Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens: Ancient Emotions II

Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical...

Author: Dimos Spatharas
ISBN: 9783110763324
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This book looks into persuasion and emotions, representing a useful addition to the burgeoning secondary literature...  Read More >>

Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus

Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus

Author: Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou
ISBN: 9783110763393
Format: Paperback
$42.81

The present volume deals with various questions related to Sappho and Alcaeus. Focusing specifically on the ""new...  Read More >>

Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas

Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives,...

Author: Lowell Edmunds
ISBN: 9783110763379
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on...  Read More >>

Die Vita der Christina von Hane: Untersuchung und Edition

Die Vita der Christina von Hane: Untersuchung und Edition...

Author: Racha Kirakosian
ISBN: 9783110763737
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Christina of Hane is a unique and little-known mystic. This is the very first comprehensive study on the late medieval...  Read More >>

Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the...

Author: Karla Mallette
ISBN: 9780226795904
Format: Hardback
$187.95

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Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond: An Annotated Edition of the Old Frisian Runic Corpus

Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period...

Author: Livia Kaiser
ISBN: 9783110723281
Format: Hardback
$334.53

This annotated edition of the Old Frisian Runic Corpus presents a commentary and catalogue of 24 runic objects (ca....  Read More >>

Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature

Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean...

Author: Madeleine Scherer
ISBN: 9783110673883
Format: Hardback
$171.51

This volume investigates the complex relationships that characterize twentieth-century postcolonial adaptations...  Read More >>

Ilias Latina: Text, Interpretation, and Reception

Ilias Latina: Text, Interpretation, and Reception

Author: Maria Jennifer Falcone ,  Christoph Schubert
ISBN: 9789004469495
Format: Hardback
$369.60

In Ilias Latina. Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and...  Read More >>

Spoliation as Translation: Medieval Worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean

Spoliation as Translation: Medieval Worlds of the Eastern...

Author: I Jevtic ,  I Nilsson
ISBN: 9788021099234
Format: Paperback
$250.80

The articles gathered in this special issue of Convivium offer a variety of perspectives - history of medieval art,...  Read More >>

Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the...

Author: Karla Mallette
ISBN: 9780226796062
Format: Paperback
$62.95

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.  Read More >>

The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

Author: Charles Williams
ISBN: 9781621387664
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Charles Williams's Figure of Beatrice stands out amid the vast field of Dante scholarship for its enthusiasm and...  Read More >>

Explorations in Latin Literature 2 Hardback Volume Set

Explorations in Latin Literature 2 Hardback Volume Set...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781108668200
Format: Mixed media product
$414.00

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  Read More >>

Die Kolmarer Liederhandschrift und ihr Umfeld: Forschungsimpulse

Die Kolmarer Liederhandschrift und ihr Umfeld: Forschungsimpulse...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Judith Lange
ISBN: 9783631778425
Format: Hardback
$175.69

Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich der überlieferungs- und kulturgeschichtlichen Stellung der Kolmarer Liederhandschrift...  Read More >>

The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers

The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to...

Author: Derek Attridge (Emeritus Professor, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198833161
Format: Paperback
$72.95

An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance...  Read More >>

Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar

Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal,...

Author: Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania) ,  Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108797030
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate classical philology and theology. This book explores for the first time...  Read More >>

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

Author: Barbara Newman ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253344
Format: Hardback
$184.67

The Permeable Self offers medievalists new insight into the appeal and dangers of the erotics of pedagogy; the remarkable...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach

Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach

Author: Philip S Peek
ISBN: 9781800642546
Format: Paperback
$234.83

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the...  Read More >>

The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus

The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment...

Author: Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781316518816
Format: Hardback
$93.15

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature,...  Read More >>

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical...

Author: Michele Kennerly (Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State)
ISBN: 9780271091839
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary...  Read More >>

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical...

Author: Michele Kennerly (Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State)
ISBN: 9780271091273
Format: Hardback
$217.00

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary...  Read More >>

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