Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Reader in al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master

The Reader in al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an...

Author: Thomas Hefter
ISBN: 9780748692743
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopedist 'Amr b Bahr al-Jahiz has long been acknowledged as a master...  Read More >>

Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West

Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men...

Author: Jacqueline Murray
ISBN: 9781138799028
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages

The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9781138799035
Format: Paperback
$101.00

These essays explore the cultural significance of writing and reading in the Middle Ages, and argues for an understanding...  Read More >>

Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook

Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook

Author: Scott D. Troyan
ISBN: 9781138799813
Format: Paperback
$101.00

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Antike Kritik an der Stoa: Lateinisch / griechisch - deutsch

Antike Kritik an der Stoa: Lateinisch / griechisch -...

Author: Rainer Nickel
ISBN: 9783050062822
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German...  Read More >>

Athenian Tragedy in Performance: A Guide to Contemporary Studies and Historical Debates

Athenian Tragedy in Performance: A Guide to Contemporary...

Author: Melinda Powers
ISBN: 9781609382315
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Arthurian Chivalry and Knightly Outsiders in Medieval Literature

Arthurian Chivalry and Knightly Outsiders in Medieval...

Author: Michael Wenthe
ISBN: 9780230120815
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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The Experience of Tragic Judgment

The Experience of Tragic Judgment

Author: Julen Etxabe (University of Helsinki, Finland)
ISBN: 9780415657181
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality,...  Read More >>

Virgil's Homeric Lens

Virgil's Homeric Lens

Author: Edan Dekel
ISBN: 9781138802292
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book examines the ways in which Virgil’s Aeneid uses Homer’s Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing...  Read More >>

The Style of Aeschylus

The Style of Aeschylus

Author: F. R. Earp
ISBN: 9781107698734
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Originally published in 1948, this book presents an account regarding aspects of style in the works of Aeschylus....  Read More >>

Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV

Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the...

Author: Fotini Kondyli ,  Vera Andriopoulou
ISBN: 9781409439660
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Slyvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical...  Read More >>

The Art of Courtly Love

The Art of Courtly Love

Author: Andreas Capellanus ,  Jan M. Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9780231136570
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Marriage is no excuse for not loving. That which a lover takes against the will of his beloved has no relish. When...  Read More >>

An Collins and the Historical Imagination

An Collins and the Historical Imagination

Author: W. Scott Howard
ISBN: 9781472418470
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance...  Read More >>

Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China: "Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnone’s ""Illustrations of the Grand Dao"""

Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China: "Two Studies with...

Author: Frank Kraushaar ,  Irmy Schweiger
ISBN: 9783034314398
Format: Paperback
$179.06

Used by classical Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief saying attributed to a famous historical...  Read More >>

A Guide to the Old Persian Inscriptions

A Guide to the Old Persian Inscriptions

Author: Herbert Cushing Tolman
ISBN: 9781500317065
Format: Paperback
$23.73

An excerpt from the Author's note 'To The Reader': This book does not claim to be a contribution to Iranian subjects....  Read More >>

Wigalois

Wigalois

Author: Sabine Seelbach ,  Ulrich Seelbach
ISBN: 9783110347937
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Wirnt von Grafenberg's Arthurian romance Wigalois (c. 1210-20) tells the story of Sir Gawain's son, Wigalois, who...  Read More >>

In Defence of Christianity: Early Christian Apologists

In Defence of Christianity: Early Christian Apologists...

Author: Anders-Christian Jacobsen ,  Jakob Engberg
ISBN: 9783631623831
Format: Hardback
$157.06

In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided...  Read More >>

The Byzantine Alexander Poem

The Byzantine Alexander Poem

Author: Willem J. Aerts ,  Pseudo-Callisth
ISBN: 9781614515302
Format: Hardback
$475.17

Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine...  Read More >>

Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers

Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts,...

Author: Ralph Hanna, III (Keble College (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781381281
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph...  Read More >>

Die Septuaginta - Text, Wirkung, Rezeption: 4. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19.-22. Juli 2012

Die Septuaginta - Text, Wirkung, Rezeption: 4. Internationale...

Author: Wolfgang Kraus ,  Siegfried Kreuzer
ISBN: 9783161526534
Format: Hardback
$615.82

Die Septuaginta ist als jüdische Bibelübersetzung ab dem 3. Jh. v. Chr. entstanden. Sie wurde zur zentralen Grundlage...  Read More >>

Living Your Joy Out Loud: Claiming and Exclaiming Who You Are in Christ

Living Your Joy Out Loud: Claiming and Exclaiming Who...

Author: Joy Bazemore
ISBN: 9781462737260
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Do you believe, really believe, what God says about you? Do you want to? Do you want God's joy to truly make a difference...  Read More >>

Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy

Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides'...

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781472530516
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Euripides' Medea is one of the most often read, studied and performed of all Greek tragedies. A searingly cruel...  Read More >>

Juvenal: Satire 6

Juvenal: Satire 6

Author: Juvenal ,  Lindsay Watson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780521671101
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Aimed at senior undergraduate Latin students and professional scholars, this edition provides help with the linguistic...  Read More >>

Martial's Epigrams: Translations and Imitations

Martial's Epigrams: Translations and Imitations

Author: A. L. Francis ,  H. F. Tatum
ISBN: 9781107695153
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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