Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga

Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and...

Author: Sheryl McDonald Werronen
ISBN: 9789089647955
Format: Hardback
$364.32

A detailed study of the Nítída saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions...  Read More >>

The Captivity of John II, 1356-60: The Royal Image in Later Medieval England and France

The Captivity of John II, 1356-60: The Royal Image in...

Author: Neil Murphy
ISBN: 9781349949885
Format: Hardback
$113.95

This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John...  Read More >>

Medizinischer Rat / Liber Medicinalis: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Medizinischer Rat / Liber Medicinalis: Lateinisch -...

Author: Quintus Serenus ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783110527124
Format: Hardback
$110.88

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Dante's Broken Hammer

Dante's Broken Hammer

Author: Graham Harman
ISBN: 9781910924303
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

The First Prince of Wales?: Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75

The First Prince of Wales?: Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75...

Author: Sean Davies
ISBN: 9781783169368
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This is the first book to explain how Wales was transformed from a kingdom to a principality as the Norman Conquest...  Read More >>

The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts

The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts

Author: William J Purkis ,  Matthew Gabriele (Author)
ISBN: 9781843844488
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.  Read More >>

The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience

The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece:...

Author: James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9781316630259
Format: Paperback
$121.59

This book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry across a range of art forms as they evolved from before...  Read More >>

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery...

Author: Thomas A. Fudge
ISBN: 9781137570772
Format: Hardback
$226.95

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within...  Read More >>

Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles: With a new edition of the Greek text by Ioannis Vassis

Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church...

Author: Liz James
ISBN: 9781138256927
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church...  Read More >>

Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A.C. Spearing

Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of...

Author: Cristina Maria Cervone (Author) ,  D. Vance Smith (Author)
ISBN: 9781843844464
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form.  Read More >>

Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France

Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval...

Author: Professor Helen J. Swift
ISBN: 9781843844365
Format: Hardback
$258.75

An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.  Read More >>

Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar

Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar

Author: Stan Hawkins ,  James Fodor
ISBN: 9781138259584
Format: Paperback
$101.00

A collection of essays, which explore the field of theological aesthetics - from von Balthasar's contribution and...  Read More >>

Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults

Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature...

Author: Katarzyna Marciniak
ISBN: 9789004313422
Format: Hardback
$580.80

In The Classics and Children's Literature between West and East a team of contributors from different continents...  Read More >>

The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance

The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance

Author: Robert Mullally
ISBN: 9781138252011
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c 1100 to c 1400 and was frequently mentioned...  Read More >>

Vermittelte Gegenwart: Konzeptionen der Gottespräsenz von der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels bis Anfang des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.

Vermittelte Gegenwart: Konzeptionen der Gottespräsenz...

Author: Andrea Taschl-Erber ,  Irmtraud Fischer
ISBN: 9783161546174
Format: Hardback
$375.19

"In der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels finden sich unterschiedliche Konzeptionen, um Zugänge zur transzendenten Gottheit...  Read More >>

Von Jesus zur neutestamentlichen Theologie: Kleine Schriften II

Von Jesus zur neutestamentlichen Theologie: Kleine Schriften...

Author: Jörg Frey ,  Benjamin Schliesser
ISBN: 9783161550157
Format: Hardback
$641.70

Der zweite Band der Kleinen Schriften des Zürcher Neutestamentlers versammelt 22 Beiträge aus fast 20 Jahren, die...  Read More >>

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An...

Author: Mojca Küplen
ISBN: 9783319366166
Format: Paperback
$142.29

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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for...

Author: Christopher Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University) ,  Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198768036
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Twelve of the greatest voices from ancient Greece and Rome - and why they still inspire and affect us in the 21st...  Read More >>

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

Author: Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780198779438
Format: Hardback
$126.95

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical ricardian...  Read More >>

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of Speech in Malory’s Female Characters

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of...

Author: Siobhán M. Wyatt
ISBN: 9783319342030
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey...  Read More >>

Lysistrate: (Lysistrata)

Lysistrate: (Lysistrata)

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9783843020299
Format: Paperback
$23.03

Aristophanes: Lysistrate. (Lysistrata) Nach zwanzig Jahren Krieg mit Sparta treten die Athenerinnen unter Frührung...  Read More >>

Lysistrate: Ein Lustspiel

Lysistrate: Ein Lustspiel

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9783861994992
Format: Paperback
$20.44

Aristophanes: Lysistrate. Ein Lustspiel Nach zwanzig Jahren Krieg mit Sparta treten die Athenerinnen unter Frührung...  Read More >>

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