Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Saints and Sinners on Horseback: Volume 1

Saints and Sinners on Horseback: Volume 1

Author: Miriam A. Bibby ,  Francis Young
ISBN: 9786156405876
Format: Hardback
$176.00

Whether saint, sinner, or simply all too human, the medieval individual's connection to equids reflected relationships...  Read More >>

Ananya Mahakabya Shri Gitagobinda

Ananya Mahakabya Shri Gitagobinda

Author: Premananda Mohapatra
ISBN: 9781645604389
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ସଂସ୍କୃତ ବାଙ୍]ମୟ ଜଗତର କାଳଜୟୀ ପ୍ରତିଭା ହେଉଛନ୍ତି କବିରାଜ ଶ୍ରୀଜୟଦେବ । ଶ୍ରୀଗତଗୋବିନ୍ଦ ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥକୁ ପ୍ରଫେସର ମହାପାତ୍ର ସମ୍ପାଦନା...  Read More >>

Min Sang Sol Wesen Din: Deutsche Lyrik Des Mittelalters Und Der Fruhen Neuzeit: Interpretationen

Min Sang Sol Wesen Din: Deutsche Lyrik Des Mittelalters...

Author: Tobias Bulang ,  Holger Runow
ISBN: 9783752007664
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Die Anthologie prasentiert eine Auswahl vorwiegend deutschsprachiger mittelalterlicher Lyrik mitsamt Interpretationen....  Read More >>

Dante's Blood

Dante's Blood

Author: Anne C Leone
ISBN: 9781839541728
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Dante's works contain too much and too little blood. On the one hand, one might wonder why there is any blood in...  Read More >>

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to...

Author: Shiloh Carroll ,  Petrea Burchard
ISBN: 9798874675820
Format: Audio
$97.65

"Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced...  Read More >>

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to...

Author: Shiloh Carroll ,  Petrea Burchard
ISBN: 9798874675837
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced...  Read More >>

Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today

Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century...

Author: D Berton Emerson ,  D Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9798874666088
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Ask someone their thoughts about ""democracy"" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing...  Read More >>

Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today

Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century...

Author: D Berton Emerson ,  D Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9798874666071
Format: Audio
$124.05

"Ask someone their thoughts about ""democracy"" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing...  Read More >>

Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome: The Case of Josephus' Jewish War

Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome: The Case of...

Author: Dr Jonathan Davies (Lecturer in Ancient History, Lecturer in Ancient History, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780198882992
Format: Hardback
$164.95

"This work is a re-examination of the political dimensions of the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. It offers a significant...  Read More >>

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage: Artful Devices

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage:...

Author: Dori Coblentz
ISBN: 9781474482271
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.  Read More >>

How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems

How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems

Author: Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108483087
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument...  Read More >>

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval...

Author: Katherine Storm Hindley
ISBN: 9780226825335
Format: Hardback
$74.95

An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.   Katherine Storm...  Read More >>

The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilingual Guild Ordinances

The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London:...

Author: Shannon McSheffrey (Contributor) ,  Ad Putter
ISBN: 9781837650804
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Uncovers the remarkable lives and writings of these tradesmen, showing how they adapted to their new environment...  Read More >>

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

Author: Melanie Racette-Campbell
ISBN: 9780299343507
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Masculinity in both the Republic and the Empire are well studied subjects, but by shining a light on the precise...  Read More >>

The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of Aquitaine: The Songs that Built Europe

The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of...

Author: Fidel Fajardo-Acosta
ISBN: 9781666926934
Format: Hardback
$213.00

An edition and study of the poetry of the first of the medieval European troubadours, this book claims William’s...  Read More >>

Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three studies, from Chrétien de Troyes to Proust

Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three...

Author: Lorenzo Mainini
ISBN: 9781032122229
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative...  Read More >>

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution...

Author: Steven W. May (Adjunct Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of English, Emory University)
ISBN: 9780198878001
Format: Hardback
$153.95

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution shows how the advent of paper as a cheap and lasting...  Read More >>

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce,...

Author: Gregory Baker (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009364980
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in...  Read More >>

A Comic Vision of Sacred Kinship: Poetry about the Crowning of a Living (Loving) Soul: Readings of C. S. Lewis, Roger Scruton, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Plato

A Comic Vision of Sacred Kinship: Poetry about the Crowning...

Author: Alan Griesinger
ISBN: 9781637552605
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"For this inquiry into sacred kinship, the author has taken for his text the verse from Genesis 2: ""And the Lord...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Author: Leah Himmelhoch (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9781350154902
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life...  Read More >>

Plato's Charmides

Plato's Charmides

Author: Raphael Woolf (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009308199
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Author: Leah Himmelhoch (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9781350154896
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life...  Read More >>

The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations

The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the...

Author: Charles W. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781032543048
Format: Hardback
$231.00

The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse...  Read More >>

Old English Verse

Old English Verse

Author: T.A. Shippey
ISBN: 9781032531809
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden;...  Read More >>

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