Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante Lirico E Etico

Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante Lirico E Etico...

Author: Zygmunt G. Bara'nski ,  Martin McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780367602390
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. It addresses...  Read More >>

Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy

Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil...

Author: Adrastos Omissi (Lecturer in Latin Literature, Lecturer in Latin Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780198865162
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power...  Read More >>

Theophrastus' Characters: A New Introduction

Theophrastus' Characters: A New Introduction

Author: Sonia Pertsinidis
ISBN: 9780367607050
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book offers and introduction to Characters, a series of thirty brief sketches of character types drawn from...  Read More >>

Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi: I. Seder Zeraim. Traktat 9: Ḥalla- Teighebe

Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi: I. Seder Zeraim....

Author: Doru C. Doroftei
ISBN: 9783161592591
Format: Hardback
$348.02

"The volume is a German translation of the Mishnah tractate ""Ḥallah"" , together with its Amoraic commentary (Gemara)...  Read More >>

Ausonius: Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

Ausonius: Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

Author: Deborah Warren ,  Joseph Pucci
ISBN: 9780367595203
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the...  Read More >>

Power and Subversion in Byzantium: Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010

Power and Subversion in Byzantium: Papers from the 43rd...

Author: Michael Saxby ,  Dimiter Angelov
ISBN: 9780367601324
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of...  Read More >>

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic...

Author: Marek Tamm ,  Linda Kaljundi
ISBN: 9780367602154
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Homērou Ilias: The Iliad of Homer

Homērou Ilias: The Iliad of Homer

Author: Homer ,  Felton C C
ISBN: 9785519701402
Format: Hardback
$77.60

With english notes.Stereotype edition. This book, Homerou Ilias The Iliad of Homer , by Homer, Felton C C, is...  Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 2

The Fool of Quality: Volume 2

Author: Henry Brooke
ISBN: 9780367264239
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Erec and Enide

Erec and Enide

Author: Chretien de Troyes ,  Carleton W. Carroll
ISBN: 9780367199418
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French...  Read More >>

Early Greek Thought: Three Studies

Early Greek Thought: Three Studies

Author: E. Hofmann ,  J. W. Beardslee
ISBN: 9780367109912
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Originally compiled and published in 1922, this volume contains three studies on Early Greek Thought: E. Hofmann's...  Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 4

The Fool of Quality: Volume 4

Author: Henry Brooke
ISBN: 9780367264307
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows...  Read More >>

Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History and the Medieval Miscellany

Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History and...

Author: Daniel Birkholz (Associate Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526140401
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This first-ever monograph on the celebrated medieval miscellany Harley 2253 (c. 1340) uses methods derived from...  Read More >>

Historiarum: Libri I, II, XXI, XXII

Historiarum: Libri I, II, XXI, XXII

Author: Titus Livius
ISBN: 9785519703550
Format: Hardback
$77.60

English Preface by C. G. Zumpt, Berlin, 1849. This book, Historiarum: Libri I, II, XXI, XXII , by Titus Livius,...  Read More >>

Messiah and Scripture: Paul's ""In Christ"" Idiom in Its Ancient Jewish Context

Messiah and Scripture: Paul's ""In Christ"" Idiom in...

Author: J. Thomas Hewitt
ISBN: 9783161592287
Format: Paperback
$243.48

J. Thomas Hewitt examines Paul's development and uses of the expression ""in Christ,"" or ""in messiah,"" with reference...  Read More >>

Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning

Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity:...

Author: Tobias Nicklas ,  Jens Schröter
ISBN: 9783161560941
Format: Hardback
$391.23

Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian...  Read More >>

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary...

Author: Professor Silvio Bär (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Dr Emily Hauser (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350171305
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical...  Read More >>

Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah: How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets

Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah:...

Author: Francesco Arena
ISBN: 9783161595073
Format: Paperback
$218.90

In this volume, Francesco Arena investigates false prophecy and prophetic conflicts, taking Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and...  Read More >>

A Companion to Plautus

A Companion to Plautus

Author: Dorota Dutsch (University of California, Santa Barbara) ,  George Fredric Franko (Hollins University)
ISBN: 9781118957981
Format: Hardback
$366.95

An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh...  Read More >>

The Peak Time of Entertainment in China: A Study of the Jiaofang during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)

The Peak Time of Entertainment in China: A Study of...

Author: Li (Ally) Wang
ISBN: 9781527552074
Format: Hardback
$160.40

This book is the most detailed study to date on the entertainment system in the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) of China....  Read More >>

The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet

The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature...

Author: Alfred Thomas (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843845669
Format: Hardback
$207.00

First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II.  Read More >>

Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike

Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike

Author: Michael Schramm
ISBN: 9783110671650
Format: Hardback
$222.99

During the Imperial Rome Age and late antiquity, Euripides was considered a tragic dramatist par excellence, and,...  Read More >>

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