Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Kiev Leaflets as Folia Glagolitica Zempliniensia

The Kiev Leaflets as Folia Glagolitica Zempliniensia...

Author: Martin Pukanec
ISBN: 9781527559523
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book searches for the origin of the Kiev Leaflets. In view of the original text of Prayer 20 in the Glagolitic...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410395115
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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hThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion

hThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in...

Author: Patricia Cox Miller
ISBN: 9781138711952
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities...  Read More >>

Waltharius and Ruodlieb

Waltharius and Ruodlieb

Author: Dennis Kratz
ISBN: 9780367181888
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Published in 1984: The Waltharius and Ruodlieb are considered by many scholars to be among the finest works of medieval...  Read More >>

Speculum Universale, Libri VII-X

Speculum Universale, Libri VII-X

Author: Radulfus Ardens
ISBN: 9782503586724
Format: Hardback
$1636.80

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Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature: Wounds of Desire

Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature:...

Author: Nicholas Ealy
ISBN: 9783030279189
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay...  Read More >>

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Christopher Page

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in...

Author: Tess Knighton ,  David Skinner
ISBN: 9781783275564
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Essays on important topics in early music.  Read More >>

Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings

Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings...

Author: Kathy Cawsey (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843845720
Format: Hardback
$316.80

An exploration of the use of images in Middle English texts, tracing out what can be deduced of a theory of language....  Read More >>

Mythologizing Performance

Mythologizing Performance

Author: Richard P. Martin
ISBN: 9781501713101
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P....  Read More >>

Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World

Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World

Author: Graham Williams (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Charlotte Steenbrugge (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781788313445
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional...  Read More >>

Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide

Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide

Author: Professor John Took
ISBN: 9781472951038
Format: Hardback
$34.99

John Took provides an accessible and entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all...  Read More >>

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value...

Author: Diane Cady
ISBN: 9783030262631
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital...  Read More >>

Mythologizing Performance

Mythologizing Performance

Author: Richard P. Martin
ISBN: 9781501713095
Format: Hardback
$382.80

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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

Author: Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
ISBN: 9781108496179
Format: Hardback
$214.76

A new approach to understanding the relationship between Shakespearean tragedy and Senecan tragedy, this book has...  Read More >>

Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology

Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology

Author: Ellie Mackin Roberts
ISBN: 9781787394926
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Illustrations accompany a fictional rewriting of each of 50 women's stories, followed by a critical analysis of...  Read More >>

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE

Author: Robert Ford Campany
ISBN: 9780674247802
Format: Paperback
$53.95

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China....  Read More >>

Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre

Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre...

Author: Hana Worthen
ISBN: 9783030440657
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that...  Read More >>

Gottesdienstlehre

Gottesdienstlehre

Author: Michael Meyer-Blanck
ISBN: 9783161595660
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Diese Gottesdienstlehre behandelt sowohl die Theorie des Gottesdienstes (Liturgik) als auch die Theorie der Predigt...  Read More >>

How the Classics Made Shakespeare

How the Classics Made Shakespeare

Author: Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780691210148
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn...  Read More >>

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Michael Page ,  Llewelyn Morgan
ISBN: 9798200188376
Format: Audio
$34.29

Vivam is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: I shall live. If we're still reading it two...  Read More >>

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