Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Curtius Rufus in Straßburg: Imitation und Quellenbenutzung in den Supplementen Johannes Freinsheims

Curtius Rufus in Straßburg: Imitation und Quellenbenutzung...

Author: Gabriel Siemoneit
ISBN: 9783110699531
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The is the first monograph to study the literary supplements of Johannes Freinsheims (1608-1660) on the history...  Read More >>

Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions

Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110692945
Format: Hardback
$300.21

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Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond

Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical...

Author: Maria Liatsi
ISBN: 9783110699173
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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Hölderlins ›Archipelagus‹: Mythos, Philosophie, Gattungspoetik

Hölderlins ›Archipelagus‹: Mythos, Philosophie, Gattungspoetik...

Author: Yuzhong Chen
ISBN: 9783110703207
Format: Hardback
$222.99

This running commentary on Hölderlin's poem The Archipelago fills a gap in Hölderlin scholarship. The book reads...  Read More >>

Dante Elegiaco. Una Chiave Di Lettura Per La Vita Nova

Dante Elegiaco. Una Chiave Di Lettura Per La Vita Nova...

Author: Stefano Carrai
ISBN: 9788822255174
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The author intends to renew the critical approach to the Vita Nova by drawing attention to questions which either...  Read More >>

Commentarii in Prophetas Minores E Schola Autissiodorensi, Pars Altera: Commentarii in Ionam, Micheam, Naum, Abacuc, Sophoniam, Aggeum, Zachariam, Malachiam Auctore Heirico Autissiodorensi

Commentarii in Prophetas Minores E Schola Autissiodorensi,...

Author: R Gryson
ISBN: 9782503591162
Format: Hardback
$1032.90

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Distinctiones Abel I

Distinctiones Abel I

Author: Petrus Cantor ,  S A Barney
ISBN: 9782503578057
Format: Hardback
$1024.32

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Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle...

Author: Erika Gielen ,  Jan Papy
ISBN: 9782503588438
Format: Hardback
$330.00

In order to gain a deeper understanding of the shifting idea of authority of a text, its transmission and reception...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Exeter: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of Patrick W. Conner

The Wisdom of Exeter: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of...

Author: E.J. Christie
ISBN: 9781501517822
Format: Hardback
$322.05

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The Iliad of Homer, Books XIII-XXIV (Volume 2)

The Iliad of Homer, Books XIII-XXIV (Volume 2)

Author: Barry Nurcombe
ISBN: 9781527554405
Format: Hardback
$209.56

“The people took the bones, enwrapped them withSoft purple robes, and laid them down withinA golden urn, to place...  Read More >>

The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XII (Volume 1)

The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XII (Volume 1)

Author: Barry Nurcombe
ISBN: 9781527554399
Format: Hardback
$209.56

“Sing, Goddess, of the wrath of Pēleús’ sonAkhilleús, the accursed wrath that causedAkhaíans countless woes and...  Read More >>

The Classics in Modernist Translation

The Classics in Modernist Translation

Author: Lynn Kozak (Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada) ,  Miranda Hickman (McGill University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350177468
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity...  Read More >>

Seneca: Medea

Seneca: Medea

Author: Dr Helen Slaney (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Roehampton University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350177475
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Composed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy...  Read More >>

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics...

Author: Dr Nicholas Freer ,  Bobby Xinyue
ISBN: 9781350177482
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Virgil’s Georgics, the most neglected of the poet’s three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh...  Read More >>

Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran

Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance and...

Author: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780755638345
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This study will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative Arabic-Persian literature, and the ghazal...  Read More >>

Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature

Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early...

Author: Professor Christina M Heckman (Person)
ISBN: 9781843845652
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.  Read More >>

The Vatican's Snakehead Auditorium: Is The Black Race Destined To Rule The New Age?

The Vatican's Snakehead Auditorium: Is The Black Race...

Author: Tunji Adeeko
ISBN: 9789789792054
Format: Paperback
$26.37

In 1971, while the world sleeps, the Vatican erected in Italy a heavily reinforced edifice. More puzzling is that...  Read More >>

Stories from Shakespeare. with illustrations

Stories from Shakespeare. with illustrations

Author: Mara L Pratt
ISBN: 9785519706834
Format: Hardback
$75.01

This book, Stories from Shakespeare , by Mara L. Pratt, is a replication of a book originally published before...  Read More >>

Osbern Bokenham: Lives of the Saints

Osbern Bokenham: Lives of the Saints

Author: Simon Horobin (Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198867975
Format: Hardback
$153.95

This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete...  Read More >>

Claiming Places: Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization

Claiming Places: Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient...

Author: Eric C. Moore
ISBN: 9783161569852
Format: Paperback
$231.32

How is Acts of the Apostles - its form and features - to be understood in light of the work's ancient Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410398789
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World

Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World

Author: Loren R. Spielman
ISBN: 9783161550003
Format: Hardback
$378.81

Countering the traditional belief that Jews in antiquity were predominantly disinterested in the popular entertainments...  Read More >>

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