Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial...
Author: Edward William Kelting ISBN: 9780520402188 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval...
Author: Professor Rachel Schine ISBN: 9780226836171 Format: Paperback	$57.95
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the... Read More >>

›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age: From Pliny the Younger to Symmachus

›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age: From Pliny the Younger...
Author: Simone Mollea ISBN: 9783111500881 Format: Hardback	$261.33
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Ambiguity and Narratology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies

Ambiguity and Narratology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...
Author: Simon Grund , Robert Kirstein ISBN: 9783111495835 Format: Hardback	$290.37
Ambiguity, increasingly studied in interdisciplinary research, lacks focus on its role in storytelling. This volume... Read More >>

The Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Topics: Collected Essays II

The Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Topics: Collected Essays...
Author: Adela Yarbro Collins ISBN: 9783161636691 Format: Hardback	$496.32
In this volume of collected essays, Adela Yarbro Collins provides a wide-reaching insight into her work on the Apocalypse... Read More >>

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music: Lyrics and Lyricism

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music: Lyrics and Lyricism...
Author: Stephanie Oade (Teacher of Classics and Head of Quadrivium, Teacher of Classics and Head of Quadrivium, Oundle School) ISBN: 9780198918684 Format: Hardback	$228.95
Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring... Read More >>

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval...
Author: Professor Rachel Schine ISBN: 9780226836164 Format: Hardback	$190.95
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the... Read More >>

Dinner Pieces

Dinner Pieces
Author: Leon Battista Alberti , Roberto Cardini ISBN: 9780674295742 Format: Hardback	$61.95
A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among... Read More >>

Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies

Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies...
Author: Todd A. Curtis (University of Texas) ISBN: 9781118358634 Format: Paperback	$94.95
New edition of an established, well-regarded, and evidence-based resource on the subject of renal nursing Greek... Read More >>

Dinner Pieces

Dinner Pieces
Author: Leon Battista Alberti , Roberto Cardini ISBN: 9780674295759 Format: Hardback	$61.95
A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among... Read More >>

The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature

The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic...
Author: Joyce Lionarons ISBN: 9781860571602 Format: Paperback	$90.56
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Author: Adam Nicolson ISBN: 9781250338167 Format: Paperback	$52.80
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way... Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary

Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary
Author: Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France) , Katherine Heavey (Late of University of Glasgow, UK) ISBN: 9781350125872 Format: Hardback	$260.00
Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals’ staging of the Pyramus... Read More >>

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
Author: Chad Schrock ISBN: 9781350417410 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for... Read More >>

Tristan and Isolde

Tristan and Isolde
Author: Dr Mairi Stirling Hill , J.K. Jackson ISBN: 9781804178171 Format: Paperback	$24.99
An enduring, classic, medieval tale of doomed romance with echoes of the love triangle between King Arthur, Queen... Read More >>

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An...
Author: Israel Sanmartín , Francisco Peña ISBN: 9781032361796 Format: Hardback	$273.00
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval... Read More >>

Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer’s Narrative

Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer’s Narrative
Author: Jonas Grethlein , Sabrina Stolfa ISBN: 9780691182490 Format: Hardback	$62.99
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Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners: Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733-2023

Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners:...
Author: Robert E Bjork (Author) ISBN: 9781843847274 Format: Paperback	$64.66
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Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection

Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection
Author: Giustina Monti (Lecturer in Classical Studies, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9781835537480 Format: Paperback	$72.42
The doubts about the letters mostly come from the fact that the Romance of Alexander is considered a sort of epistolary... Read More >>

Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners: Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733-2023

Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners:...
Author: Robert E Bjork (Author) ISBN: 9781843847267 Format: Hardback	$245.81
An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards.... Read More >>

Polytropos Ajax: Roots, Evolution, and Reception of a Multifaceted Hero

Polytropos Ajax: Roots, Evolution, and Reception of...
Author: Silvia Speriani , Stephen Harrison ISBN: 9783111450353 Format: Hardback	$290.37
This volume enhances our understanding of the many readings and metamorphoses Telamonian Ajax has undergone in the... Read More >>

Dire Remedies: A Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity

Dire Remedies: A Social History of Healthcare in Classical...
Author: William V. Harris ISBN: 9783111454399 Format: Hardback	$435.57
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More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery...
Author: Yingyu Zhang , Bruce Rusk ISBN: 9780231212458 Format: Paperback	$42.95
This companion volume to The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection presents sensational stories... Read More >>

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery...
Author: Yingyu Zhang , Bruce Rusk ISBN: 9780231212441 Format: Hardback	$198.95
This companion volume to The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection presents sensational stories... Read More >>

A Companion to Josephus in the Medieval West

A Companion to Josephus in the Medieval West
Author: Karen M. Kletter , Paul C. Hilliard ISBN: 9789004379978 Format: Hardback	$427.68
This volume establishes the fundamentals of the reception history of Flavius Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages (c.... Read More >>

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