Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture

Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence...

Author: Harry Berger Jr (University of California Santa Cruz)
ISBN: 9780823261550
Format: Undefined
$203.28

Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction...  Read More >>

Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti

Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary...

Author: Angela Fritsen
ISBN: 9780814212844
Format: Hardback
$170.65

The first study of the Renaissance exegesis and imitation of Ovid as antiquarian.  Read More >>

Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles

Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles...

Author: Ilaria Marchesi (Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9780198729464
Format: Hardback
$277.00

The studies collected in this volume address Pliny's complex self-editorial strategies, ultimately suggesting that...  Read More >>

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin

Author: Giuseppe Pezzini (Fellow by Examination, Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198736240
Format: Hardback
$309.95

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and its contracted...  Read More >>

Poems from BL MS Harley 913: 'The Kildare Manuscript'

Poems from BL MS Harley 913: 'The Kildare Manuscript'...

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780198739166
Format: Hardback
$105.95

British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish...  Read More >>

Crux interpretum

Crux interpretum

Author: Uta Heil ,  Annette Von Stockhausen
ISBN: 9783110419573
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The philologist Eduard Schwartz helped shape philological, historical, and theological research on antiquity and...  Read More >>

Commentarii in Propertivm - Primvs Commentarivs: Der Kommentar zum Ersten Buch der Elegien des Properz

Commentarii in Propertivm - Primvs Commentarivs: Der...

Author: Rudolf Rieks ,  Roland Stürzenhofecker
ISBN: 9783631668061
Format: Hardback
$177.24

Im Jahr 1487 erscheint in Bologna der Kommentar des Humanisten Philippus Beroaldus zu den Elegien des Properz. Die...  Read More >>

Set Handbook of Medieval Culture

Set Handbook of Medieval Culture

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110377606
Format: Hardback
$1845.36

Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective....  Read More >>

Hermeneutik / Peri Hermeneias: Griechisch - Deutsch

Hermeneutik / Peri Hermeneias: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Aristoteles ,  Hermann Weidemann
ISBN: 9783110408928
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Thema der Schrift Peri hermeneias (De interpretatione) ist der einfache Aussage- oder Behauptungssatz in seiner...  Read More >>

The Adventures of Ulysses: A Supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus

The Adventures of Ulysses: A Supplement to the Adventures...

Author: Charles Lamb
ISBN: 9781517063603
Format: Paperback
$18.35

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The Greek View of Life

The Greek View of Life

Author: G. Lowes Dickinson
ISBN: 9781138957855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Enigma of Egill: The Saga, the Viking Poet, and Snorri Sturluson

The Enigma of Egill: The Saga, the Viking Poet, and...

Author: Torfi H. Tulinius ,  Victoria Cribb
ISBN: 9780935995183
Format: Hardback
$139.73

A careful analysis of Snorri Sturluson's life and times allows Torfi Tulinius to propose a context for a fuller...  Read More >>

The Argonautica

The Argonautica

Author: Apollonius Rhodius ,  R C Seaton
ISBN: 9781517033064
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This is the famous epic poem about the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, one of Ancient Greece's most popular...  Read More >>

Verhinderte Ritter in Der Deutschen Literatur Des Mittelalters: Scheitern Und Gelingen Fiktionaler Identitatskonstruktionen

Verhinderte Ritter in Der Deutschen Literatur Des Mittelalters:...

Author: Robert Steinke ,  Horst Brunner
ISBN: 9783954901012
Format: Hardback
$274.56

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit sind die Bedingungen, unter denen in mittelalterlicher fiktionaler Literatur eine Identitat...  Read More >>

Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs: Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira und zur frühjüdischen Weisheit

Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs: Gesammelte Studien...

Author: Markus Witte
ISBN: 9783161539053
Format: Hardback
$326.03

"Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Studien Markus Wittes zu dem im 2. Jh. v. Chr. in Jerusalem auf Hebräisch abgefassten...  Read More >>

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An...

Author: Mojca Küplen
ISBN: 9783319198989
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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Subject, Structure, and Imagination in the Spanish Discourse on Modernity

Subject, Structure, and Imagination in the Spanish Discourse...

Author: C. Christopher Soufas, Jr.
ISBN: 9781137536822
Format: Hardback
$158.95

Many scholars have treated Spain's philosophical loyalties as being anchored in the Middle Ages. Aiming to debunk...  Read More >>

Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance

Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance...

Author: Ross Arthur
ISBN: 9781138021877
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable poems of the ‘romance’ genre of medieval...  Read More >>

C. Marius Victorinus, ""Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica"": Band 1: Prolegomena. Band 2: Kritischer Kommentar Und Indices

C. Marius Victorinus, ""Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica"":...

Author: Thomas Riesenweber
ISBN: 9783110316377
Format: Hardback
$792.00

The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While...  Read More >>

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours...

Author: Robert A Taylor
ISBN: 9781580442077
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature

Medieval Literature

Author: W P Ker
ISBN: 9781517031824
Format: Paperback
$37.59

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Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend

Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic...

Author: Paul Acker (Saint Louis University, USA) ,  Carolyne Larrington (St. John's College, Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781138936997
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This collection visits the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend and is a companion volume to The Poetic Edda:...  Read More >>

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