Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle...

Author: Karen A. Winstead (Professor of English, The Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780198707035
Format: Hardback
$116.95

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life writing...  Read More >>

Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages

Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely...

Author: Joshua Davies
ISBN: 9781526125934
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to...  Read More >>

The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue: A Norton Critical Edition

The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General...

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer ,  V. A. Kolve (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781324000563
Format: Paperback
$46.95

""This book has been more helpful to the students--both the better ones and the lesser ones--than any other book...  Read More >>

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Author: Jacqueline Klooster ,  Baukje van den Berg
ISBN: 9789004365810
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors...  Read More >>

Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation, and Commentary...

Author: Lee M. Fratantuono ,  R. Alden Smith
ISBN: 9789004367357
Format: Hardback
$689.04

Virgil, Aeneid 8 provides the first full-scale commentary on one of the most important and popular books of the...  Read More >>

Terence: Hecyra

Terence: Hecyra

Author: Terence ,  Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781139021593
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

The social, literary and theatrical issues raised by this play, such as its treatment of women and bold experiments...  Read More >>

The Eucharist - Its Origins and Contexts: Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Volume I-III

The Eucharist - Its Origins and Contexts: Sacred Meal,...

Author: Dieter Sänger ,  David Hellholm
ISBN: 9783161562228
Format: Paperback
$280.49

These three volumes are the results of two conferences on the Christian eucharist and its context in the traditions...  Read More >>

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

Author: Pliny the Younger ,  Christopher Whitton (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781139026284
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This edition presents the Latin text of Epistles II together with a full introduction and commentary for the first...  Read More >>

Prolegomena a Donato, ""Commentum ad Andriam""

Prolegomena a Donato, ""Commentum ad Andriam""

Author: Carmela Cioffi
ISBN: 9783110582802
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Der Begleitband zur neuen Editio Teubneriana des Donat'schen Kommentars zur Andria des Terenz bietet im ersten Teil...  Read More >>

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition...

Author: Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Ralph M Rosen
ISBN: 9780814254691
Format: Paperback
$92.27

"Hip Sublime explores the rich interactions between American ""Beat"" writers of the 1940s-60s and the Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives: Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017

Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives: Papers of...

Author: Francis Cairns ,  Trevor Luke
ISBN: 9780995461215
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Ancient Biography contains revised versions of most of the papers given at the Colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography...  Read More >>

Der zweite Petrusbrief und das Neue Testament

Der zweite Petrusbrief und das Neue Testament

Author: Wolfgang Grünstäudl ,  Uta Poplutz
ISBN: 9783161548925
Format: Hardback
$401.06

"Der zweite Petrusbrief wurde und wird häufig als randständiger Text innerhalb des später kanonisch gewordenen Schrifttums...  Read More >>

A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers

A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and...

Author: Theodore A. Bergren
ISBN: 9783161560248
Format: Hardback
$329.65

"This volume lists, in alphabetical order, all the Latin words that appear in the Vulgate translation of the New...  Read More >>

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition...

Author: Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Ralph M Rosen
ISBN: 9780814213551
Format: Hardback
$162.88

"Hip Sublime explores the rich interactions between American ""Beat"" writers of the 1940s-60s and the Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957): The First Chapter in Arabic Literature

Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957): The First...

Author: A. J. Arberry
ISBN: 9781138215443
Format: Paperback
$79.99

These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced...  Read More >>

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

Author: Sean Sheehan (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781474292665
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is...  Read More >>

Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe

Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe

Author: Research Fellow Alexander O'Hara (Institut Fur Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna)
ISBN: 9780190857998
Format: Undefined
$250.80

The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role...  Read More >>

Texts and Violence in the Roman World

Texts and Violence in the Roman World

Author: Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin) ,  J. H. D. Scourfield (Maynooth University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781107027145
Format: Hardback
$274.28

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from...  Read More >>

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

Author: P. J. Finglass (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781108419512
Format: Hardback
$411.41

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Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England

Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England

Author: Heather Blatt
ISBN: 9781526117991
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for...  Read More >>

The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary

The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation...

Author: William M. Barton (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350040533
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This study provides a critical edition of the Pervigilium Veneris with a Latin text, translation and commentary....  Read More >>

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

Author: Sean Sheehan (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781474292672
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is...  Read More >>

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