Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Making of the Odyssey

The Making of the Odyssey

Author: Martin Litchfield West (Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198810193
Format: Paperback
$76.95

The Making of the Odyssey is a penetrating study of the background, composition, and artistry of the Homeric Odyssey,...  Read More >>

Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts

Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices,...

Author: Sif Rikhardsdottir
ISBN: 9781843844709
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon....  Read More >>

Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation

Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception,...

Author: Tom Birkett ,  Kirsty March-Lyons
ISBN: 9781843844730
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval...  Read More >>

Celestina and the Human Condition in Early Modern Spain and Italy

Celestina and the Human Condition in Early Modern Spain...

Author: Dr Rachel Scott (Customer)
ISBN: 9781855663183
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Explores Celestina's role as a key interlocutor in European literature and thought in the context of debates about...  Read More >>

The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXIII: The Rawlinson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford

The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXIII: The...

Author: Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson
ISBN: 9781843844778
Format: Hardback
$284.63

A series which is ""a monumental achievement"" (Review of English Studies).  Read More >>

Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books

Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript...

Author: M.B. Parkes ,  edited by P.R. Robinson
ISBN: 9781138110687
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Discusses the handwriting of individual scribes, and the evidence script can provide of the circumstances of a book's...  Read More >>

Boccaccio the Philosopher: An Epistemology of the Decameron

Boccaccio the Philosopher: An Epistemology of the Decameron...

Author: Filippo Andrei
ISBN: 9783319651149
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified...  Read More >>

Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing: Reading for Change

Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and...

Author: Allyson Carr
ISBN: 9783319637440
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Medinet Habu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses III

The Medinet Habu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses...

Author: Donald Bruce Redford
ISBN: 9789004354173
Format: Hardback
$353.76

The Medinet Habu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses III is a new translation in metric format, and commentary,...  Read More >>

Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies: Lessons for Statesmen and Generals in the Parallel Lives

Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies: Lessons for Statesmen...

Author: Susan G. Jacobs
ISBN: 9789004276604
Format: Hardback
$438.24

In Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies, Susan Jacobs argues that the Parallel Lives portray historical leaders solving...  Read More >>

Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol. 4

Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies...

Author: Koen De Temmerman ,  Evert Van Emde Boas
ISBN: 9789004356306
Format: Hardback
$512.16

This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological...  Read More >>

Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture

Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European...

Author: Stephen G. Nichols ,  Andreas Kablitz
ISBN: 9781433143229
Format: Paperback
$191.14

The essays in this book lay bare the dynamics of cultural confrontation between Europe and the Mediterranean world...  Read More >>

Poetics: Includes MLA Style Citations for Scholarly Secondary Sources, Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Critical Essays (Squid Ink Classics)

Poetics: Includes MLA Style Citations for Scholarly...

Author: Samuel Henry Butcher ,  Aristotle
ISBN: 9781979731294
Format: Paperback
$22.04

Love at first cite. Having trouble finding scholarly sources for your research paper? This Squid Ink Classic includes...  Read More >>

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The...

Author: Donald Harper ,  Marc Kalinowski
ISBN: 9789004310193
Format: Hardback
$549.12

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found...  Read More >>

The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake

The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake

Author: Betsy Bowden
ISBN: 9781611462432
Format: Hardback
$302.00

This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual...  Read More >>

Le Tombeau de Cynthia: Mythes, Fictions Et Ironie Dans Le Livre IV Des Elegies de Properce

Le Tombeau de Cynthia: Mythes, Fictions Et Ironie Dans...

Author: Matthieu Gazeau
ISBN: 9782251447421
Format: Paperback
$182.16

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Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction

Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary,...

Author: Simon Hornblower (Former Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198810643
Format: Paperback
$104.95

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece, and one of the most important and notoriously...  Read More >>

The Medieval Chronicle 11

The Medieval Chronicle 11

Author: Erik S. Kooper ,  Sjoerd Levelt
ISBN: 9789004341586
Format: Paperback
$252.12

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as...  Read More >>

Today is the perfect day to be Happy: Motivation and Inspiration Journal Coloring Book for Adutls, Men, Women, Boy and Girl (Daily Notebook, Diary)

Today is the perfect day to be Happy: Motivation and...

Author: Super Happy Life
ISBN: 9781979871259
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Motivation and Inspirational Journal Notebook Unique Designs for Note and Color! BEST GIFT IDEA A notebook, journal,...  Read More >>

Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance

Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance...

Author: Aaron Hostetter
ISBN: 9780814254424
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Eating is fundamental to human survival, obtained by and resulting in much social struggle. Political Appetites...  Read More >>

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