Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29184 books were found.

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

Author: Melanie Racette-Campbell
ISBN: 9780299343507
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Masculinity in both the Republic and the Empire are well studied subjects, but by shining a light on the precise...  Read More >>

The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of Aquitaine: The Songs that Built Europe

The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of...

Author: Fidel Fajardo-Acosta
ISBN: 9781666926934
Format: Hardback
$213.00

An edition and study of the poetry of the first of the medieval European troubadours, this book claims William’s...  Read More >>

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution...

Author: Steven W. May (Adjunct Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of English, Emory University)
ISBN: 9780198878001
Format: Hardback
$153.95

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution shows how the advent of paper as a cheap and lasting...  Read More >>

Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three studies, from Chrétien de Troyes to Proust

Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three...

Author: Lorenzo Mainini
ISBN: 9781032122229
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce,...

Author: Gregory Baker (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009364980
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in...  Read More >>

A Comic Vision of Sacred Kinship: Poetry about the Crowning of a Living (Loving) Soul: Readings of C. S. Lewis, Roger Scruton, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Plato

A Comic Vision of Sacred Kinship: Poetry about the Crowning...

Author: Alan Griesinger
ISBN: 9781637552605
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"For this inquiry into sacred kinship, the author has taken for his text the verse from Genesis 2: ""And the Lord...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Author: Leah Himmelhoch (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9781350154902
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life...  Read More >>

Plato's Charmides

Plato's Charmides

Author: Raphael Woolf (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009308199
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation...  Read More >>

The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations

The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the...

Author: Charles W. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781032543048
Format: Hardback
$231.00

The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse...  Read More >>

Old English Verse

Old English Verse

Author: T.A. Shippey
ISBN: 9781032531809
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden;...  Read More >>

Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid: With Introduction and Critical Essays

Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid: With Introduction...

Author: Dr. Francesca Bugliani Knox (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350118287
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College,...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Author: Leah Himmelhoch (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9781350154896
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life...  Read More >>

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman Lib/E: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman Lib/E: From Beowulf...

Author: Shiloh Carroll ,  Petrea Burchard
ISBN: 9798874675813
Format: Audio
$176.85

"Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced...  Read More >>

A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools: The Laon  Ordo Joseph

A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools: The...

Author: Robert C. Lagueux
ISBN: 9781837650590
Format: Hardback
$168.19

A newly identified medieval play for the Feast of Fools, with a new English translation and musical edition ready...  Read More >>

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Author: Wim Blockmans (Leiden University, the Netherlands) ,  Peter Hoppenbrouwers
ISBN: 9781032035413
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book provides a survey of this complex period of European history, covering themes such as the impact of Christianisation,...  Read More >>

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Author: Wim Blockmans (Leiden University, the Netherlands) ,  Peter Hoppenbrouwers
ISBN: 9781032035406
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book provides a survey of this complex period of European history, covering themes such as the impact of Christianisation,...  Read More >>

The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception: ‘Verbalising the Visual and Visualising the Verbal’

The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads,...

Author: Malcolm Davies
ISBN: 9789004678941
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The stories of Heracles at the Crossroads and the Judgement of Paris have, thanks to the process of refashioning,...  Read More >>

Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos

Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos

Author: Alexander Riehle
ISBN: 9781614516019
Format: Hardback
$580.80

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Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature

Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature

Author: Doriane Zerka
ISBN: 9781839540738
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A porous boundary zone between Europe and Africa, a space at once liminal and peripheral, both a gateway and a border...  Read More >>

Géométries

Géométries

Author: Roshdi Rashed
ISBN: 9783110784626
Format: Hardback
$257.31

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Optique et Astronomie

Optique et Astronomie

Author: Roshdi Rashed
ISBN: 9783110784640
Format: Hardback
$257.31

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Mathématiques et Philosophie

Mathématiques et Philosophie

Author: Roshdi Rashed
ISBN: 9783110784688
Format: Hardback
$257.31

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