Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry: Lascivious Poets

Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century...

Author: Linda Grant (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108493864
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence...  Read More >>

Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection

Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection

Author: William Allan (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107122994
Format: Hardback
$188.86

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Die Nicht-Dramatischen Dichtungen Des Hans Sachs: Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

Die Nicht-Dramatischen Dichtungen Des Hans Sachs: Grundlagen,...

Author: Johannes Rettelbach
ISBN: 9783954903474
Format: Hardback
$348.48

English summary: Hans Sachs (14941576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body...  Read More >>

Erzahlte Bewegung: Narrationsstrategien und Funktionsweisen lateinischer Pilgertexte (4.-15. Jahrhundert)

Erzahlte Bewegung: Narrationsstrategien und Funktionsweisen...

Author: Susanna Fischer
ISBN: 9789004380424
Format: Hardback
$369.60

In Erzahlte Bewegung. Narrationsstrategien und Funktionsweisen lateinischer Pilgertexte (4.-15. Jahrhundert), Susanna...  Read More >>

Lyrische Koharenz Im Mittelalter: Spielraume - Kriterien - Modellbildung

Lyrische Koharenz Im Mittelalter: Spielraume - Kriterien...

Author: Susanne Kobele ,  Eva Locher
ISBN: 9783825346447
Format: Hardback
$208.56

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Die Fahrt eines Heiligen durch Zeit und Raum: Untersuchungen ausgewählter Retextualisierungen des Brandan-Corpus von den Anfängen bis zum 15. Jahrhundert

Die Fahrt eines Heiligen durch Zeit und Raum: Untersuchungen...

Author: Sebastian Holtzhauer
ISBN: 9783847110194
Format: Hardback
$248.37

Erzählungen über die Seefahrt des irischen Abts Brendan von Clonfert (6. Jh.) kursierten nahezu das gesamte Mittelalter...  Read More >>

Kampf, Streit und Konkurrenz: Wettkämpfe als Erzählformen der Pluralisierung in Mären

Kampf, Streit und Konkurrenz: Wettkämpfe als Erzählformen...

Author: Martin Schneider
ISBN: 9783847110187
Format: Hardback
$124.17

Diversity can arise where value is countered by value without ambiguity being collected in the same turn. The work...  Read More >>

Prayer in the Sayings Gospel Q

Prayer in the Sayings Gospel Q

Author: Daniel A. Smith ,  Christoph Heil
ISBN: 9783161566608
Format: Hardback
$378.81

The earliest strands of the Jesus tradition, including the one attested by the Sayings Gospel Q, show a keen interest...  Read More >>

D'Annunzio E l'Edizione 1911 Della Commedia

D'Annunzio E l'Edizione 1911 Della Commedia

Author: Laura Melosi
ISBN: 9788822266743
Format: Paperback
$71.28

In 1911 Olschki printed a historical edition of the Divine Comedy with a foreword by d'Annunzio, that followed months...  Read More >>

Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs: Liber Peristephanon

Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs: Liber Peristephanon

Author: Len Krisak ,  Joseph Pucci
ISBN: 9780815353270
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon,...  Read More >>

The Annals of Tacitus: Books 5–6

The Annals of Tacitus: Books 5–6

Author: Tacitus ,  A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781316606650
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A full edition of Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals, which cover the emperor Tiberius' last years. Although Book...  Read More >>

The Lost Book of the Grail: The Sevenfold Path of the Grail and the Restoration of the Faery Accord

The Lost Book of the Grail: The Sevenfold Path of the...

Author: Caitlín Matthews ,  John Matthews
ISBN: 9781620558294
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Reveals the long-forgotten prequel to the Grail mythos and how it has profound resonance with modern times • Includes...  Read More >>

The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice

The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice

Author: Professor Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University, USA) ,  Erik Robinson (Brandeis High School, San Antonio, Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9781350124974
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature an English-language commentary on the Battle...  Read More >>

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction

Author: David Wallace (Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780198767718
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Covering Geoffrey Chaucer's life and work, David Wallace considers the influence and enduring appeal of his body...  Read More >>

The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy: Gangs of Athens

The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy: Gangs of Athens...

Author: Dr Matthew Shipton (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350124967
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth...  Read More >>

Minima Epigraphica Et Papyrologica. Anno XXII. 2019 Fasc. 24

Minima Epigraphica Et Papyrologica. Anno XXII. 2019...

Author: Felice Costabile
ISBN: 9788891318671
Format: Paperback
$1029.60

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Philosophy as Drama: Plato’s Thinking through Dialogue

Philosophy as Drama: Plato’s Thinking through Dialogue...

Author: Hallvard Fossheim (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Vigdis Songe-Møller (University of Bergen, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350082496
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Plato’s philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects,...  Read More >>

Vol. 21 of Corpus Chrstianorum: Apocrypha Hiberniae II, Apocalyptica 2

Vol. 21 of Corpus Chrstianorum: Apocrypha Hiberniae...

Author: M. Mcnamara Msc ,  P A Breatnach
ISBN: 9782503585352
Format: Hardback
$1277.76

The present volume comprises editions, by several of the major scholars now working in the field of medieval Irish...  Read More >>

A Lost Kingdom: Mercia and the Idea of England

A Lost Kingdom: Mercia and the Idea of England

Author: Carl Phelpstead
ISBN: 9781788313889
Format: Hardback
$51.75

What is `England’?  Read More >>

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