Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Mediality in the Middle Ages: Abundance and Lack

Mediality in the Middle Ages: Abundance and Lack

Author: Christian Kiening (Professor of German literature, University of Zürich) ,  Nicola Barfoot
ISBN: 9781641890755
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Not another history of the media, but a cogent look at how mediality was conceived before the existence of media...  Read More >>

The Odyssey: Selections

The Odyssey: Selections

Author: Homer ,  Ian Johnston
ISBN: 9781554814268
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France

Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question...

Author: Judy Kem
ISBN: 9781496215208
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus: Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528

The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus: Volume 5:...

Author: Harry Vredeveld
ISBN: 9789004414655
Format: Hardback
$715.44

Faced with losing his Erfurt lectorships, Eobanus Hessus coped by imagining himself a Proteus, transforming into...  Read More >>

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9781713431022
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars.  Read More >>

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: New Release Premium Edition

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: New Release Premium...

Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9781652821915
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England...

Author: D Vance Smith
ISBN: 9780226640990
Format: Paperback
$52.95

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and...  Read More >>

Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese

Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese...

Author: Edward Teach, MD
ISBN: 9781734460803
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Psychoanalysis has been used with some success to explore literary works, but surprisingly little has been done...  Read More >>

Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in...

Author: Sebastian Sobecki (Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture, University of Groningen)
ISBN: 9780198790785
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works...  Read More >>

Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England...

Author: D Vance Smith
ISBN: 9780226640853
Format: Hardback
$168.95

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and...  Read More >>

Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry

Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early...

Author: Michael Clarke (National University of Ireland, Galway)
ISBN: 9781108481786
Format: Hardback
$90.54

A radically new reading of ancient epic poetry which first explores the Epic of Gilgamesh, the great poem of love...  Read More >>

Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500–1500

Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500–1500...

Author: Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Technology) ,  Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107163362
Format: Hardback
$346.73

This expert survey of historical writing in medieval Britain and Ireland introduces readers to a rich subfield of...  Read More >>

Sallust

Sallust

Author: William W. Batstone (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University) ,  Andrew Feldherr (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198790983
Format: Hardback
$307.00

The Roman historian Sallust emerges from recent scholarship as one of the most innovative writers of the ancient...  Read More >>

Epischer Renaut Alias Heiliger Reinoldus Im Lichte Einer Radiocarbon-Datierung

Epischer Renaut Alias Heiliger Reinoldus Im Lichte Einer...

Author: Elmar Eggert ,  Gustav Adolf Beckmann
ISBN: 9783631798973
Format: Hardback
$71.93

Umkehr in der Erforschung des Renaut de Montauban, eines der altfranzösischen Epen von Weltliteraturformat: Laut...  Read More >>

A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature

A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical...

Author: Madeleine Scherer ,  Rachel Falconer
ISBN: 9780367358860
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A Quest for Remembrance brings together a range of arguments exploring...  Read More >>

Medieval Mythography, Volume One

Medieval Mythography, Volume One

Author: Jane Chance
ISBN: 9781532688911
Format: Paperback
$166.32

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Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Libri XI-XX)

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli...

Author: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)
ISBN: 9780199695027
Format: Hardback
$219.95

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae is intended to replace the 1968 Oxford Classical Text...  Read More >>

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X)

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10...

Author: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)
ISBN: 9780199695010
Format: Hardback
$133.95

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae is intended to replace the 1968 Oxford Classical Text...  Read More >>

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and...

Author: Juliann Vitullo
ISBN: 9783030290443
Format: Hardback
$181.10

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Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek...

Author: N. J. Allen (Retired Reader, Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780367260477
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bringing together the study of the Greek Classics and Indology, Arjuna–Odysseus provides a comparative analysis...  Read More >>

Medieval Mythography, Volume One

Medieval Mythography, Volume One

Author: Jane Chance
ISBN: 9781532688928
Format: Hardback
$219.12

The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry...  Read More >>

The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE: Presence and Representation

The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE: Presence...

Author: Lucy C. M. M. Jackson (Assistant Professor in Classics (Greek Literature), Assistant Professor in Classics (Greek Literature), Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198844532
Format: Hardback
$242.95

This first comprehensive study of the ancient Greek dramatic chorus in the fourth century reassesses the traditional...  Read More >>

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