Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet: Introduction, Edition, English Translation, and Critical Commentary

De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet: Introduction, Edition,...

Author: Luisa Lesage Gárriga
ISBN: 9789004458079
Format: Hardback
$414.48

In Plutarch. De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet, Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new critical edition with English...  Read More >>

Ibn Bāǧǧa, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›On Generation and Corruption‹: Critical Edition and Translation with an Introduction and Glossaries

Ibn Bāǧǧa, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›On Generation...

Author: Corrado la Martire
ISBN: 9783110705928
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Ibn Bāğğa's commentary on Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption is one of the first commentaries to elaborate...  Read More >>

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World: Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110737127
Format: Hardback
$197.25

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Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Author: Nora Kershaw Chadwick
ISBN: 9780511707636
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs

Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts,...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9780511612091
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This sophisticated and important short study of Roman religion examines the vital importance of Roman literature...  Read More >>

The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24

The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24

Author: Nicholas Richardson ,  G. S. Kirk
ISBN: 9780511620294
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This is the sixth and final volume of the major Commentary on Homer's Iliad issued under the General Editorship...  Read More >>

Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in...

Author: Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780511605659
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and...  Read More >>

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with...

Author: R. W. Chambers
ISBN: 9780511759642
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Chamber's introduction to Beowulf is the most comprehensive study of the whole problem of this remarkable Anglo-Saxon...  Read More >>

The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England: The Matter of France in Middle English and Anglo-Norman Literature

The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England: The Matter...

Author: Phillipa Hardman ,  Professor Marianne Ailes
ISBN: 9781843846017
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval...  Read More >>

Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses...

Author: Linda Paterson
ISBN: 9781843846000
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan.  Read More >>

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: from Henry II to Edward I

Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: from Henry...

Author: Christopher Michael Berard (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781783276066
Format: Paperback
$67.25

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare: Working with Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare:...

Author: Peter Holland
ISBN: 9781009013635
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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The Life of Saint Eufrosine

The Life of Saint Eufrosine

Author: Amy V. Ogden
ISBN: 9781603295055
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Includes Old French text and English translation of the life of Saint Eufrosine, who dressed as a man to become...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II

Studies in Medievalism XXX: Politics and Medievalism...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Karl Fugelso (Author)
ISBN: 9781843845881
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages,  Read More >>

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education...

Author: Carissa M. Harris
ISBN: 9781501755293
Format: Paperback
$73.79

""Obscene Pedagogies argues that sexual obscenity was a valuable tool for educating individuals about rape, consent,...  Read More >>

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature:...

Author: Juliette Vuille ,  Caroline Palmer
ISBN: 9781843845898
Format: Hardback
$245.81

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature....  Read More >>

Poems without Poets: Approaches to anonymous ancient poetry

Poems without Poets: Approaches to anonymous ancient...

Author: Boris Kayachev
ISBN: 9781913701406
Format: Hardback
$155.25

An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha....  Read More >>

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels

Author: Daniel Jolowicz (Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780192894823
Format: Hardback
$271.95

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature...  Read More >>

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 46: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 46: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781538152171
Format: Hardback
$205.00

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Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen
ISBN: 9780268200640
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary...  Read More >>

Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Author: Helena Phillips-Robins
ISBN: 9780268200688
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God. In Liturgical Song...  Read More >>

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium: A Festschrift in Honor of Úlfar Bragason

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium: A Festschrift in...

Author: Marianne E. Kalinke ,  Kirsten Wolf
ISBN: 9780935995251
Format: Hardback
$179.39

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium, a special issue of New Norse Studies, is a smorgasbord of noteworthy studies...  Read More >>

Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision

Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision...

Author: A. W. Strouse
ISBN: 9780823294756
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to ""circumcise [his] lips""? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight's head...  Read More >>

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