Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and...

Author: Meg Twycross ,  Sarah Carpenter
ISBN: 9780367593773
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which, over the...  Read More >>

Peter Abelard and Heloise: Collected Studies

Peter Abelard and Heloise: Collected Studies

Author: David Luscombe
ISBN: 9780367582746
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The main themes of the author's studies are the careers and the thought of Peter Abelard, his philosophy, theology...  Read More >>

Law and History in the Latin East

Law and History in the Latin East

Author: Peter W. Edbury
ISBN: 9780367600068
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The...  Read More >>

Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries

Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian...

Author: Yves Porter ,  S. Butani
ISBN: 9780367534943
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical...  Read More >>

Slavic Gods and Heroes

Slavic Gods and Heroes

Author: Judith Kalik ,  Alexander Uchitel
ISBN: 9780367588649
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The nature of Slavic pagan religion remains obscure. There is no consensus among scholars, and neo-pagan movements...  Read More >>

From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante

From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship...

Author: Claire E. Honess
ISBN: 9780367602529
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the role and function of the notion of the city in Dante's works. It focuses most closely on...  Read More >>

Bede and the Future

Bede and the Future

Author: Peter Darby ,  Faith Wallis
ISBN: 9780367600259
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England's most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important...  Read More >>

Unbinding Medea

Unbinding Medea

Author: Heike Bartel ,  Simon Anne
ISBN: 9780367603618
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific...  Read More >>

Between Constantinople and Rome: An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

Between Constantinople and Rome: An Illuminated Byzantine...

Author: Kathleen Maxwell
ISBN: 9780367600884
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France,...  Read More >>

Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity

Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity...

Author: Sara Fortuna ,  Manuele Gragnolati
ISBN: 9780367602444
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on Dante's central problem of the plurality of languages. It discusses the medieval theories of...  Read More >>

Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven...

Author: Isabelle Torrance
ISBN: 9780367595401
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture

Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture

Author: Elma Brenner ,  Meredith Cohen
ISBN: 9780367601713
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas. The Tablet of Kebes. (1909)

The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas....

Author: R. Thomson Clark
ISBN: 9781138602830
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV

Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the...

Author: Fotini Kondyli ,  Vera Andriopoulou
ISBN: 9780367600679
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical...  Read More >>

Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520

Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy...

Author: Rhiannon Daniels
ISBN: 9780367602307
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is collections of essays on Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media during...  Read More >>

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume I: Periods and Places

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography:...

Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis
ISBN: 9780367570606
Format: Paperback
$105.00

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism...  Read More >>

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond

Author: George T. Calofonos ,  Christine Angelidi
ISBN: 9780367600594
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance...  Read More >>

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography:...

Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis
ISBN: 9780367570590
Format: Paperback
$105.00

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms....  Read More >>

Lydgate's Minor Poems: The Two Nightingale Poems (A.D. 1446)

Lydgate's Minor Poems: The Two Nightingale Poems (A.D....

Author: Otto Glauning
ISBN: 9781138615083
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1900, this volume includes the two versions of Lydgate’s Middle-English Nightingale poems and...  Read More >>

Ranna: Gadāyuddham – The Duel of the Maces

Ranna: Gadāyuddham – The Duel of the Maces

Author: Akkamahadevi ,  R.V.S. Sundaram
ISBN: 9780367535940
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage

Author: Phillip Pulsiano ,  Elaine M. Treharne
ISBN: 9781138607804
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1998, this volume combines the use of novel techniques such as digital image processing with...  Read More >>

The English Charlemagne Romances: Part VI. The Taill of Rauf Coilyear (about 1475 A.D.) (from the unique copy of Lekpreuik's edition of 1572) with fragments of Roland and Vernagu and Otuel (from the unique auchinleck MS., about 1330 A.D.)

The English Charlemagne Romances: Part VI. The Taill...

Author: Sidney J.H. Herrtage
ISBN: 9781138604865
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1882, this volume formed the sixth part of a unique series of English-language Charlemagne romances...  Read More >>

Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003...

Author: Tristan Kay ,  Martin McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780367603830
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee's lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt...  Read More >>

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and...

Author: Joshua R. Eyler
ISBN: 9780367602734
Format: Paperback
$83.99

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working...  Read More >>

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