Conversations at Little Gidding : 'On the retirement of Charles V' ; 'On the austere life' / dialogues by members of the Ferrar family ; edited and with introduction and notes, by A.M. William
1970, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn, dust-dulled and rubbed as with age dust-wrapper. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #405095
ISBN: 0521076803
Physical description; lxxxvi, 322 p., 4 plates : facsims. ; 23 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 316-317. Contents; The family background -- The little academy -- Storying -- Chronology of the story books -- The nature of names -- De Contemptu Mundi -- De Contemptu Corporis -- On the retirement of Charles V -- On the austere life. Subjects; Little Gidding (Christian community). Ferrar family. Church of England Religious communities. Christian life ; Fiction. Christian life. Christian life Anglican authors. Christian life Stories. Fiction. Christian life ; Early works to 1800. Ethics ; Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, English England London ; Facsimiles. Anglican communities Early Stuart period, 1600-1650. Little Gidding. Little Gidding (Huntingdonshire).
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