Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Konzeptionen Des Heidnischen in Der Deutschsprachigen Literatur Des 13. Jahrhunderts: Zu Rudolfs Von EMS 'Alexander' Und Albrechts 'Jüngerem Titurel'

Konzeptionen Des Heidnischen in Der Deutschsprachigen...
Author: Julia Zimmermann ISBN: 9783110674606 Format: Hardback	$319.41
The book draws on the example of illustrative case studies to examine conceptions of ""pagan"" and the cultural... Read More >>

The Wife of Bath: A Biography

The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Author: Marion Turner ISBN: 9780691206035 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and... Read More >>

Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas

Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream...
Author: Dr Laurie Atkinson ISBN: 9781843846925 Format: Hardback	$168.19
An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the ""Renaissance"", teasing out distinctive... Read More >>

Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature

Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English...
Author: Dr Anna McKay ISBN: 9781843847137 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature:...
Author: Professor Daniel G. Donoghue (Customer) , Sebastian Sobecki ISBN: 9781843847113 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling

The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation,...
Author: Professor Siân E. Grønlie ISBN: 9781843847120 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History...
Author: Gustav Heldt ISBN: 9780674295827 Format: Hardback	$103.95
Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique... Read More >>

Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death

Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning...
Author: Joanne Edge (Person) ISBN: 9781914049248 Format: Hardback	$290.40
Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts... Read More >>

Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books V-VI

Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books V-VI
Author: Jennifer Gerrish (Associate Professor of Classics) ISBN: 9781802074680 Format: Paperback	$118.77
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Juvenal Satires Book III

Juvenal Satires Book III
Author: John Godwin ISBN: 9781802074741 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected Essays

The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected...
Author: Joseph Patrich ISBN: 9783161632693 Format: Hardback	$493.68
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The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts...
Author: Chi Sum Garfield Lau , Kelly Kar Yue Chan ISBN: 9789819998203 Format: Hardback	$448.77
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Poesia Degli Indovini Selvaggi: Le Tavolette Di Maledizione in Lingua Greca Come Fonti Di Poesia Sommersa (VI-I Secolo A.C.)

Poesia Degli Indovini Selvaggi: Le Tavolette Di Maledizione...
Author: Francesco Bertani ISBN: 9783515136044 Format: Paperback	$224.40
Com'e avvenuta la diffusione dei riti di maledizione nel mondo greco antico? Esiste qualche rapporto tra le parole... Read More >>

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse...
Author: W. Jeffrey Tatum (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) ISBN: 9780197694909 Format: Hardback	$67.95
The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life... Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature...
Author: Heather O'Donoghue (University of Oxford) , Eleanor Parker (University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781108486811 Format: Hardback	$323.44
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Literary Communication in Song Dynasty

Literary Communication in Song Dynasty
Author: Wang Zhaopeng ISBN: 9781032697420 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during... Read More >>

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships
Author: Barbara Newman ISBN: 9781512826067 Format: Paperback	$79.07
The Permeable Self offers medievalists new insight into the appeal and dangers of the erotics of pedagogy; the remarkable... Read More >>

Why Parzival?: An Epic of our Age with Global Reach and its Secret Connections to Waldorf Education

Why Parzival?: An Epic of our Age with Global Reach...
Author: Eric G Müller ISBN: 9781736682982 Format: Paperback	$73.89
Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance... Read More >>

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...
Author: Emily Gowers ISBN: 9780691193144 Format: Hardback	$79.99
The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An... Read More >>

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius
Author: Ingrid Rowland , Sinclair Bell ISBN: 9789004270671 Format: Hardback	$696.96
This collection of 26 original essays by an international team of leading scholars investigates the influence and... Read More >>

Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)

Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)...
Author: Tom Shippey , Leonard Neidorf ISBN: 9781961361157 Format: Paperback	$65.97
"Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless... Read More >>

La Description de la Terre Habitee

La Description de la Terre Habitee
Author: Denys Le Periegete , Marcel Detienne ISBN: 9782251455396 Format: Paperback	$76.56
Au IIe siecle de notre ere, Denys le Periegete redige un poeme virtuose et erudit, synthese du savoir geographique... Read More >>

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful by Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038)

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying...
Author: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī , Geert Jan van Gelder ISBN: 9789004691001 Format: Hardback	$330.00
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Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)

Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)...
Author: Tom Shippey , Leonard Neidorf ISBN: 9781961361140 Format: Hardback	$95.01
Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story... Read More >>

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of...
Author: Keith Bradley ISBN: 9781487548810 Format: Hardback	$222.53
This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Memoires d'Hadrien as an authentic... Read More >>

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