Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Dante E Gli Ebrei

Dante E Gli Ebrei

Author: Flaminio Servi
ISBN: 9781723595554
Format: Paperback
$20.86

pi di un quarto di secolo - e non canzono - che scrissi in varii periodici sull'amicizia di Dante col poeta ebreo...  Read More >>

Theologie des Lobens in sumerischen Hymnen: Zur Ideengeschichte der Eulogie

Theologie des Lobens in sumerischen Hymnen: Zur Ideengeschichte...

Author: Erhard S. Gerstenberger
ISBN: 9783161556586
Format: Hardback
$351.90

"Die sumerische Literatur des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v.u.Z. bietet auch zahlreiche hymnische Texte, die überwiegend...  Read More >>

The Mystery of Ovid's Exile

The Mystery of Ovid's Exile

Author: John C. Thibault
ISBN: 9780520302273
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and...  Read More >>

Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories

Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus'...

Author: Katherine Clarke (Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and Associate Professor in Ancient History, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198820437
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Focusing on the depiction of the natural world in Herodotus' Histories, this volume explores the fluid and complex...  Read More >>

Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire

Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire

Author: Diederik P.W. Burgersdijk ,  Alan J. Ross
ISBN: 9789004370890
Format: Hardback
$451.44

Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new critical analysis of the textual depictions of a series...  Read More >>

Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes: The Arts of the Spanish Inquisition. Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus: A Critical Edition of the Sanctae Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes aliquot (1567) with a Modern English Translation

Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes: The Arts of the Spanish...

Author: Marcos J. Herráiz Pareja ,  Ignacio J. García Pinilla
ISBN: 9789004365759
Format: Hardback
$649.44

Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes (Heidelberg, 1567), the work of exiled Spanish Protestants, was a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9: Who’s Speaking When and Why It Matters

Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9: Who’s...

Author: Justin King
ISBN: 9789004373280
Format: Hardback
$385.44

In Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9, Justin King focuses on the rhetorical skill of speech-in-character...  Read More >>

Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World

Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World...

Author: Simon Hornblower (Formerly Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies, All Souls College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198723684
Format: Hardback
$226.95

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a notoriously difficult poem but one that sheds crucial light on Greek...  Read More >>

Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript,...

Author: Heather Bamford
ISBN: 9781487502409
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Cultures of the Fragment places fragments at the center of reading and non-reading uses of Iberian manuscripts....  Read More >>

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Author: E a Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9789352972067
Format: Paperback
$25.23

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

The Apostolos: The Acts and Epistles in Byzantine Liturgical Manuscripts

The Apostolos: The Acts and Epistles in Byzantine Liturgical...

Author: Samuel Gibson
ISBN: 9781463206093
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Lectionary studies were almost abandoned after the mid-twentieth century, and the recent revival of interest in...  Read More >>

Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics: A Study in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4-5

Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics: A Study in...

Author: Olivia Stewart Lester
ISBN: 9783161556517
Format: Paperback
$231.32

Olivia Stewart Lester examines true and false prophecy at the intersections of interpretation, gender, and economics...  Read More >>

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of Speech in Malory’s Female Characters

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of...

Author: Siobhán M. Wyatt
ISBN: 9783319817026
Format: Paperback
$206.97

Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey...  Read More >>

FrC 3.6 Kratinos: Kratinos ffr. 299-514

FrC 3.6 Kratinos: Kratinos ffr. 299-514

Author: Douglas Olson ,  Ryan Seaberg
ISBN: 9783946317272
Format: Hardback
$212.15

This volume is devoted to the over 200 fragments of Cratinus for which have no play title. Much of the material...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 39: Stagecraft, Performance, Reception

Medieval English Theatre 39: Stagecraft, Performance,...

Author: Sarah Carpenter ,  Professor Gordon Kipling (Person)
ISBN: 9781843844990
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Newest research into drama and performance of the middle ages.  Read More >>

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion...

Author: Michael E. Heyes ,  Linda C. Ceriello
ISBN: 9781498550765
Format: Hardback
$292.00

This book explores the intersection of religion and monstrosity. The first section contains fresh research on the...  Read More >>

Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community...

Author: Kathryn L. Reyerson
ISBN: 9783319817781
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval...  Read More >>

Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle

Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues...

Author: Marcelo D. Boeri ,  Yasuhira Y. Kanayama
ISBN: 9783319785462
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in...  Read More >>

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval...

Author: Ciaran Arthur
ISBN: 9781783273133
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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The Fox and the Bees: The Early Library of Corpus Christi College Oxford: The Lowe Lectures 2017

The Fox and the Bees: The Early Library of Corpus Christi...

Author: Rodney M Thomson
ISBN: 9781843844853
Format: Hardback
$155.25

The first book-length study of the famous pre-1600 library at Corpus Christi College, one of the few college libraries...  Read More >>

Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts

Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and...

Author: Larissa Tracy (Royalty Account) ,  Bridgette Slavin (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781783273119
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval...  Read More >>

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