Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

Author: S. Rex Stem
ISBN: 9780472038800
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus, and portions of his On Famous Men are the...  Read More >>

Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays

Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays...

Author: Michael Fishbane
ISBN: 9783161520495
Format: Hardback
$452.55

In this wide-ranging collection, Michael Fishbane investigates the complex and diverse relationships between the...  Read More >>

The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein

The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian...

Author: Matthew T. Kapstein ,  Charles Ramble
ISBN: 9789004471658
Format: Hardback
$364.32

The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling...  Read More >>

Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts...

Author: Sharon M. Rowley
ISBN: 9783030557263
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and...  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: 9781410395214
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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

Invitations a la Performance de Recits Francais Medievaux: Virtuosite, Spectacle, Erotisme

Invitations a la Performance de Recits Francais Medievaux:...

Author: Evelyn Birge Vitz
ISBN: 9782868781062
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Decouvrir une histoire au Moyen Age, c'etait l'entendre lire - ou reciter - a haute voix, pour un public: le jongleur...  Read More >>

The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr

The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr

Author: Roderick Dale
ISBN: 9780367137458
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones

Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval...

Author: Francesca Brooks (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198860143
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry...  Read More >>

Personen Und 'Persona' in Den Epigrammen Martials

Personen Und 'Persona' in Den Epigrammen Martials

Author: Walter Kissel
ISBN: 9783515131285
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Walter Kissel untersucht zwei bisher nur unzureichend geprufte Axiome der aktuellen Martialphilologie: Erstens sollen...  Read More >>

Telamonian Ajax: The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece

Telamonian Ajax: The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece...

Author: Sophie Marianne Bocksberger (Brasenose College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198864769
Format: Hardback
$223.95

Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical...  Read More >>

Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works

Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and...

Author: Fabian Alfie ,  Nicolino Applauso
ISBN: 9781793621733
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante’s Comedy and his other...  Read More >>

Wolframs >Parzival: Anwendung und Erweiterung anhand einer Rezeption des Textes

Wolframs >Parzival: Anwendung und Erweiterung anhand...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Jörg Klenk
ISBN: 9783631839249
Format: Hardback
$155.38

Weshalb unterlässt Parzival bei seinem ersten Besuch auf Munsalvaesche die Mitleidsfrage? Um dies zu beantworten,...  Read More >>

Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid: Volume II: Books I-VII

Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid:...

Author: Priscilla Bawcutt ,  Ian Cunningham
ISBN: 9781897976432
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Second volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text...  Read More >>

Die Anfänge Roms erzählen: Zur literarischen Technik in der ersten Pentade von Livius' ›ab urbe condita‹

Die Anfänge Roms erzählen: Zur literarischen Technik...

Author: Johannes Zenk
ISBN: 9783110758030
Format: Hardback
$188.67

In the first pentad of his history, Livy presents the history of the city of Rome and its immediate surroundings,...  Read More >>

Handlung, Wissen und Komik im Artusroman: Strategien des Erzählens in Wigalois und Diu Crône

Handlung, Wissen und Komik im Artusroman: Strategien...

Author: Katrin auf der Lake
ISBN: 9783110725285
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Zu Homer, Platon, Thukydides und Paulus: Mit einem autobiographischen Brief

Zu Homer, Platon, Thukydides und Paulus: Mit einem autobiographischen...

Author: Norbert Blößner ,  Peter Roth, QC
ISBN: 9783110749007
Format: Hardback
$222.99

This volume brings together shorter essays on Homer's Iliad, Plato, Thucydides, and Paul, written by the Regensburg...  Read More >>

Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550

Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion...

Author: Michele Campopiano
ISBN: 9783030527761
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410398918
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

The Relationship between MT and LXX in Jeremiah 39(46):1-41(48):3 and 52

The Relationship between MT and LXX in Jeremiah 39(46):1-41(48):3...

Author: James Frohlich
ISBN: 9783161607394
Format: Paperback
$194.32

In this work, James Frohlich analyzes the Septuagint translation technique in Jeremiah 39(46)-41(48):3 and 52 in...  Read More >>

Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from Ancrene Wisse to the Parson's Tale

Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from Ancrene...

Author: Krista A. Murchison (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781843846086
Format: Hardback
$168.19

First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception....  Read More >>

The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition

The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British...

Author: Dr Richard D. Wragg
ISBN: 9781914049026
Format: Hardback
$258.75

A new exploration of the secular manuscripts and medieval medical texts associated with the York Guild and its members....  Read More >>

Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics

Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics...

Author: Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781108489683
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Author: Phiroze Vasunia (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350162631
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically...  Read More >>

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