The Humanities Digital Library launched
this week.
The Humanities Digital Library is the open access library and
catalogue for books published by the School of Advanced Study,
University of London. It forms part of the School’s mission to embrace
the opportunities of digital content delivery and enable greater access
to knowledge. The Humanities Digital Library is managed by the Institute
of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies (IALS).
We publish new titles, through our open access programmes,
as well as open access versions of books previously available only in
print. Each book is available as an open access PDF (full text) but can
also be purchased in print (hardback and paperback) or as an ebook (EPUB
format). Scholarly content made available through the website includes
monographs, edited collections and shorter form works.
With open access providing increased accessibility and visibility to
scholarly research, and becoming ever more relevant to research and
funding councils, the Humanities Digital Library aims to bring together
and promote freely available research for the School, its constituent
Institutes and the wider humanities community.
In the first of our publishing partnerships, the Institute of
Historical Research is working alongside the Royal Historical Society to
bring their new open access series, New Historical Perspectives to the Humanities Digital Library. We expect the first books to be published in 2017-18. Learn more about our Partnerships.
The Open Access project team behind the Humanities Digital Library
are: Jane Winters, Chair in Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced
Study; Steve Whittle, Information Systems Manager at the Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies; Philip Carter, Head of Digital at the Institute
of Historical Research; and Jon Newbury, Publishing Manager at
the Institute of Historical Research.
The website is managed by Jon Newbury, Publishing Manager, jonathan.newbury@sas.ac.uk.
Among the initial set of subjects is
Classics from the
Institute of Classical Studies is the following volume listed as forthcoming in early 2017"
Profession and Performance: Aspects of oratory in the Greco-Roman World
Editors: Christos Kremmydas, Jonathan Powell, Lene Rubinstein
*THIS FORTHCOMING EBOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EARLY 2017*
This volume brings together six papers relating to oratory and orators in public fora
of Classical Greece and Rome. Edwards and Bers explore aspects of
oratorical delivery in the Athenian courts and Assembly, including the
demands placed on orators by the physical settings. Tempest examines the
conceptions of oratorical competence and incompetence, particularly in
respect of performance, as they are implied in Cicero’s criticisms of
the rival prosecutor in the trial of Verres. Papers by Karambelas and
Powell look at evidence for the importance of advocacy in the Second
Sophistic and the late Roman Empire respectively. In an introduction,
the editors discuss recurrent themes connected with the orator’s
competence and performance, while the final paper of the volume, by Lord
Justice Laws, reflects on the continuing relevance of rhetoric in the
modern, highly professionalised practice of the law in England.
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