Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature

Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature

Author: Mikael Males
ISBN: 9782503575759
Format: Hardback
$298.32

In modern scholarship, etymology and wordplay are rarely studied in tandem. In the Middle Ages, however, they were...  Read More >>

Minne ALS Sozialmodell: Konstitutionsformen Des Hofischen in Sang Und 'rede' (12.-15. Jahrhundert)

Minne ALS Sozialmodell: Konstitutionsformen Des Hofischen...

Author: Jan Mohr
ISBN: 9783825369651
Format: Hardback
$242.88

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Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales

Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism...

Author: Shawn Normandin
ISBN: 9783030080204
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This text combines ecocriticism with reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed...

Author: Alfred Thomas
ISBN: 9783030079659
Format: Paperback
$181.10

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate...  Read More >>

Corps En Peines: Manipulations Et Usages Des Corps Dans La Pratique Penale Depuis Le Moyen Age

Corps En Peines: Manipulations Et Usages Des Corps Dans...

Author: Martine Charageat ,  Mathieu Soula
ISBN: 9782406088219
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Studying punishment according to its hold on the body over the long term: this is the goal of this work, which shows...  Read More >>

Der Diwan Des Ibrahim Al-Mi'mar (Gest. 749/1348-49): Edition Und Kommentar

Der Diwan Des Ibrahim Al-Mi'mar (Gest. 749/1348-49):...

Author: Thomas Bauer ,  Anke Osigus
ISBN: 9783956504754
Format: Hardback
$279.84

"Ibrahim al-Mi'mar zahlte zu den bedeutendsten arabischen Dichtern der ersten Halfte des 14. Jahrhunderts. Er stammte...  Read More >>

Libanius: A Critical Introduction

Libanius: A Critical Introduction

Author: Lieve Van Hoof (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781108729932
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Libanius is a key figure for anybody studying late antiquity, but also ancient rhetoric, epistolography and biography....  Read More >>

English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History

English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary...

Author: Eric Weiskott (Boston College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781316620700
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from...  Read More >>

Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity

Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity

Author: Lauren Caldwell (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781108730259
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book examines the position of girls in Roman imperial society. It shows how the pressures that propelled elite...  Read More >>

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura...

Author: David Butterfield (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108730235
Format: Paperback
$95.71

The first full study of the survival of Lucretius' De rerum natura, the controversial six-book poem espousing Epicurean...  Read More >>

Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics

Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics

Author: Keimpe Algra (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) ,  Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens, Greece)
ISBN: 9781108729994
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Sextus' Against the Physicists offers a detailed discussion of the key concepts and arguments used in ancient physics....  Read More >>

Antike Und Neuzeit / Band 2: Antike Und Europaische Literatur

Antike Und Neuzeit / Band 2: Antike Und Europaische...

Author: Michael Von Albrecht
ISBN: 9783825369316
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Lebensphilosophie kleidet sich in zwei Formen der Kunstprosa: In kontinuierlicher Rede schreiben Cicero, Augustinus,...  Read More >>

Restricted Generosity in the New Testament

Restricted Generosity in the New Testament

Author: Timothy J. Murray
ISBN: 9783161564741
Format: Paperback
$231.32

The importance of material generosity in early Christianity has been firmly established in New Testament research....  Read More >>

Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals

Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals

Author: Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Alabama)
ISBN: 9780198832768
Format: Hardback
$222.00

This first book-length treatment of religion in Tacitus' Annals analyzes his numerous references to religious material...  Read More >>

Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry

Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry

Author: Ian Rutherford (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780199216192
Format: Hardback
$285.00

"No area of ancient Greek literature has been more studied over the last few decades than ""lyric poetry"": this...  Read More >>

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