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 >>

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 >>

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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