international line-up of contributors includes many established figures in the disciplines of classical literature, ancient philosophy, and ancient medicine, as well as several younger scholars. All have been inspired by Christopher Gill's contributions to scholarly research in these fields and their collective work aspires to honour through imitation his remarkable combination of range with focus.

Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill

Selfhood and the Soul

Gerald O'Collins

In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authenticam (2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John Wilkins: tells the story of the maneuverings that sidelined the 1998 translation approved by eleven conferences of English-speaking bishops, criticizes the 2010 translation, and illustrates the clear superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"

The English Language and the Catholic Mass

Lost in Translation

Or, The Wonders that May be Performed by Mechanical Geometry

Mathematical Magick

The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins, late lord bishop of Chester: II. That it is probable our earth is one of the planets

John Wilkins

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