Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Antigone

Antigone

Author: Sophocles ,  Elizabeth Wyckoff
ISBN: 9780226844657
Format: Paperback
$19.95

One of the few surviving plays by Sophocles, and one of the most frequently performed of classical Greek dramas...  Read More >>

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British...

Author: Eleanor Rycroft ,  Greg Walker
ISBN: 9783032121288
Format: Hardback
$118.77

Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional...  Read More >>

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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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
$104.00

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author: Jessica Brantley
ISBN: 9781512828665
Format: Paperback
$92.99

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...

Author: Mathias Nordvig
ISBN: 9781032672816
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...

Author: Mathias Nordvig
ISBN: 9781032672830
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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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 >>

Bhagavat Gita 101: Vibrant Vintage Verses

Bhagavat Gita 101: Vibrant Vintage Verses

Author: Hullasa Behera
ISBN: 9781645607984
Format: Paperback
$58.08

What exactly is Bhagavat Gita? Bhagawan Krishna delivered a long and learned speech to Arjuna, the ace, incomparable...  Read More >>

The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages

The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle...

Author: Daniel L. Newman ,  Nasir al-Din al-Tusi,Muhammad ibn Muhammad
ISBN: 9781849250757
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The Sultan's Sex Potions by Nasr al-Dn al-Ts, a 13th-century scientific text, explores aphrodisiacs, sexual practices...  Read More >>

The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

Author: E. K. Myerson (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009426800
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Arguing for the irresistible allure of real and forged Syrian goods for English consumers in the Middle Ages, E....  Read More >>

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica...

Author: Darcy A. Krasne (Lecturer, Lecturer, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198850748
Format: Hardback
$282.95

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the...  Read More >>

Dante’s emotions: Tears and smiles between time and eternity

Dante’s emotions: Tears and smiles between time and...

Author: Giulia Bonaldi
ISBN: 9783119145350
Format: Hardback
$78.62

Dante’s Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development...  Read More >>

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III

Author: Simon Horobin (Professor English Language and Literature, Professor English Language and Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198934073
Format: Hardback
$138.95

This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham....  Read More >>

Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic

Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic

Author: Charles Sears Baldwin
ISBN: 9781025248387
Format: Paperback
$65.87

""Ancient rhetoric and poetic"" by Charles Sears Baldwin presents an essential and authoritative examination of...  Read More >>

Medea

Medea

Author: Euripides ,  J. Michael Walton
ISBN: 9781350523722
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic

Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic

Author: Charles Sears Baldwin
ISBN: 9781025248394
Format: Hardback
$97.55

""Ancient rhetoric and poetic"" by Charles Sears Baldwin presents an essential and authoritative examination of...  Read More >>

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