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Combing the areas of paleography, performance, liturgy and music, the essays in this volume take as their focus... Read More >>
Discussing the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, this title focuses on textual and historical aspects... Read More >>
12th century Georgian poet and thinker Shota Rustaveli, author of the Georgian national epic poem The Knight in... Read More >>
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. At... Read More >>
A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry Read More >>
Presents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues... Read More >>
Spott im Drama considers the element of personal ridicule in Aristophanic comedy (komoidein), treating it on the... Read More >>
Presents multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late... Read More >>
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Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The image Tacitus creates... Read More >>
In Neopoetics, Collins turns his attention to the cognitive evolution of the writing-ready brain. Further integrating... Read More >>
This is the first study to cover the range of major illustrated English poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the... Read More >>
Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often... Read More >>
Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain. It offers readings of... Read More >>
This is the first book-length study of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos in classical literature, not restricting... Read More >>
Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of... Read More >>
The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. It... Read More >>
It is well known that Dante's poetic works interpret love as the moving force of the universe: as embodied in his... Read More >>
The first part of the book is a series of lectures on Greek poetic texts, ranging from the archaic to the pre-Hellenistic... Read More >>
Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the... Read More >>
