Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts...
Author: Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge) , Elaine Treharne (Stanford University, California) ISBN: 9781107102460 Format: Hardback	$201.83
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The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic...
Author: Christiania Whitehead ISBN: 9781108490351 Format: Hardback	$214.76
Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult... Read More >>

Imagining the Medieval Afterlife

Imagining the Medieval Afterlife
Author: Richard Matthew Pollard (Université du Québec à Montréal) ISBN: 9781107177918 Format: Hardback	$243.23
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A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7): An Oration Delivered before the Emperor Constantine in Trier, ca. AD 310

A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7): An...
Author: Catherine Ware (University College Cork) ISBN: 9781107123694 Format: Hardback	$297.56
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The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy

The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the...
Author: David G. Lummus (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) ISBN: 9781108839457 Format: Hardback	$214.76
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Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses

Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The...
Author: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) ISBN: 9781108843355 Format: Hardback	$206.97
This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine... Read More >>

An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context

An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary...
Author: Francis Watson (University of Durham) ISBN: 9781108840415 Format: Hardback	$214.76
This book is intended for scholars and students of the New Testament and early Christianity, and highlights the... Read More >>

Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire

Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in...
Author: Hérica Valladares (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ISBN: 9781108835411 Format: Hardback	$243.23
This book's subject and interdisciplinary approach will interest scholars in several subfields of Classics: art... Read More >>

Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts

Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in...
Author: David Zakarian ISBN: 9789004444416 Format: Hardback	$335.28
In Women, Too, Were Blessed David Zakarian examines the representation of women in the fifth-century Armenian literature... Read More >>

The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity

The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late...
Author: Aaron Pelttari ISBN: 9781501752056 Format: Paperback	$50.95
Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of fourth-century Roman poets in a quarter century, giving equal... Read More >>

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality...
Author: Syrithe Pugh ISBN: 9781526152671 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern...
Author: Hilary Powell , Corinne Saunders ISBN: 9783030526580 Format: Hardback	$206.97
This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural,... Read More >>

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient...
Author: Mary R. Bachvarova (Willamette University, Oregon) ISBN: 9781108994101 Format: Paperback	$139.73
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The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence...
Author: Mathias Hanses ISBN: 9780472132256 Format: Hardback	$224.40
A novel study of the popularity of Roman comedies well into the second century CE Read More >>

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination...
Author: Professor Katherine Lu Hsu (Assistant Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA) ISBN: 9781350153714 Format: Hardback	$190.00
This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic... Read More >>

Euripides: Electra

Euripides: Electra
Author: Professor Rush Rehm (Stanford University, USA) ISBN: 9781350095670 Format: Hardback	$160.00
This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes... Read More >>

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: Representing the Unruly Body

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature:...
Author: Sarah Olsen (Williams College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781108485036 Format: Hardback	$214.76
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The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from...
Author: Frederic Clark (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California - Dornsife) ISBN: 9780190492304 Format: Hardback	$202.00
In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War,... Read More >>

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the...
Author: Cary Howie ISBN: 9781526148650 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to...
Author: Rachel Bird (Swansea University, UK) ISBN: 9781350108646 Format: Hardback	$190.00
This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their... Read More >>

Three Medieval Greek Romances

Three Medieval Greek Romances
Author: Gavin Betts ISBN: 9780367149956 Format: Paperback	$71.99
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Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages

Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages
Author: Karl Julius Holznecht ISBN: 9780367174569 Format: Paperback	$71.99
Published in 1966: The present study attempts in its fashion to supply a connected account of this somewhat neglected... Read More >>

Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early...
Author: Nick Davis ISBN: 9781138348714 Format: Paperback	$50.99
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie... Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1
Author: Henry Brooke , E. A. Baker ISBN: 9780367190286 Format: Paperback	$71.99
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Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus: An Edition with a Translation and Commentary Volume I

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus: An Edition with a...
Author: Walter Hawkesworth , Susan Brock ISBN: 9780367190316 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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