Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy

Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy

Author: Leopoldo Iribarren ,  Hugo Koning
ISBN: 9789004513914
Format: Hardback
$377.52

This fascinating volume rethinks the relationship between early Greek philosophers and the epic poet Hesiod, by...  Read More >>

Reecrire l'Histoire de Troie: La Cinquieme Prose Du Roman de Troie, Compilation Et Creation

Reecrire l'Histoire de Troie: La Cinquieme Prose Du...

Author: Anne Rochebouet
ISBN: 9782406129714
Format: Paperback
$121.44

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Reecrire l'Histoire de Troie: La Cinquieme Prose Du Roman de Troie, Compilation Et Creation

Reecrire l'Histoire de Troie: La Cinquieme Prose Du...

Author: Anne Rochebouet
ISBN: 9782406129721
Format: Hardback
$240.24

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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 47: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 47: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781538157909
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Collection of Sand

Collection of Sand

Author: Italo Calvino ,  Edoardo Ballerini
ISBN: 9798200813797
Format: Audio
$110.75

The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays...  Read More >>

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Antony Augoustakis (Professor and Head of Classics, Professor and Head of Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ,  R. Joy Littlewood (Independent scholar, based in Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198821281
Format: Hardback
$386.95

The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic...  Read More >>

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship...

Author: Kimberly Fonzo
ISBN: 9781487563479
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book examines the reception of medieval authors' works in order to dispel the inaccurate and misleading prophetic...  Read More >>

Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England

Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval...

Author: Tekla Bude
ISBN: 9780812253702
Format: Hardback
$184.67

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Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty: Fashioning Disgrace

Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty: Fashioning...

Author: Rebecca Usherwood
ISBN: 9783030879297
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons.  Read More >>

Von Briefen Und Kompilatoren: Zur Einbindung Von Texten Des Genres 'Shu' in Geschichts- Und Sammelwerken

Von Briefen Und Kompilatoren: Zur Einbindung Von Texten...

Author: Clara Luhn
ISBN: 9783447118194
Format: Paperback
$192.72

Texte aus dem chinesischen Altertum und Fruhmittelalter sind uns heute fast ausschliesslich durch Mittlerfiguren...  Read More >>

Vita Apollonii Tyanei

Vita Apollonii Tyanei

Author: Gerard Boter ,  Flavius Philostratus
ISBN: 9783110218824
Format: Hardback
$137.19

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The Origins of the Law in Homer

The Origins of the Law in Homer

Author: Shulamit Almog
ISBN: 9783110765939
Format: Hardback
$137.19

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9780008518035
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. ‘Astounding’ Sebastian...  Read More >>

Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early...

Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy)
ISBN: 9780197267332
Format: Hardback
$166.95

In early modern Europe, literature and literate knowledge were produced within societies organised along hierarchical...  Read More >>

Gold in the Sanctuary: Reassessing Notker of St Gall's Liber Ymnorum

Gold in the Sanctuary: Reassessing Notker of St Gall's...

Author: Felix Heinzer
ISBN: 9780888442284
Format: Hardback
$250.80

As Peter Dronke observed in his seminal book on the subject, the first heights of achievement in medieval lyric...  Read More >>

Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500

Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500...

Author: Hannah Bower (Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192849496
Format: Hardback
$189.95

This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative,...  Read More >>

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond:...

Author: Mathieu P. de Bakker ,  Baukje van den Berg
ISBN: 9789004506046
Format: Hardback
$469.92

Taking its cue from Irene de Jong’s groundbreaking narratological analyses of classical texts, this volume studies...  Read More >>

How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context

How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary...

Author: Eric Clouston
ISBN: 9781978706620
Format: Paperback
$71.99

In How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context, Eric Clouston brings a new approach to the interpretation...  Read More >>

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism,...

Author: Niklaus Largier
ISBN: 9781503631045
Format: Paperback
$52.95

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience,...  Read More >>

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism,...

Author: Niklaus Largier
ISBN: 9781503630437
Format: Hardback
$180.95

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience,...  Read More >>

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