Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Humans, among Other Classical Animals

Humans, among Other Classical Animals

Author: Ashley Clements (Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and Philosophy, Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780192856098
Format: Hardback
$191.95

From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our...  Read More >>

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 43

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 43

Author: Sebastian Sobecki ,  Michelle Karnes
ISBN: 9780933784451
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing...  Read More >>

Glossator 12 (2022): Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Glossator 12 (2022): Commenting and Commentary as an...

Author: Christina Lechtermann ,  Erik Kwakkel
ISBN: 9798799870058
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Christina Lechtermann & Markus Stock - Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval...  Read More >>

All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China

All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century...

Author: Stephen Owen
ISBN: 9780231203111
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song Dynasty, writers became preoccupied with the question...  Read More >>

Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship

Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional...

Author: Andrew Porter
ISBN: 9789004455481
Format: Paperback
$248.16

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using the most significant research...  Read More >>

English Readers of Catholic Saints: The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend

English Readers of Catholic Saints: The Printing History...

Author: Judy Ann Ford
ISBN: 9781032236124
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800

Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800

Author: Juanita Ruys ,  Michael Champion
ISBN: 9781032241500
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of...  Read More >>

(Re)writing History in Byzantium: A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts

(Re)writing History in Byzantium: A Critical Study of...

Author: Panagiotis Manafis
ISBN: 9780367496456
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature....  Read More >>

Chronicles of Qalāwūn and his son al-Ashraf Khalīl

Chronicles of Qalāwūn and his son al-Ashraf Khalīl

Author: Translated by David Cook
ISBN: 9781032237527
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf...  Read More >>

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: 9783030526610
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural,...  Read More >>

All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China

All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century...

Author: Stephen Owen
ISBN: 9780231203104
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song Dynasty, writers became preoccupied with the question...  Read More >>

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic...

Author: R. Jacob McDonie
ISBN: 9781032240435
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers...  Read More >>

Early Modern English Marginalia

Early Modern English Marginalia

Author: Katherine Acheson
ISBN: 9781032241623
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwritten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in –...  Read More >>

Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Author: Ben Dodds
ISBN: 9783030890575
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The Black Death is one of the...  Read More >>

Horace: Odes Book III

Horace: Odes Book III

Author: A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108740548
Format: Paperback
$69.86

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Schattendorf 1938-1955: 'Volksgemeinschaft' und Besatzung am Beispiel einer burgenlaendischen Grenzgemeinde

Schattendorf 1938-1955: 'Volksgemeinschaft' und Besatzung...

Author: Bertrand Michael Buchmann ,  Peter Bierbaum
ISBN: 9783631867327
Format: Hardback
$66.24

Die Etablierung, Inszenierung und Auflösung der nationalsozialistischen im burgenländischen Schattendorf geraten...  Read More >>

Horace: Odes Book III

Horace: Odes Book III

Author: A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108481243
Format: Hardback
$201.83

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From Kallias to Kritias: Art in Athens in the Second Half of the Fifth Century B.C.

From Kallias to Kritias: Art in Athens in the Second...

Author: Jenifer Neils ,  Olga Palagia
ISBN: 9783110680928
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This book focus on Athenian art in the second half of the fifth century, one of the most important periods of ancient...  Read More >>

The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination

The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political...

Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould (Professor of Islamic World and Comparative Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781474484015
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian...  Read More >>

Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry

Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic...

Author: Jenny Strauss Clay ,  Athanassios Vergados
ISBN: 9789004373488
Format: Hardback
$393.36

In this volume an international team of early career and more established scholars explores the ways in which didactic...  Read More >>

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