Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Otherworldly John Dryden: Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays

Otherworldly John Dryden: Occult Rhetoric in His Poems...

Author: Jack M. Armistead
ISBN: 9781472424976
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Reminding readers of John Dryden's persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden's otherworldliness...  Read More >>

The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation

The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation...

Author: A. Johnston ,  M. Rouse
ISBN: 9781349294435
Format: Paperback
$184.95

Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights...  Read More >>

Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism

Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism...

Author: Barbara Cassin
ISBN: 9780823256389
Format: Hardback
$187.95

Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato want us...  Read More >>

The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship

The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship

Author: Jenni Nuttall (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781299398993
Format: Undefined
$330.00

The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which...  Read More >>

Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters

Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters

Author: Peter Bing (Department of Classics, Emory University) ,  Regina Hschele
ISBN: 9781589837416
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Full of erotic spice and charm, this late-antique collection of fictitious letters by Aristaenetus (ca. 500 AD),...  Read More >>

Asthetisierung Und Asthetische Erfahrung Von Gewalt Ein Untersuchung Zu Senecas Tragodien

Asthetisierung Und Asthetische Erfahrung Von Gewalt...

Author: Antje Wessels
ISBN: 9783825360849
Format: Hardback
$116.16

In der fruhen Kaiserzeit, in der selbst das Toten asthetisch uberformt ist, sind die Grenzen zwischen Kunst und...  Read More >>

Writing in a Speaking World: The Pragmatics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions and Old English Poetry

Writing in a Speaking World: The Pragmatics of Literacy...

Author: Peter Orton
ISBN: 9780866984935
Format: Hardback
$179.52

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The Notory Art of Shorthand (Ars notoria notarie): A Curious Chapter in the History of Writing in the West

The Notory Art of Shorthand (Ars notoria notarie): A...

Author: J. Haines
ISBN: 9789042930681
Format: Paperback
$150.48

The Notory Art of Shorthand (Ars notoria notarie), an important yet understudied late medieval work, is newly...  Read More >>

The Myth of Morgan la Fey

The Myth of Morgan la Fey

Author: K. Pérez
ISBN: 9781137340252
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth...  Read More >>

Arthurian Literature and Christianity: Notes from the Twentieth Century

Arthurian Literature and Christianity: Notes from the...

Author: Peter Meister
ISBN: 9781299622876
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework

Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer...

Author: Rochelle Brock ,  Richard Greggory Johnson III
ISBN: 9781433122323
Format: Paperback
$125.80

This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around...  Read More >>

Bd VI: M-N. 11. Lieferung (Morachsamo Bis Muot)

Bd VI: M-N. 11. Lieferung (Morachsamo Bis Muot)

Author: Hans Ulrich Schmid ,  Hans Ulrich Schmid
ISBN: 9783050065014
Format: Paperback
$73.92

The Dictionary of Old High German aims to comprehensively trace and compile all of the extant vocabulary from this...  Read More >>

Between Earth and Heaven: Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Between Earth and Heaven: Liminality and the Ascension...

Author: Johanna Kramer ,  Anke Bernau
ISBN: 9780719087899
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature...

Author: Claire Baldwin
ISBN: 9781469615042
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods  Read More >>

The Great Ethics of Aristotle

The Great Ethics of Aristotle

Author: Peter L. P. Simpson
ISBN: 9781412851978
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this follow up to The Eudemian Ethicsof Aristotle, Peter L  Read More >>

The Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux, Mediatheque Municipale: Ms. 1: A Sourcebook

The Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux, Mediatheque Municipale:...

Author: Shirley Ann Brown
ISBN: 9782503549170
Format: Paperback
$327.36

The Bayeux Tapestry is a late eleventh-century embroidery, 68.5 metres/224 feet long, that visualizes the events...  Read More >>

The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: Text and Critical Introduction

The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

Author: Ray Moore M a
ISBN: 9781499228069
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography:...

Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis
ISBN: 9781409409519
Format: Hardback
$305.00

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms....  Read More >>

Divine Providence: A History: The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante

Divine Providence: A History: The Bible, Virgil, Orosius,...

Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen
ISBN: 9781628920604
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Looks at the influence of Orosius and Augustine, as well as of the Bible and Virgil, on Dante's view of the notion...  Read More >>

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Author: Stamatia Dova, Hellenic College
ISBN: 9780739192856
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings...  Read More >>

Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author: William Allan (Fellow in Classics, University College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199665457
Format: Paperback
$21.95

William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods...  Read More >>

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