Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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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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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 >>

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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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 >>

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 >>

Poetics

Poetics

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

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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 >>

The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation: Vehicles in Latin Literature

The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation: Vehicles in Latin...

Author: Jared Hudson (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108481762
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including...  Read More >>

The Parable of the Three Rings and the Idea of Religious Toleration in European Culture

The Parable of the Three Rings and the Idea of Religious...

Author: Iris Shagrir ,  Ilana Goldberg
ISBN: 9783030296971
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of...  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9798888971710
Format: Hardback
$24.99

This reissue of Golden's highly regarded translation of Aristotle's ""Poetics"", with commentary by O.B. Harrison,...  Read More >>

Beowulf: A new translation

Beowulf: A new translation

Author: Maria Dahvana Headley
ISBN: 9781925713886
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife --  Read More >>

Poetics: Or On The Art of Poetry

Poetics: Or On The Art of Poetry

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781774261712
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Poetics, or 'On the Art of Poetry', is a treatise on literary theory by Greek Philosopher Aristotle. In this text...  Read More >>

Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II

Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval...

Author: Francesco Stella
ISBN: 9782503588018
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Building on The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I, this is the second...  Read More >>

Traire de Latin Et Espondre: Etudes Sur La Reception Medievale d'Ovide

Traire de Latin Et Espondre: Etudes Sur La Reception...

Author: Mattia Cavagna ,  Elisa Guadagnini
ISBN: 9782406105060
Format: Paperback
$97.68

Exploring the medieval reception of Ovid in Latin, Catalan, French and Italian literatures, the contributions to...  Read More >>

Man’yōshū (Book 16): A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

Man’yōshū (Book 16): A New English Translation Containing...

Author: Alexander Vovin
ISBN: 9789004439337
Format: Hardback
$469.92

Book sixteen of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation...  Read More >>

Reading Old English Wisdom: The Fetters in the Frost

Reading Old English Wisdom: The Fetters in the Frost...

Author: Robert DiNapoli
ISBN: 9781527564077
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book translates and comments on a selection of Old English poems that modern scholars identify as “wisdom”...  Read More >>

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