Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29102 books were found.

Introduction to the History of English

Introduction to the History of English

Author: Magnus Huber ,  Thomas Kohnen
ISBN: 9783631560044
Format: Paperback
$63.01

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Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance: Mothers, Identity, and Contamination

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance: Mothers,...

Author: A. Florschuetz
ISBN: 9781137343482
Format: Hardback
$186.95

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative...  Read More >>

The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

Author: B. Bennett
ISBN: 9781137381873
Format: Hardback
$174.95

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes...  Read More >>

Heroines of the French Epic: A second selection of chansons de geste

Heroines of the French Epic: A second selection of chansons...

Author: Michael A.H. Newth ,  Michael A.H. Newth
ISBN: 9781843843610
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or ""songs of deeds"", provided the chief means of...  Read More >>

Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works

Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric...

Author: Laura F. Hodges (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843843689
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding...  Read More >>

The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXI: Manuscripts in the Hatton and e Musaeo  Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford

The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXI: Manuscripts...

Author: Patrick J. Horner (Author)
ISBN: 9781843843740
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Latest volume in a series which is ""a monumental achievement"" REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES  Read More >>

Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

Author: Carolyn P Collette (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781903153499
Format: Hardback
$168.19

A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works.  Read More >>

The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences

The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary,...

Author: Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State University) ,  Norman W. Jones (Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780511779800
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Bringing together leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this groundbreaking volume examines the cultural...  Read More >>

Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire

Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire

Author: Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780511997822
Format: Undefined
$435.60

The first book to study the impact of archaic iambic poetry on imperial authors. Recognizable elements of the iambic...  Read More >>

John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English Church

John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English...

Author: Mark S. Sweetnam
ISBN: 9781846823947
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This book offers a new and important perspective on John Donne's work by focusing on the importance of theological...  Read More >>

Les Lais Du Roman de Fauvel: Lyrisme d'Amour, Lyrisme Carnavalesque

Les Lais Du Roman de Fauvel: Lyrisme d'Amour, Lyrisme...

Author: Margherita Lecco
ISBN: 9782812421426
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Of the lyric works which make up the Roman de Fauvel, the four lais which the cursed horse Fauvel and the goddess...  Read More >>

Homers Ilias: Studien zu Dichter, Werk und Rezeption (Kleine Schriften II)

Homers Ilias: Studien zu Dichter, Werk und Rezeption...

Author: Joachim Latacz ,  Thierry Greub
ISBN: 9783110306194
Format: Hardback
$291.63

Sowohl in ihren Einzelkomponenten wie auch als Struktureinheit ist die Ilias nach wie vor nicht tief genug erschlossen....  Read More >>

"""Cato Peripateticus"" – stoische und peripatetische Ethik im Dialog": "Cic. ""fin."" 3 und der Aristotelismus des ersten Jh. v. Chr. (Xenarchos, Boethos und 'Areios Didymos')"

"""Cato Peripateticus"" – stoische und peripatetische...

Author: Philip Schmitz
ISBN: 9783110337075
Format: Hardback
$137.19

The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While...  Read More >>

Schweigen in Versen: Text, Übersetzung und Studien zu den Schweigegedichten Gregors von Nazianz (II,1,34A/B)

Schweigen in Versen: Text, Übersetzung und Studien zu...

Author: Thomas Kuhn ,  Gregory
ISBN: 9783110345506
Format: Hardback
$162.93

Die noch immer wenig erforschten Gedichte Gregors von Nazianz verbinden in bemerkenswerter Weise jüdisch-christliche...  Read More >>

The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ Punica

The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius...

Author: Claire Stocks (Dept. of Classics (GLTC), Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands))
ISBN: 9781781380284
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book offers a new reading of Hannibal in Silius Italicus’ Punica and provides fresh insight into how the Romans...  Read More >>

Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos

Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos

Author: Anke Walter
ISBN: 9783110336207
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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Die Homilien Zum Ersten Buch Samuel

Die Homilien Zum Ersten Buch Samuel

Author: Alfons Fürst
ISBN: 9783110300888
Format: Hardback
$324.69

"Von den Predigten des Origenes zu den Samuel- und Königsbüchern sind nur wenige Reste erhalten geblieben. Darunter...  Read More >>

Die Farben höfischer Körper: Farbattribuierung und höfische Identität in mittelhochdeutschen Artus- und Tristanromanen

Die Farben höfischer Körper: Farbattribuierung und höfische...

Author: Carolin Oster
ISBN: 9783050064697
Format: Hardback
$295.68

The colors displayed by courtly figures in the romances of the 12th and 13thc establish an independent semantics...  Read More >>

The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes

The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction...

Author: Diane J. Rayor
ISBN: 9780520282117
Format: Paperback
$40.95

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language,...  Read More >>

Fujiwara No Akihira, Notes Sur de Nouveaux Divertissements Comiques

Fujiwara No Akihira, Notes Sur de Nouveaux Divertissements...

Author: Akihira Fujiwara No ,  Francine Herail
ISBN: 9782251100098
Format: Paperback
$116.16

L'auteur de ce court texte, le fonctionnaire lettre Fujiwara no Akihira, est aussi le compilateur d'une anthologie...  Read More >>

Traite de l'Historien Parfait. Chapitres Interieurs

Traite de l'Historien Parfait. Chapitres Interieurs...

Author: Liu Zhiji ,  Damien Chaussende
ISBN: 9782251100173
Format: Paperback
$182.16

English summary: Liu Zhiji wrote his treatise of the perfect historian during the eighth century under the Tang...  Read More >>

Raconter Byzance

Raconter Byzance

Author: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala Universitet Sweden) ,  Paolo Odorico
ISBN: 9782251444994
Format: Paperback
$150.48

Dans cette etude, les romans byzantins sont consideres comme une entree pour comprendre le discours litteraire du...  Read More >>

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