Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect...

Author: Professor Mario Telò ,  Professor Melissa Mueller
ISBN: 9781350028791
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality...  Read More >>

An Explorer`s Guide to Julian of Norwich

An Explorer`s Guide to Julian of Norwich

Author: Veronica Mary Rolf
ISBN: 9780830850884
Format: Paperback
$60.69

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T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome...

Author: Evangelos Karakasis
ISBN: 9783110611717
Format: Paperback
$59.97

This book, a comprehensive survey of T. Calpurnius Siculus' pastoral opus, focuses on the poet's seven eclogues,...  Read More >>

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages

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

Author: Jan M Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9781783744336
Format: Paperback
$74.91

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

Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts...

Author: Athanasios Efstathiou ,  Ioanna Karamanou
ISBN: 9783110611724
Format: Paperback
$68.55

This volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography

The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and...

Author: Vasileios Liotsakis ,  Scott Farrington
ISBN: 9783110611731
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This book is a collective volume on classical historiography. Approaching the ancient Greek and Roman historical...  Read More >>

Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism: Collected Essays

Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism: Collected...

Author: Annette Yoshiko Reed
ISBN: 9783161544767
Format: Hardback
$489.56

"""Jewish-Christianity"" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer...  Read More >>

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages

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

Author: Jan M Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9781783744343
Format: Hardback
$100.78

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

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410378989
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the...  Read More >>

Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis...

Author: Michael D.C. Drout ,  Yvette Kisor
ISBN: 9783319808550
Format: Paperback
$129.35

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that...  Read More >>

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero ,  E S Shuckburgh
ISBN: 9781722618469
Format: Paperback
$18.35

The work is written as a dialogue between prominent figures of the Middle Roman republic and is set after the death...  Read More >>

A History of Disease in Ancient Times: More Lethal than War

A History of Disease in Ancient Times: More Lethal than...

Author: Philip Norrie
ISBN: 9783319804590
Format: Paperback
$258.72

The book will examine all the possible infectious diseasespresent in ancient times and show that life was a daily...  Read More >>

La Psychologie dans les Tragédies de Racine

La Psychologie dans les Tragédies de Racine

Author: Paul Janet
ISBN: 9781722231071
Format: Paperback
$23.60

La publication des Grands Écrivains de la France marque une phase nouvelle dans l'histoire de la critique littéraire....  Read More >>

Emperors and Usurpers: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History

Emperors and Usurpers: An Historical Commentary on Cassius...

Author: Andrew G. Scott (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780190879594
Format: Hardback
$213.00

Emperors and Usurpers provides an historical commentary for the final books of Cassius Dio's Roman history, with...  Read More >>

Gerald of Wales: De Principis Instructione

Gerald of Wales: De Principis Instructione

Author: Robert Bartlett (Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198738626
Format: Hardback
$404.95

A scholarly edition of De Principis Instructione by Gerald of Wales, in which an ecclesiastic writer reports on...  Read More >>

Dante, Il Profeta E Il Libro: La Leggenda del Toro Dalla Commedia a Filippino Lippi, Tra Sussurri Di Colomba Ed Echi Di Bisanzio

Dante, Il Profeta E Il Libro: La Leggenda del Toro Dalla...

Author: Roberta Morosini
ISBN: 9788891312051
Format: Paperback
$707.52

English summary: Dante, il Profeta e il Libro is a comparative study of the role of the Holy Book in the legend...  Read More >>

Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature

Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature...

Author: Graham Williams
ISBN: 9781137540683
Format: Hardback
$226.95

Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of...  Read More >>

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Author: Elena Lombardi (Associate Professor of Italian, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198818960
Format: Hardback
$164.95

A study of the figure of the woman reader in medieval Italian literature that places her within the history of female...  Read More >>

Therapeutic Keys to Self-Actualization in Homer's Demeter

Therapeutic Keys to Self-Actualization in Homer's Demeter...

Author: Lindy McMullin
ISBN: 9781527511231
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book is the result of a study that investigated the effects that myth in sacred text may have on personal,...  Read More >>

The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms

The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms...

Author: Xiaofei Tian
ISBN: 9780674977037
Format: Hardback
$131.87

The third century CE—the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition....  Read More >>

Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books,...

Author: Kathleen Forni
ISBN: 9781138609839
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized...  Read More >>

Les Origines du roman grec

Les Origines du roman grec

Author: Gaston Boissier
ISBN: 9781722098490
Format: Paperback
$23.60

Quand Mme de La Fayette publia son roman de Zaïde, Segrais, sous le nom duquel le livre devait paraître, pria le...  Read More >>

Wiener Studien Band 131/2018: Zeitschrift Fur Klassische Philologie, Patristik Und Lateinische Tradition

Wiener Studien Band 131/2018: Zeitschrift Fur Klassische...

Author: Kurt Smolak
ISBN: 9783700183303
Format: Paperback
$353.76

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