Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers: Imperial Tradition and Universal History in Late Medieval Europe

Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers: Imperial Tradition...

Author: Thomas Foerster
ISBN: 9780367880347
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood

The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature:...

Author: Sarah Harlan-Haughey
ISBN: 9780367881122
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Analyzing outlaw literature as a form of nature writing, Harlan-Haughey suggests that it often reveals more about...  Read More >>

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond: Shifting...

Author: Alexandra F. Johnston ,  edited by David N. Klausner
ISBN: 9780367879525
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers’ documents that initiated the project...  Read More >>

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past...

Author: Martin Brett ,  David A. Woodman
ISBN: 9780367879365
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The essays in this volume, provided by experts in various different scholarly disciplines, scrutinize how the Anglo-Saxon...  Read More >>

Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe: The European Historic Towns Atlas Project

Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe: The European Historic...

Author: Howard B. Clarke ,  Anngret Simms
ISBN: 9780367888015
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume is the first publication to draw upon the mass of information provided by the Historic Towns Atlases...  Read More >>

Virgil

Virgil

Author: Alison Keith (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781848859203
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation...  Read More >>

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Author: Shari Lowin (Stonehill College, USA)
ISBN: 9780367867560
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry...  Read More >>

Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible

Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the...

Author: Philippe Wajdenbaum
ISBN: 9780367872168
Format: Paperback
$83.99

'Argonauts of the Desert' presents a revolutionary new commentary on the Bible and its origins, arguing that most...  Read More >>

Vergiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro

Vergiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius...

Author: Egil Kraggerud (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9780367890209
Format: Paperback
$88.99

In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual...  Read More >>

Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature

Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient...

Author: Michael Vickers
ISBN: 9780367872243
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes...  Read More >>

Literature and the Islamic Court: Cultural life under al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad

Literature and the Islamic Court: Cultural life under...

Author: Erez Naaman (American University, Washington)
ISBN: 9780367874513
Format: Paperback
$88.99

The court of the vizier and literary person al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād (326-385/938-995) in western Iran is one of the...  Read More >>

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing...

Author: Lindsay Ann Reid
ISBN: 9780367882372
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Chaucer Scholarship of Mary Eliza Haweis, 1848–1898

The Forgotten Chaucer Scholarship of Mary Eliza Haweis,...

Author: Mary Flowers Braswell
ISBN: 9780367880910
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In her biography of the nineteenth-century scholar Mary Eliza Haweis, Mary Flowers Braswell traces Haweis's career...  Read More >>

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry...

Author: Thomas Birkett (University College Cork, Ireland)
ISBN: 9780367880873
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Presenting five linked case studies of runes in poetry, this study is the first to compare responses to runic heritage...  Read More >>

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and...

Author: Åslaug Ommundsen ,  Tuomas Heikkilä
ISBN: 9780367881696
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book sheds light on the fragments from Latin manuscripts as sources to determine the establishment and development...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality

Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of...

Author: Ayelet Peer
ISBN: 9780367880583
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Virgil

Virgil

Author: Alison Keith (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781848859197
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation...  Read More >>

The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'

The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth...

Author: Edward Pettit
ISBN: 9781783748273
Format: Paperback
$74.91

This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its...  Read More >>

Hawtrey's Deputy

Hawtrey's Deputy

Author: Harold Bindloss
ISBN: 9781660030590
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Harold Edward Bindloss (1866 - December 30, 1945) was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in...  Read More >>

Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine

Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the...

Author: Martha Bayless
ISBN: 9780367866570
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This important book analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Taking in...  Read More >>

Attic Oratory and Performance

Attic Oratory and Performance

Author: Andreas Serafim
ISBN: 9780367871277
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to...  Read More >>

The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination: Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination: Ethnicity,...

Author: Robert Rix (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780367871130
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval...  Read More >>

National Poetry, Empires and War

National Poetry, Empires and War

Author: David Aberbach (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367870195
Format: Paperback
$58.99

National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and its glorification of war, from ancient to modern...  Read More >>

Moral Play and Counterpublic

Moral Play and Counterpublic

Author: Ineke Murakami (State University of New York, Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9780367865801
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles...  Read More >>

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