Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis, Volume 3

The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics,...

Author: Virgil
ISBN: 9781346496955
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Marvel and Artefact: The 'Wonders of the East' in its manuscript contexts

Marvel and Artefact: The 'Wonders of the East' in its...

Author: A. J. Ford
ISBN: 9789004301382
Format: Hardback
$425.04

Marvel and Artefact examines the manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London,...  Read More >>

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

Author: M. Davidson
ISBN: 9781349371396
Format: Paperback
$226.95

In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed...  Read More >>

"Ignaz Weitenauers neulateinische Tragödie ""Annibal moriens""": Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Interpretation

"Ignaz Weitenauers neulateinische Tragödie ""Annibal...

Author: Stefanie Paul
ISBN: 9783110440072
Format: Hardback
$205.83

"In 1758, the German Jesuit Ignaz Weitenauer published a neo-Latin tragedy ""Annibal moriens"" [The Death of Hannibal]...  Read More >>

Erzählen vom Heiligen: Narrative Inszenierungsformen von Heiligkeit im 'Passional'

Erzählen vom Heiligen: Narrative Inszenierungsformen...

Author: Andreas Hammer
ISBN: 9783110408577
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The study examines the earliest - and with over 100,000 verses, the most extensive - vernacular legendary concerning...  Read More >>

Contingentia: Transformationen des Zufalls

Contingentia: Transformationen des Zufalls

Author: Hartmut Böhme ,  Werner Röcke
ISBN: 9783110419719
Format: Hardback
$171.51

The role of chance in historiography is a major question for the analysis of cultural transformations. Its main...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality

Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of...

Author: Ayelet Peer
ISBN: 9781472452078
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Accessus ad auctores: Medieval Introductions to the Authors (Codex latinus monacensis 19475)

Accessus ad auctores: Medieval Introductions to the...

Author: Stephen M Wheeler
ISBN: 9781580441896
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Studies in Early Victorian Literature

Studies in Early Victorian Literature

Author: Frederic Harrison
ISBN: 9781519786845
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Poetics

The Poetics

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781519742735
Format: Paperback
$24.39

Discusses poetry's aesthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles...  Read More >>

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures:...

Author: L. Besserman
ISBN: 9781349530007
Format: Paperback
$204.95

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics,...  Read More >>

Anoubion, Poeme Astrologique. Temoignages Et Fragments

Anoubion, Poeme Astrologique. Temoignages Et Fragments...

Author: Anoubion ,  Paul Schubert
ISBN: 9782251006017
Format: Paperback
$134.64

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Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur

Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen...

Author: Matthias Meyer ,  Alexander Sager
ISBN: 9783899718805
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Text in German. One of the well-known topoi of medieval literature is that the inside and outside of the protagonists...  Read More >>

Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality

Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality...

Author: L. Sylvester
ISBN: 9781349371112
Format: Paperback
$204.95

In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of...  Read More >>

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English...

Author: K. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781349374014
Format: Paperback
$181.95

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord...  Read More >>

Caecilius de Cale-Acte, Fragments Et Temoignages

Caecilius de Cale-Acte, Fragments Et Temoignages

Author: Caecilius de Cale-Acte ,  Frederique Woerther
ISBN: 9782251006024
Format: Paperback
$118.80

L'edition des fragments et temoignages de Caecilius de Cale-Acte constitue le troisieme moment d'une recherche consacree...  Read More >>

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's...

Author: Philip Hardie (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781784534837
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The rich and remarkable legacy of Ancient Rome's greatest literary treasure.  Read More >>

Athenäum Jahrbuch Der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft: 25. Jahrgang 2015

Athenäum Jahrbuch Der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft:...

Author: Ulrich Breuer ,  Nikolaus Wegmann
ISBN: 9783506782694
Format: Hardback
$166.32

Athenäum - einst die berühmte Zeitschrift der Brüder Schlegel - steht inhaltlich wie stilistisch für höchste Ansprüche....  Read More >>

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

Author: Kevin J. Harty
ISBN: 9781138868946
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation

Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation

Author: Ruby Blondell (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780190263539
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key...  Read More >>

Imprinting Identities: Illustrated Latin-Language Histories of St. Stephen’s Kingdom (1488–1700)

Imprinting Identities: Illustrated Latin-Language Histories...

Author: Karolina Mroziewicz
ISBN: 9783631669921
Format: Hardback
$157.06

The book demonstrates how illustrated printed books played an active role in identity-building processes in the...  Read More >>

The Satires

The Satires

Author: Juvenal ,  John Dryden
ISBN: 9781519673596
Format: Paperback
$15.81

<b>Juvenal was a Roman poet who lived in the 1st-2nd centuries AD, and he's best known for </b><i><b>The Satires</b></i><b>,...  Read More >>

Satires

Satires

Author: Juvenal
ISBN: 9781346056838
Format: Hardback
$61.97

This introduction to three of Juvenal's satires aims to help intermediate high school or college readers understand...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician,...

Author: Nigel Nicholson
ISBN: 9780190209094
Format: Hardback
$179.95

By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The...  Read More >>

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