Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message

Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message

Author: Peter Lucas
ISBN: 9782503600314
Format: Hardback
$298.32

By comparison with Latin Europe, Anglo-Saxon civilization is notable for the amount of literature preserved in contemporary...  Read More >>

Scheitern in der Vormoderne: Narrative Konzeptionalisierungen in Literatur und Historiographie

Scheitern in der Vormoderne: Narrative Konzeptionalisierungen...

Author: Prof. Dr. Margit Dahm ,  Prof. Dr. Andreas Bihrer
ISBN: 9783847116752
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Scheitern in narrativen Texten der Vormoderne  Read More >>

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Llewelyn Morgan ,  Michael Langan
ISBN: 9798874687748
Format: Audio
$163.65

Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication...  Read More >>

Revue Des Etudes Dantesques 2023,7

Revue Des Etudes Dantesques 2023,7

Author: Anna Pia Filotico ,  Sabrina Ferrara
ISBN: 9782406165682
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Contributeurs: Fernando Funari, Cinzia Gallo, Federico Guariglia, Salvatore Francesco Lattarulo, Giuseppe Marrone,...  Read More >>

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana:...

Author: Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009491013
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. In describing...  Read More >>

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Author: Sarah F. Derbew (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108817912
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals...  Read More >>

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

Author: A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108411479
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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The Prince: Explained

The Prince: Explained

Author: I P Cacumen
ISBN: 9798224229147
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This study guide focuses on the explanation and analysis of The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, one the most influential...  Read More >>

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Author: Dr Kate Cook (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781350410497
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that...  Read More >>

Höfische Lyrik: Eine Einführung

Höfische Lyrik: Eine Einführung

Author: Andreas Kraß
ISBN: 9783662666500
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Minnesang, Sangspruch und Leich – die drei Hauptgattungen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des Hochmittelalters stehen...  Read More >>

Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth  Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century:...

Author: Professor Karl Kügle ,  Dr Ingrid Ciulisová
ISBN: 9781837650057
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Essays dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval...  Read More >>

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and Religion in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and...

Author: Bruno De Nicola
ISBN: 9781138494763
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Nature and Medieval Literature

Nature and Medieval Literature

Author: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9781837721023
Format: Hardback
$173.95

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world both seeing it in terms of natural and animal...  Read More >>

Mitteilungen Aus Der Würzburger Papyrussammlung II (P.Würzb. II)

Mitteilungen Aus Der Würzburger Papyrussammlung II (P.Würzb....

Author: Holger Essler
ISBN: 9783111384528
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Images also available through the link to the Wèurzburg collection at the Papyrus Portal: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/content/start.x...  Read More >>

Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature: Emotions and the Mutability of Form

Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature: Emotions...

Author: Marie Novotna
ISBN: 9782503605883
Format: Hardback
$248.16

What did the body mean for inhabitants of the medieval Norse-speaking world? How was the physical body viewed? Where...  Read More >>

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

Author: Leah Lazar (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Classics Faculty, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198896265
Format: Hardback
$212.00

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC offers a new study of a canonical topic in ancient Greek history, the fifth-century...  Read More >>

Woden: A Historical Companion

Woden: A Historical Companion

Author: Stephen Pollington
ISBN: 9781961361072
Format: Paperback
$79.17

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together...  Read More >>

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Author: Marcus Deufert ,  Irmgard Mannlein-Robert
ISBN: 9783525802380
Format: Paperback
$303.60

"Lustrum Band 64, eine Fortsetzung der Lustrum-Bande 54 (2012), 56 (2014) und 61 (2019), bietet ein weiteres grosses...  Read More >>

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early Epic and Romance

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early...

Author: William F. Woods
ISBN: 9781476686233
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Analyses seven iconic heroes and compares each champion to a walled town or castle, hardened against an outer threat....  Read More >>

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

Author: Sjoerd Levelt
ISBN: 9781802073614
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature...

Author: George Alexander Gazis ,  Anthony Hooper (Lecturer, University of Wollongong (Australia))
ISBN: 9781802074802
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  E. J. Kenney (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895804
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

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