Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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This book, Stories from Shakespeare , by Mara L. Pratt, is a replication of a book originally published before...  Read More >>

In Francis Goyet's work, we are not just concerned with rhetoric, but rhetoric becomes an adventure. This volume...  Read More >>

How is Acts of the Apostles - its form and features - to be understood in light of the work's ancient Mediterranean...  Read More >>

This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite...  Read More >>

This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete...  Read More >>

Countering the traditional belief that Jews in antiquity were predominantly disinterested in the popular entertainments...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

This is the first detailed study of the late medieval and early modern King and Commoner literature: a tradition...  Read More >>

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Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the question how does a place ""get a reputation.""...  Read More >>

Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who experience it, and the societies...  Read More >>

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Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval...  Read More >>

Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular...  Read More >>

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Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields,...  Read More >>

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This book examines the function of four stereotypes: domina-virgin-mater-trix as representations of marginality...  Read More >>

Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae ist nicht nur das größte lateinische Wörterbuch der Welt, sondern zugleich das erste,...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception...  Read More >>

Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder provides a comprehensive critical overview of Roman declamation, as...  Read More >>

In Menexenus Plato depicts an elderly Socrates reciting an inspiring funeral oration learned from his teacher Aspasia,...  Read More >>

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