Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Costa C.D.N.
ISBN: 9780415744683
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises,...  Read More >>

Horace (Routledge Revivals)

Horace (Routledge Revivals)

Author: C.D.N. Costa
ISBN: 9780415743594
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence...  Read More >>

Augustine and Apocalyptic

Augustine and Apocalyptic

Author: John Doody ,  Kari Kloos
ISBN: 9780739189221
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Augustine and Apocalyptic examines Augustine's thoughts on the apocalypse and his influence on the understanding...  Read More >>

Pliny the Younger: A Life in Roman Letters

Pliny the Younger: A Life in Roman Letters

Author: Rex Winsbury
ISBN: 9781472514585
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than...  Read More >>

Piers Plowman: The Evidence for Authorship

Piers Plowman: The Evidence for Authorship

Author: George Kane
ISBN: 9781472509000
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The major edition of the three versions of Piers Plowman which the Athlone Press is in the process of publishing...  Read More >>

Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches

Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches...

Author: George Kane
ISBN: 9781472508430
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G.N. Garmonsway

Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory...

Author: D. A. Pearsall ,  R. A. Waldron
ISBN: 9781472513991
Format: Hardback
$280.00

These original contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are...  Read More >>

The Mode and Meaning of 'Beowulf'

The Mode and Meaning of 'Beowulf'

Author: Margaret E. Goldsmith
ISBN: 9781472508720
Format: Hardback
$280.00

In this important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies Dr Goldsmith presents a fully elaborated and documented interpretation...  Read More >>

Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Author: Herbert G. Wright
ISBN: 9781472507341
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Professor Wright’s objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed...  Read More >>

The Making of Menander's Comedy

The Making of Menander's Comedy

Author: Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781472514295
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander, the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, at last makes possible an...  Read More >>

Hellenic Whispers: Modes of Greek Literary Influence in Seventeenth-Century French Drama

Hellenic Whispers: Modes of Greek Literary Influence...

Author: Susanna Phillippo
ISBN: 9783034308519
Format: Paperback
$154.73

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Author: Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781107039803
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Ancestral fault was a central concept in ancient Greece and also figured prominently in the Western reception of...  Read More >>

Historia da Literatura Portuguesa - Renascenca

Historia da Literatura Portuguesa - Renascenca

Author: Teofilo Braga
ISBN: 9781494387181
Format: Paperback
$44.88

A discussao dos problemas acerca de Gil Vicente, de Sa de Miranda, Bernardim Ribeiro, Cristovao Falcao, Francisco...  Read More >>

Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater: The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism

Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater: The...

Author: Anja-Silvia Goeing
ISBN: 9789400775305
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. From 1423...  Read More >>

A Shot of Trouble: A Cassidy Adventure Novel

A Shot of Trouble: A Cassidy Adventure Novel

Author: Kelly Rysten ,  Kelly Rysten
ISBN: 9781771431071
Format: Paperback
$43.86

"Open gunfire in an elementary school with Cassidy ""Trouble"" Michaels around and you better run. Run for the hills,...  Read More >>

Lenguaje y Valor En La Literatura Medieval Espanola

Lenguaje y Valor En La Literatura Medieval Espanola...

Author: Carmen Benito-Vessels (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781588712400
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Language and money function metaphorically in similar ways; therefore, we tend to accept or reject the value of...  Read More >>

Marathon – 2,500 Years. Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010

Marathon – 2,500 Years. Proceedings of The Marathon...

Author: Christopher Carey ,  Michael Edwards
ISBN: 9781905670529
Format: Paperback
$171.60

The victory of the Greeks at Marathon is often seen as the finest hour of the Athenian army, one that would be commemorated...  Read More >>

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXIX

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus...

Author: Jan den Boeft ,  Jan Willem Drijvers
ISBN: 9789004261532
Format: Hardback
$475.20

Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with...  Read More >>

Historia da Literatura Portuguesa - Idade Media

Historia da Literatura Portuguesa - Idade Media

Author: Teofilo Braga
ISBN: 9781494338459
Format: Paperback
$44.88

(Seculo XII a XIV) - Predomina o lirismo trovadoresco em todas as cortes europeias, e essa corrente propaga-se a...  Read More >>

Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks...

Author: Ann M. Gomez-Bravo ,  Ana M Goumez-Bravo
ISBN: 9781442667518
Format: Undefined
$126.59

Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by...  Read More >>

The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs

The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs

Author: Alan Appelbaum
ISBN: 9783161529641
Format: Hardback
$280.49

The Patriarchs of the Jews were remarkable not only because they governed much of Palestine in late antiquity, collected...  Read More >>

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and...

Author: Adrian Poole ,  Christine van Ruymbeke
ISBN: 9781783080717
Format: Paperback
$40.00

For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald's 'Rubiyt of Omar Khayym' (1859) has been largely ignored...  Read More >>

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