Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction...

Author: Jeffrey M. Hunt ,  R. Alden Smith
ISBN: 9781477313022
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission...  Read More >>

Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Arresting Images

Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Robert Justin Goldstein ,  Andrew M. Nedd
ISBN: 9781349569106
Format: Paperback
$90.95

In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible...  Read More >>

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

Author: Joshua Byron Smith ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812249323
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction...

Author: Jeffrey M. Hunt ,  R. Alden Smith
ISBN: 9781477313015
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission...  Read More >>

The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries

The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction,...

Author: Ditlev Tamm ,  Stefan Brink (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9781138680845
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries forms the second volume...  Read More >>

Verleugnete Rezeption: Falschungen Antiker Texte

Verleugnete Rezeption: Falschungen Antiker Texte

Author: Wolfgang Kofler ,  Anna Novokhatko
ISBN: 9783968215853
Format: Paperback
$166.32

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Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman

Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman

Author: Cora Dietl ,  Christoph Schanze
ISBN: 9783110534917
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Are the actions of literary figures motivated by emotion or are they instead shaped by narrative and literary constraints?...  Read More >>

From Enoch to Tobit: Collected Studies in Ancient Jewish Literature

From Enoch to Tobit: Collected Studies in Ancient Jewish...

Author: Devorah Dimant
ISBN: 9783161542886
Format: Hardback
$391.23

The volume assembles twenty previously published studies by Devorah Dimant, which have been re-edited, updated,...  Read More >>

Jesus Handbuch

Jesus Handbuch

Author: Lena Nogossek ,  Jens Schröter
ISBN: 9783161538537
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Das Jesus Handbuch präsentiert die Forschung zum historischen Jesus und Rezeptionen seiner Person auf dem aktuellen...  Read More >>

Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung: Traditionen, Probleme und Konzepte

Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung: Traditionen,...

Author: Jonas Grethlein ,  Antonios Rengakos
ISBN: 9783110468144
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Literary scholars use histories of literature on a daily basis. There has been however little reflection on different...  Read More >>

La Bonne Nouvelle: La Nouvelle de l'Avenement d'Un Empereur Et de la Mort de Son Predecesseur En Egypte

La Bonne Nouvelle: La Nouvelle de l'Avenement d'Un Empereur...

Author: Jean-Yves Strasser
ISBN: 9782960083439
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Contents: Introduction. - 1. La procedure. - 2. Les delais. - Conclusion. - Annexe 1: Premieres et dernieres attestations...  Read More >>

Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater

Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater...

Author: Michael Norton
ISBN: 9781580442626
Format: Hardback
$261.36

"A study of the concept of ""liturgical drama."""  Read More >>

Writing Matters: Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Writing Matters: Presenting and Perceiving Monumental...

Author: Irene Berti ,  Katharina Bolle
ISBN: 9783110529159
Format: Hardback
$351.09

"This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different...  Read More >>

Commentary on the Gospels: English translation and introduction

Commentary on the Gospels: English translation and introduction...

Author: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis ,  H. A. G. Houghton
ISBN: 9783110524208
Format: Hardback
$234.93

In 2012, Lukas Dorfbauer identified a manuscript in Cologne Cathedral Library as a copy of the Commentary on the...  Read More >>

Das lateinische Tierlobgedicht in Spaetantike, Mittelalter und Frueher Neuzeit

Das lateinische Tierlobgedicht in Spaetantike, Mittelalter...

Author: Peter Stotz ,  Franziska Schnoor
ISBN: 9783034329323
Format: Paperback
$254.09

Die Arbeit untersucht das lateinische Tierlobgedicht, eine Untergattung des Enkomiums, im Zeitraum von der Spätantike...  Read More >>

Die Kunst Der Taktik: Griechisch - Deutsch

Die Kunst Der Taktik: Griechisch - Deutsch

Author: Arrianos ,  Asklepiodotos
ISBN: 9783110562163
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Die Kunst der Taktik hat schon die Antike fasziniert. Mit welcher Taktik war es Alexander dem Großen gelungen, sein...  Read More >>

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury...

Author: Frederick M. Biggs (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843844754
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source...  Read More >>

Invention and Authorship in Medieval England

Invention and Authorship in Medieval England

Author: Robert R Edwards
ISBN: 9780814254103
Format: Paperback
$74.91

Robert R. Edward's Invention and Authorship in Medieval England examines the ways in which writers established themselves...  Read More >>

The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France...

Author: Gabriella Scarlatta
ISBN: 9781580442640
Format: Hardback
$52.67

This study explores how Italian and French poets adopted the disperata genre to establish a tradition that both...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet the First Quarto, 1597, a Facsimile (from the British Museum Co

Romeo and Juliet the First Quarto, 1597, a Facsimile...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781974568338
Format: Paperback
$26.37

We may assume then that Q1 does not present us with an earlier and independent version of the play as we find it...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Select Plays Much ADO about Nothing

Shakespeare, Select Plays Much ADO about Nothing

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781974568437
Format: Paperback
$39.57

In a previous entry, which apparently belongs to the same year, under the date of the 4th of August, Much Ado is,...  Read More >>

Yahoel and Metatron: Aural Apocalypticism and the Origins of Early Jewish Mysticism

Yahoel and Metatron: Aural Apocalypticism and the Origins...

Author: Andrei A. Orlov
ISBN: 9783161554476
Format: Hardback
$329.65

In this work, Andrei A. Orlov examines Jewish apocalyptic traditions about the angel Yahoel, tracing their conceptual...  Read More >>

The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory

The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern...

Author: Eran Almagor ,  Lisa Maurice
ISBN: 9789004347717
Format: Hardback
$454.08

In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters...  Read More >>

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