Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage...

Author: John Watkins
ISBN: 9781501707575
Format: Hardback
$137.14

In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. In...  Read More >>

Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime and Abject Bodies

Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature:...

Author: Huw Grange
ISBN: 9781781884898
Format: Hardback
$194.06

From rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that...  Read More >>

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

Author: Sophocles
ISBN: 9781547171729
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800)

Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish Appropriation of...

Author: Bernd Roling ,  Bernhard Schirg
ISBN: 9783110523171
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Ästhetische Faszination: Die Geschichte einer Denkfigur vor ihrem Begriff

Ästhetische Faszination: Die Geschichte einer Denkfigur...

Author: Andreas Degen
ISBN: 9783110521436
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Starting from a modern understanding of ""fascination"", this broad-based study in the area of conceptual history...  Read More >>

Anfange Und Enden: Narrative Potentiale Des Antiken Und Nachantiken Epos

Anfange Und Enden: Narrative Potentiale Des Antiken...

Author: Angela Jone ,  Christine Schmitz
ISBN: 9783825367626
Format: Hardback
$200.64

Das antike und nachantike Epos bietet sich aufgrund seiner diachronen Auspragung und narrativen Grossform in besonderer...  Read More >>

Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance...

Author: Emily Butler
ISBN: 9781138676619
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies it as a process of community...  Read More >>

Adolf von Harnack und die deutsche Politik 1890-1930: Eine biographische Studie zum Verhältnis von Protestantismus, Wissenschaft und Politik

Adolf von Harnack und die deutsche Politik 1890-1930:...

Author: Christian Nottmeier
ISBN: 9783161519970
Format: Paperback
$147.49

"Der Berliner Kirchenhistoriker und Wissenschaftsorganisator Adolf von Harnack gehörte zu den prägenden Gestalten...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature...

Author: Wiebke Denecke (, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University) ,  Wai-Yee Li (, Harvard Dept. of EALC)
ISBN: 9780199356591
Format: Hardback
$361.00

This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Piers Plowman: The Ethics and Epistemology of Love in Late Medieval Thought

The Philosophy of Piers Plowman: The Ethics and Epistemology...

Author: David Strong
ISBN: 9783319519807
Format: Hardback
$232.85

David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of...  Read More >>

Par Deviers Rome Men Revenrai Errant: Xxeme Congres International de la Societe Rencesvals Pour Letude Des Epopees Romanes

Par Deviers Rome Men Revenrai Errant: Xxeme Congres...

Author: Maria Careri ,  Caterina Menichetti
ISBN: 9788867288403
Format: Paperback
$290.40

English summary: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Twentieth International Congress...  Read More >>

Cobles E Lays, Danses E Bon Saber: L'Ultima Canco Dels Trobadors a Catalunya: Llengua, Forma, Edicio

Cobles E Lays, Danses E Bon Saber: L'Ultima Canco Dels...

Author: Anna Alberni ,  Stefano Maria Cingolani
ISBN: 9788867281169
Format: Paperback
$108.24

"English summary: This volume is a collection of the papers presented at: 'The Last Song of the Troubadours. Linguistic...  Read More >>

The Early Finn Cycle

The Early Finn Cycle

Author: Kevin Murray
ISBN: 9781846826306
Format: Paperback
$58.22

An in-depth study of one of the most important medieval Irish literary cycles, the Finn Cycle, which features the...  Read More >>

King Arthur and His Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance

King Arthur and His Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance...

Author: Jessie Laidlay Weston
ISBN: 9783337033323
Format: Paperback
$40.11

King Arthur and His Knights - A Survey of Arthurian Romance is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original...  Read More >>

Tragedie Chorale: Poesie Grecque Et Rituel Musical

Tragedie Chorale: Poesie Grecque Et Rituel Musical

Author: Claude Calame
ISBN: 9782251447049
Format: Paperback
$97.68

La tragedie grecque comme dramatisation du heros confronte a son implacable destin ? La tragedie attique comme expression...  Read More >>

Folklore and Literature: Rival Siblings

Folklore and Literature: Rival Siblings

Author: Bruce E. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781621903048
Format: Paperback
$85.80

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Theogony and Works and Days

Theogony and Works and Days

Author: Hesiod ,  Kimberly Johnson
ISBN: 9780810134874
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies...  Read More >>

Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics

Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective...

Author: Michael Psellos ,  Charles Barber
ISBN: 9780268100490
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Michael Psellos has long been known as a key figure in the history of Byzantine literary and intellectual culture,...  Read More >>

What's Wrong With the World

What's Wrong With the World

Author: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781546983347
Format: Paperback
$19.14

What's Wrong With The World is a collection of essays from G.K. Chesterton  Read More >>

Erec and Enide

Erec and Enide

Author: Chrétien de Troyes ,  Ruth Harwood Cline
ISBN: 9780820352282
Format: Hardback
$234.83

Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and...  Read More >>

The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women

The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women

Author: June Hall McCash
ISBN: 9780820352244
Format: Hardback
$258.59

Examines the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The twelve essays...  Read More >>

Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology

Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric,...

Author: Curtis A. Gruenler
ISBN: 9780268101626
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic can help us better understand much of the medieval era’s...  Read More >>

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