Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage: Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage: Typologies of Prayer in...

Author: Alessandro Vettori
ISBN: 9789004405240
Format: Hardback
$393.36

In Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante's Commedia...  Read More >>

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Author: E a Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9781694979766
Format: Paperback
$102.93

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian...  Read More >>

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of...

Author: Jay Paul Gates ,  Brian T. O'Camb
ISBN: 9789004395152
Format: Hardback
$364.32

By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore...  Read More >>

Chaucer: The Basics

Chaucer: The Basics

Author: Jacqueline Tasioulas (Clare College, Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781138667709
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.  Read More >>

UNSAGBARKEIT (BRAUN/MUELLER) TA 59

UNSAGBARKEIT (BRAUN/MUELLER) TA 59

Author: Lea Braun ,  Felix Florian Müller
ISBN: 9783110623949
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Countless texts from world literature teach us that at the heart of every intimate encounter there is an inexpressible...  Read More >>

Der Richter und seine Ankläger: Eine narratologische Untersuchung der Rechtsstreit- und Prozessmotivik im Johannesevangelium

Der Richter und seine Ankläger: Eine narratologische...

Author: Benjamin Lange
ISBN: 9783161581694
Format: Paperback
$287.21

Das Johannesevangelium ist durch die häufige Erwähnung von Zeugen, Anklagen, verhörartigen Befragungen und anderen...  Read More >>

Valerius Maximus, ›Facta et dicta memorabilia‹, Book 8: Text, Introduction, and Commentary

Valerius Maximus, ›Facta et dicta memorabilia‹, Book...

Author: John Briscoe
ISBN: 9783110664249
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages

Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages

Author: Aisling Byrne (Merton College, Oxford) ,  Victoria Flood
ISBN: 9782503566733
Format: Hardback
$298.32

This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and...  Read More >>

Frauenmystik im europaischen Kontext: """The Book of Margery Kempe"" und die deutschsprachige Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts"

Frauenmystik im europaischen Kontext: """The Book of...

Author: Simone Kugeler-Race ,  Klaus Gereon Beuckers
ISBN: 9783412511760
Format: Hardback
$173.34

The interdisciplinary study is devoted to the investigation of the tradition and text history, literary authorship...  Read More >>

Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine: Cambridge Library Collection. Linguistics. Opendoor

Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine: Cambridge...

Author: Antoine Meillet
ISBN: 9781686567551
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Antoine Meillet mentored a generation of influential twentieth-century linguists and philologists, including Emile...  Read More >>

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9781692537913
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Classic comedy concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the...  Read More >>

Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth

Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth

Author: Ann W. Astell
ISBN: 9781501743160
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here...  Read More >>

Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in...

Author: Cynthia J. Brown
ISBN: 9781501742521
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships...  Read More >>

The Medieval Saga

The Medieval Saga

Author: Carol J. Clover
ISBN: 9781501740503
Format: Paperback
$41.37

In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in...  Read More >>

Chaucer: The Basics

Chaucer: The Basics

Author: Jacqueline Tasioulas (Clare College, Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781138667716
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.  Read More >>

Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

Author: Sarah Salih (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781843845409
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Reads the imagined history of the long term relationship between pagan and Christian through quasi-factual fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory,...

Author: Jesse Gellrich
ISBN: 9781501740701
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich...  Read More >>

Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

Author: Helene P. Foley
ISBN: 9781501740626
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae,...  Read More >>

The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages

The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through...

Author: Penelope Reed Doob
ISBN: 9781501738456
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double...  Read More >>

Homer: The Poetry of the Past

Homer: The Poetry of the Past

Author: Andrew Ford
ISBN: 9781501740657
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages

Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Glending Olson
ISBN: 9781501746741
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval...  Read More >>

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