Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

31228 books were found.

Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Imperial Age

Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical...

Author: Dr Paola Bassino (University of Winchester, UK) ,  Dr Nicolò Benzi (University of Winchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350255760
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse...  Read More >>

Performing Early Christian Literature: Audience Experience and Interpretation of the Gospels

Performing Early Christian Literature: Audience Experience...

Author: Kelly Iverson (Baylor University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781316516225
Format: Hardback
$201.83

Students and scholars will be challenged to reconsider the experiential context in which early Christian literature...  Read More >>

Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies

Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies

Author: Lucian ,  Joel C. Relihan
ISBN: 9781647920005
Format: Paperback
$21.95

A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the...  Read More >>

Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies

Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies

Author: Lucian ,  Joel C. Relihan
ISBN: 9781647920265
Format: Hardback
$69.00

A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the...  Read More >>

Visualizing the Poetry of Statius: An Intertextual Approach

Visualizing the Poetry of Statius: An Intertextual Approach...

Author: Christopher Chinn
ISBN: 9789004498853
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This book provides an intertextual reconstruction of the visualities (or ways of seeing) of Statius’ poetry. This...  Read More >>

Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good Is a God?

Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good...

Author: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
ISBN: 9781527575516
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Are there always good reasons to get out of bed in the morning? This book argues that there are, citing the line...  Read More >>

Saffo - testimonianze e frammenti: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento

Saffo - testimonianze e frammenti: Introduzione, testo...

Author: Camillo Neri
ISBN: 9783110739367
Format: Hardback
$300.21

Camillo Neri offers a new critical edition, with Italian translation and commentary, of Sappho, updated with all...  Read More >>

Erec and Enide

Erec and Enide

Author: Chretien de Troyes ,  Carleton W. Carroll
ISBN: 9780367199425
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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The Fool of Quality: Volume 5

The Fool of Quality: Volume 5

Author: Henry Brooke
ISBN: 9780367264369
Format: Paperback
$73.99

First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows...  Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 2

The Fool of Quality: Volume 2

Author: Henry Brooke
ISBN: 9780367264246
Format: Paperback
$73.99

First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows...  Read More >>

Early Greek Thought: Three Studies

Early Greek Thought: Three Studies

Author: E. Hofmann ,  J. W. Beardslee
ISBN: 9780367109981
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin...

Author: Janet Shirley
ISBN: 9781032180229
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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The 'Templar of Tyre': Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots'

The 'Templar of Tyre': Part III of the 'Deeds of the...

Author: Paul F. Crawford
ISBN: 9781032180175
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin: A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190–1331

The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin:...

Author: Mary Fischer
ISBN: 9781032179865
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437: Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades

The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437:...

Author: Thomas A. Fudge
ISBN: 9781032180199
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Maecenas

Maecenas

Author: Peter Mountford
ISBN: 9781032178219
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal

Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal

Author: Gregory B. Stone
ISBN: 9781032173337
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book features a radically unprecedented interpretation of Donna me prega, starkly opposed to all previous accounts:...  Read More >>

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition,...

Author: Mark C. Amodio (Professor of English, Vassar College)
ISBN: 9781641894593
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval...  Read More >>

Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change

Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious...

Author: Eric Shane Bryan (Assoc. Prof. of English, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology)
ISBN: 9781641894654
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A cultural memory of belief in the North placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social...  Read More >>

The School of Cyrus: William Barker's 1567 Translation of Xenophon's Cryopaedeia

The School of Cyrus: William Barker's 1567 Translation...

Author: James Tatum
ISBN: 9780367235819
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Originally published in 1987, this book is a translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedeia (The Education of Cyprus), first...  Read More >>

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