Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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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 >>

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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"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 >>

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 >>

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

Author: Stefano Trovato
ISBN: 9781032017488
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book analyses Julian the Apostate from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture.  Read More >>

Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec

Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of...

Author: Robert Pelfrey (Manchester Wesley Research Centre, Nazarene Theological College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032154268
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the theology of spiritual formation developed by fourteenth-century Flemish mystic John of Ruusbroec,...  Read More >>

The Epic World

The Epic World

Author: Pamela Lothspeich
ISBN: 9780367252366
Format: Hardback
$452.00

"The go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Author: Helen Dell
ISBN: 9781526173959
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers

The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy...

Author: Deirdre N. Fulton ,  Kenneth A. Ristau
ISBN: 9783161607417
Format: Hardback
$541.20

Questions concerning the composition and formation of biblical texts have dominated many of the current discussions...  Read More >>

Revelation's New Jerusalem in Late Antiquity

Revelation's New Jerusalem in Late Antiquity

Author: Nathan Betz ,  Anthony Dupont
ISBN: 9783161623769
Format: Paperback
$361.68

The contributions in this volume explore the intricate Late Antique reception of the New Jerusalem image from the...  Read More >>

Holy War Discourses in 1QM and John's Apocalypse: A Comparative Study

Holy War Discourses in 1QM and John's Apocalypse: A...

Author: David Chapman Harris
ISBN: 9783161624285
Format: Paperback
$311.52

In this study, David Chapman Harris compares the Qumran War Scroll with John's Apocalypse through the lens of the...  Read More >>

Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood...

Author: Mark Masterson
ISBN: 9781032284446
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book foregrounds desire between men in and around the imperial court of the 900s.  Read More >>

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