Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

Author: Kylie M. Murray (Fellow, Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780197266809
Format: Hardback
$158.95

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly...  Read More >>

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of...

Author: Edward Watts
ISBN: 9780197691953
Format: Paperback
$37.95

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman...  Read More >>

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature...

Author: Elise Wang (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton)
ISBN: 9780192870728
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal...  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

Euripides: Andromache

Euripides: Andromache

Author: Hanna M. Roisman (Colby College, Maine, USA) ,  Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
ISBN: 9781350256309
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides’ Andromache. Its...  Read More >>

A Companion to Aristophanes

A Companion to Aristophanes

Author: Matthew C. Farmer (Haverford College, PA) ,  Jeremy B. Lefkowitz (Swarthmore College, PA)
ISBN: 9781119622888
Format: Hardback
$348.95

Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes...  Read More >>

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval...

Author: Sarah Baechle (Ole Miss) ,  Carissa M. Harris (Temple University)
ISBN: 9780271092683
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors’ speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval...  Read More >>

Literatures of the Hundred Years War

Literatures of the Hundred Years War

Author: Daniel Davies (Assistant Professor of English) ,  R. D. Perry (Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts)
ISBN: 9781526141095
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature....  Read More >>

Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature

Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature

Author: Carolyne Larrington
ISBN: 9781526176134
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism

Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Professor Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr
ISBN: 9781843847175
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.  Read More >>

The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria: The Text and its Contexts

The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria: The...

Author: Alfred Thomas (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843847151
Format: Hardback
$168.19

The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.  Read More >>

Italian Literature IV: Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729 (Parodi’s siglum ‘F’)

Italian Literature IV: Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729...

Author: Gloria Allaire (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843847168
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729....  Read More >>

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Author: John M. Bowers (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Nevada) ,  Peter Steffensen (Instructor of English, Instructor of English, Bishop Gorman High School)
ISBN: 9780192848888
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing, Recycling, Sharing

Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing,...

Author: Hannah Ryley (Author)
ISBN: 9781914049224
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared....  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Author: Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Professor Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781350440692
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes...

Author: Dr James Bradley Wells (DePauw University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350226401
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth...

Author: Pauline Donizeau ,  Yassaman Khajehi
ISBN: 9781350355699
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th...  Read More >>

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science and History

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception:...

Author: Professor David Christenson ,  Cynthia White
ISBN: 9781350344679
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651689
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214674
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651429
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214667
Format: Hardback
$215.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction...

Author: Victoria Rimell (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780192894212
Format: Hardback
$341.95

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive,...  Read More >>

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