Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29091 books were found.

T. Livi Ab Urbe Condita Libri a Vicesimo Sexto Ad Tricesimum

T. Livi Ab Urbe Condita Libri a Vicesimo Sexto Ad Tricesimum...

Author: Titus Livius ,  Avgustus Luchs
ISBN: 9785519702515
Format: Hardback
$77.60

Italian Edition This book, T. Livi Ab Urbe Condita Libri a Vicesimo Sexto Ad Tricesimum , by Titus Livius, Avgustus...  Read More >>

Between the Worlds: Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys

Between the Worlds: Contexts, Sources, and Analogues...

Author: Matthias Egeler ,  Wilhelm Heizmann
ISBN: 9783110618815
Format: Hardback
$343.11

The volume presents a rich panorama of a broad range of very different - Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric, Greek, Latin,...  Read More >>

The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context

The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context

Author: Lydia Schumacher
ISBN: 9783110684926
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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Pearl: Text and Translation

Pearl: Text and Translation

Author: Jane Beal ,  Jane Beal
ISBN: 9781554814589
Format: Paperback
$55.31

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written. This dual-language...  Read More >>

Analyse du roman Perceval ou le conte du Graal: Analyse du roman de Chrétien de Troyes

Analyse du roman Perceval ou le conte du Graal: Analyse...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9798652527778
Format: Paperback
$14.23

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"Estudiar ""Perceval o el cuento del Grial""": Análisis de la novela de Chrétien de Troyes

"Estudiar ""Perceval o el cuento del Grial""": Análisis...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9798652604448
Format: Paperback
$23.47

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Understanding french literature: Perceval or the tale of the Grail: Analysis of the novel by Chrétien de Troyes

Understanding french literature: Perceval or the tale...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9798652587673
Format: Paperback
$23.47

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Capire e analizzare Perceval o il racconto del Graal: Analisi del romanzo di Chrétien de Troyes

Capire e analizzare Perceval o il racconto del Graal:...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9798652574413
Format: Paperback
$23.47

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Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent

Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent...

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast ,  Stephanie Trigg
ISBN: 9781526147998
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic...  Read More >>

Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century: The Woman in the Mirror

Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century: The...

Author: Morgan Powell (Lecturer of English, Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
ISBN: 9781641893770
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience...  Read More >>

Classics and Media Theory

Classics and Media Theory

Author: Reader in Classics Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780191881251
Format: Undefined
$277.20

Introducing a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory, this...  Read More >>

Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

Author: Tom Phillips (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780191883019
Format: Undefined
$277.20

Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs,...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Aristophanes' Knights

A Commentary on Aristophanes' Knights

Author: Carl Arne Anderson ,  T. Keith Dix
ISBN: 9780472074457
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Presents a fresh look at the play that cemented Aristophanes' reputation as a rising star in comic theatre. This...  Read More >>

Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's Visions and Vitae

Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's...

Author: Jessica Barr
ISBN: 9780472131693
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader's spiritual transformation....  Read More >>

Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece

Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece

Author: Jessica Romney
ISBN: 9780472131853
Format: Hardback
$211.07

By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric,...  Read More >>

Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives

Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological...

Author: Peter Altmann ,  Anna Angelini
ISBN: 9783161593550
Format: Paperback
$157.58

"This volume presents contributions from ""The Larger Context of the Biblical Food Prohibitions: Comparative and...  Read More >>

Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life

Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life

Author: Lynn Staley
ISBN: 9780472131877
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Uses Chaucer's likely reading, circumstances, and literary and social affiliations as guides to understanding his...  Read More >>

Demetrius the Besieger

Demetrius the Besieger

Author: Pat Wheatley (Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Charlotte Dunn (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, University of Tasmania)
ISBN: 9780198836049
Format: Hardback
$323.95

Demetrius Poliorcetes, also known as 'The Besieger of Cities', is the most fascinating and high profile of the Successors...  Read More >>

Agricola and Germania (Graphyco Editions)

Agricola and Germania (Graphyco Editions)

Author: Graphyco Editions
ISBN: 9798651986323
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful. In the book Agricola, Tacitus paints a portrait of Julius Agricola...  Read More >>

Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

Author: Tom Phillips (Lecturer in Classical Literature, Lecturer in Classical Literature, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780198848561
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Untimely Epic offers a new interpretation of time in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica: rather than focusing predominantly...  Read More >>

Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero López de Ayala

Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero López de...

Author: Peter Such
ISBN: 9781789621341
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are not available for purchase. Pero López de Ayala’s Chronicle...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Aristophanes' Knights

A Commentary on Aristophanes' Knights

Author: Carl Arne Anderson ,  T. Keith Dix
ISBN: 9780472054459
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A disruptive comedy by a disruptive playwright  Read More >>

Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures

Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures...

Author: Anna Klosowska ,  Vincent W J Van Gerven Oei
ISBN: 9781950192755
Format: Paperback
$63.36

From Kehinde Wiley to W.E.B. Du Bois, from Nubia to Cuba, Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence...  Read More >>

Analyse du roman de Tristan et Iseut: Analyse du roman de Joseph Bédier

Analyse du roman de Tristan et Iseut: Analyse du roman...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9798650804604
Format: Paperback
$14.23

Analyse du roman de Tristan et Iseut de Joseph Bédier. Liste des chapitres analysés: Les enfances de Tristan, Le...  Read More >>

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