Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Die Kolmarer Liederhandschrift und ihr Umfeld: Forschungsimpulse

Die Kolmarer Liederhandschrift und ihr Umfeld: Forschungsimpulse...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Judith Lange
ISBN: 9783631778425
Format: Hardback
$175.69

Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich der überlieferungs- und kulturgeschichtlichen Stellung der Kolmarer Liederhandschrift...  Read More >>

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships

Author: Barbara Newman ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253344
Format: Hardback
$184.67

The Permeable Self offers medievalists new insight into the appeal and dangers of the erotics of pedagogy; the remarkable...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach

Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach

Author: Philip S Peek
ISBN: 9781800642546
Format: Paperback
$103.37

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the...  Read More >>

Accomplissement de l'Amour, Mort de l'Amour ?: Le Paradoxe Amoureux Et l'Amour Courtois

Accomplissement de l'Amour, Mort de l'Amour ?: Le Paradoxe...

Author: Rudiger Schnell ,  Sandra Debot
ISBN: 9782406121572
Format: Hardback
$192.72

What implications does the (earliest) sexual intercourse have for a romantic relationship on an emotional level?...  Read More >>

Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World

Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic...

Author: Jessica Lightfoot (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781316518830
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period....  Read More >>

Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception

Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception...

Author: Tom Geue (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Elena Giusti (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781108843041
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary...  Read More >>

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary

A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical...

Author: Michele Kennerly (Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State)
ISBN: 9780271091839
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary...  Read More >>

Schicksal - Zufall - Willensfreiheit: Kontingenz Im Trojanerkrieg Konrads Von Wurzburg

Schicksal - Zufall - Willensfreiheit: Kontingenz Im...

Author: Isabella Manago
ISBN: 9783752000245
Format: Hardback
$348.48

Immer wenn der Mensch anfangt, seine Zukunft zu planen, fallt im Hintergrund das Schicksal lachend vom Stuhl. Dieser...  Read More >>

Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion

Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion

Author: Jacob Risinger
ISBN: 9780691203430
Format: Paperback
$97.68

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The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean

The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction...

Author: Megan Moore
ISBN: 9781501758393
Format: Hardback
$139.79

The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds...  Read More >>

Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion

Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion

Author: Jacob Risinger
ISBN: 9780691223124
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"An exploration of Stoicism's central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers...  Read More >>

Menander 'Misoumenos' or 'The Hated Man': Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Menander 'Misoumenos' or 'The Hated Man': Introduction,...

Author: William D. Furley
ISBN: 9781905670970
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’, is one of his most popular plays to have survived from classical times,...  Read More >>

DANTE, tel le géomètre...: Les arts de la mémoire, l'architecture et l'enjeu de la connaissance dans la culture européenne

DANTE, tel le géomètre...: Les arts de la mémoire, l'architecture...

Author: Luigi De Poli
ISBN: 9782807619111
Format: Paperback
$103.50

L'ouvrage révèle la structure «laïque» de la Divine Comédie. Le parcours du protagoniste est marqué par l'usage...  Read More >>

Petrus Berchorius Und Der Antike Mythos Im 14. Jahrhundert: Bd. 1 Die Metamorphosen Ovids in Der Deutung Des Petrus Berchorius Und in Den Italienischen Bildzyklen Des 14. Jahrhunderts. Bd. 2 Der, Ovidius Moralizatus': Ausgabe, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Petrus Berchorius Und Der Antike Mythos Im 14. Jahrhundert:...

Author: Dieter Blume ,  Christel Meier-Staubach
ISBN: 9783110735062
Format: Hardback
$390.69

Mit dem 1348 in Bologna entstandenen Prachtcodex, der hier erstmals vollständig präsentiert und dokumentiert wird,...  Read More >>

Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny

Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist...

Author: Emily Katz Anhalt
ISBN: 9781503628564
Format: Hardback
$57.95

""As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and...  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle ,  Ingram Bywater
ISBN: 9781420974720
Format: Paperback
$12.91

A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative...  Read More >>

Happiness, Stability and Transcendence in Western Religion, Philosophy and Poetry

Happiness, Stability and Transcendence in Western Religion,...

Author: Nili Alon Amit
ISBN: 9781527571709
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book follows in the footsteps of great thinkers on human happiness, from the Hebrew Bible, through Greek philosophy,...  Read More >>

Horace: With English Notes

Horace: With English Notes

Author: J. Yonge
ISBN: 9780367199043
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1865, Yonge adapts and improves upon previous texts and translations to deliver a full comprehensive...  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: 9781410395184
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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

Cicero's Political Personae

Cicero's Political Personae

Author: Joanna Kenty
ISBN: 9781108813198
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Argues that Cicero assumed eight distinctive personae in the speeches of the latter half of his career to maximize...  Read More >>

The History of Isaiah: The Formation of the Book and its Presentation of the Past

The History of Isaiah: The Formation of the Book and...

Author: Jacob Stromberg ,  J. Todd Hibbard
ISBN: 9783161560972
Format: Hardback
$464.97

"The book of Isaiah is a product of history. The nature of that history and what it means that Isaiah is a product...  Read More >>

Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis: Kingship and Power

Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis: Kingship and Power

Author: Gemma Wheeler (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846079
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An important text from the ""twelfth-century Renaissance"" of history writing re-evaluated, drawing out its complex...  Read More >>

Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics...

Author: William Franke (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781316516171
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Dante's visionary grounding of knowledge in love and divine revelation still moves and inspires a wide readership....  Read More >>

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