Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature

Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9780367787097
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations...  Read More >>

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Roger Ellis
ISBN: 9780367357467
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1986. This study asks ‘What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?’ and ‘What...  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906): From the Mahabharata

Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita...

Author: Edwin Arnold
ISBN: 9781138289871
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from...  Read More >>

Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter

Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to Black...

Author: Jonathan Hsy (Associate Professor of English at George Washington University)
ISBN: 9781641893145
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This is a powerful new story of how marginalized groups cooperate and productively reclaim medieval pasts.  Read More >>

Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great...

Author: Kathleen Riley (Writer and classical scholar, Writer and classical scholar)
ISBN: 9780198852971
Format: Hardback
$67.95

By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining...  Read More >>

Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle

Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered...

Author: Oren Falk (Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9780198866046
Format: Hardback
$236.95

This book investigates the history of violence in medieval Iceland, testing theoretical tools by applying them to...  Read More >>

"""Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay""": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry

"""Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay""": Tradition...

Author: Jay Ruud (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
ISBN: 9780367357580
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Originally published in 1992. Although apparently much appreciated in his own time, Chaucer’s lyrics have been the...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472054770
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A new text and commentary on one of Aristophanes' greatest and most influential plays.  Read More >>

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority...

Author: Katherine H Terrell
ISBN: 9780814214626
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural...  Read More >>

The Oxford Latin Syntax: Volume II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse

The Oxford Latin Syntax: Volume II: The Complex Sentence...

Author: Harm Pinkster (Emeritus Professor of Latin, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9780199230563
Format: Hardback
$427.95

This second volume of a two-volume work applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional...  Read More >>

The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II: From Classical Greece to Early Christianity

The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II: From...

Author: Stratos Georgoulas
ISBN: 9783030676377
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472074778
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students...  Read More >>

Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the Iliad

Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the Iliad...

Author: Emily P. Austin
ISBN: 9780472132324
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Examines Achilles' experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad's study of anger. Rather than...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Author: Matteo Pangallo ,  Peter Kirwan
ISBN: 9780367715465
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The essays in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience...  Read More >>

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of...

Author: Robert Kanigel
ISBN: 9780525520948
Format: Hardback
$73.79

"From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably...  Read More >>

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery...

Author: Thomas A. Fudge
ISBN: 9781349931361
Format: Paperback
$147.95

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within...  Read More >>

Gerart de Roussillon

Gerart de Roussillon

Author: Jean Wauquelin ,  Marie-Claude de Crecy
ISBN: 9782406101222
Format: Paperback
$163.68

Jean Wauquelin, in compiling a Latin Life and un livret rimet en rommant (a booklet rhyming in French), puts into...  Read More >>

Gerart de Roussillon

Gerart de Roussillon

Author: Jean Wauquelin ,  Marie-Claude de Crecy
ISBN: 9782406101239
Format: Hardback
$285.12

Jean Wauquelin, in compiling a Latin Life and un livret rimet en rommant (a booklet rhyming in French), puts into...  Read More >>

Dolphin Editions: Homer, Iliad 1

Dolphin Editions: Homer, Iliad 1

Author: Paideia Institute
ISBN: 9781734018998
Format: Paperback
$37.52

This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths...  Read More >>

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Author: Ian Johnson (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009010603
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This volume supports Chaucer's modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural,...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology

Old Norse Mythology

Author: John Lindow (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197554487
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This unique introduction emphasizes how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories....  Read More >>

Il Liber Alexandri Magni: Volgarizzamento Dell'historia de Preliis (Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana, It. VI.66)

Il Liber Alexandri Magni: Volgarizzamento Dell'historia...

Author: Lorenzo Fabiani
ISBN: 9788833138039
Format: Paperback
$150.48

Il Romanzo di Alessandro, testo greco di controversa datazione, attribuito falsamente allo storico Callistene, traspone...  Read More >>

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