Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Juvenal Satires Book III

Juvenal Satires Book III

Author: John Godwin
ISBN: 9781802074741
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The three poems (Satires 7, 8 and 9) that comprise Book 3 of the Satires form a brilliant collection, displaying...  Read More >>

The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651689
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214674
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority...

Author: Sophie Corser
ISBN: 9781474481441
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214667
Format: Hardback
$215.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

Emotions on the Fringes: Feelings of the Marginalised from Late Antique to Early Modern Literature

Emotions on the Fringes: Feelings of the Marginalised...

Author: Felix Lummer ,  Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
ISBN: 9786156696175
Format: Hardback
$200.64

An anthology containing ten articles dedicated to the comparative study of emotions in literature. This volume initially...  Read More >>

The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651429
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

Priapea: Poems for a Phallic God

Priapea: Poems for a Phallic God

Author: W H Parker
ISBN: 9781032748900
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction...

Author: Victoria Rimell (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780192894212
Format: Hardback
$341.95

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive,...  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C Ceyhun Arslan
ISBN: 9781399525824
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Literary Communication in Song Dynasty

Literary Communication in Song Dynasty

Author: Wang Zhaopeng
ISBN: 9781032697420
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during...  Read More >>

C� Chulainn's Death: A Critical Edition of Brislech M�r Maige Murthemni

C� Chulainn's Death: A Critical Edition of Brislech...

Author: Bettina Kimpton
ISBN: 9798989676316
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero C� Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly...  Read More >>

Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On the Siege’

Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On...

Author: Michael Whitby (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781802074659
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Theodore Syncellus's sermons provide contemporary evidence for devotion to the Virgin Mary in Constantinople in...  Read More >>

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

Author: Barbara Newman
ISBN: 9781512826067
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Why Parzival?: An Epic of our Age with Global Reach and its Secret Connections to Waldorf Education

Why Parzival?: An Epic of our Age with Global Reach...

Author: Eric G M�ller
ISBN: 9781736682982
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance...  Read More >>

Seneca and the Self

Seneca and the Self

Author: Shadi Bartsch ,  David Wray
ISBN: 9781009516136
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness....  Read More >>

Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

Author: Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University, USA) ,  Erin Thomas Dailey
ISBN: 9781032332840
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’—individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy,...  Read More >>

Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts

Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative...

Author: Dr Michael Bintley (Royalty Account) ,  Pippa Salonius (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846642
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty...  Read More >>

Premodern Masculinities in Transition

Premodern Masculinities in Transition

Author: Professor Konrad Eisenbichler ,  Jacqueline Murray (Customer)
ISBN: 9781837651702
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change.  Read More >>

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful by Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038)

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying...

Author: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī ,  Geert Jan van Gelder
ISBN: 9789004691001
Format: Hardback
$330.00

The entertaining and informative Arabic anthology by al-Thaʿālibī (d. 1038), Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying...  Read More >>

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