Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Euclid's Book on Division of Figures: With a Restoration Based on Woepcke's Text and on the Practica Geometriae of Leonardo Pisano

Euclid's Book on Division of Figures: With a Restoration...

Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
ISBN: 9781107492240
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Originally published in 1915, this book contains an English translation of a reconstructed version of Euclid's study...  Read More >>

Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England

Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England

Author: Ellen K Rentz
ISBN: 9780814212752
Format: Hardback
$213.71

Explores the ways in which Middle English literature engages the idea of lay spiritual community and the ideal of...  Read More >>

Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen

Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen

Author: Cosetta Cadau
ISBN: 9789004279506
Format: Hardback
$501.60

Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen situates this author within his cultural context of the Egyptian Thebaid...  Read More >>

The "Lost Second Book of Aristotle's ""Poetics"""

The "Lost Second Book of Aristotle's ""Poetics"""

Author: Walter Watson
ISBN: 9780226274119
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Based on Richard Janko's philological reconstruction of the epitome, the author mounts a philosophical argument...  Read More >>

Prudentius' Psychomachia: A Reexamination

Prudentius' Psychomachia: A Reexamination

Author: Macklin Smith
ISBN: 9780691617275
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Lucretius and the Transpadanes

Lucretius and the Transpadanes

Author: Louise Adams Holland
ISBN: 9780691603100
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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The Gothic Visionary Perspective

The Gothic Visionary Perspective

Author: Barbara Nolan
ISBN: 9780691602929
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery

Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of...

Author: Chauncey Wood
ISBN: 9780691621340
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Libro de Buen Amor

Libro de Buen Amor

Author: Juan Ruiz ,  Raymond Smith Willis
ISBN: 9780691619897
Format: Paperback
$145.00

This edition is designed to open the enchanting book to all readers of modern Spanish. Raymond Willis has regularized...  Read More >>

The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid

The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Gilbert Highet
ISBN: 9780691619491
Format: Paperback
$97.99

In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by...  Read More >>

Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style

Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style...

Author: Annabel M. Patterson
ISBN: 9780691620848
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century...  Read More >>

Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles

Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles

Author: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691620978
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Based on the author's thesis, Princeton University.  Read More >>

Ovid's Heroidos

Ovid's Heroidos

Author: Howard Jacobson
ISBN: 9780691618333
Format: Paperback
$115.00

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides...  Read More >>

Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvester

Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of...

Author: Brian Stock
ISBN: 9780691619477
Format: Paperback
$115.00

The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante....  Read More >>

Golden Age of Chinese Drama: Yuan Tsa-Chu

Golden Age of Chinese Drama: Yuan Tsa-Chu

Author: Chung-wen Shih
ISBN: 9780691617282
Format: Paperback
$87.99

The 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic...  Read More >>

On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature

On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature

Author: Andras Hamori
ISBN: 9780691618364
Format: Paperback
$54.99

In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates...  Read More >>

Cervantes' Christian Romance: A Study of Persiles y Sigismunda

Cervantes' Christian Romance: A Study of Persiles y...

Author: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691619750
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character...  Read More >>

English Writings of Hu Shih: National Crisis and Public Diplomacy (Volume 3)

English Writings of Hu Shih: National Crisis and Public...

Author: Chih-Ping Chou ,  Hu Shih
ISBN: 9783642434495
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Hu Shih (1891-1962), Chinese philosopher, historian and diplomat. Hu Shih was the Republic of China¡¯s Ambassador...  Read More >>

English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History (Volume 2)

English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and...

Author: Chih-Ping Chou ,  Hu Shih
ISBN: 9783642427510
Format: Paperback
$310.47

It can also serve as a helpful resource for those who study Hu Shih and his views on ancient and modern China.The...  Read More >>

English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society (Volume 1)

English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society...

Author: Chih-Ping Chou ,  Hu Shih
ISBN: 9783642438820
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Hu Shih (1891-1962),. The second volume “Literature and Society” mainly includes Hu Shih’s works on language reform,...  Read More >>

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