Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Scyld and Scef: Expanding the Analogues

Scyld and Scef: Expanding the Analogues

Author: Alexander M. Bruce ,  Paul E. Szarmach
ISBN: 9781138995970
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters...

Author: K. Attar ,  L. Shutters
ISBN: 9781349502844
Format: Paperback
$158.95

Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards...  Read More >>

Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus

Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis...

Author: E. Buzzetti
ISBN: 9781349462162
Format: Paperback
$192.95

An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing...  Read More >>

The Myth of Morgan la Fey

The Myth of Morgan la Fey

Author: K. Pérez
ISBN: 9781349464807
Format: Paperback
$192.95

The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth...  Read More >>

Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

Author: P. Meineck ,  D. Konstan
ISBN: 9781349485604
Format: Paperback
$158.95

"This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays...  Read More >>

"""Artes Grammaticae"" in frammenti": I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui greco-latini su papiro. Edizione commentata

"""Artes Grammaticae"" in frammenti": I testi grammaticali...

Author: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
ISBN: 9783110445039
Format: Hardback
$308.79

Making a corpus of Latin grammatical papyri is not simply a contribution to Latin Papyrology, but especially a decisive...  Read More >>

Virgil in the Renaissance

Virgil in the Renaissance

Author: David Scott Wilson-Okamura (East Carolina University)
ISBN: 9781316505342
Format: Paperback
$80.19

For most of the modern era, Virgil was the most admired poet in the classical curriculum. This study tells the story...  Read More >>

A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c.1605–1619)

A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants...

Author: Eva Griffith
ISBN: 9781107615045
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This unique and colourful history tells the story of Thomas Heywood's playing company, the Queen's Servants, and...  Read More >>

Seneca: Oedipus

Seneca: Oedipus

Author: Professor Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781474234788
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has...  Read More >>

Spiegelungen: Paradigmatisches Erzählen in Wolframs Parzival

Spiegelungen: Paradigmatisches Erzählen in Wolframs...

Author: Julia Richter
ISBN: 9783110308938
Format: Hardback
$374.85

der Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach, der etwa um 1210 entstanden ist, gehört nicht nur zu den am häufigsten rezipierten...  Read More >>

Themes of the Trojan Cycle: Contribution to the study of the greek mythological tradition

Themes of the Trojan Cycle: Contribution to the study...

Author: Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
ISBN: 9781530337118
Format: Paperback
$32.32

The story of the Trojan War presented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, is incomplete. This book...  Read More >>

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781442257955
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Since its founding, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in...  Read More >>

Seneca: Oedipus

Seneca: Oedipus

Author: Professor Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781474234795
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has...  Read More >>

Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature

Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature...

Author: Aisling Byrne (Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780198746003
Format: Hardback
$259.95

Otherworlds offers a new perspective on the otherworlds depicted in British and Irish medieval literature.  Read More >>

Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

Author: H. Cooney
ISBN: 9781349530694
Format: Paperback
$170.95

This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide...  Read More >>

Arthurian Literature XXXII

Arthurian Literature XXXII

Author: Elizabeth Archibald ,  David F. Johnson (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843843962
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian...  Read More >>

God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre in Pearl,...

Author: Cecilia A. Hatt
ISBN: 9781843844198
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision....  Read More >>

Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba: Three Plays about Women and the Trojan War

Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba: Three Plays about Women...

Author: Euripides ,  Francis Blessington
ISBN: 9780299305246
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader....  Read More >>

Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture and Religious Reform

Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern...

Author: Rabia Gregory
ISBN: 9781472422668
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses:...

Author: Keith Dockray
ISBN: 9781781554692
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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The Wealth of Wives – A Fifteenth–Century Marriage Manual

The Wealth of Wives – A Fifteenth–Century Marriage Manual...

Author: Francesco Barbaro ,  Margaret L. King
ISBN: 9780866985406
Format: Paperback
$84.35

In 1415, Francesco Barbaro produced a marriage manual intended at once for his friend, a scion of the Florentine...  Read More >>

Autorschaft und Autorität in den romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters

Autorschaft und Autorität in den romanischen Literaturen...

Author: Susanne A. Friede ,  Michael Schwarze
ISBN: 9783110370645
Format: Hardback
$205.83

"The contributions gathered in this volume discuss how, in which contexts, and under which circumstances ""authorship""...  Read More >>

A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers

A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers

Author: Lewis Campbell
ISBN: 9781348039006
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1891 Edition.  Read More >>

German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination from Winckelmann to Goethe

German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination...

Author: D. Valdez
ISBN: 9781349451081
Format: Paperback
$158.95

Philhellenism the fascination with the art, politics, religion and society of ancient Greece- is a powerful and...  Read More >>

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