Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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I, the Poet: First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius

I, the Poet: First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus,...

Author: Kathleen McCarthy
ISBN: 9781501739552
Format: Hardback
$129.38

First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person...  Read More >>

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value...

Author: Diane Cady
ISBN: 9783030262600
Format: Hardback
$168.16

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital...  Read More >>

Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena

Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden &...

Author: Maria H. Oen ,  Unn Falkeid, PhD
ISBN: 9780367368555
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this comparative study, leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds offer, for the very first time,...  Read More >>

Early British Drama in Manuscript

Early British Drama in Manuscript

Author: Tamara Atkin ,  Laura Estill
ISBN: 9782503575469
Format: Hardback
$364.32

This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied manuscript...  Read More >>

Engelgemeinschaft im irdischen Gottesdienst: Studien zu Texten aus Qumran und dem Neuen Testament

Engelgemeinschaft im irdischen Gottesdienst: Studien...

Author: Michael R. Jost
ISBN: 9783161567407
Format: Paperback
$300.15

Das Motiv einer Gemeinschaft mit den Engeln im Gottesdienst lässt sich in frühjüdischen und neutestamentlichen Texten...  Read More >>

Apocalypticism in the Synoptic Sayings Source: A Reassessment of Q's Stratigraphy

Apocalypticism in the Synoptic Sayings Source: A Reassessment...

Author: Olegs Andrejevs
ISBN: 9783161576393
Format: Paperback
$243.48

Recently reconstructed by scholars, Q is one of the New Testament's earliest source documents. Arguing that Q's...  Read More >>

Old Papers About Old English: Some Odd Ramblings of an Old-Style Philologist

Old Papers About Old English: Some Odd Ramblings of...

Author: John Richardson
ISBN: 9781706511717
Format: Paperback
$41.35

The essays in this little volume, with the exception of the poetic translation of The Ruin - which first appeared...  Read More >>

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry,...

Author: Christopher Stray ,  Christopher Pelling
ISBN: 9780198777366
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Famous for his visionary book, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), E. R. Dodds was not only a remarkable classical...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Author: John M. Bowers (Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas)
ISBN: 9780198842675
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord...  Read More >>

Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the 'Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles'

Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the 'Chronicles of...

Author: R. Andrew McDonald
ISBN: 9783030220259
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century...  Read More >>

Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France

Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France...

Author: Glenn D. Burger ,  Rory G. Critten
ISBN: 9781526144218
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering...  Read More >>

Pompejanische Wandinschriften: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Pompejanische Wandinschriften: Lateinisch - Deutsch...

Author: Rudolf Wachter
ISBN: 9783110649437
Format: Hardback
$182.13

Die pompejanischen Wandinschriften geben einen einzigartigen Einblick in den Alltag der frühen Kaiserzeit - mit...  Read More >>

Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata

Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata...

Author: Simon Brodbeck (Reader, Reader, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780190279189
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details...  Read More >>

The Story of Flamenca: The First Modern Novel, Arranged from the Provencal Original of the Thirteenth Century

The Story of Flamenca: The First Modern Novel, Arranged...

Author: William Aspenwall Bradley
ISBN: 9781708853198
Format: Paperback
$18.35

The: Roman de Flamenca occupies a unique place in Provencal literature. It has, says Meyer, nothing in common...  Read More >>

Späte Schriften zur Gnadenlehre: De gratia et libero arbitrio. De praedestinatione sanctorum libri duo (olim: De praedestinatione sanctorum, De dono perseverantiae)

Späte Schriften zur Gnadenlehre: De gratia et libero...

Author: Augustinus ,  Volker Henning Drecoll
ISBN: 9783110606942
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This volume includes the first critical edition of two of Augustine's most important writings on the theology of...  Read More >>

Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem: Scholia vetustiora et Lexicon Thucydideum Patmense. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Klaus Alpers

Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem: Scholia vetustiora et...

Author: Alexander Kleinlogel ,  Klaus Alpers
ISBN: 9783110107227
Format: Hardback
$429.00

The scholia to Thucydides, which are marginalia found in Medieval Greek manuscripts, provide us with the remainders...  Read More >>

Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition

Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the...

Author: Dieter Bitterli
ISBN: 9781487525484
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding...  Read More >>

On Deification and Sacred Eloquence: Richard Rolle and Julian of Norwich

On Deification and Sacred Eloquence: Richard Rolle and...

Author: Louise Nelstrop
ISBN: 9781472489418
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland

Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the...

Author: Rebecca Merkelbach
ISBN: 9781501518362
Format: Hardback
$332.61

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Chaucer and Middle English Studies: In Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins

Chaucer and Middle English Studies: In Honour of Rossell...

Author: Beryl Rowland
ISBN: 9780367357405
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author: C. David Benson
ISBN: 9780367357245
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography

Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research,...

Author: Lawrence Besserman
ISBN: 9780367357252
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Originally published in 1988. This book contains a detailed chapter on research and then presents two indexes. The...  Read More >>

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