Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics of Romance in Fifteenth-Century England

Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics...

Author: R. Lexton
ISBN: 9781349473540
Format: Paperback
$167.95

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur...  Read More >>

John the Baptist's Prayer or The Descent into Hell from the Exeter Book: Text, Translation and Critical Study

John the Baptist's Prayer or The Descent into Hell from...

Author: M.R. Rambaran-Olm
ISBN: 9781843843665
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for...  Read More >>

Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards

Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour...

Author: Carol Meale ,  Derek Pearsall
ISBN: 9781843843757
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture.  Read More >>

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England

Author: Michael Johnston (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780199679782
Format: Hardback
$271.00

showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the ""popular culture"" of their...  Read More >>

Strategie Und Philosophie Bei Seneca: Untersuchungen Zur Therapeutischen Technik in Den  Epistulae Morales

Strategie Und Philosophie Bei Seneca: Untersuchungen...

Author: Uwe Dietsche
ISBN: 9783110349115
Format: Mixed media product
$628.32

How seriously are we to take Seneca s philosophizing in the Epistulae morales? Much of their content seems inconsistent...  Read More >>

Rules and Violence / Regeln Und Gewalt: On the Cultural History of Collective Violence from Late Antiquity to the Confessional Age / Zur Kulturgeschichte Der Kollektiven Gewalt Von Der Spatantike Bis Zum Konfessionellen Zeitalter

Rules and Violence / Regeln Und Gewalt: On the Cultural...

Author: Cora Dietl ,  Titus Knapper
ISBN: 9783110364620
Format: Mixed media product
$517.44

Even though violence often functions irrationally, recent research has suggested that, as a form of nonverbal communication,...  Read More >>

Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus

Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus

Author: Mark Heerink ,  Gesine Manuwald
ISBN: 9789004227415
Format: Hardback
$596.64

Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet....  Read More >>

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura...

Author: Eugenia Paulicelli ,  Dr. Allison Levy
ISBN: 9781472411709
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing...  Read More >>

Jao-Jahwe und seine Engel: Jahwe-Appellationen und zugehörige Engelnamen in griechischen und koptischen Zaubertexten

Jao-Jahwe und seine Engel: Jahwe-Appellationen und zugehörige...

Author: Wolfgang Fauth
ISBN: 9783161522222
Format: Paperback
$238.05

Die Onomastik spätantiker Zaubertexte präsentiert eine Vielzahl von Varianten des jüdischen Gottesnamens Jahwe,...  Read More >>

Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics of Romance in Fifteenth-Century England

Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics...

Author: R. Lexton
ISBN: 9781137364821
Format: Hardback
$184.95

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur...  Read More >>

The Cantar de mio Cid: Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts

The Cantar de mio Cid: Poetic Creation in its Economic...

Author: Joseph J. Duggan (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780511720109
Format: Undefined
$435.60

In this study, Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into...  Read More >>

Allgemeines Priestertum: Zur Metaphorisierung des Priestertitels im Frühjudentum und Neuen Testament

Allgemeines Priestertum: Zur Metaphorisierung des Priestertitels...

Author: Volker Gäckle
ISBN: 9783161532344
Format: Hardback
$540.79

Die Lehre vom Allgemeinen Priestertum ist seit der Reformationszeit fester Bestandteil protestantischer Ekklesiologie...  Read More >>

Eutocius d’Ascalon: "Commentaire sur le traité des ""Coniques"" d'Apollonius de Perge (Livres I-IV)"

Eutocius d’Ascalon: "Commentaire sur le traité des ""Coniques""...

Author: Micheline Decorps-Foulquier ,  Michel Federspiel
ISBN: 9783110206999
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Eutocius of Ascalon (4th cent. AD) accompanied his edition of the first four books of Apollonius of Perga's Konika...  Read More >>

The Birth of Theory

The Birth of Theory

Author: Andrew Cole
ISBN: 9780226135427
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory - Hegel did. To support this contention, the author presents a fresh...  Read More >>

Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle

Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian...

Author: Alhena Gadotti
ISBN: 9781614517085
Format: Hardback
$607.20

Providing a perspective on the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book argues that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle was...  Read More >>

Magie Und Ritual Bei Apollonios Rhodios: Studien Zur Ihrer Form Und Funktion in Den Argonautika

Magie Und Ritual Bei Apollonios Rhodios: Studien Zur...

Author: Ingo Schaaf
ISBN: 9783110309485
Format: Hardback
$274.47

Until now, scholars have largely ignored Apollonius of Rhodes's deep interest in secret cults, arcane rituals, paradoxa,...  Read More >>

Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110360875
Format: Hardback
$291.63

Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point-of-view represents a critical component...  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica: Alkimenes - Kantharos

Fragmenta Comica: Alkimenes - Kantharos

Author: Andreas Bagordo
ISBN: 9783938032688
Format: Hardback
$229.68

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Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament

Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek...

Author: D.A. Carson ,  Douglas S. Huffman
ISBN: 9781433107634
Format: Paperback
$211.60

The end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining...  Read More >>

Reading Prophetic Books: Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature

Reading Prophetic Books: Form, Intertextuality, and...

Author: Marvin A. Sweeney
ISBN: 9783161523748
Format: Hardback
$427.97

"In this volume Marvin A. Sweeney builds upon his former work ""Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic...  Read More >>

The Birth of Theory

The Birth of Theory

Author: Andrew Cole
ISBN: 9780226135397
Format: Hardback
$172.95

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. This book presents...  Read More >>

Familial Discourses in «The Book of Margery Kempe»: «Blyssed be the wombe that the bar and the tetys that yaf the sowkyn»

Familial Discourses in «The Book of Margery Kempe»:...

Author: Raphaela Rohrhofer
ISBN: 9783631641804
Format: Paperback
$103.63

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Christian Gottlob Heyne: Werk Und Leistung Nach Zweihundert Jahren

Christian Gottlob Heyne: Werk Und Leistung Nach Zweihundert...

Author: Balbina Bäbler ,  Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
ISBN: 9783110344691
Format: Hardback
$512.13

Die Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen sind das wichtigste wissenschaftliche Publikationsorgan...  Read More >>

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