Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Medieval English Literature

Medieval English Literature

Author: Beatrice Fannon
ISBN: 9781137469588
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This New Casebook brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval...  Read More >>

Arguing it out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Arguing it out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium...

Author: Averil Cameron (Chair, Oxford Centre of Byzantine Research (OCBR))
ISBN: 9789633861110
Format: Paperback
$59.38

In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered...  Read More >>

Medieval English Literature

Medieval English Literature

Author: Beatrice Fannon
ISBN: 9781137469595
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This New Casebook brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval...  Read More >>

When Legends Come Alive: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia

When Legends Come Alive: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia...

Author: Joanna Pyplacz
ISBN: 9788376385563
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The key to understanding the Pharsalia lies precisely in its highly intertextual character and its seemingly fragmentary...  Read More >>

The Chivalric Romance and the Essence of Fiction

The Chivalric Romance and the Essence of Fiction

Author: Dani Cavallaro
ISBN: 9780786499830
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry

Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry

Author: John P. Hermann ,  John J. Burke Jr.
ISBN: 9780817300425
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D.W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal...  Read More >>

Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama

Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama...

Author: Marianna Shreve Simpson ,  Louise Marlow
ISBN: 9780300215748
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 24,...  Read More >>

From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics...

Author: Raymond F Person (Ohio Northern University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138101043
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best...  Read More >>

Plautus' Poenulus: A Student Commentary

Plautus' Poenulus: A Student Commentary

Author: Erin K. Moodie
ISBN: 9780472036424
Format: Paperback
$73.79

The first English commentary on Plautus' unabridged text  Read More >>

Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds

Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient...

Author: Dorota Dutsch ,  Ann Suter
ISBN: 9780472119646
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Examines Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual functions, taking...  Read More >>

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio – A Study of Their Times and Works – (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) – Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante,...

Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell ,  Michael G. Paulson
ISBN: 9781433131158
Format: Hardback
$314.03

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia...  Read More >>

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance: Mothers, Identity, and Contamination

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance: Mothers,...

Author: A. Florschuetz
ISBN: 9781349465729
Format: Paperback
$174.95

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative...  Read More >>

The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation

The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and...

Author: Debra Mancoff
ISBN: 9781138997677
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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The Museum of Augustus - The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, The Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry

The Museum of Augustus - The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii,...

Author: Peter Heslin
ISBN: 9781606064214
Format: Hardback
$113.95

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Die Basilius-Übersetzung des Georg von Trapezunt: Edition

Die Basilius-Übersetzung des Georg von Trapezunt: Edition...

Author: Christina Abenstein
ISBN: 9783110440973
Format: Hardback
$240.15

The doctrinal writings of St. Basil of Caesarea were of key importance at the 1438-9 Ecumenical Council of Ferrara-Florence....  Read More >>

From Mycenae to Homer: A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art

From Mycenae to Homer: A Study in Early Greek Literature...

Author: T. Webster
ISBN: 9781138991781
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

Author: Valerie Krishna
ISBN: 9781138974357
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of...  Read More >>

Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays and of Hamlet

Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays...

Author: H. D. F. Kitto
ISBN: 9781138974524
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed...

Author: Martin T. Dinter ,  Charles Guérin
ISBN: 9783110352405
Format: Hardback
$240.15

Placing the literariness of (Ps)Quintilian's oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm...  Read More >>

Ekkehart IV. von St. Gallen

Ekkehart IV. von St. Gallen

Author: Norbert Kössinger ,  Elke Krotz
ISBN: 9783110353143
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Ekkehart IV of Saint Gall (c.980-c.1060) was the favorite pupil of Notker III (Notker der Deutsche). This volume...  Read More >>

Gegen Julian. Buch 1-5

Gegen Julian. Buch 1-5

Author: Christoph Riedweg
ISBN: 9783110359145
Format: Hardback
$248.73

The first five books of Cyril of Alexandria's (c. 378-444 CE) monumental work of refutation ""Against Julian"" are...  Read More >>

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