Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy: Historiography and Princely Ideology

Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy: Historiography...
Author: Marta Celati (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick) ISBN: 9780198863625 Format: Hardback	$213.00
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Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses

Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The...
Author: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) ISBN: 9781108843355 Format: Hardback	$206.97
This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine... Read More >>

An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context

An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary...
Author: Francis Watson (University of Durham) ISBN: 9781108840415 Format: Hardback	$214.76
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The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy

The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the...
Author: David G. Lummus (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) ISBN: 9781108839457 Format: Hardback	$214.76
This book is for students and scholars of medieval literature and for readers interested in the public intellectuals... Read More >>

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality...
Author: Syrithe Pugh ISBN: 9781526152671 Format: Hardback	$183.99
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The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity

The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late...
Author: Aaron Pelttari ISBN: 9781501752056 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts

Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in...
Author: David Zakarian ISBN: 9789004444416 Format: Hardback	$319.44
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Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern...
Author: Hilary Powell , Corinne Saunders ISBN: 9783030526580 Format: Hardback	$263.97
This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural,... Read More >>

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient...
Author: Mary R. Bachvarova (Willamette University, Oregon) ISBN: 9781108994101 Format: Paperback	$139.73
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that the Near Eastern influence... Read More >>

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination...
Author: Professor Katherine Lu Hsu (Assistant Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA) ISBN: 9781350153714 Format: Hardback	$190.00
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Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to...
Author: Rachel Bird ISBN: 9781350108646 Format: Hardback	$190.00
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Euripides: Electra

Euripides: Electra
Author: Professor Rush Rehm (Stanford University, USA) ISBN: 9781350095670 Format: Hardback	$160.00
This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes... Read More >>

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the...
Author: Cary Howie ISBN: 9781526148650 Format: Hardback	$183.99
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The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence...
Author: Mathias Hanses ISBN: 9780472132256 Format: Hardback	$224.40
A novel study of the popularity of Roman comedies well into the second century CE Read More >>

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: Representing the Unruly Body

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature:...
Author: Sarah Olsen (Williams College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781108485036 Format: Hardback	$214.76
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The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from...
Author: Frederic Clark (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California - Dornsife) ISBN: 9780190492304 Format: Hardback	$202.00
In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War,... Read More >>

Three Medieval Greek Romances

Three Medieval Greek Romances
Author: Gavin Betts ISBN: 9780367149956 Format: Paperback	$71.99
Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time... Read More >>

Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages

Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages
Author: Karl Julius Holznecht ISBN: 9780367174569 Format: Paperback	$71.99
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Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early...
Author: Nick Davis ISBN: 9781138348714 Format: Paperback	$50.99
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Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Herodotus in the Anthropocene
Author: Joel Alden Schlosser ISBN: 9780226704708 Format: Hardback	$160.95
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The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature...
Author: L. W. Cushman ISBN: 9780367142278 Format: Paperback	$71.99
Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures.... Read More >>

The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole

The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole
Author: Regina Psaki ISBN: 9780367147204 Format: Paperback	$71.99
Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la... Read More >>

The Perilous Cemetery

The Perilous Cemetery
Author: Nancy Black ISBN: 9780367186821 Format: Paperback	$71.99
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The Vidas of The Troubadours

The Vidas of The Troubadours
Author: Margarita Egan ISBN: 9780367189440 Format: Paperback	$71.99
Published in 1984: These texts which have been little studied for their literary qualities represent a vital link... Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1
Author: Henry Brooke , E. A. Baker ISBN: 9780367190286 Format: Paperback	$71.99
First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows... Read More >>

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