Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Fool of Quality: Volume 5

The Fool of Quality: Volume 5

Author: Henry Brooke
ISBN: 9780367264369
Format: Paperback
$71.99

First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows...  Read More >>

The School of Cyrus: William Barker's 1567 Translation of Xenophon's Cryopaedeia

The School of Cyrus: William Barker's 1567 Translation...

Author: James Tatum
ISBN: 9780367235819
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1987, this book is a translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedeia (The Education of Cyprus), first...  Read More >>

La Vie Des Peres: Recueils 2 Et 3

La Vie Des Peres: Recueils 2 Et 3

Author: Paul Bretel
ISBN: 9782406121664
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte, En Arabie Et En Egypte: Traites 8 (Fin) Et 9

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte,...

Author: Felix Fabri ,  Michel Tarayre
ISBN: 9782406121695
Format: Hardback
$287.76

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Sueton, 'de Poetis': Text, Ubersetzung Und Kommentar Zu Den Erhaltenen Viten Nebst Begrundeten Mutmassungen Zu Den Verlorenen Kapiteln

Sueton, 'de Poetis': Text, Ubersetzung Und Kommentar...

Author: Markus Stachon
ISBN: 9783825348526
Format: Hardback
$327.36

Sueton ist heute vornehmlich fur seine Biographien der ersten zwolf Kaiser Roms bekannt. Daneben verfasste er aber...  Read More >>

Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese...

Author: Sachi Schmidt-Hori
ISBN: 9780824886790
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Schmidt-Hori's work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts...  Read More >>

From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety: The Vernacular Transmission of Gertrude of Helfta's Visions

From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety:...

Author: Racha Kirakosian (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781108841238
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed...  Read More >>

Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel

Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel

Author: Jean Alvares (Montclair State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367472108
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal...  Read More >>

Cornelius Nepos: A Study in the Evidence and Influence

Cornelius Nepos: A Study in the Evidence and Influence...

Author: John Lobur
ISBN: 9780472132744
Format: Hardback
$211.20

John Lobur’s work rehabilitates Nepos to show that in fact he should be understood as an emblematic member of the...  Read More >>

The Christianization of Scandinavia in the Viking Era: Religious Change in Adam of Bremen's Historical Work

The Christianization of Scandinavia in the Viking Era:...

Author: Lukas G. Grzybowski
ISBN: 9781641892308
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This book reevaluates our conception of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages in the context...  Read More >>

The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion

The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion...

Author: Michelle M. Sauer ,  Jenny C. Bledsoe (Assistant Professor of English, Northeastern State University, OK)
ISBN: 9781641894876
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Explores materiality in Middle English anchoritic texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle...  Read More >>

Dunkle Kontinente und onirische Schreibweisen: Bausteine fuer eine alternative Genealogie der Traumliteratur von Nodier bis Cixous

Dunkle Kontinente und onirische Schreibweisen: Bausteine...

Author: Uta Felten ,  Isabel Maurer Queipo
ISBN: 9783631854129
Format: Hardback
$169.74

In der Traumliteratur wird das weibliche Geschlecht («der dunkle Kontinent») stets als begehrtes Objekt männlicher...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

Author: Stratis Papaioannou
ISBN: 9780199351763
Format: Hardback
$361.00

"In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine ""literature"",...  Read More >>

Disorienting Empire: Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers

Disorienting Empire: Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers...

Author: Basil Dufallo (Professor of Greek and Latin, Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780197571781
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who...  Read More >>

The Story of Attila in Prose: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Estoire d’Atile en prose

The Story of Attila in Prose: A Critical Edition and...

Author: Roberto Pesce ,  Logan E. Whalen
ISBN: 9780367469757
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian...  Read More >>

Schriftgelehrtes Murren: Schriftgelehrte Fortschreibungs- und Auslegungsprozesse in den Murrerzählungen in Exodus und Numeri

Schriftgelehrtes Murren: Schriftgelehrte Fortschreibungs-...

Author: Walter Bührer
ISBN: 9783161610592
Format: Hardback
$439.87

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The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)

The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)...

Author: Beatrice Radden Keefe
ISBN: 9789004463318
Format: Hardback
$398.64

This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s...  Read More >>

Der Philipperbrief

Der Philipperbrief

Author: Angela Standhartinger
ISBN: 9783161602450
Format: Paperback
$147.49

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Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays

Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament:...

Author: Carl R. Holladay ,  Jonathan M. Potter
ISBN: 9783161547898
Format: Hardback
$489.56

Like Philo and Josephus, as well as those who earlier produced the Septuagint and the Hellenistic Jewish fragmentary...  Read More >>

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and...

Author: Michael Fox
ISBN: 9783030481360
Format: Paperback
$206.97

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Der Philipperbrief

Der Philipperbrief

Author: Angela Standhartinger
ISBN: 9783161601026
Format: Hardback
$351.90

"Im Philipperbrief liegen drei Schreiben vor, die in Philippi Anfang des 2. Jh. als Abschiedswort des Märtyrerapostels...  Read More >>

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