Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Saxo Grammaticus (Volume I): Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes

Saxo Grammaticus (Volume I): Gesta Danorum: The History...

Author: Karsten Friis-Jensen (The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) ,  Peter Fisher (Lecturer (retired), Lecturer (retired), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198205234
Format: Hardback
$612.95

Saxo, a twelfth-century canon at Lund Cathedral, was commissioned by his Archbishop to write a history of Denmark...  Read More >>

Adam Usk's Secret

Adam Usk's Secret

Author: Steven Justice ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812246933
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Adam Usk, a fifteenth-century professor, royal advisor, schismatic, and spy, wrote a peculiar book in a reticent,...  Read More >>

The Vision in Job 4 and Its Role in the Book: Reframing the Development of the Joban Dialogues. Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism. Vol. IV

The Vision in Job 4 and Its Role in the Book: Reframing...

Author: Ken Brown
ISBN: 9783161535338
Format: Paperback
$268.32

Near the beginning of the Joban Dialogues, Job's friend Eliphaz is attributed a remarkably subversive vision (Job...  Read More >>

Plinius' Kleine Reiseapotheke

Plinius' Kleine Reiseapotheke

Author: Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783515110266
Format: Hardback
$137.28

"Was tun, wenn man auf Reisen krank wird und man vor Ort keine Apotheken und keine vertrauenswurdige Arzteschaft...  Read More >>

Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse

Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early...

Author: Almut Suerbaum ,  Benjamin Thompson
ISBN: 9781472425072
Format: Electronic book text
$343.07

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory

Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory...

Author: A. Gerber
ISBN: 9781137488398
Format: Hardback
$136.95

Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts...  Read More >>

A Companion to Julian of Norwich

A Companion to Julian of Norwich

Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy ,  Annie Sutherland
ISBN: 9781843844044
Format: Paperback
$64.66

One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.  Read More >>

The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya

The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in...

Author: Takami Matsuda ,  Richard A. Linenthal
ISBN: 9781843844051
Format: Paperback
$103.47

New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing.  Read More >>

In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini

In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini...

Author: C. E. V. Nixon ,  Barbara Saylor Rodgers
ISBN: 9780520286252
Format: Paperback
$74.95

An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with...  Read More >>

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language and...

Author: Ben Snook
ISBN: 9781783270064
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity...  Read More >>

Volkssprachiges Proverbium in der Gelehrtenkultur: Ein lateinischer Fabelkommentar des 15. Jahrhunderts mit deutschen Reimpaarepimythien. Untersuchung und Edition

Volkssprachiges Proverbium in der Gelehrtenkultur: Ein...

Author: Rebekka Nöcker
ISBN: 9783050064420
Format: Hardback
$580.80

This study examines the connections between vernacular and Latin fables and proverbs in the late Middle Ages. It...  Read More >>

Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception

Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception

Author: Isabel Davis ,  Catherine Nall
ISBN: 9781843844075
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments...  Read More >>

In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin...

Author: Andrea Radasanu ,  Ryan K. Balot
ISBN: 9780739184165
Format: Hardback
$363.00

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor...  Read More >>

Goethes Walpurgisnacht-Trilogie

Goethes Walpurgisnacht-Trilogie

Author: Thomas Hoffgen
ISBN: 9783653057720
Format: Electronic book text
$208.43

In diesem Buch wird erstmals der werkubergreifende Walpurgisnacht -Komplex von Johann Wolfgang Goethe in seinem...  Read More >>

The Works of Chardri: Three Poems in the French of Thirteenth-Century England: The Life of the Seven Sleepers, the Life of St. Josaphaz, and the Little Debate

The Works of Chardri: Three Poems in the French of Thirteenth-Century...

Author: Neil Cartlidge ,  Neil Cartlidge
ISBN: 9780866985130
Format: Hardback
$142.56

This book contains the first published translations (into any modern language) of the complete works of a thirteenth-century...  Read More >>

Babylonian and Assyrian Literature

Babylonian and Assyrian Literature

Author: Epiphanius Wilson
ISBN: 9781511574518
Format: Paperback
$22.41

The Epic of Izdubar, hymns, tablets and cuneiform inscriptions  Read More >>

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Author: Richard Bett ,  Katja Maria Vogt
ISBN: 9783161533365
Format: Hardback
$169.74

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Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes

Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in Translation,...

Author: Anthony Kaldellis
ISBN: 9780415732321
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient...  Read More >>

Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549

Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular...

Author: Sebastian Sobecki
ISBN: 9780268041458
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal...  Read More >>

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes...

Author: Jackson Crawford
ISBN: 9781624663574
Format: Hardback
$79.00

These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing...  Read More >>

Cicero Und Das Geld

Cicero Und Das Geld

Author: Eva Simone Scheuermann
ISBN: 9783653056822
Format: Electronic book text
$184.67

Im Buch wird die finanzielle Situation Ciceros untersucht, die anhand seines Briefwechsels detailliert nachverfolgt...  Read More >>

Menaechmi

Menaechmi

Author: Plautus ,  Clara M. Knight
ISBN: 9781107487307
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Originally published in 1919 as part of the Pitt Press series, this book contains an edited edition of the Latin...  Read More >>

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