Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast (College of Wooster, Ohio) ,  Jessica Rosenfeld (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781316644126
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This exploration of literary form in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer delivers a timely and fresh approach to the study...  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906): From the Mahabharata

Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita...

Author: Edwin Arnold
ISBN: 9781138289871
Format: Paperback
$71.99

First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472054770
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A new text and commentary on one of Aristophanes' greatest and most influential plays.  Read More >>

Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great...

Author: Kathleen Riley (Writer and classical scholar, Writer and classical scholar)
ISBN: 9780198852971
Format: Hardback
$67.95

By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining...  Read More >>

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority...

Author: Katherine H Terrell
ISBN: 9780814214626
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural...  Read More >>

Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England...

Author: Will Rogers (Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professor of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe)
ISBN: 9781641892544
Format: Hardback
$340.56

A ground-breaking study of old age impairments in Middle English literature and their function as prosthetic additions,...  Read More >>

""Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay"": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry

""Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay"": Tradition...

Author: Jay Ruud (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
ISBN: 9780367357580
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Originally published in 1992. Although apparently much appreciated in his own time, Chaucer’s lyrics have been the...  Read More >>

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Roger Ellis
ISBN: 9780367357467
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund

Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund...

Author: C. W. Marshall (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367549022
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472074778
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A new text and commentary on one of Aristophanes' greatest and most influential plays.  Read More >>

Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience

Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience

Author: Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
ISBN: 9781474483179
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II: From Classical Greece to Early Christianity

The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II: From...

Author: Stratos Georgoulas
ISBN: 9783030676377
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and...  Read More >>

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of...

Author: Robert Kanigel
ISBN: 9780525520948
Format: Hardback
$73.79

"From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Author: Matteo Pangallo ,  Peter Kirwan
ISBN: 9780367715465
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery...

Author: Thomas A. Fudgé
ISBN: 9781349931361
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Old Norse Mythology

Old Norse Mythology

Author: John Lindow (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197554487
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This unique introduction emphasizes how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories....  Read More >>

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