Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Norton Critical Edition

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Norton Critical Edition...

Author: Marie Borroff (Yale University) ,  Laura L. Howes (University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9780393532463
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses, and explanatory footnotes. Laura L. Howes's full...  Read More >>

The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700

The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing...

Author: Rebecca Bushnell
ISBN: 9780812252842
Format: Hardback
$250.80

With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across...

Author: Athena Kirk (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9781108841139
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing...  Read More >>

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

Author: Sara H. Lindheim (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9780198871446
Format: Hardback
$160.95

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new...  Read More >>

Dante-Studien

Dante-Studien

Author: Karlheinz Stierle
ISBN: 9783825347864
Format: Paperback
$147.84

Die hier vorgelegten Dante-Studien sind hervorgegangen aus einer uber Jahrzehnte verfolgten Beschaftigung mit Dantes...  Read More >>

Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad

Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer...

Author: Vincenzo Sanguineti ,  Donatella Marazziti
ISBN: 9781793644053
Format: Hardback
$172.00

In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological...  Read More >>

Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im postkolonialen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik

Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im...

Author: Christiane Reinecke
ISBN: 9783525317303
Format: Hardback
$160.40

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Maiores Philologiae Pontes: Festschrift für Michael Meier-Brügger zum 70. Geburtstag

Maiores Philologiae Pontes: Festschrift für Michael...

Author: Matthias Fritz ,  Tomoki Kitazumi
ISBN: 9780989514286
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Prominent scholars celebrate Michael Meier-Brugger's oeuvre by offering original studies primarily in Greek and...  Read More >>

Muthos: Aristotle's Concept of Narrative and the Fragments of Old Comedy

Muthos: Aristotle's Concept of Narrative and the Fragments...

Author: Loren D Marsh
ISBN: 9783949189036
Format: Hardback
$209.56

This book presents a new analysis of Aristotle's concept of narrative in the Poetics, and then applies that concept...  Read More >>

Tragische Rhetorik: Darstellungsweise und dramatische Funktionen scheiternder Reden in der attischen Tragödie

Tragische Rhetorik: Darstellungsweise und dramatische...

Author: Vanessa Zetzmann
ISBN: 9783525336076
Format: Hardback
$235.44

Based on the character speeches by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Vanessa Zetzmann asks why the three tragedians...  Read More >>

John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre

John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the...

Author: Clifford Davidson ,  Sophie Oosterwijk
ISBN: 9789004442597
Format: Hardback
$385.44

“[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable...  Read More >>

Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World

Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World

Author: Benjamin Schliesser ,  Jan Rüggemeier
ISBN: 9783161598920
Format: Hardback
$440.39

"Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious ""kaleidoscope."" Merchants...  Read More >>

Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament

Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament

Author: Roger David Aus
ISBN: 9783161600906
Format: Hardback
$427.97

Although it is difficult to define Haggadah exactly, this topic, thus far neglected in New Testament studies, can...  Read More >>

The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book

The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book

Author: Idan Dershowitz
ISBN: 9783161606441
Format: Hardback
$280.49

"Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy fragments - long believed to be forgeries - are authentic ancient...  Read More >>

Herodotus and the Question Why

Herodotus and the Question Why

Author: Christopher Pelling
ISBN: 9781477324257
Format: Paperback
$105.47

An intriguing study of the methods used by the Father of History, providing a new window into ancient historiography...  Read More >>

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII: The Memoirs of Pre-Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII: The Memoirs...

Author: Ssu-ma Ch'ien ,  William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
ISBN: 9780253043269
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Part of the complete translation (in nine volumes) of the ""Shih chi"" (""The Grand Scribe's Records""), one of...  Read More >>

Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-picker

Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England...

Author: Catalin Taranu
ISBN: 9780367459710
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England

Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in...

Author: Myra Seaman
ISBN: 9781526143815
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso: Lives Almost Divine, Spirits that Matter

The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso: Lives Almost Divine,...

Author: Jeremy Tambling
ISBN: 9783030656270
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book argues that Paradiso – Dante’s vision of Heaven – is not simply affirmative. The book highlights and addresses...  Read More >>

Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times

Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times

Author: Katharina Heyden ,  Maria Lissek
ISBN: 9783161583032
Format: Hardback
$440.39

The present volume gives insights into the shape, life and claims of Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times (2nd to...  Read More >>

On the Study of Celtic Literature & On Translating Homer

On the Study of Celtic Literature & On Translating Homer...

Author: Matthew Arnold
ISBN: 9798733742861
Format: Paperback
$23.73

On the Study of Celtic Literature & On Translating Homer, are two works of literary criticism written by English...  Read More >>

Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie

Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie

Author: Stefan Feddern
ISBN: 9783110725278
Format: Hardback
$162.93

Erstmalig in deutscher Sprache analysiert dieser Band systematisch die antike Erzähltheorie. Die hierin verfolgte...  Read More >>

Sidelights on Greek Antiquity: Archaeological and Epigraphical Essays in Honour of Vasileios Petrakos

Sidelights on Greek Antiquity: Archaeological and Epigraphical...

Author: Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos ,  Dora Vassilikou
ISBN: 9783110699098
Format: Hardback
$222.99

The present collection of nineteen contributions by prominent international scholars in honour of Vasileios Petrakos...  Read More >>

Mediaeval Studies 82 (2020)

Mediaeval Studies 82 (2020)

Author: Jonathan Black
ISBN: 9780888446848
Format: Paperback
$316.80

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