Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present

Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance...

Author: Helena Taylor (University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter) ,  Fiona Cox (University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780192895387
Format: Hardback
$195.95

Ovid in French examines the ways Ovid's diverse oeuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to...  Read More >>

An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and Its Role in Moral Formation

An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book...

Author: Angela Kim Harkins
ISBN: 9781800503281
Format: Paperback
$69.73

This book uses cognitive literary theory, specifically the approach known as enactive reading, to investigate why...  Read More >>

Medieval German Tales: An Anthology

Medieval German Tales: An Anthology

Author: Sebastian Coxon
ISBN: 9783757401122
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This anthology of twenty medieval tales contains a representative selection of the various kinds of short narrative...  Read More >>

Innerlichkeit Und Gefuhl in Der 'Ilias'

Innerlichkeit Und Gefuhl in Der 'Ilias'

Author: Janina Stahl
ISBN: 9783825399511
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Nicht nur der vielbehandelte Zorn, sondern auch das Mitleid und damit innere Vorgange und Gefuhle an sich sind die...  Read More >>

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Author: Prof Helen Cooper (Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English, Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198878780
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A new edition of Helen Cooper's comprehensive single-volume guide to the The Canterbury Tales, bringing together...  Read More >>

Thomas Hoccleve’s Collected Shorter Poems: A Critical Edition of the Huntington Holographs

Thomas Hoccleve’s Collected Shorter Poems: A Critical...

Author: Sebastian J. Langdell (Department of English, Baylor University (United States))
ISBN: 9781837644254
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Thomas Hoccleve, one of the most well-known figures in 15th-century middle English literature, produced the first...  Read More >>

An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and Its Role in Moral Formation

An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book...

Author: Angela Kim Harkins
ISBN: 9781800503274
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book uses cognitive literary theory, specifically the approach known as enactive reading, to investigate why...  Read More >>

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments Auf Basis Der Handschriften Des Fruhen X-Astes Unter Berucksichtigung Der Gesamten Uberlieferung Begleitband

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments...

Author: Tomas Tomasek ,  Frank Schafer
ISBN: 9783796545344
Format: Hardback
$654.72

Eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Ausgabe von Gottfrieds Tristan-Roman gehorte lange zu den grossten Desideraten...  Read More >>

Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence

Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence

Author: Nick Fisher (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Hans van Wees (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781914535314
Format: Paperback
$64.69

How and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due...  Read More >>

Seneca in Performance

Seneca in Performance

Author: Dr George W. M. Harrison (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781914535345
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated...  Read More >>

Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis

Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis

Author: Richard C. Cusimano ,  Eric Whitmore
ISBN: 9780813237084
Format: Paperback
$50.60

"""This book makes for delightful reading for anyone interested in Suger and the early High Middle Ages. For the...  Read More >>

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Author: Prof Helen Cooper (Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English, Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198821427
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A new edition of Helen Cooper's comprehensive single-volume guide to the The Canterbury Tales, bringing together...  Read More >>

Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past

Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern...

Author: Helen Brookman (Kings College, London) ,  Olivia Robinson (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781641893060
Format: Hardback
$303.60

This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and early modern past...  Read More >>

Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses

Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance...

Author: Sarah E. Parker (Associate Professor of English, Jacksonville University) ,  Andie Silva (Assistant Professor of English, York College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9781641894197
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Covering a variety of methods for introducing students to the medieval and Renaissance reading practice known as...  Read More >>

The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform

The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform

Author: Gina M. Di Salvo (Associate Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy, Assistant Professsor of Theatre, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9780192865915
Format: Hardback
$201.83

In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, this book recovers the surprisingly...  Read More >>

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1: The Medieval Period

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume...

Author: Joseph Black ,  Leonard Conolly
ISBN: 9781554816163
Format: Paperback
$113.30

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive...  Read More >>

Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome

Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome

Author: Tommaso Gazzarri ,  Jesse Weiner
ISBN: 9789004548374
Format: Hardback
$374.88

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Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honour of Charles D. Wright

Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin...

Author: Stephanie Clark ,  Janet Ericksen
ISBN: 9782503604428
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume positions source scholarship as integral to an understanding of the transmission of knowledge across...  Read More >>

Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World

Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination...

Author: Andrew M. Richmond (Southern Connecticut State University)
ISBN: 9781108926669
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Richmond explores the landscapes, waterscapes, and ecological perspectives of popular Middle English romances at...  Read More >>

Cold Mountain Poems: Text Travel and Canon Construction

Cold Mountain Poems: Text Travel and Canon Construction...

Author: Anjiang Hu
ISBN: 9781032542065
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his...  Read More >>

Plautus: Mostellaria

Plautus: Mostellaria

Author: Professor George Fredric Franko (Hollins University, USA) ,  Associate Professor C W Marshall (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350205383
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple:...  Read More >>

Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England

Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England...

Author: Eleanor Parker
ISBN: 9781350383401
Format: Paperback
$26.99

""Outstanding."" - The Sunday Times ""Beautifully written."" The Times ""Superbly adroit."" The Spectator ""Excellent.""...  Read More >>

Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII

Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII

Author: Christopher B. Krebs (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781009177122
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. Students will appreciate the...  Read More >>

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