Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Author: Sarah F. Derbew (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108817912
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals...  Read More >>

The Prince: Explained

The Prince: Explained

Author: I P Cacumen
ISBN: 9798224229147
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This study guide focuses on the explanation and analysis of The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, one the most influential...  Read More >>

Höfische Lyrik: Eine Einführung

Höfische Lyrik: Eine Einführung

Author: Andreas Kraß
ISBN: 9783662666500
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Minnesang, Sangspruch und Leich – die drei Hauptgattungen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des Hochmittelalters stehen...  Read More >>

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Author: Dr Kate Cook (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781350410497
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that...  Read More >>

Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth  Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century:...

Author: Professor Karl Kügle ,  Dr Ingrid Ciulisová
ISBN: 9781837650057
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Essays dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval...  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: 9781138494763
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book provides a novel approach to the history of medieval Anatolia by analysing political, religious and cultural...  Read More >>

Discourses on Dante

Discourses on Dante

Author: Charles H Grandgent ,  Charles H Grandgent
ISBN: 9780674281127
Format: Hardback
$102.96

"No detailed description available for ""Discourses on Dante""."  Read More >>

Woden: A Historical Companion

Woden: A Historical Companion

Author: Stephen Pollington
ISBN: 9781961361072
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature: Emotions and the Mutability of Form

Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature: Emotions...

Author: Marie Novotna
ISBN: 9782503605883
Format: Hardback
$248.16

What did the body mean for inhabitants of the medieval Norse-speaking world? How was the physical body viewed? Where...  Read More >>

"Ovid's ""Heroides"" and the Augustan Principate"

"Ovid's ""Heroides"" and the Augustan Principate"

Author: Megan O. Drinkwater
ISBN: 9780299337841
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an expression of the crisis of civic identity...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  E. J. Kenney (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895804
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and Indices

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  Phillip Hardie (Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895811
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

Woden: A Historical Companion

Woden: A Historical Companion

Author: Stephen Pollington
ISBN: 9781961361065
Format: Hardback
$118.77

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together...  Read More >>

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Author: Marcus Deufert ,  Irmgard Mannlein-Robert
ISBN: 9783525802380
Format: Paperback
$303.60

"Lustrum Band 64, eine Fortsetzung der Lustrum-Bande 54 (2012), 56 (2014) und 61 (2019), bietet ein weiteres grosses...  Read More >>

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature...

Author: George Alexander Gazis ,  Anthony Hooper (Lecturer, University of Wollongong (Australia))
ISBN: 9781802074802
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The...  Read More >>

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early Epic and Romance

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early...

Author: William F. Woods
ISBN: 9781476686233
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Analyses seven iconic heroes and compares each champion to a walled town or castle, hardened against an outer threat....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 2, 1066–1500

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume...

Author: Carolinne White (University of Oxford) ,  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107186576
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during...  Read More >>

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

Author: Sjoerd Levelt
ISBN: 9781802073614
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Menander: Untersuchungen Zur Dramatischen Technik

Menander: Untersuchungen Zur Dramatischen Technik

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783911065030
Format: Hardback
$198.00

"Die zweite, grundlich uberarbeitete Auflage von Niklas Holzbergs Analyse der dramatischen Technik Menanders geht...  Read More >>

Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the...

Author: Tison Pugh
ISBN: 9780472133444
Format: Hardback
$79.20

From a vexing catalog of trees in the Knight’s Tale to the flirtations with blasphemy in the Parson’s Tale, this...  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C. Ceyhun Arslan
ISBN: 9781399525824
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions  Read More >>

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