Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

Author: Gábor Tahin
ISBN: 9783319347691
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed,...  Read More >>

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura...

Author: Eugenia Paulicelli
ISBN: 9781138269583
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing...  Read More >>

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings

Author: Mary P. Richards
ISBN: 9781138174856
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings

Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late...

Author: Sarah Beckwith
ISBN: 9781138174917
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through her fascinating series of readings of texts such as The Book of Margery Kempe, Beckwith develops a materialist...  Read More >>

Sophocles: Antigone

Sophocles: Antigone

Author: Prof. Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781472505095
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Antigone is Sophocles’ masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual...  Read More >>

Sophocles: Antigone

Sophocles: Antigone

Author: Prof. Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781472514332
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Antigone is Sophocles’ masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual...  Read More >>

The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus: Volume 4: Between Erasmus and Luther, 1518-1524

The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus: Volume 4:...

Author: Harry Vredeveld
ISBN: 9789004323148
Format: Hardback
$821.04

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Plato on Democracy and Political techne

Plato on Democracy and Political techne

Author: Anders Sorensen
ISBN: 9789004312005
Format: Hardback
$401.28

In Plato on Democracy and Political techne Anders Dahl Sorensen offers an in-depth investigation of Plato's discussions...  Read More >>

Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater: The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism

Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater: The...

Author: Anja-Silvia Goeing
ISBN: 9789401778602
Format: Paperback
$249.69

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. From 1423...  Read More >>

Die Redeszenen in Chrétiens 'Chevalier de la Charrete', in Ulrichs 'Lanzelet' und im 'Prosalancelot': Eine narratologische und sprachpragmatische Untersuchung

Die Redeszenen in Chrétiens 'Chevalier de la Charrete',...

Author: Teresa Cordes
ISBN: 9783110490879
Format: Hardback
$171.51

This study focuses on analyzing the characters in the medieval Lancelot romances, taking the dialogue scenes as...  Read More >>

Disjunktion und Diskrepanz: Italienische und französische >Aeneis<-Travestien des 17. Jahrhunderts als burleske Antiketransformationen

Disjunktion und Diskrepanz: Italienische und französische...

Author: Kai Schöpe
ISBN: 9783110499858
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community...

Author: Kathryn L. Reyerson
ISBN: 9783319389417
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval...  Read More >>

Flesh and Word: Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Early Irish Literature

Flesh and Word: Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic...

Author: Sarah Künzler
ISBN: 9783110455380
Format: Hardback
$231.57

A study that examines the reading of bodies in social (mediality) discourse in Old Norse-Icelandic and early Irish...  Read More >>

Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in...

Author: Nathan Mastnjak
ISBN: 9783161544019
Format: Paperback
$231.32

The close relationship between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy has stood near the center of Jeremiah scholarship for over...  Read More >>

The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period

The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period...

Author: Dinu Luca
ISBN: 9781137512253
Format: Hardback
$181.95

This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up...  Read More >>

The Satires

The Satires

Author: Juvenal ,  John Dryden
ISBN: 9781537726892
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Juvenal was a Roman poet in the 1st and 2nd centuries. There are not many details on Juvenal's life but he wrote...  Read More >>

How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion

How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art...

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero ,  James May
ISBN: 9781665148382
Format: Audio
$105.57

Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest orator  Read More >>

Die Werke Notkers des Deutschen, Band 7, Die kleineren Schriften

Die Werke Notkers des Deutschen, Band 7, Die kleineren...

Author: Notker Der Deutsche ,  Petrus W Tax
ISBN: 9783484202092
Format: Paperback
$117.73

Dieser letzte Textband von Notkers Schriften enthält nicht nur die herkömmlichen Titel: De partibus logicae (Nl),...  Read More >>

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early...

Author: Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) ,  Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781107135444
Format: Hardback
$227.67

A comprehensive introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic eddic poetry, written in accessible terms and featuring the...  Read More >>

How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet

How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet...

Author: William Fitzgerald (Professor of Latin Language & Literature, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198788126
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin...  Read More >>

The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment

The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment

Author: Leonard Neidorf (Author) ,  Allen J. Frantzen (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843844495
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.  Read More >>

Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography

Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature...

Author: Matthew Bailey (Author) ,  Ryan D. Giles (Author)
ISBN: 9781843844204
Format: Hardback
$207.00

New examinations of the figure of Charlemagne in Spanish literature and culture.  Read More >>

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