Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related...

Author: Marguerite Johnson (University of Queensland, Australia) ,  Terry Ryan
ISBN: 9781472506573
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages: Transcultural Perspectives

Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages: Transcultural...

Author: Markus Stock
ISBN: 9781442644663
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian,...  Read More >>

On Civic Republicanism: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

On Civic Republicanism: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics...

Author: Geoffrey Kellow ,  Neven Leddy
ISBN: 9781442637498
Format: Hardback
$145.00

On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of 15th -16th-17th and 18th Century Novelist Poets Playwrights Philosophers and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410314543
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 assembles critical responses to the literatures of the 15th through the 18th...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of 15th -16th-17th and 18th Century Novelist Poets Playwrights Philosophers and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410314536
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 assembles critical responses to the literatures of the 15th through the 18th...  Read More >>

Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late...

Author: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
ISBN: 9780190221232
Format: Hardback
$179.95

"Literary Territories argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which...  Read More >>

Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related...

Author: Marguerite Johnson (University of Queensland, Australia) ,  Terry Ryan
ISBN: 9781472514424
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The...  Read More >>

Dante's Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition

Dante's Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular...

Author: Tristan Kay (Lecturer in Italian Studies, Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198753964
Format: Hardback
$307.00

Dante's Lyric Redemption uses Dante's relationship to some important Italian and Provencal writers of his time to...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781569955420
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781569955437
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.  Read More >>

The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism

The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism

Author: Professor Emeritus of Classics Mark Morford (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780814253410
Format: Paperback
$61.97

"The ""endless fountain of immortal drink"" that in John Keats's Endymion is the metaphor for the inexhaustible...  Read More >>

Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, & Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, & Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses...

Author: Patricia B Salzman-Mitchell
ISBN: 9780814253687
Format: Paperback
$61.97

"Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, A Web of Fantasies examines the...  Read More >>

Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines

Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across...

Author: Jacques Lezra ,  Liza Blake
ISBN: 9781137581990
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies,...  Read More >>

Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse: Comedy, Tragedy and the Polis in 5th Century Athens

Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse: Comedy, Tragedy and...

Author: Stephanie Nelson
ISBN: 9789004310902
Format: Hardback
$530.64

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Avot de-Rabbi Natan B

Avot de-Rabbi Natan B

Author: Hans-Jürgen Becker
ISBN: 9783161540882
Format: Hardback
$351.90

Nach Erschließung der hebräischen Textbasis durch die Edition der Geniza-Fragmente (2003) und die Synopse der Handschriften...  Read More >>

Roman Poetry

Roman Poetry

Author: E.E. Sikes
ISBN: 9781138643246
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Originally published in 1923, this study outlines the aims and methods of roman poets as well as focussing on technique...  Read More >>

The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales

The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales

Author: Walter W. Skeat
ISBN: 9781138649095
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia: Middle Powers in a Troubled Region

Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia: Middle...

Author: Jan Melissen ,  Yul Sohn
ISBN: 9781349579815
Format: Paperback
$124.95

"Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's ""new middle powers"" and...  Read More >>

Why Business Ethics Matters: Answers from a New Game Theory Model

Why Business Ethics Matters: Answers from a New Game...

Author: Wayne Nordness Eastman
ISBN: 9781349580613
Format: Paperback
$169.00

This book links game theory to business ethics by applying the classic Four Temperaments approach to a wide range...  Read More >>

New Medievalisms

New Medievalisms

Author: Javier Martin-Parraga ,  Juan de Dios Torralbo-Caballero
ISBN: 9781443887021
Format: Hardback
$240.11

The current renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society is evident in recent fictional works such...  Read More >>

Le Moine Et Le Hasard: Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 304

Le Moine Et Le Hasard: Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole...

Author: Matthieu Paris ,  Allegra Iafrate
ISBN: 9782812449468
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Written and decorated during the thirteenth century by Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259), a chronicler monk at Saint-Alban,...  Read More >>

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700...

Author: Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781316507629
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London

Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London

Author: Malcolm Richardson
ISBN: 9781138661271
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially...  Read More >>

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