Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages: An Anthology

Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages: An Anthology...

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre
ISBN: 9780367191405
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the...  Read More >>

Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of Scholarship

Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography...

Author: John A. Alford ,  Dennis P. Seniff
ISBN: 9780367191245
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1984 Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject...  Read More >>

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Vol. 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Vol. 1: Problems...

Author: Averil Cameron ,  Lawrence I. Conrad
ISBN: 9783959940849
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together...  Read More >>

Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman: A Reading of the B Text Visio

Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman: A Reading of the...

Author: Myra Stokes
ISBN: 9780367184674
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches

Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches

Author: S.S. Hussey
ISBN: 9780367202699
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman....  Read More >>

Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays

Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays

Author: Sandra J. McEntire
ISBN: 9780367209773
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe. Original...  Read More >>

Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances

Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English...

Author: Murray McGillivray
ISBN: 9780367189921
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing...  Read More >>

The Lost Literature of Medieval England

The Lost Literature of Medieval England

Author: R. M. Wilson
ISBN: 9780367196738
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1952, The Lost Literature of Medieval England provides an account of lost masterpieces of...  Read More >>

The Writer as Liar: Narrative Technique in the Decameron

The Writer as Liar: Narrative Technique in the Decameron...

Author: Guido Almansi
ISBN: 9780367207380
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1975, The Writer as Liar examines the Decameron and argues that Boccaccio’s story telling...  Read More >>

Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric

Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious...

Author: Douglas Gray
ISBN: 9780367186777
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images...  Read More >>

The Middle English Mystics

The Middle English Mystics

Author: Wolfgang Riehle ,  Bernard Standring
ISBN: 9780367211318
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics surveys and analyses metaphor...  Read More >>

The Pearl: An Interpretation

The Pearl: An Interpretation

Author: P.M. Kean
ISBN: 9780367210533
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Author: J A Burrow
ISBN: 9780367182908
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1965 A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important...  Read More >>

The Poetry of John Lydgate

The Poetry of John Lydgate

Author: Alain Renoir
ISBN: 9780367206994
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1967 The Poetry of John Lydgate presents a broad discussion of John Lydgate’s secular poetry...  Read More >>

The Protean Text: "A Study of Versions of the Medieval French Legend of ""Doon and Olive"""

The Protean Text: "A Study of Versions of the Medieval...

Author: Kimberlee Anne Campbell
ISBN: 9780367184070
Format: Paperback
$67.99

"Originally published in 1988, The Protean Text looks at the shifting evolution of medieval texts and how both social...  Read More >>

Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation

Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation

Author: Aristophanes ,  David Mulroy
ISBN: 9780299329846
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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An Introduction to Old English

An Introduction to Old English

Author: Jonathan Evans
ISBN: 9781603293112
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Introduces the major categories of grammar in parallel with a summary of the major events of English prehistory...  Read More >>

Literature of the 1930s: Border Country

Literature of the 1930s: Border Country

Author: Rod Mengham
ISBN: 9780748639458
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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A Commentary on Demosthenes' Against Androtion: Introduction, Text, and Translation

A Commentary on Demosthenes' Against Androtion: Introduction,...

Author: Ifigeneia Giannadaki (Assistant Professor and Cassas Chair in Greek Studies, Assistant Professor and Cassas Chair in Greek Studies, University of Florida)
ISBN: 9780198784524
Format: Hardback
$234.00

This volume provides a detailed commentary on Demosthenes' speech Against Androtion (Demosthenes 22). It includes...  Read More >>

Ibn Naẓīf’s World-History: Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī

Ibn Naẓīf’s World-History: Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī

Author: David Cook
ISBN: 9780367623555
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Naẓīf’s Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī. Containing an extensive...  Read More >>

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence...

Author: Mathias Hanses
ISBN: 9780472132256
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic...  Read More >>

Ultimate Motivational Quotes: Learn from the reflective wisdom of the ancient

Ultimate Motivational Quotes: Learn from the reflective...

Author: Jane Darwin
ISBN: 9798701129465
Format: Paperback
$23.24

M t v t n is a crucial f t r n v r hum n' h v m nt. Without motivation, we w ll n t have th willingness...  Read More >>

Middle English Literature: A Critical Study of the Romances, the Religious Lyrics, and Piers Plowman

Middle English Literature: A Critical Study of the Romances,...

Author: George Kane
ISBN: 9780367187293
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of artistry in literary evaluation to certain...  Read More >>

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought: Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought:...

Author: Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
ISBN: 9783030294243
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor...  Read More >>

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