Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision

Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision...

Author: A. W. Strouse
ISBN: 9780823294749
Format: Hardback
$195.80

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

Dante’s Inferno: Moral Lessons from Hell

Dante’s Inferno: Moral Lessons from Hell

Author: Raymond Angelo Belliotti
ISBN: 9783030407735
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest...  Read More >>

Menander: Epitrepontes

Menander: Epitrepontes

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein
ISBN: 9781350023642
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration),...  Read More >>

Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England

Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England

Author: Marisa Libbon
ISBN: 9780814214701
Format: Hardback
$245.68

Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts...  Read More >>

The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I

The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches...

Author: Francesco Stella
ISBN: 9782503587998
Format: Hardback
$308.88

This book presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts that have scarcely been adopted,...  Read More >>

Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic

Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese...

Author: Gergana Ivanova
ISBN: 9780231187992
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Gergana Ivanova explores how The Pillow Book and its author have been read from the seventeenth century to the present....  Read More >>

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture: Studies in Honour of Stephen A. Mitchell

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative...

Author: J Glauser ,  P Hermann
ISBN: 9782503589879
Format: Hardback
$361.68

17 b/w illus, 19 col illus & 5 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

A New Companion to the Libro de buen amor

A New Companion to the Libro de buen amor

Author: Ryan D. Giles ,  José Manuel Hidalgo
ISBN: 9789004448223
Format: Hardback
$430.32

The New Companion to the Libro de buen amor provides a platform for current, interdisciplinary approaches, shedding...  Read More >>

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Author: William Blake
ISBN: 9781647989484
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Contains some of William Blake's finest and best-loved poems. This title reproduces fifty-four plates which Blake...  Read More >>

Intertextualität in der Sangspruchdichtung: Der Kanzler im Kontext

Intertextualität in der Sangspruchdichtung: Der Kanzler...

Author: Sophie Knapp
ISBN: 9783110712858
Format: Hardback
$171.51

This differentiated analysis of the Sangspruch verses by Der Kanzler, a poet of the late thirteenth century, shows...  Read More >>

Die Septuaginta zwischen Judentum und Christentum

Die Septuaginta zwischen Judentum und Christentum

Author: Martin Hengel ,  Anna Maria Schwemer
ISBN: 9783161606960
Format: Paperback
$287.21

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Scholia vetera in Sophoclis ›Antigonam‹

Scholia vetera in Sophoclis ›Antigonam‹

Author: Georgios A. Xenis
ISBN: 9783110616774
Format: Hardback
$180.09

Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' Antigone for over two millennia. The origins of this long tradition...  Read More >>

Archives d'Histoire Litteraire Et Doctrinale Du Moyen Age T. LXXXVII (2020)

Archives d'Histoire Litteraire Et Doctrinale Du Moyen...

Author: Jeremy Thompson ,  Boece
ISBN: 9782711629978
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Dante and the Legibility of the Universe: Facts and Narratives: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 21

Dante and the Legibility of the Universe: Facts and...

Author: Alison Cornish ,  Olivia Holmes
ISBN: 9781438486949
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Argues that the Divine Comedy dramatizes the risks and rewards of competing narratives, or different ways of reading....  Read More >>

The European Book in the Twelfth Century

The European Book in the Twelfth Century

Author: Erik Kwakkel (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) ,  Rodney Thomson (University of Tasmania)
ISBN: 9781316502037
Format: Paperback
$95.71

The first comprehensive study of how European books were made and used in the historical period known as the 'long...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Dante

The Poetry of Dante

Author: Benedetto Croce ,  Douglas Ainslie
ISBN: 9780367143596
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1922 and partly from periodicals this book provides a methodological introduction to the...  Read More >>

The Roman de Thèbes and The Roman d'Eneas

The Roman de Thèbes and The Roman d'Eneas

Author: Glyn S. Burgess ,  Douglas Kelly
ISBN: 9781800348615
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Eneas, form, along with the Roman...  Read More >>

Gregor Von Nazianz: Threnos Uber Die Leiden Seiner Seele (Carmen II, 1, 45)

Gregor Von Nazianz: Threnos Uber Die Leiden Seiner Seele...

Author: Bernd Lorenz
ISBN: 9783515130356
Format: Hardback
$147.84

"Die umfangreichen Predigten und Reden des Gregor von Nazianz (des Jungeren, 329-390 n. Chr.), des Bischofs mit...  Read More >>

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