Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian

The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like...

Author: Leah Shopkow
ISBN: 9781487525866
Format: Paperback
$44.99

In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography...  Read More >>

De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet: Introduction, Edition, English Translation, and Critical Commentary

De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet: Introduction, Edition,...

Author: Luisa Lesage Gárriga
ISBN: 9789004458079
Format: Hardback
$414.48

In Plutarch. De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet, Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new critical edition with English...  Read More >>

Ibn Bāǧǧa, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›On Generation and Corruption‹: Critical Edition and Translation with an Introduction and Glossaries

Ibn Bāǧǧa, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›On Generation...

Author: Corrado la Martire
ISBN: 9783110705928
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Ibn Bāğğa's commentary on Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption is one of the first commentaries to elaborate...  Read More >>

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World: Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110737127
Format: Hardback
$197.25

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Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in...

Author: Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780511605659
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and...  Read More >>

Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs

Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts,...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9780511612091
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This sophisticated and important short study of Roman religion examines the vital importance of Roman literature...  Read More >>

The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24

The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24

Author: Nicholas Richardson ,  G. S. Kirk
ISBN: 9780511620294
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This is the sixth and final volume of the major Commentary on Homer's Iliad issued under the General Editorship...  Read More >>

Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Author: Nora Kershaw Chadwick
ISBN: 9780511707636
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with...

Author: R. W. Chambers
ISBN: 9780511759642
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Chamber's introduction to Beowulf is the most comprehensive study of the whole problem of this remarkable Anglo-Saxon...  Read More >>

The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I

The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches...

Author: Francesco Stella
ISBN: 9782503587998
Format: Hardback
$364.32

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Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses...

Author: Linda Paterson
ISBN: 9781843846000
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan.  Read More >>

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: from Henry II to Edward I

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: from Henry...

Author: Christopher Michael Berard (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781783276066
Format: Paperback
$67.25

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.  Read More >>

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture: Studies in Honour of Stephen A. Mitchell

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative...

Author: J Glauser ,  P Hermann
ISBN: 9782503589879
Format: Hardback
$348.48

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The Life of Saint Eufrosine

The Life of Saint Eufrosine

Author: Amy V. Ogden
ISBN: 9781603295055
Format: Paperback
$46.20

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Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature:...

Author: Juliette Vuille ,  Caroline Palmer
ISBN: 9781843845898
Format: Hardback
$245.81

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare: Working with Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare:...

Author: Peter Holland
ISBN: 9781009013635
Format: Paperback
$67.27

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international...  Read More >>

Poems without Poets: Approaches to anonymous ancient poetry

Poems without Poets: Approaches to anonymous ancient...

Author: Boris Kayachev
ISBN: 9781913701406
Format: Hardback
$155.25

An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha....  Read More >>

Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen
ISBN: 9780268200640
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Author: Helena Phillips-Robins
ISBN: 9780268200688
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 46: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 46: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781538152171
Format: Hardback
$205.00

Since its founding, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in...  Read More >>

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