Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing

Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic...

Author: Louise Campion
ISBN: 9781786838308
Format: Hardback
$145.95

This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious...  Read More >>

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: Poetry,...

Author: Samer M. Ali
ISBN: 9780268204105
Format: Hardback
$330.00

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Beyond Reformation?: An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity

Beyond Reformation?: An Essay on William Langland’s...

Author: David Aers
ISBN: 9780268204129
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Presents a sustained close reading of the final version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the most searching...  Read More >>

Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde

Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and...

Author: Jutta Eming ,  Ann Marie Rasmussen
ISBN: 9780268204778
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde examines the cross-media nature of this Arthurian story...  Read More >>

Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature

Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental...

Author: Emma Lipton
ISBN: 9780268204044
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues...  Read More >>

Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture

Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture

Author: Lee Patterson
ISBN: 9780268204020
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual...  Read More >>

Heimliche Nachtaktionen in Der Thebais Des Statius: Heimliche Nachtaktionen

Heimliche Nachtaktionen in Der Thebais Des Statius:...

Author: Konstantin Ameis
ISBN: 9783402144695
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Dante: Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition

Dante: Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition

Author: Dante Alighieri ,  Andrew Frisardi
ISBN: 9781316505021
Format: Paperback
$80.19

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Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus: Menaechmi

Author: Dr V. Sophie Klein (Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350092723
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'...  Read More >>

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

Author: Dr Antony Augoustakis ,  Dr Monica S. Cyrino
ISBN: 9781350257009
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix,...  Read More >>

Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience

Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric...

Author: Professor Robert L. Fowler (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350198166
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The best of Greek lyric poetry pushes at the very limits of what is possible with language and meaning.  Read More >>

Classical Greek Tragedy

Classical Greek Tragedy

Author: Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350144569
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with...  Read More >>

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

Author: Victoria Flood (Royalty Account) ,  Megan G Leitch
ISBN: 9781843846208
Format: Hardback
$207.00

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission....  Read More >>

Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection

Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection

Author: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108926041
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed on stone. They shed rich...  Read More >>

Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection

Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection

Author: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108843980
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed on stone. They shed rich...  Read More >>

Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus: Menaechmi

Author: Dr V. Sophie Klein (Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350092730
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'...  Read More >>

Classical Greek Tragedy

Classical Greek Tragedy

Author: Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350144576
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with...  Read More >>

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

Author: Dr Antony Augoustakis ,  Dr Monica S. Cyrino
ISBN: 9781350144231
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix,...  Read More >>

Plautus: Mostellaria

Plautus: Mostellaria

Author: Professor George Fredric Franko (Hollins University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350188419
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple:...  Read More >>

Sonne, Kosmos, Rom: Kaiser Julian, Hymnos auf den Koenig Helios

Sonne, Kosmos, Rom: Kaiser Julian, Hymnos auf den Koenig...

Author: Michael Schramm ,  Franco Ferrari
ISBN: 9783161575433
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Julian (331/32-363) wandte sich als einziger roemischer Kaiser vom Christentum zuruck zur alten Religion und versuchte,...  Read More >>

Thomas Von Cantimpre Liber de Naturis Rerum: Ubersetzung Des Textes Der Redaktion III (Thomas III) Eines Anonymus

Thomas Von Cantimpre Liber de Naturis Rerum: Ubersetzung...

Author: Rudolf Kilian Weigand ,  Janine Deus
ISBN: 9783752006452
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Unter der Bezeichnung 'Thomas III' lauft eine um 1250 verfasste und vor allem im bayerisch-osterreichischen Raum...  Read More >>

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama During Europe's Age of Reason

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama During Europe's...

Author: Blair Hoxby
ISBN: 9780814215005
Format: Hardback
$209.46

A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during...  Read More >>

Enuma Elish

Enuma Elish

Author: Ken Goudsward
ISBN: 9781989940396
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The Enuma Elish is widely known as the classic Akkadian creation myth, passed down from the Sumerian, and replete...  Read More >>

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