Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Women’s Restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures

Women’s Restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten Pasts and...

Author: Suzanne M. Edwards (Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lehigh University) ,  Matthew X. Vernon (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of California-Davis)
ISBN: 9781802701623
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women’s Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary...  Read More >>

Orbis Romanus: Byzantium and the Legacy of Rome in the Carolingian World

Orbis Romanus: Byzantium and the Legacy of Rome in the...

Author: Laury Sarti (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Freiburg)
ISBN: 9780197746523
Format: Hardback
$220.95

How did the medieval Frankish world relate to the orbis Romanus? Although this term is only sporadically attested...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes...

Author: Dominique Battles
ISBN: 9781032439570
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the...

Author: Rachel Stenner ,  Tamsin Badcoe
ISBN: 9781526179043
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship...  Read More >>

Dante's Purgatory: A Discussion Guide

Dante's Purgatory: A Discussion Guide

Author: David Bruce
ISBN: 9798227779519
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes...

Author: Dominique Battles
ISBN: 9781032439587
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Author: John Higginbotham
ISBN: 9781032769776
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic

The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the...

Author: W. Beare
ISBN: 9781032772745
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People

Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized...

Author: Elan Justice Pavlinich
ISBN: 9781032458748
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf,...  Read More >>

Chandi Purana: A Goddess Goes to War

Chandi Purana: A Goddess Goes to War

Author: Sarala Das ,  Udayanath Sahoo
ISBN: 9781032382111
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is the English version of Chandi Purana, written in Odia by Sarala Das. Indigenous and secular, the Chandi...  Read More >>

Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose: A Corpus Stylistic Study

Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose: A Corpus...

Author: Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari ,  Masoumeh Mehrabi
ISBN: 9781032443621
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that...  Read More >>

Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante

Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship...

Author: Zygmunt G Barański ,  Theodore J Cachey
ISBN: 9781839543340
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This volume is the first to examine in parallel the ways in which twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglo-American...  Read More >>

Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Author: Erin Sebo ,  Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9783031339677
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the...  Read More >>

Zwischen Tradition und Innovation: Zum ambivalenten Umgang mit Kontingenzen in der mittleren römischen Republik

Zwischen Tradition und Innovation: Zum ambivalenten...

Author: Christopher Degelmann ,  Jan-Markus Kötter
ISBN: 9783662672389
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Die Bewertung der mittleren Römischen Republik ist in der Forschung umstritten. Der Band geht der Frage nach, wie...  Read More >>

Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions

Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions...

Author: Juliana Bastos Marques (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State – Unirio, Brazil) ,  Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350269484
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of...  Read More >>

Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

Author: Dr Maria Gerolemou (adjunct lecturer, University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350303843
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just...  Read More >>

Postclassical Greek: Problems and Perspectives

Postclassical Greek: Problems and Perspectives

Author: Giuseppina di Bartolo ,  Daniel Kölligan
ISBN: 9783111069098
Format: Hardback
$335.25

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Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World: ‘Ecological’ Sensitivity, ‘Sustainable’ Behaviour and ‘Biodiversity’. A Historical Perspective

Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World: ‘Ecological’...

Author: Orietta Dora Cordovana
ISBN: 9783111152042
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book investigates forms of environmental interaction and the 'ecological' sensitivity within the Graeco-Roman...  Read More >>

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation: From Homer to the Hellenistic Age

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation: From Homer...

Author: Francis Cairns
ISBN: 9783111481067
Format: Hardback
$377.49

This is the first book-length study of the poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic...  Read More >>

Fragmente Einer Fragmentierten Welt: Zur Problematik Des Umgangs Mit Fragmenten in Der Gegenwärtigen Klassisch-Philologischen Forschung

Fragmente Einer Fragmentierten Welt: Zur Problematik...

Author: Fabia Neuerburg ,  Theofanis Tsiampokalos
ISBN: 9783111501376
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This volume sheds light on the complexity of working with texts that are transmitted secondarily, described as ""fragments""...  Read More >>

The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives

The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives...

Author: Rosie Harman (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350335417
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of...  Read More >>

Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints

Author: Luisa Ostacchini (Lecturer at St John's College, Lecturer at St John's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198913733
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places...  Read More >>

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