Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...
Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor) ISBN: 9781526175038 Format: Hardback	$194.99
A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,... Read More >>

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary...
Author: Stéphanie É. Binder (Bar-Ilan University and University of Haifa) ISBN: 9781009481779 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary... Read More >>

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary...
Author: Stéphanie É. Binder (Bar-Ilan University and University of Haifa) ISBN: 9781009481793 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary... Read More >>

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...
Author: Maria Nasioula ISBN: 9780674303300 Format: Paperback	$34.95
By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights... Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...
Author: Fabian Alfie ISBN: 9780268210588 Format: Hardback	$289.00
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The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early Middle English Sermon-Collection in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 14. 52

The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early...
Author: Bella Millett (Professor emeritus, Professor emeritus, University of Southampton) ISBN: 9780198972754 Format: Hardback	$153.95
This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism...
Author: Prof Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (Professor of Classical Philology, Professor of Classical Philology, Wolfson College, University of Oxford) , Dr Scott Scullion (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198738121 Format: Hardback	$355.95
This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,... Read More >>

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...
Author: Emily Gowers ISBN: 9780691257457 Format: Paperback	$54.99
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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey
Author: Lillian E. Doherty ISBN: 9781603297103 Format: Paperback	$87.99
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Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...
Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University) ISBN: 9780198979180 Format: Hardback	$246.95
This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical... Read More >>

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval...
Author: Caleb D. Molstad ISBN: 9781666979701 Format: Hardback	$160.00
An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food... Read More >>

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...
Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia ISBN: 9781837723355 Format: Paperback	$57.99
The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.... Read More >>

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Rachel Scoggins ISBN: 9781666932362 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The... Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear
Author: Karen Sullivan ISBN: 9781837723751 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Introducing the Medieval Bear examines how medieval people represented bears across virtually every written source... Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus
Author: Caitlin C. Gillespie ISBN: 9781501786150 Format: Hardback	$116.00
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship... Read More >>

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian...
Author: Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis ISBN: 9781526193780 Format: Hardback	$194.99
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Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...
Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada) ISBN: 9780197902202 Format: Paperback	$44.95
Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues... Read More >>

Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages

Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the...
Author: Dr Thomas W Smith (Contributor) ISBN: 9781837653874 Format: Paperback	$79.17
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Companion to the Hispanic Romances of Chivalry

Companion to the Hispanic Romances of Chivalry
Author: Axayácatl Campos García Rojas , Dr Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga ISBN: 9781855663701 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern

Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern...
Author: Emma Nuding ISBN: 9781843847892 Format: Hardback	$316.80
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Monster Relics in Medieval English Literature

Monster Relics in Medieval English Literature
Author: Christopher Lee Pipkin ISBN: 9781476696294 Format: Paperback	$131.87
Monster relics make for good stories. When a hero in medieval literature brings a monster's head, hand, or weapon... Read More >>

Dionysiaca

Dionysiaca
Author: Tim Whitmarsh , Nonnus ISBN: 9780520281318 Format: Paperback	$74.95
Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity.... Read More >>

Dionysiaca

Dionysiaca
Author: Tim Whitmarsh , Nonnus ISBN: 9780520281301 Format: Hardback	$157.95
Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity.... Read More >>

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625–786

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625–786...
Author: Peter Darby ISBN: 9781526187772 Format: Hardback	$195.00
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A History of Goblins

A History of Goblins
Author: Matt King ISBN: 9783032010629 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted... Read More >>

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