Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...

Author: Emily Gowers
ISBN: 9780691193144
Format: Hardback
$79.99

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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking...

Author: Mary Beard ,  Jennifer M Dixon
ISBN: 9798874766283
Format: Audio
$176.85

"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was...  Read More >>

Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)

Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)...

Author: Tom Shippey ,  Leonard Neidorf
ISBN: 9781961361157
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless...  Read More >>

La Description de la Terre Habitee

La Description de la Terre Habitee

Author: Denys Le Periegete ,  Christian Jacob
ISBN: 9782251455396
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Au IIe siecle de notre ere, Denys le Periegete redige un poeme virtuose et erudit, synthese du savoir geographique...  Read More >>

Magic in the Literature of the Neronian Period: Realism and Criticism

Magic in the Literature of the Neronian Period: Realism...

Author: Konstantinos Arampapaslis
ISBN: 9783111429403
Format: Hardback
$261.33

This book foregrounds realism as the salient feature in Neronian depictions of witchcraft. It argues that such unprecedented...  Read More >>

Coptica Lipsiensia: Koptische Texte Aus Der Papyrus- Und Ostrakasammlung Der Universit�tsbibliothek Leipzig (P.Lips.Copt. I)

Coptica Lipsiensia: Koptische Texte Aus Der Papyrus-...

Author: Anne Boud'hors ,  Frederic Krueger
ISBN: 9783111423944
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Mit diesem Band koptischer Texte aus der Papyrus- und Ostrakasammlung der Universit�tsbibliothek Leipzig tritt ein...  Read More >>

Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta

Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta

Author: Dr Jennifer Jahner (Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of English, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of English, Caltech)
ISBN: 9780198904809
Format: Paperback
$70.95

This study of poetry and political thought in late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England explores how Latin, French,...  Read More >>

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of...

Author: Keith Bradley
ISBN: 9781487548810
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance...

Author: Dr Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)
ISBN: 9780198778295
Format: Hardback
$212.00

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600

The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in...

Author: Maria Alessia Rossi ,  Alice Isabella Sullivan
ISBN: 9780367639549
Format: Hardback
$431.00

This volume aims to broaden and nuance knowledge about the history, art, culture, and heritage of Eastern Europe...  Read More >>

Song of Songs in European Poetry (12th-17th Centuries): Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings

Song of Songs in European Poetry (12th-17th Centuries):...

Author: Camilla Caporicci
ISBN: 9782503608174
Format: Paperback
$264.00

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and defined by Rabbi Aqiva as the Holy of Holies among the sacred Scriptures,...  Read More >>

Poesia Degli Indovini Selvaggi: Le Tavolette Di Maledizione in Lingua Greca Come Fonti Di Poesia Sommersa (VI-I Secolo A.C.)

Poesia Degli Indovini Selvaggi: Le Tavolette Di Maledizione...

Author: Francesco Bertani
ISBN: 9783515136044
Format: Paperback
$224.40

"Com'e avvenuta la diffusione dei riti di maledizione nel mondo greco antico? Esiste qualche rapporto tra le parole...  Read More >>

The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry

The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval...

Author: Michele Cutino
ISBN: 9782503608556
Format: Paperback
$298.32

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Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets,...

Author: Eve Salisbury
ISBN: 9781350249837
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines...  Read More >>

Suites d'Homere de l'Antiquite a la Renaissance

Suites d'Homere de l'Antiquite a la Renaissance

Author: Diane Cuny ,  Arnaud Perrot
ISBN: 9782503607559
Format: Hardback
$364.32

This book is the result of an international conference organized by the University of Tours in May 2021. It sets...  Read More >>

Peri Epon Deinon Einai: Prospettive Filologico-Letterarie Sul Protagora Di Platone

Peri Epon Deinon Einai: Prospettive Filologico-Letterarie...

Author: Michele Corradi ,  Lorenzo Ferroni
ISBN: 9783985721214
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Diese Sammlung von hauptsachlich literaturwissenschaftlichen und philologischen Aufsatzen zu Platons Protagoras...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028684321
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028684314
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination:...

Author: Emma O. Bérat
ISBN: 9781009434751
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France: From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy

An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval...

Author: Joan E. McRae
ISBN: 9780813069944
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College)
ISBN: 9780271096889
Format: Hardback
$188.05

Situates Chaucer’s proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places proverbs...  Read More >>

Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy

Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming...

Author: Erika L. Weiberg (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780197747322
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies...  Read More >>

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