Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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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: 9780268100483
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism,...

Author: Hannah Johnson ,  Heather Blurton
ISBN: 9780472130344
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Addresses key moments in criticism of Chaucer’s the Prioress's Tale - particularly those which stage an encounter...  Read More >>

What's Wrong With the World

What's Wrong With the World

Author: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781547038855
Format: Paperback
$19.14

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

Die ersten Aerztinnen in Europa und Amerika und der fruehe Feminismus (1850-1900)

Die ersten Aerztinnen in Europa und Amerika und der...

Author: Marcel H Bickel
ISBN: 9783034325844
Format: Paperback
$157.06

Der Eintritt der Frauen ins Medizinstudium und in die Arztpraxis seit 1850 wird ländervergleichend und im Kontext...  Read More >>

Ausonius: Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

Ausonius: Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

Author: Deborah Warren ,  Joseph Pucci
ISBN: 9781138857780
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England

Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England...

Author: Lindy Brady
ISBN: 9781784994198
Format: Hardback
$183.99

An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after...  Read More >>

English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

Author: Dieter Mehl
ISBN: 9781138180192
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This book presents a full account of Chaucer's achievements and explores in what ways Chaucer is at the same time...  Read More >>

Chaucer at Work: The Making of The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer at Work: The Making of The Canterbury Tales...

Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781138164895
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many...  Read More >>

For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod: The Quest for Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions

For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of...

Author: Barak S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789004347014
Format: Hardback
$422.40

For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod reevaluates the evidence of an independent...  Read More >>

Commentarii in evangelia

Commentarii in evangelia

Author: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis ,  Lukas J. Dorfbauer
ISBN: 9783110469660
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This volume contains the first edition of the commentaries on the gospels by Bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia (mid-4th...  Read More >>

Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues

Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues

Author: Omid Tofighian
ISBN: 9781349845507
Format: Paperback
$204.95

This book rethinks Plato’s creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious...  Read More >>

Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Author: Aristophanes ,  William Charles Green
ISBN: 9783337005504
Format: Paperback
$64.43

(Lys., Thesm., Ran., Eccl., Plut., Fragmenta.) Edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart.  Read More >>

Contra Arrianos, Sabellianos, Photinianos Dialogus

Contra Arrianos, Sabellianos, Photinianos Dialogus

Author: P -M Hombert
ISBN: 9782503565804
Format: Hardback
$908.16

Le 'Contra Arianos, Sabellianos, Photinianos dialogus' de Vigile de Tapse (PL 62) se presente comme un debat entre...  Read More >>

Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages

Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages

Author: Louise D'Arcens
ISBN: 9781843844785
Format: Paperback
$64.66

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.  Read More >>

Romance of Evast and Blaquerna

Romance of Evast and Blaquerna

Author: Ramon Llull ,  Robert D. Hughes
ISBN: 9781855663046
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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Imagining Empire: Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature

Imagining Empire: Political Space in Hellenistic and...

Author: Markus Asper ,  Victoria Rimell
ISBN: 9783825367541
Format: Hardback
$142.56

This volume investigates space in Greek and Latin literature as a real and imaginary dimension in which social relations,...  Read More >>

The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles

The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles

Author: Corinne Dale
ISBN: 9781843844648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXVI: Ecomedievalism

Studies in Medievalism XXVI: Ecomedievalism

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Professor Angela Jane Weisl (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843844655
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental...  Read More >>

Suffering in Ancient Worldview: Luke, Seneca and 4 Maccabees in Dialogue

Suffering in Ancient Worldview: Luke, Seneca and 4 Maccabees...

Author: Dr Brian J. Tabb (Bethlehem College and Seminary, USA)
ISBN: 9780567672414
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Suffering in Ancient Worldview investigates representative Christian, Roman Stoic and Jewish perspectives on the...  Read More >>

On Reasoning and Argument: Essays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking

On Reasoning and Argument: Essays in Informal Logic...

Author: David Hitchcock
ISBN: 9783319535616
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock's most significant published articles on reasoning and argument....  Read More >>

Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s «Parks and Recreation»

Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s «Parks and Recreation»...

Author: Erika Engstrom
ISBN: 9781433133565
Format: Hardback
$300.04

Widely hailed as one of the best feminist-oriented series on television, NBC’s Parks and Recreation (2009–2015)...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing...

Author: Marco Formisano (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) ,  Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
ISBN: 9781107169432
Format: Hardback
$240.61

This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman...  Read More >>

Jacob's Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England

Jacob's Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian...

Author: Ruth Nisse
ISBN: 9781501703072
Format: Hardback
$150.08

Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other...  Read More >>

Speculum Gy de Warewyke: Here for the First Time Printed and First Edited from the Manuscripts.

Speculum Gy de Warewyke: Here for the First Time Printed...

Author: Georgiana Lea Morrill
ISBN: 9781546751625
Format: Paperback
$18.45

From the Prefatory Note. ....The text of the poem has been carefully arranged from six manuscripts on basis of...  Read More >>

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