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The Medieval Tradition of Seneca's Letters
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Scribes and scholars: A guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the development of the theory of textual criticism, the stemmatic theory of recension limitations, the age and merit in individual manuscripts, indirect tradition, corruptions corruptions fluid forms of transmission, technical and popular literature conventions in the "apparatus criticus" conclusion.
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Kingship and empire
TL;DR: The idea of empire detached from its gentile anchorage acquired Roman-Christian universality in the 8th and 9th centuries as mentioned in this paper, when the Frankish kings Pippin and Charlemagne successfully mobilised two elites, the higher clergy of the Franciscan Church and the frankish aristocracy.
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Books and readers in the Roman world
TL;DR: The history of Roman literature effectively begins with Ennius as mentioned in this paper, who describes the casual and fluid nature of publication in the ancient world is described just as characteristic of what happened to books after publication.
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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition: Ideals and the Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100–1300
TL;DR: Kjaer et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe and revealed how historians have underestimated the impact of classical literature and philosophy on medieval culture and ritual.
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Roman monarchy and the Renaissance prince
TL;DR: Stacey as mentioned in this paper traces the formative impact of ancient Roman political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government on the Italian peninsula from the time of Frederick II to the early modern period.