Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay

Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory...

Author: Michelle Martindale ,  Michelle Martindale
ISBN: 9781138161986
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Against a recent tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's classical learning, this study examines how the playwright...  Read More >>

Queering Richard Rolle: Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England

Queering Richard Rolle: Mystical Theology and the Hermit...

Author: Christopher M. Roman
ISBN: 9783319497747
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and...  Read More >>

Heimskringla: Volume 1 -- The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason

Heimskringla: Volume 1 -- The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason...

Author: Snorri Sturluson ,  Alison Finlay
ISBN: 9780903521949
Format: Paperback
$31.05

The first volume of a new translation of Snorri Sturluson's history of the Norwegian kings, with introduction and...  Read More >>

The Power of Smell in American Literature: Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality

The Power of Smell in American Literature: Odor, Affect,...

Author: Renate von Bardeleben ,  Daniela Babilon
ISBN: 9783631681084
Format: Hardback
$180.48

The book examines the literary representation of smell throughout American literature. In her innovative close readings,...  Read More >>

Claudien, Oeuvres. Tome III, Poemes Politiques (399-404)

Claudien, Oeuvres. Tome III, Poemes Politiques (399-404)...

Author: Jean-Louis Charlet ,  Jean-Louis Charlet
ISBN: 9782251014753
Format: Paperback
$168.96

Voici enfin paru le troisieme tome de l'edition des OEuvres de Claudien, completant l'edition des poemes publics...  Read More >>

Pline Le Jeune, Lettres: Livre X

Pline Le Jeune, Lettres: Livre X

Author: Hubert Zehnacker ,  Hubert Zehnacker
ISBN: 9782251014746
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Understanding Latin Literature

Understanding Latin Literature

Author: Susanna Morton Braund
ISBN: 9781138645394
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Attic Oratory and Performance

Attic Oratory and Performance

Author: Andreas Serafim
ISBN: 9781138828353
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship

Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic...

Author: John Zumbrunnen (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580465885
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to the fundamental challenge of ordinary...  Read More >>

Das Althochdeutsche aus textlinguistischer Sicht: Soziopragmatische Einordnung und ausgewählte textgrammatische Studien

Das Althochdeutsche aus textlinguistischer Sicht: Soziopragmatische...

Author: Christian Braun
ISBN: 9783110515954
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This study is the first comprehensive account of Old High German from the perspective of text linguistics. It starts...  Read More >>

Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid

Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid...

Author: Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781107115392
Format: Hardback
$240.61

This book sheds new light on Virgil's Aeneid via a detailed study of Ascanius, Aeneas' young son and ancestor of...  Read More >>

Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love

Author: A.N. Wilson ,  Julian of Norwich
ISBN: 9780281077076
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A classic of Christian spirituality and a famous meditation on the love of God and his presence in suffering  Read More >>

Lyric Texts & Consciousness

Lyric Texts & Consciousness

Author: Paul Miller
ISBN: 9781138160118
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays

Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays

Author: Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre
ISBN: 9781138160620
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Tragedy

Tragedy

Author: John Drakakis ,  Naomi Conn Liebler
ISBN: 9781138161726
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Last King(s) of Judah: Zedekiah and Sedekias in the Hebrew and Old Greek Versions of Jeremiah 37(44):1-40(47):6

The Last King(s) of Judah: Zedekiah and Sedekias in...

Author: Shelley L. Birdsong
ISBN: 9783161538889
Format: Paperback
$243.48

Zedekiah ben Josiah was the last king of Judah, and under his leadership, in 586 BCE, Jerusalem was destroyed. Interestingly,...  Read More >>

Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War in the Octavia

Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War...

Author: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati)
ISBN: 9780190275952
Format: Hardback
$179.95

This book offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. Through...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies: A Comparative Study of the Standard Lives of St. Francis and Milarepa

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies:...

Author: Massimo A. Rondolino
ISBN: 9781472479051
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology, through parallel literary and historical...  Read More >>

English and Italian Literature From Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence

English and Italian Literature From Dante to Shakespeare:...

Author: Robin Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781138160361
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This text examines the influence Italian and English writers have had on each other and looks at both the similarities...  Read More >>

The Babylonian Disputation Poems: With Editions of the Series of the Poplar, Palm and Vine, the Series of the Spider, and the Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren

The Babylonian Disputation Poems: With Editions of the...

Author: Enrique Jimenez
ISBN: 9789004336254
Format: Hardback
$549.12

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