Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus
Author: Melanie Racette-Campbell ISBN: 9780299343545 Format: Paperback	$76.99
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The Picture Gallery (Niga?Rista?N): A Persian Moral Miscellany

The Picture Gallery (Niga?Rista?N): A Persian Moral...
Author: Mu?i?n al-Di?n Mu?i?ni? Juvaini? , Gregory Maxwell Bruce ISBN: 9781474492553 Format: Hardback	$368.00
The first English translation of Nigaristan: a major work of Persian literature. Read More >>

The Genius of Invective: Ibn Zaydūn's Letter Explained

The Genius of Invective: Ibn Zaydūn's Letter Explained...
Author: Ibn Nubātah , Peter Webb ISBN: 9781479835874 Format: Hardback	$78.99
An exposition of Arabic literate culture In eleventh-century Cordoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself... Read More >>

Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great: An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great: An Exemplary...
Author: Jaakkojuhani Peltonen ISBN: 9781032523781 Format: Paperback	$90.99
This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender... Read More >>

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and Religion in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and...
Author: Bruno De Nicola ISBN: 9781032685373 Format: Paperback	$90.99
This book provides a novel approach to the history of medieval Anatolia by analysing political, religious and cultural... Read More >>

De persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation, Commentary and Introduction

De persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.: A...
Author: Victor Houliston (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) , Marianne Dircksen (North West University, South Africa) ISBN: 9781350379350 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire: Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire: Assumptions...
Author: José Luís Brandão (University of Coimbra, Portugal) , Cláudia Teixeira (University of Évora, Portugal) ISBN: 9781350354012 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus
Author: Jonathan S. Burgess (Professor of Classics, University of Toronto) ISBN: 9780198891499 Format: Hardback	$199.95
The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of... Read More >>

Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars

Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars...
Author: Liv Ingeborg Lied , Brent Nongbri ISBN: 9780300264425 Format: Paperback	$41.95
A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested... Read More >>

Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. De Lege Agraria

Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo....
Author: Cicero , Andrew R. Dyck ISBN: 9780674997677 Format: Hardback	$51.95
The early speeches. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of... Read More >>

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller: Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's Pillars of Exile and its Readers

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller: Rabbi Isaac of...
Author: Judah D. Galinsky (Associate Professor in the Talmud Department, Associate Professor in the Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University) ISBN: 9780198883517 Format: Hardback	$202.95
This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law... Read More >>

Introducing Medieval Animal Names

Introducing Medieval Animal Names
Author: Ben Parsons ISBN: 9781837722617 Format: Paperback	$34.99
What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did?... Read More >>

Performing Desire: Knowledge, Self, and Other in Richard De Fournival's ""Bestiaire D'amours""

Performing Desire: Knowledge, Self, and Other in Richard...
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach , Jonathan Morton ISBN: 9781501781247 Format: Hardback	$111.10
Performing Desire examines the intellectual and philosophical complexity of a monument of medieval literature: the... Read More >>

Saga Emotions

Saga Emotions
Author: Gareth Lloyd Evans , Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir ISBN: 9781526177261 Format: Hardback	$207.00
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Translating Virgil: A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present

Translating Virgil: A Cultural History of the Western...
Author: Susanna Morton Braund (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) ISBN: 9781108470612 Format: Hardback	$514.80
The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages.... Read More >>

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction
Author: Robert J. Meyer-Lee ISBN: 9781032226132 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of... Read More >>

Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early...
Author: Johannes Junge Ruhland ISBN: 9783111556888 Format: Hardback	$250.00
This volume interrogates the role of the manuscript medium in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers.... Read More >>

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...
Author: Patrice D. Rankine ISBN: 9781602584532 Format: Paperback	$91.30
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Iphis Et Iante: Une Comédie Basée Sur Les Métamorphoses D'Ovide

Iphis Et Iante: Une Comédie Basée Sur Les Métamorphoses...
Author: Isaac de Benserade , Marianne Legault ISBN: 9781603296977 Format: Paperback	$48.40
""A French play by Isaac de Benserade (1613-91). A romantic comedy of mistaken identities, sympathetically portraying... Read More >>

Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature

Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Author: Shaily Shashikant Patel (Virginia Tech) ISBN: 9781009331661 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element is a genealogical study of how magic and heresy intersect in early Christian literature across four... Read More >>

Primitive Culture in Greece

Primitive Culture in Greece
Author: H. Rose ISBN: 9781032497259 Format: Paperback	$58.99
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Outlines of Classical Literature: For Students of English

Outlines of Classical Literature: For Students of English...
Author: H. Rose ISBN: 9781032496856 Format: Paperback	$62.99
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Primitive Culture in Italy

Primitive Culture in Italy
Author: H. Rose ISBN: 9781032498256 Format: Paperback	$58.99
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A Handbook of Latin Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Augustine

A Handbook of Latin Literature: From the Earliest Times...
Author: H. J. Rose ISBN: 9781032496290 Format: Paperback	$86.99
First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical... Read More >>

Diónysos: Nature Without Instinct

Diónysos: Nature Without Instinct
Author: Kevin McGrath ISBN: 9781955194433 Format: Paperback	$47.52
Diónysos is a literary encounter between instinct & intellect, order & chaos, life & death. Read More >>

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