Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9781666917888
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Dante and His Circle: Education, Script and Image

Dante and His Circle: Education, Script and Image

Author: Julia Bolton Holloway
ISBN: 9783031440922
Format: Hardback
$369.57

In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Author: Demetrio S. Yocum ,  Francesco Petrarca
ISBN: 9780268207847
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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

Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On the Siege’

Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On...

Author: Michael Whitby (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781802074659
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Theodore Syncellus's sermons provide contemporary evidence for devotion to the Virgin Mary in Constantinople in...  Read More >>

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks,...

Author: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9780300273533
Format: Hardback
$39.95

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Jean Bodel

An Introduction to Jean Bodel

Author: Lynn T. Ramey
ISBN: 9780813079028
Format: Hardback
$141.90

Explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who lived in twelfth-century Arras, France. A versatile...  Read More >>

Sensing Greek Drama

Sensing Greek Drama

Author: Zachary Case ,  Marcus Ellis
ISBN: 9781913701468
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Sensing Greek Drama uses the senses as a heuristic tool to explore ancient Greek tragedy and comedy. The volume...  Read More >>

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 3d ed.

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 3d ed.

Author: William Bryan Jones
ISBN: 9781476688329
Format: Paperback
$127.60

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Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques...

Author: James Gawley
ISBN: 9782406165866
Format: Paperback
$110.88

This volume quantifies the features that signify allusion in Voltaire and Vergil. Consistency of reader response...  Read More >>

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques...

Author: James Gawley
ISBN: 9782406165873
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This volume quantifies the features that signify allusion in Voltaire and Vergil. Consistency of reader response...  Read More >>

Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and...

Author: W Mark Ormrod
ISBN: 9781843847090
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems  Read More >>

How to Read Middle English Poetry

How to Read Middle English Poetry

Author: Daniel Sawyer (Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198895237
Format: Hardback
$149.95

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation...  Read More >>

VIIIThe Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

VIIIThe Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

Author: S.J. Allen ,  Emilie Amt
ISBN: 9781487525781
Format: Paperback
$99.99

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Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Author: Dr Alice Jorgensen
ISBN: 9781843847052
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.  Read More >>

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

Author: Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm ,  Lars Boje Mortensen
ISBN: 9789004518124
Format: Hardback
$588.72

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus presents the state of the art of Saxo studies. Leading experts explain and contextualize...  Read More >>

Homere, Iliade. Chant XXIV

Homere, Iliade. Chant XXIV

Author: Pierre Chantraine ,  Paul Collart
ISBN: 9782251455617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Apres les Jeux funebres en l'honneur de Patrocle, tue par Hector, le fils de Priam, le chant XXIV de l'Iliade s'ouvre...  Read More >>

The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic...

Author: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
ISBN: 9783110787504
Format: Hardback
$467.25

This collection of studies of Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry encompasses Benjamin Acosta-Hughes' 30+ year scholarly...  Read More >>

Alexander of Aphrodisias, ›On the Conversion of Propositions‹

Alexander of Aphrodisias, ›On the Conversion of Propositions‹...

Author: Thomas Auffret ,  Jonathan Barnes
ISBN: 9783110999570
Format: Hardback
$430.29

Alexander's essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the...  Read More >>

Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries): Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings

Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth...

Author: Camilla Caporicci
ISBN: 9782503608174
Format: Paperback
$264.00

Written by a group of distinguished international scholars, this volume explores the complex and multifaceted processes...  Read More >>

Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe

Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration...

Author: Abigail S. Armstrong ,  Matthias J. Kuhn
ISBN: 9783111323626
Format: Hardback
$261.33

The production and retention of written records was a common and important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration....  Read More >>

Emotionale Sprache in Ciceros zweiter Philippika gegen Marc Anton: Einführung in die emotionslinguistische Textanalyse und Kommentar

Emotionale Sprache in Ciceros zweiter Philippika gegen...

Author: Ken Heuring
ISBN: 9783161613654
Format: Hardback
$219.68

In dieser Studie widmet sich Ken Heuring der zweiten Philippika Ciceros, einer leidenschaftlichen Schmährede gegen...  Read More >>

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