Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken van Nieumeghen

Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle...

Author: Clifford Davidson ,  Ton J. Broos
ISBN: 9781580442213
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is a prime example of Dutch...  Read More >>

Frederic Mistral, l'Ombre Et l'Echo: Aspects de l'Oeuvre Litteraire Mistralienne

Frederic Mistral, l'Ombre Et l'Echo: Aspects de l'Oeuvre...

Author: Jean-Yves Casanova
ISBN: 9782406057444
Format: Paperback
$142.56

This study aims to define the psychic foundations of a work and to analyze the poetic traces in the whole of the...  Read More >>

Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor

Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri...

Author: Scott McGill (Rice University, Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9780415635837
Format: Hardback
$231.00

"Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or ""The Four Books of the Gospels,"" is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative...  Read More >>

Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society

Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society...

Author: Bill Gladhill (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781107069749
Format: Hardback
$157.81

Explores the vital links between social order and cosmology through an examination of the concept of foedus (ritual...  Read More >>

Juvenal: Satires Book IV

Juvenal: Satires Book IV

Author: John Godwin
ISBN: 9781910572320
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms....  Read More >>

Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama

Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama

Author: James Franklin Johnson
ISBN: 9780806151663
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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Building on the Ruins of the Temple: Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

Building on the Ruins of the Temple: Apologetics and...

Author: Adam Gregerman
ISBN: 9783161543227
Format: Hardback
$342.07

In the immediate centuries after the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE, Jews and Christians...  Read More >>

Die Septuaginta - Orte und Intentionen: 5. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 24.-27. Juli 2014

Die Septuaginta - Orte und Intentionen: 5. Internationale...

Author: Martin Karrer ,  Siegfried Kreuzer
ISBN: 9783161538322
Format: Hardback
$628.76

Die Septuaginta ist als jüdische Bibelübersetzung ab dem 3. Jahrhundert v.Chr. entstanden und wurde zur zentralen...  Read More >>

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the Morte Darthur

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the...

Author: Paul Rovang
ISBN: 9781611477801
Format: Paperback
$113.00

This book examines sixteen key figures in the Morte Darthur providing insight into each as an exemplar of chivalric...  Read More >>

Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy

Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy

Author: Peter Barrios-Lech (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
ISBN: 9781107129825
Format: Hardback
$271.69

There exist many ways in Latin of expressing the same thing, whether conveying an order or a greeting. What factors...  Read More >>

Nowhere in the Middle Ages

Nowhere in the Middle Ages

Author: Karma Lochrie ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812248111
Format: Hardback
$224.40

In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reveals how utopian thinking was, in fact, ""somewhere"" in the Middle Ages....  Read More >>

The Argonautica

The Argonautica

Author: Rhodius Apollonius ,  R C 1853-1915 Seaton
ISBN: 9781359686107
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The Argonautica from Rhodius Apollonius. Epic poet, librarian, scholar (first half of 3rd century BCE).  Read More >>

The Anthologist’s Art: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

The Anthologist’s Art: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His...

Author: Bilal Orfali
ISBN: 9789004316294
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This book is a direct window onto the workshop of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (350–429/961–1039), an anthologist from...  Read More >>

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Author: Jacqueline E. Jay
ISBN: 9789004323063
Format: Hardback
$506.88

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Philostrats Apollonios und seine Welt: Griechische und nichtgriechische Kunst und Religion in der >Vita Apollonii<

Philostrats Apollonios und seine Welt: Griechische und...

Author: Balbina Bäbler ,  Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
ISBN: 9783110477641
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Ein ausführlicher Kommentar zu Philostrats Lebensbeschreibung des Philosophen Apollonios ist immer noch ein Desiderat....  Read More >>

Ethical Education in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and Contexts

Ethical Education in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and...

Author: Sophia Xenophontos
ISBN: 9783110350364
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising...  Read More >>

Der traumatisierte Raum: Insistenz, Inschrift, Montage bei Freud, Levi, Kertész, Sebald und Dante

Der traumatisierte Raum: Insistenz, Inschrift, Montage...

Author: Judith Kasper
ISBN: 9783110449228
Format: Hardback
$205.83

In ""traumatized space,"" psychoanalysis and the spatial sciences converge. Europe emerges as a real and simultaneously...  Read More >>

Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle

Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary...

Author: Alison Keith ,  Jonathan Edmondson
ISBN: 9781442629677
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods...  Read More >>

Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries

Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian...

Author: Elizabeth Solopova (Faculty of English & English Literature, Oxford University (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781382981
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The catalogue is a detailed study of Oxford manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete translation...  Read More >>

An Introduction to English Medieval Literature

An Introduction to English Medieval Literature

Author: Charles Sears Baldwin
ISBN: 9781358497674
Format: Hardback
$68.51

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica: Incertarum fabularum fragmenta

Fragmenta Comica: Incertarum fabularum fragmenta

Author: Andreas Bagordo
ISBN: 9783946317005
Format: Hardback
$188.86

"Dieser Band der Reihe Fragmenta Comica kommentiert die Fragmente 590-674 des Aristophanes.Ziel der Kommentare der...  Read More >>

Faszikel 1: Text Und Übersetzung. Faszikel 2: Kommentar

Faszikel 1: Text Und Übersetzung. Faszikel 2: Kommentar...

Author: Professor Joachim Latacz (University of Basel (Emeritus)) ,  Senior Research Fellow Martin L West (All Souls Collegeoxford)
ISBN: 9783110409741
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Diese 1896 begründete Reihe erfasst seltene griechische und lateinische Texte mit Übersetzungen und Kommentaren...  Read More >>

The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook

The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook...

Author: Elisabet Goransson ,  Gunilla Iversen
ISBN: 9780888442031
Format: Hardback
$184.80

With the triumph of the codex, medieval literature became more deeply hermeneutic in character. A vast range of...  Read More >>

Enki und Ninmaḫ: Eine mythische Erzählung in sumerischer Sprache

Enki und Ninmaḫ: Eine mythische Erzählung in sumerischer...

Author: Manuel Ceccarelli
ISBN: 9783161542787
Format: Hardback
$287.21

Enki und Ninmaḫ ist die moderne Bezeichnung einer mythischen Erzählung in sumerischer Sprache, deren Hauptakteure...  Read More >>

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