Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: An Anthology of New Translations

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: An Anthology of New...

Author: Diane J. Rayor (Grand Valley State University, USA) ,  William W. Batstone (Ohio State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138857797
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This second edition has been re-edited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and bibliography...  Read More >>

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
ISBN: 9780415763769
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing...  Read More >>

Ovid's Revisions: The Editor as Author

Ovid's Revisions: The Editor as Author

Author: Francesca K. A. Martelli (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781108740081
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Martelli considers how Ovid's tendency to revise his major works transforms the relationship between text, oeuvre...  Read More >>

Scripture in Its Historical Contexts: Volume I: Text, Canon, and Qumran

Scripture in Its Historical Contexts: Volume I: Text,...

Author: James A. Sanders ,  Craig A. Evans
ISBN: 9783161557569
Format: Hardback
$378.81

In this important collection of essays James A. Sanders offers his most significant work on the text and canon of...  Read More >>

The Mechanics of Providence: The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism

The Mechanics of Providence: The Workings of Ancient...

Author: Michael D. Swartz
ISBN: 9783161550027
Format: Hardback
$391.23

The phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In...  Read More >>

Gottfrieds Lesen: Prolog, Haupttext, Wortpaare

Gottfrieds Lesen: Prolog, Haupttext, Wortpaare

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Magdalena Terhorst
ISBN: 9783631758793
Format: Hardback
$249.82

Der Band möchte nachweisen, dass es einen inhaltlichen Zusammenhang von Prolog und Haupttext in Gottfrieds gibt....  Read More >>

Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy

Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy

Author: Stephen Kolsky
ISBN: 9781138375529
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries...  Read More >>

The Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction, of Ancient Thought (Classic Reprint)

The Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction, of...

Author: J a K Thomson
ISBN: 9780267418695
Format: Hardback
$77.51

Excerpt from The Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction, of Ancient Thought When Mr. Thomson's fine Studies...  Read More >>

Freud's Mahābhārata

Freud's Mahābhārata

Author: Alf Hiltebeitel (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, George Washington University)
ISBN: 9780190878337
Format: Hardback
$147.95

"Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahabharata, many of the Sanskrit epic's themes are illuminated by Freud's...  Read More >>

The Letter Collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux

The Letter Collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux

Author: Lena Wahlgren-Smith (Research Fellow in English, Research Fellow in English, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780199671519
Format: Hardback
$295.00

A scholarly edition of the letter collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux, 'the black sheep of the Cistercian order',...  Read More >>

Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education

Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education...

Author: Jennifer Ingleheart (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198819677
Format: Hardback
$271.95

The Classics were core to Victorian and Edwardian public school curricula, yet texts with sexual content were regularly...  Read More >>

Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts

Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts...

Author: Andreas Rhoby ,  Nikolaos Zagklas
ISBN: 9782503578866
Format: Paperback
$316.80

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Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530

Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530...

Author: Lee Patterson
ISBN: 9780520303782
Format: Paperback
$65.95

"As a traditional site of historical criticism, medieval studies is particularly well placed to benefit from the...  Read More >>

Bild und Kontext: Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike

Bild und Kontext: Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie...

Author: Catherine Hezser
ISBN: 9783161566097
Format: Paperback
$62.10

Catherine Hezser zeigt, dass sich die jüdische und christliche Kunst der Spätantike in kontinuierlichem Austausch...  Read More >>

Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems: From the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace-Book (Classic Reprint)

Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems: From the...

Author: Roman Dyboski
ISBN: 9781331702719
Format: Paperback
$31.60

Excerpt from Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems: From the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace-Book...  Read More >>

Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent

Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent...

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast ,  Stephanie Trigg
ISBN: 9781526126863
Format: Hardback
$183.99

The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic...  Read More >>

Pearl: A New Verse Translation in Modern English

Pearl: A New Verse Translation in Modern English

Author: John Ridland ,  Anonymous
ISBN: 9781927409886
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Pearl is the intricate, masterful fourteenth-century poem by the same anonymous medieval poet of Sir Gawain and...  Read More >>

Reformen vor der Reformation: Sankt Ulrich und Afra und der monastisch-urbane Umkreis im 15. Jahrhundert

Reformen vor der Reformation: Sankt Ulrich und Afra...

Author: Gisela Drossbach ,  Klaus Wolf
ISBN: 9783110582314
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The collection fills a gap in research on the Melker Reform in the Augusburg Monasteries of St. Ulrich and Afra,...  Read More >>

"Die ""unartikulierbaren Begriffe"" des Neuplatonikers Damaskios": Transzendenz und All-Einheit in den >Aporien und Lösungen bezüglich der ersten Prinzipien<

"Die ""unartikulierbaren Begriffe"" des Neuplatonikers...

Author: Gheorge Paşcalău
ISBN: 9783110580198
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Damascius (c. 462 - after 538) was the last of the heads of the Platonic Academy, and the last systematic thinker...  Read More >>

Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen Ordnungen des Mittelalters

Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen...

Author: Wolfram Drews
ISBN: 9783110572551
Format: Hardback
$205.83

At both the center and periphery of empire, patterns of access to imperial centers developed quite differently according...  Read More >>

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