Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance...

Author: Linda Marie Rouillard
ISBN: 9783030356040
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval...  Read More >>

Pietismus Handbuch

Pietismus Handbuch

Author: Wolfgang Breul ,  Thomas Hahn-Bruckart
ISBN: 9783161599095
Format: Hardback
$375.19

Das Pietismus Handbuch bietet in einem Band einen umfassenden Überblick über die den nachreformatorischen Protestantismus...  Read More >>

Le Roman de Troie En Prose: Prose 5

Le Roman de Troie En Prose: Prose 5

Author: Anne Rochebouet
ISBN: 9782406103226
Format: Hardback
$287.76

This work is the first critical edition of the entirety of the fifth prose version of the Roman de Troie, integrated...  Read More >>

Der Messias, Band 2

Der Messias, Band 2

Author: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks
ISBN: 9783112342930
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Der Messias, Band 2"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Messias, Erster Band

Messias, Erster Band

Author: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks
ISBN: 9783112342954
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Messias, erster Band"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Tolkien and the Classical World

Tolkien and the Classical World

Author: Hamish Williams
ISBN: 9783905703450
Format: Paperback
$92.93

While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal fantasy...  Read More >>

The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25-35): Recent Research on the Compilation, the Redaction and the Reception of the Biblical Narrative and Its Historical and Cultural Contexts

The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25-35): Recent...

Author: Benedikt Hensel
ISBN: 9783161599279
Format: Paperback
$255.90

Untangling the growth of the Jacob Cycle and the historical realities behind it is of enduring interest, as the...  Read More >>

The Formative Stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering Its Extent, Message, and Unity

The Formative Stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering...

Author: Llewellyn Howes
ISBN: 9783161600944
Format: Paperback
$268.32

In this study, Llewellyn Howes analyses the formative stratum (or earliest redactional layer) of the Sayings Gospel...  Read More >>

When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from...

Author: Christian Livermore
ISBN: 9781843845768
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today.  Read More >>

Ovid-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Ovid-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Author: Melanie Möller ,  Christian Badura
ISBN: 9783476056849
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Literature of the Crusades

Literature of the Crusades

Author: Simon Thomas Parsons (Author) ,  Linda Paterson
ISBN: 9781843845843
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015

Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy...

Author: Katherine Cross
ISBN: 9781903153970
Format: Paperback
$100.19

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Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century

Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating...

Author: Dr Andrew B R Elliott
ISBN: 9781843845850
Format: Paperback
$51.72

An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.  Read More >>

Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650

Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650

Author: Eric Weiskott
ISBN: 9780812252644
Format: Hardback
$211.07

""This book is a history of meter in English poetry. It questions literary periodization""--  Read More >>

The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics

The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern...

Author: Jessie Hock
ISBN: 9780812252729
Format: Hardback
$158.27

In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern...  Read More >>

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Author: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9781474299336
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison,...  Read More >>

Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature: Fuitne Europa tunc unita?

Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature:...

Author: Isabella Walser-Bürgler
ISBN: 9789004459540
Format: Paperback
$248.16

In Europe and Europeanness Isabella Walser-Bürgler offers an account of the formation of early modern Europe (c....  Read More >>

Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric

Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric

Author: James Garrison
ISBN: 9780520361515
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands

Author: J. P. Sullivan ,  Peter Whigham
ISBN: 9780520364127
Format: Hardback
$173.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance

The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English...

Author: Robert N. Watson
ISBN: 9780520366893
Format: Hardback
$157.95

How did the fear of death co-exist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the...  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513268002
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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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: 9780190852252
Format: Hardback
$179.95

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

The Werewolf in the Ancient World

The Werewolf in the Ancient World

Author: Daniel Ogden (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198854319
Format: Hardback
$66.95

Tales of the werewolf are well established as a sub-strand of the popular horror genre; less widely known is how...  Read More >>

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