Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage: Artful Devices

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage:...

Author: Dori Coblentz
ISBN: 9781474482264
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.  Read More >>

After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett

After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret...

Author: Liz James ,  Oliver Nicholson
ISBN: 9780367898861
Format: Hardback
$315.00

After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the...  Read More >>

Pearl

Pearl

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781800859999
Format: Hardback
$254.87

Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most challenging of the four works by the...  Read More >>

St. Augustine's Confessions: The Arc of Conversion

St. Augustine's Confessions: The Arc of Conversion

Author: James Wetzel ,  James Wetzel
ISBN: 9781666533293
Format: Audio
$105.57

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.  Read More >>

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 34

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 34...

Author: S.P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9780838645017
Format: Hardback
$222.53

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Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era: Human Behaviour, Law and Society

Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era: Human Behaviour, Law...

Author: Yulia Kovas ,  Fatos Selita
ISBN: 9781349960477
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of...  Read More >>

The Poetics

The Poetics

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9789391316808
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Discusses poetry's aesthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles...  Read More >>

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9789391316631
Format: Paperback
$31.02

English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy, with a lively, imaginative plot, memorable heroine, and...  Read More >>

The Iliad

The Iliad

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9789391316730
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time....  Read More >>

A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship, Volume III: Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Early Tang: The Decline of Factual Philology and the Rise of Speculative Hermeneutics

A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship, Volume III:...

Author: David M. Honey
ISBN: 9781680539622
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Essays on Biblical Historiography: From Jeroboam II to John Hyrcanus I

Essays on Biblical Historiography: From Jeroboam II...

Author: Israel Finkelstein
ISBN: 9783161608537
Format: Hardback
$403.39

This volume is a collection of articles and new essays by Israel Finkelstein that offers an outline for reconstructing...  Read More >>

St. Augustine's Confessions: The Arc of Conversion

St. Augustine's Confessions: The Arc of Conversion

Author: James Wetzel ,  James Wetzel
ISBN: 9781666533446
Format: Audio
$39.57

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.  Read More >>

Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's...

Author: Professor Maud Burnett McInerney (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781843846154
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An exciting new approach to one of the most important texts of medieval Europe.  Read More >>

Die Festdarstellungen in Ovids 'Fasti'

Die Festdarstellungen in Ovids 'Fasti'

Author: Maria Hirt
ISBN: 9783515132039
Format: Hardback
$319.44

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Ion

Ion

Author: Platon ,  Nikolaus Rehlinger
ISBN: 9783754372074
Format: Paperback
$14.23

Platons Dialog Ion. Übersetzt von Friedrich Schleiermacher und neu ediert von Nikolaus Rehlinger.  Read More >>

Tatian's Diatessaron: Composition, Redaction, Recension, and Reception

Tatian's Diatessaron: Composition, Redaction, Recension,...

Author: James W. Barker (Associate Professor of New Testament, Associate Professor of New Testament, Western Kentucky University, USA)
ISBN: 9780192844583
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, this book reconstructs the compositional and editorial...  Read More >>

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World:...

Author: Robert W. Hanning (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780192894755
Format: Hardback
$259.95

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities...  Read More >>

Orpheus und Eurydike im 21. Jahrhundert: Die Rezeption eines musikalischen Mythos in Literatur und Medien der Gegenwart

Orpheus und Eurydike im 21. Jahrhundert: Die Rezeption...

Author: Romana Weiershausen ,  Robin Mantei
ISBN: 9783631852651
Format: Hardback
$175.69

Die Publikation untersucht die Rezeption des Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike seit 2000. Die modernen Adaptionen...  Read More >>

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

Author: Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780192856357
Format: Paperback
$48.95

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical Ricardian...  Read More >>

Text: [lucian Von Samosata]

Text: [lucian Von Samosata]

Author: Christoph Martin Wieland ,  Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath
ISBN: 9783110340013
Format: Hardback
$847.41

Seit ihrem ersten Erscheinen vor 225 Jahren gilt Wielands Lukian-UEbersetzung als die beste UEbertragung dieses...  Read More >>

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