Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) , Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781009272353 Format: Paperback	$46.58
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes... Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) , Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781009500159 Format: Hardback	$142.31
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes... Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...
Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College) ISBN: 9780271096896 Format: Paperback	$72.99
""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places... Read More >>

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism
Author: Matthew Thomas Miller ISBN: 9780520426344 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism
Author: Matthew Thomas Miller ISBN: 9780520426337 Format: Hardback	$157.95
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Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the...
Author: Emily Hauser ISBN: 9781804992791 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories

A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories...
Author: Irene J. F. de Jong (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781108470988 Format: Hardback	$388.12
This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses... Read More >>

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self
Author: Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) ISBN: 9780192874962 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,... Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus
Author: Marsilio Ficino , Stephen Gersh ISBN: 9780674303218 Format: Hardback	$61.95
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation... Read More >>

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...
Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki) ISBN: 9781399514446 Format: Hardback	$219.00
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it... Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Author: Jessica Barr ISBN: 9780268210946 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584562 Format: Paperback	$72.45
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Euripides and Quotation Culture

Euripides and Quotation Culture
Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK) , David Taylor ISBN: 9781350441217 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation... Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584579 Format: Hardback	$232.88
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Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997714 Format: Hardback	$51.95
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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
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Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear
Author: Karen Sullivan ISBN: 9781837723751 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears... 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
Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution... Read More >>

Euripides: Electra: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

Euripides: Electra: Edited with Introduction and Commentary...
Author: David Kovacs (Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus),, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus), University of Virginia) ISBN: 9780192867131 Format: Hardback	$339.95
This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary.... Read More >>

Die Ethik Des Traums in Den Werken Plutarchs Von Chaironeia: Wissen Und Ereignis

Die Ethik Des Traums in Den Werken Plutarchs Von Chaironeia:...
Author: Christopher Schliephake ISBN: 9783119144889 Format: Hardback	$348.45
Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,... Read More >>

Rethinking Orality III: From Homer to Neuroscience

Rethinking Orality III: From Homer to Neuroscience
Author: Maurizio Bettini , Manuela Giordano ISBN: 9783111431611 Format: Hardback	$277.17
The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting... Read More >>

Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament
Author: David Ganz , Thomas Rainer ISBN: 9783111411071 Format: Hardback	$739.20
Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and... Read More >>

Catullus: Volume 51

Catullus: Volume 51
Author: Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin) ISBN: 9781009709798 Format: Paperback	$46.55
This volume examines Catullus' invective and homoerotic verse and the carmina maiora or 'longer poems', alongside... Read More >>

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