Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse

Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse

Author: Phillip Damon
ISBN: 9780520362024
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Cicero: Pro Milone

Cicero: Pro Milone

Author: Thomas J. Keeline (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781107179738
Format: Hardback
$214.76

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The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin’s Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal: Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen

The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin’s Song of the Conquest...

Author: Jonathan Wilson
ISBN: 9780367753818
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Accompanied by comprehensive introductions and here translated into English for the first time, the two texts presented...  Read More >>

Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament: Eine Untersuchung zu den Konzepten eines guten Lebens in der Literatur des Zweiten Tempels und deren Einfluss auf die frühchristliche Wahrnehmung des Glücks

Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament:...

Author: Daniel Maier
ISBN: 9783161598647
Format: Paperback
$443.52

Was ist ""Glück"" für die Autoren des Neuen Testaments und für ihre jüdischen Zeitgenossen innerhalb und außerhalb...  Read More >>

Post-Classical Greek Elegy and Lyric Poetry

Post-Classical Greek Elegy and Lyric Poetry

Author: Robin Greene
ISBN: 9789004469242
Format: Paperback
$248.16

An introductory guide to modern scholarship on post-Classical Greek elegy and lyric.  Read More >>

Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice

Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in...

Author: Lavanya Vemsani
ISBN: 9783030731649
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in...  Read More >>

A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets

A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets

Author: Jared C Hartt (Customer) ,  Jared C Hartt (Customer)
ISBN: 9781783276080
Format: Paperback
$85.36

First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.  Read More >>

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

Author: Kazutomo Karasawa
ISBN: 9781843845997
Format: Paperback
$64.66

First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 42: Religious Drama and Community

Medieval English Theatre 42: Religious Drama and Community...

Author: Elisabeth Dutton ,  Olivia Robinson
ISBN: 9781843845942
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging from the well-known cycles of York to matter from...  Read More >>

A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes: The Iliad and Odyssey Seen Differently

A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes: The Iliad and Odyssey...

Author: Charlayn von Solms (Independent Artist, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781350194571
Format: Paperback
$64.99

In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars...  Read More >>

The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390

The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature,...

Author: Alice Hazard (Author) ,  Caroline Palmer
ISBN: 9781843845874
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Modern theoretical approaches throw new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and...  Read More >>

The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450: Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts

The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450:...

Author: Kara A. Doyle
ISBN: 9781843845904
Format: Hardback
$343.20

First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular...  Read More >>

The Futures of Medieval French: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay

The Futures of Medieval French: Essays in Honour of...

Author: Professor Jane Gilbert ,  Miranda Griffin
ISBN: 9781843845959
Format: Hardback
$448.80

Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the...  Read More >>

The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ‘Udhri Tradition

The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ‘Udhri Tradition...

Author: Jokha Alharthi (Associate Professor of Classical Arabic Literature, Sultan Qaboos University)
ISBN: 9781474486330
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries....  Read More >>

Chant de l'aube

Chant de l'aube

Author: Jean Gill ,  Marine Sander
ISBN: 9791096459216
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Comme Game of Thrones, avec la véritable Histoire de France  Read More >>

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen...

Author: Donald J. Kagay
ISBN: 9783030710279
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows...  Read More >>

English Literary Criticism: The Renascence

English Literary Criticism: The Renascence

Author: J. W. H. Atkins
ISBN: 9780367763312
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance. It discusses the...  Read More >>

Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations: Studies on the History of Religion and Anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament

Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations: Studies on the...

Author: Angelika Berlejung
ISBN: 9783161600340
Format: Hardback
$477.14

The articles in this volume of collected essays, written over the last two decades and all revised, updated, and...  Read More >>

Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development: Graeco-Roman

Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development:...

Author: J. W. H. Atkins
ISBN: 9780367764135
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient...  Read More >>

Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature

Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature...

Author: Katharine Breen
ISBN: 9780226776590
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as...  Read More >>

Medea

Medea

Author: Euripides ,  Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780393870848
Format: Paperback
$15.95

About Sheila Murnaghan's translation  Read More >>

The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits

The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits...

Author: Clifford Ando ,  Marco Formisano
ISBN: 9783825347215
Format: Hardback
$242.88

The rediscovery and reconstruction of late antiquity as an independent era with its own character represent a relatively...  Read More >>

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