Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250: Cry of the Turtledove

Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts,...
Author: A. S. Lazikani ISBN: 9783030599263 Format: Paperback	$284.60
This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.... Read More >>

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English...
Author: Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781009100588 Format: Hardback	$194.06
This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval... Read More >>

The Manuscript Transmission of Platos Laws (Books I and V)

The Manuscript Transmission of Platos Laws (Books I...
Author: Anton Sadovskyy ISBN: 9783752006070 Format: Hardback	$388.08
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Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime
Author: Stephen Halliwell ISBN: 9780192894205 Format: Hardback	$467.95
Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume... Read More >>

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction,...
Author: Neil W. Bernstein (Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Ohio University) ISBN: 9780198838166 Format: Hardback	$323.95
Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August... Read More >>

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
Author: Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (University of Bristol) ISBN: 9781316517819 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in... Read More >>

Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry

Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry
Author: Bobby Xinyue (Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Language and Literature, King's College London) ISBN: 9780192855978 Format: Hardback	$191.95
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Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval...
Author: Sarah Baechle (Ole Miss) , Carissa M. Harris (Temple University) ISBN: 9780271092676 Format: Hardback	$282.00
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English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms...
Author: Alexandra Verini ISBN: 9783031009167 Format: Hardback	$181.10
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The Greek Mythology: The Complete Knowledge of Classic And Greek Mythical-Lengendary

The Greek Mythology: The Complete Knowledge of Classic...
Author: Jessica C Layman ISBN: 9798839608221 Format: Paperback	$25.64
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La tradizione manoscritta dell’“ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale: “Mise en page” e “mise en texte”

La tradizione manoscritta dell’“ars dictaminis” nell’Italia...
Author: Sara Bischetti ISBN: 9783110701500 Format: Hardback	$137.19
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Rethinking Orality II: The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication System in the Case of the Archaic Epos

Rethinking Orality II: The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication...
Author: Andrea Ercolani , Laura Lulli ISBN: 9783110750744 Format: Hardback	$159.50
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Myth and History: Close Encounters

Myth and History: Close Encounters
Author: Menelaos Christopoulos , Athina Papachrysostomou ISBN: 9783110779585 Format: Hardback	$240.15
The present volume tackles the twin subject of myth and history, engages into discussions of the emerging interactions... Read More >>

Testimonia et Indices

Testimonia et Indices
Author: Stuart Douglas Olson , Athenaeus Naucratites ISBN: 9783110558548 Format: Hardback	$171.51
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Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps: Concepts of the...
Author: Ingrid Baumgärtner , Daniel Gneckow ISBN: 9781501523816 Format: Hardback	$154.35
This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the... Read More >>

Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics

Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics...
Author: David Hadbawnik ISBN: 9781501518829 Format: Hardback	$133.76
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Plutarch's Cosmological Ethics

Plutarch's Cosmological Ethics
Author: Bram Demulder ISBN: 9789462703292 Format: Hardback	$150.08
A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch's ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his... Read More >>

Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World

Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes...
Author: Albertina Oegema , Jonathan Pater ISBN: 9783161611575 Format: Hardback	$403.39
This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the related genres of parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman... Read More >>

Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia: Essays in Honour of Kirsten Wolf

Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval...
Author: Dario Bullitta , Natalie Van Deusen ISBN: 9782503595481 Format: Hardback	$361.68
While medieval Iceland has long been celebrated and studied for its rich tradition of vernacular literature, in... Read More >>

Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature

Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature...
Author: Mark Atherton , Kazutomo Karasawa ISBN: 9782503599571 Format: Hardback	$380.16
Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national,... Read More >>

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome
Author: Bartolo Natoli (Randolph-Macon College, USA) , Angela Pitts (University of Mary Washington, USA) ISBN: 9780367462529 Format: Paperback	$75.99
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Chorodidaskalia: Studi di poesia e performance in onore di Angela Andrisano

Chorodidaskalia: Studi di poesia e performance in onore...
Author: Virginia Mastellari , Massimiliano Ornaghi ISBN: 9783949189425 Format: Hardback	$222.50
The articles in this volume deal with various forms of poetry and performance in Graeco-Roman antiquity, from archaic... Read More >>

The Maqamat of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani: Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

The Maqamat of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani: Authorship,...
Author: Bilal Orfali , Maurice Alex Pomerantz ISBN: 9783752000023 Format: Hardback	$234.96
"Through investigations of the manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani's... Read More >>

Stadte in Ovids Metamorphosen: Darstellung und Funktion einer literarischen Landschaft

Stadte in Ovids Metamorphosen: Darstellung und Funktion...
Author: Torben Behm ISBN: 9783525311394 Format: Hardback	$248.37
In Ovid's Metamorphoses not only figures are transformed, but also the human environment, including cities. This... Read More >>

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome
Author: Bartolo Natoli (Randolph-Macon College, USA) , Angela Pitts (University of Mary Washington, USA) ISBN: 9780367468774 Format: Hardback	$284.00
This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first... Read More >>

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