Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Emotion and Medieval Textual Media

Emotion and Medieval Textual Media

Author: Mary C. Flannery
ISBN: 9782503577814
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Text is one of the most valuable and plentiful sources of information available to scholars interested in medieval...  Read More >>

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 40

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 40

Author: Sarah Salih
ISBN: 9780933784420
Format: Hardback
$158.40

The annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries,...  Read More >>

Galenus - Hipponax

Galenus - Hipponax

Author: Guido Bastianini ,  Daniela Colomo
ISBN: 9783110582505
Format: Hardback
$472.53

Mit den Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta wird der Fachwelt ein einzigartiges papyrologisches Sammelwerk...  Read More >>

The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages

The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of...

Author: Matthew X. Vernon
ISBN: 9783030081744
Format: Paperback
$206.97

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Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity

Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity...

Author: James C. Kriesel
ISBN: 9780268104498
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Boccaccio's writing about women and sexuality, in contrast to much of medieval literature, highlights the symbolic...  Read More >>

The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean

The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean...

Author: Tamar M. Boyadjian
ISBN: 9781501730535
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition,...  Read More >>

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education...

Author: Carissa M. Harris
ISBN: 9781501730405
Format: Hardback
$95.74

As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit...  Read More >>

Virgin Whore

Virgin Whore

Author: Emma Maggie Solberg
ISBN: 9781501730337
Format: Hardback
$95.74

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Antike Und Neuzeit / Band 1: Antike Und Deutsche Dichtung

Antike Und Neuzeit / Band 1: Antike Und Deutsche Dichtung...

Author: Michael Von Albrecht
ISBN: 9783825369309
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Goethes Begegnung mit der Antike ist von Sachinteresse gepragt: ein Weg zur Erkenntnis der Welt und des eigenen...  Read More >>

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity:...

Author: Jan M Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9781783745395
Format: Paperback
$69.73

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first...  Read More >>

Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films

Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace...

Author: Mark William Padilla
ISBN: 9781498563505
Format: Hardback
$302.00

This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for...  Read More >>

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative: Thermopylae, Cannae and Beyond

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative: Thermopylae,...

Author: Lidewij W. van Gils ,  Irene J.F. de Jong
ISBN: 9789004383333
Format: Hardback
$459.36

In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical...  Read More >>

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early...

Author: Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) ,  Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781316501290
Format: Paperback
$67.25

A comprehensive introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic eddic poetry, written in accessible terms and featuring the...  Read More >>

Placing Ancient Texts: The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space

Placing Ancient Texts: The Ritual and Rhetorical Use...

Author: Mika Ahuvia ,  Alexander Kocar
ISBN: 9783161563768
Format: Hardback
$342.07

In this volume, scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and late antique religion demonstrate how special attention to...  Read More >>

Die Weltchronik Des Johannes Malalas Im Kontext Spatantiker Memorialkultur

Die Weltchronik Des Johannes Malalas Im Kontext Spatantiker...

Author: Jonas Borsch ,  Olivier Gengler
ISBN: 9783515120111
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Die 18 Bucher umfassende Chronik des Johannes Malalas stellt das alteste erhaltene Beispiel einer byzantinischen...  Read More >>

Studien über die Entstehung der nordischen Götter- und Heldensagen

Studien über die Entstehung der nordischen Götter- und...

Author: Sophus Bugge
ISBN: 9783965062900
Format: Paperback
$137.28

"Der norwegische Professor für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und Altnordisch Sophus Bugge (1833 - 1907) ""leistete...  Read More >>

Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance: Things New and Old

Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance: Things...

Author: Larisa Kocic-Zambo ,  Agnes Matuska
ISBN: 9781527519329
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection brings together extended versions of papers delivered at the 2015 meeting of the Hungarian Society...  Read More >>

Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry: A Companion to Plato’s Laches

Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry: A Companion...

Author: Konstantinos Stefou
ISBN: 9783030041878
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato’s Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence....  Read More >>

Contributions to the History of Latin Elegiac Distich

Contributions to the History of Latin Elegiac Distich...

Author: Lucio Ceccarelli
ISBN: 9782503574592
Format: Paperback
$382.80

The life of the Latin elegiac distich spans over a very long period of time, from its importation in Rome in II...  Read More >>

From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics

From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron...

Author: Patrizia Laspia
ISBN: 9783030084288
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a...  Read More >>

Jews and Judaism in the Rabbinic Era: Image and Reality - History and Historiography

Jews and Judaism in the Rabbinic Era: Image and Reality...

Author: Isaiah M. Gafni
ISBN: 9783161527319
Format: Hardback
$477.14

This collection of essays by Isaiah M. Gafni reflects over forty years of research on central issues of Jewish history...  Read More >>

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