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Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584-617) and the “Zhongshuo” in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture

By Ding Xiang Warner (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of theZhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies … Continued

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Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders’ Typika and Testaments. 5 vols.

Edited by John Philip Thomas (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) and Angela Constantinides Hero Among the sources for the history of Byzantine monasticism, none are more important than the typika, or foundation documents. Collected and translated in these volumes, the typkia may be used, for the first time, as a comprehensive study of religious life and institutions … Continued

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Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: Annotated Lists and Guides, vols. 5 and 6

Edited by F. Edward Cranz (NHC Fellow, 1981–82), Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Brown, and Robert A. Kaster The Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has become an indispensable research tool for scholars interested in the history of the classical tradition in the West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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Essays in Paper Analysis

Edited by Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) A resource for students in any field who are working with paper documents, this book offers exemplary studies by leading scholars on a variety of topics, ranging from medieval music manuscripts to Beethoven, and from Shakespeare forgeries to the most recent bibliographical applications of nuclear physics.