Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29055 books were found.

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature...

Author: Elise Wang (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton)
ISBN: 9780192870728
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal...  Read More >>

Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages

Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution...

Author: Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel ,  Laura Miquel Milian
ISBN: 9781501523076
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The studies gathered in this volume give a varied, detailed overview of social, gender, sexual, religious, political,...  Read More >>

Schönheitsdiskurse in Der Literatur Des Mittelalters: Die Propädeutik Des Fleisches Zwischen 'Aisthesis' Und Ästhetik

Schönheitsdiskurse in Der Literatur Des Mittelalters:...

Author: Fabian David Scheidel
ISBN: 9783111521800
Format: Paperback
$102.93

This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating...  Read More >>

The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature: Modelling Gender in First-Person Discourse

The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature: Modelling Gender...

Author: Lisa Cordes ,  Therese Fuhrer
ISBN: 9783111536743
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Focusing on different genres of Greek and Latin literature, poetry and prose, from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity,...  Read More >>

Documentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature

Documentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in...

Author: Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne ,  Scott Jared DiGiulio
ISBN: 9783111536668
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the definition and function...  Read More >>

Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition: Further Explorations

Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition: Further...

Author: Katerina Carvounis ,  Sophia Papaioannou
ISBN: 9783111536675
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The volume offers an innovative exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin...  Read More >>

The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature

The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Raquel Fornieles
ISBN: 9783111536828
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book shows that the concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural...  Read More >>

Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III

Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory,...

Author: George Kazantzidis ,  Dimos Spatharas
ISBN: 9783111534336
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This volume introduces scholarly discussion of emotions' importance for ancient medicine. Although individual emotions...  Read More >>

Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato

Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European...

Author: Serena Connolly
ISBN: 9783111536392
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The Distichs of Cato were a first Latin reader for over 1000 years, yet are little known to Classicists. This study...  Read More >>

The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past

The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past

Author: Aggelos Kapellos
ISBN: 9783111536682
Format: Paperback
$87.09

This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the...  Read More >>

History of Ancient Greek Literature: Vol. I: The Archaic and Classical Ages Vol. II: The Hellenistic Age and the Roman Imperial Period

History of Ancient Greek Literature: Vol. I: The Archaic...

Author: Franco Montanari
ISBN: 9783110419931
Format: Paperback
$166.29

This book offers the most comprehensive and updated history of Ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity....  Read More >>

Erzählte Ordnungen - Ordnungen Des Erzählens: Studien Zu Texten Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Frühen Neuzeit

Erzählte Ordnungen - Ordnungen Des Erzählens: Studien...

Author: Daniela Fuhrmann ,  Pia Selmayr
ISBN: 9783111543772
Format: Paperback
$73.89

By unfurling worlds, narratives also create orders. In addition, their narration has to be structured in an orderly...  Read More >>

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres 1-25

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406160441
Format: Paperback
$97.68

This prose edition of Perceval le Galloys (Paris, 1530) provides readers with a text that was unknown until now....  Read More >>

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)...

Author: Elisabetta Barale ,  Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406164579
Format: Paperback
$87.12

The decades between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance recorded the quantitative and qualitative increase...  Read More >>

Treasuries of Literature: Anthologies, Lexica, Scholia and the Indirect Tradition of Classical Texts in the Greek World

Treasuries of Literature: Anthologies, Lexica, Scholia...

Author: Federico Favi ,  Virginia Mastellari
ISBN: 9783111385976
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The contributions included in this volume deal with the indirect tradition of classical Greek texts in anthologies,...  Read More >>

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres 1-25

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406160458
Format: Hardback
$240.24

This prose edition of Perceval le Galloys (Paris, 1530) provides readers with a text that was unknown until now....  Read More >>

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)...

Author: Elisabetta Barale ,  Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406164586
Format: Hardback
$232.32

The decades between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance recorded the quantitative and qualitative increase...  Read More >>

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile...

Author: Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350377547
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Taking at its centre Lucan's violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to...  Read More >>

The Psalms

The Psalms

Author: Keith Bodner (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University)
ISBN: 9780190916862
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Within the library of the world's classics, the book of Psalms occupies a unique place. Few books were composed...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Author: Demetrio S. Yocum ,  Francesco Petrarca
ISBN: 9780268207854
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions...  Read More >>

A History of Books in Ancient China

A History of Books in Ancient China

Author: Li Chen ,  Yunyan Zheng
ISBN: 9789819989393
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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