Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Donkey King: Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic

The Donkey King: Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval...

Author: Emily Selove (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009462549
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology and explains why the donkey has served as the...  Read More >>

Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th–13th Century)

Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A...

Author: Fabrizio De Falco
ISBN: 9783031433511
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind

Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation...

Author: Jan De Meyer (Independent scholar and translator, Independent scholar and translator)
ISBN: 9780197603277
Format: Hardback
$66.95

"The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China

The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy...

Author: Su Shi ,  Lu Cai
ISBN: 9780197585603
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial...

Author: Beata Grant (Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies, Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University, St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780197586310
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity: The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines Romani

Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity: The Early Medieval...

Author: Arthur Westwell (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009360487
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Arthur Westwell closely examines the manuscripts of the Ordines Romani and reveals the surprising creativity of...  Read More >>

La Psychologie dans les Tragédies de Racine

La Psychologie dans les Tragédies de Racine

Author: Paul Janet
ISBN: 9783988815408
Format: Paperback
$34.29

La publication des Grands Écrivains de la France marque une phase nouvelle dans l'histoire de la critique littéraire....  Read More >>

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas,...

Author: Christopher D. Fletcher ,  Walter S. Melion
ISBN: 9789004680555
Format: Hardback
$789.36

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 examines the hermeneutic functions of the modifications...  Read More >>

Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath

Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath

Author: Katharina Volk
ISBN: 9789004690806
Format: Hardback
$279.84

The first collection of academic articles on Publius Nigidius Figulus, the mysterious senator, scholar, and alledged...  Read More >>

Von Kulten Und Künsten: Lektüren Am Schnittpunkt Von Anthropologie, Religionssoziologie Und Poetologie

Von Kulten Und Künsten: Lektüren Am Schnittpunkt Von...

Author: Ulrich Hoffmann ,  Susanne Spreckelmeier
ISBN: 9783111072135
Format: Hardback
$78.62

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Der Text und seine Kultur(en)

Der Text und seine Kultur(en)

Author: Andreas Kablitz ,  Christoph Markschies
ISBN: 9783110775037
Format: Hardback
$68.55

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Libri I-III.73

Libri I-III.73

Author: Stuart Douglas Olson ,  Athenaeus Naucratites
ISBN: 9783110558500
Format: Hardback
$137.19

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Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back

Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the...

Author: Li Zhichang ,  Translated by Ruth W. Dunnell (Emerita Professor of Asian History, Emerita Professor of Asian History, Kenyon College)
ISBN: 9780197668375
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

Ganz Rhetor, ganz Philosoph – Themistios als Lobredner auf Valens: Ethik als göttliche Herrschaftslegitimation

Ganz Rhetor, ganz Philosoph – Themistios als Lobredner...

Author: Simone Mehr
ISBN: 9783111012957
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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Les Fabliaux: Fiction, Vraisemblance Et Genre Litteraire

Les Fabliaux: Fiction, Vraisemblance Et Genre Litteraire...

Author: Isabelle Delage-Beland
ISBN: 9782406158455
Format: Paperback
$150.48

This study aims to bring together medieval and modern thought to reread the fabliaux and make them participate in...  Read More >>

Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Author: Zygmunt G. Baranski ,  Heather Webb
ISBN: 9780268207403
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance...

Author: Stephen A. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781501773402
Format: Paperback
$76.43

""These volumes outline critical elements learned from Scandinavian philology, folkloristics, archaeology, memory...  Read More >>

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 45

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 45

Author: Sebastian Sobecki ,  Michelle Karnes
ISBN: 9780933784475
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing...  Read More >>

Les Fabliaux: Fiction, Vraisemblance Et Genre Litteraire

Les Fabliaux: Fiction, Vraisemblance Et Genre Litteraire...

Author: Isabelle Delage-Beland
ISBN: 9782406158462
Format: Hardback
$298.32

This study aims to bring together medieval and modern thought to reread the fabliaux and make them participate in...  Read More >>

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture,...

Author: Emily Wingfield
ISBN: 9782503600291
Format: Hardback
$364.32

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587 seeks to fill a significant gap in the rich and...  Read More >>

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