Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and...

Author: Judith Hudson (Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College)
ISBN: 9781474454353
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern...  Read More >>

Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle

Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and...

Author: Robert Eaglestone
ISBN: 9780367564711
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking

Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval...

Author: Cord J. Whitaker ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812225068
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker argues that rhetoric and theology establish blackness and whiteness as metaphors...  Read More >>

Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood

Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the...

Author: Joshua Schouten de Jel
ISBN: 9783030888879
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens...  Read More >>

Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages: Knowing Sorrow

Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages: Knowing...

Author: Lee Templeton
ISBN: 9789004315129
Format: Hardback
$493.68

Examines depictions of grief in the Middle Ages by exploring how grief relates to gender and identity, as well as...  Read More >>

Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle

Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and...

Author: Robert Eaglestone
ISBN: 9780367564728
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary...  Read More >>

Interpreting and Judging Petrarch's Canzoniere in Early Modern Italy

Interpreting and Judging Petrarch's Canzoniere in Early...

Author: Maiko Favaro
ISBN: 9781781885727
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Petrarch's Canzoniere had a central role in the Italian Early Modern culture, especially - but not only - in the...  Read More >>

Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation

Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a...

Author: Catherine Tracy
ISBN: 9781800642850
Format: Hardback
$123.95

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of...  Read More >>

Pytheas of Massalia: Texts, Translation, and Commentary

Pytheas of Massalia: Texts, Translation, and Commentary...

Author: Lionel Scott
ISBN: 9781032019987
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Il Gioco E La Novellistica Fra Tre E Quattrocento

Il Gioco E La Novellistica Fra Tre E Quattrocento

Author: Matteo Sartori
ISBN: 9788833137780
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Romard Vol. 58 (2021)

Romard Vol. 58 (2021)

Author: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 9781580444941
Format: Paperback
$211.20

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Die Germanistik und ihre Mittelalter: Textwissenschaftliche Interventionen

Die Germanistik und ihre Mittelalter: Textwissenschaftliche...

Author: Michael R. Ott
ISBN: 9783110738735
Format: Hardback
$171.51

What if medieval German studies scholars no longer limited their thinking and acting to ""philology"" and ""literature,""...  Read More >>

Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions

Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads...

Author: Maria Alessia Rossi ,  Alice Isabella Sullivan
ISBN: 9783110693164
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This volume explores the eclectic artistic landscapes of Eastern Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. The...  Read More >>

Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus: Greek Heroes on the Move

Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus: Greek Heroes on...

Author: Sofia Carvalho
ISBN: 9783110715453
Format: Hardback
$240.15

The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetry in the Greek West. This...  Read More >>

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval...

Author: Sebastian Scholz ,  Gerald Schwedler
ISBN: 9783110756609
Format: Hardback
$188.67

""How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?"" (K. Valentin). Information...  Read More >>

Being Alone in Antiquity: Greco-Roman Ideas and Experiences of Misanthropy, Isolation and Solitude

Being Alone in Antiquity: Greco-Roman Ideas and Experiences...

Author: Rafał Matuszewski
ISBN: 9783110757934
Format: Hardback
$171.51

This book explores various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. It focuses on differing perceptions and...  Read More >>

Yearbook of Langland Studies 35 (2021)

Yearbook of Langland Studies 35 (2021)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503597720
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography Across East and West

Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval...

Author: Ghazzal Dabiri
ISBN: 9782503590653
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Explores the multifaceted representation of power and authority in a variety of late antique and medieval hagiographical...  Read More >>

The Feasts of the Calendar in the Book of Numbers: Num 28:16-30:1 in the Light of Related Biblical Texts and Some Ancient Sources of 200 BCE-100 CE

The Feasts of the Calendar in the Book of Numbers: Num...

Author: Hryhoriy Lozinskyy
ISBN: 9783161607820
Format: Paperback
$194.32

In this monograph, Hryhoriy Lozinskyy studies five feasts contained in Num 28:16-30:1. Each of them is first treated...  Read More >>

Classical Literature and Posthumanism

Classical Literature and Posthumanism

Author: Professor Giulia Maria Chesi (Assistant Professor of Greek, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) ,  Francesca Spiegel (Associated Lecturer of Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350231542
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate...  Read More >>

UFOs In The Bible

UFOs In The Bible

Author: Ken Goudsward
ISBN: 9781989940082
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Ancient truths hidden in plain sight for thousands of years. In 1968 Erich Von Daniken cracked open a door that...  Read More >>

Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages...

Author: Rita Copeland (Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, and Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780192845122
Format: Hardback
$259.95

Presents a history of the ways in which authors of the Middle Ages mobilized the force of emotion in their rhetorical...  Read More >>

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