Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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What's Wrong With The World

What's Wrong With The World

Author: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781546699422
Format: Paperback
$20.20

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

The Essence of Rumi

The Essence of Rumi

Author: John Baldock
ISBN: 9781784284039
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Get drunk on Love, for Love is all that exists. (Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz 455: A1:54) The thirteenth-century saint...  Read More >>

Adel Im Konflikt: Narrative Potentiale in Spatmittelalterlicher Chanson de Geste-Adaptation: Studien Zum Deutschen Malagis

Adel Im Konflikt: Narrative Potentiale in Spatmittelalterlicher...

Author: Viola Wittmann
ISBN: 9783525367193
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Der um 1500 am kurpfalzischen Hof zu Heidelberg angefertigte dt. Malagis bietet ein kurioses Stuck Literatur, welches...  Read More >>

Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period (330 B.C. - A.D. 400)

Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period...

Author: Stanley E Porter (McMaster Divinity College Canada)
ISBN: 9781628371802
Format: Paperback
$269.28

SBL Press now offers a paperback edition of Brill's comprehensive introduction to classical rhetoric as practised...  Read More >>

Boccace Humaniste Latin

Boccace Humaniste Latin

Author: Susanna Gambino Longo ,  Frank La Brasca
ISBN: 9782812436680
Format: Paperback
$142.56

Through the prism of philology, poetry analysis, and philosophical reflection, these sixteen studies on the Latin...  Read More >>

The Confessions

The Confessions

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN: 9781546658207
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Rousseau's ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. In his brilliant landmark autobiography,...  Read More >>

Lazarillo de Tormes

Lazarillo de Tormes

Author: Rafael Diaz Ycaza ,  Rafael Diaz Ycaza
ISBN: 9789978181737
Format: Paperback
$15.94

Ariel Juvenil recoge las obras mas importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal, en una version adaptada...  Read More >>

Beyond Conflicts: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE

Beyond Conflicts: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations...

Author: Luca Arcari
ISBN: 9783161551444
Format: Paperback
$268.32

"That there were various ways of interaction between different groups in Graeco-Roman Egypt cannot be doubted, as...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science

The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and...

Author: Howard Marchitello ,  Evelyn Tribble
ISBN: 9781137467782
Format: Hardback
$566.95

It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices:...  Read More >>

The Medieval Invention of Travel

The Medieval Invention of Travel

Author: Shayne Aaron Legassie
ISBN: 9780226446622
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated,...  Read More >>

The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When she Wrote, who she was, the use she Made of the Iliad

The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When she Wrote,...

Author: Samuel Butler
ISBN: 9783744765756
Format: Paperback
$79.95

The Authoress of the Odyssey - Where and When she Wrote, who she was, the use she Made of the Iliad is an unchanged,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

Author: Ana Saez-Hidalgo (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) ,  Brian Gastle (Western Carolina University, USA)
ISBN: 9781472435804
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and...  Read More >>

Ezekiel: Current Debates and Future Directions

Ezekiel: Current Debates and Future Directions

Author: William A. Tooman ,  Penelope Barter
ISBN: 9783161530890
Format: Hardback
$440.39

"Ezekiel studies are flourishing. The 27 essays collected in this volume were first presented at two symposia on...  Read More >>

La Légende d'Enée

La Légende d'Enée

Author: Gaston Boissier
ISBN: 9781546568445
Format: Paperback
$24.29

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Spielräume der Alten Welt: Die Pluralität des Altertums in Dramentheorie, Theaterpraxis und Dramatik (1790 – 1870)

Spielräume der Alten Welt: Die Pluralität des Altertums...

Author: Friederike Krippner
ISBN: 9783110472349
Format: Hardback
$205.83

"Around 1800, the concept of ""antiquity"" began to take on plural meanings, and as a result, Classical antiquity...  Read More >>

Ps.-Manethonis Apotelesmatica: Einleitung, Text, Appendices

Ps.-Manethonis Apotelesmatica: Einleitung, Text, Appendices...

Author: Claudio De Stefani
ISBN: 9783954902002
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Die vorliegende Edition von De Stefani basiert auf den sechs Buchern von Apotelesmatica (astrologischen Gedichten...  Read More >>

Grail, Sex and Stones: Libro de buen amor and Parzival

Grail, Sex and Stones: Libro de buen amor and Parzival...

Author: Jorge Manuel Santander Serrano
ISBN: 9781546523901
Format: Paperback
$15.84

Together, these authors propose a new way of reaching the spiritual boundary symbolized by the love of god. Both...  Read More >>

Wie entsteht eine Schrift in der Forschung und in der Geschichte?: Die Hebräische Bibel und der Koran

Wie entsteht eine Schrift in der Forschung und in der...

Author: Angelika Neuwirth ,  Jürgen Kampmann
ISBN: 9783161552427
Format: Hardback
$98.32

"In welchem Verhältnis steht der Koran zur biblischen Tradition? Ist er Teil der für das spätere Europa formativen...  Read More >>

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781546502067
Format: Paperback
$20.72

Unconvinced that there are beasts in the moors near the Baskerville home, the new heir to the family estate turns...  Read More >>

Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato

Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato

Author: Rana Saadi Liebert (Bard College, New York)
ISBN: 9781107184442
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy, and...  Read More >>

Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus

Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination...

Author: Steven D. Smith (Hofstra University, New York)
ISBN: 9781108401937
Format: Paperback
$85.36

This book argues that Aelian's important work on animals, the De natura animalium, represents a sophisticated literary...  Read More >>

The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late...

Author: Pauline A. LeVen (Professor, Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781108401661
Format: Paperback
$95.71

This is the first book-length study of late classical Greek lyric poetry, combining literary-critical engagement...  Read More >>

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