Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Über Die Grenze: Metalepse in Text- Und Bildmedien Des Altertums

Über Die Grenze: Metalepse in Text- Und Bildmedien Des...

Author: Ute E Eisen ,  Peter Von Möllendorff
ISBN: 9783110331561
Format: Hardback
$382.77

There has been little previous research in ancient studies on the narratological notion of metalepses. The essays...  Read More >>

Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings

Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings

Author: Sarah B. Pomeroy
ISBN: 9781421409566
Format: Hardback
$120.00

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Man'yoshu (Book 20): A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

Man'yoshu (Book 20): A New English Translation Containing...

Author: Alexander Vovin
ISBN: 9789004261983
Format: Hardback
$459.36

Book twenty (20.4293-4516) of the Man'yoshu comprises 224 poems (218 tanka, six choka) with unspecified genres....  Read More >>

Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority?: Motives and Arguments in Jesus' Halakic Conflicts

Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority?: Motives and...

Author: Thomas Kazen
ISBN: 9783161528934
Format: Hardback
$366.65

In this study of motives and arguments in Jesus' halakic conflicts, Thomas Kazen suggests a way out of the present...  Read More >>

Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun”...

Author: B. Moloney
ISBN: 9781349455317
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis...  Read More >>

Mappe interculturali della letteratura italiana nel Risorgimento: Ugo Foscolo, Vincenzo Cuoco, Giuseppe Mazzini, Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Mappe interculturali della letteratura italiana nel...

Author: Angelo Pagliardini
ISBN: 9783631641743
Format: Hardback
$159.91

Letteratura e Risorgimento italiano sono letti in chiave interculturale, in scrittori di epoche e generi testuali...  Read More >>

Die Farben Der Herrschaft: Imagination, Semantik Und Poetologie in Heldenepischen Texten Des Deutschen Mittelalters

Die Farben Der Herrschaft: Imagination, Semantik Und...

Author: Mareike Klein
ISBN: 9783050064680
Format: Hardback
$607.20

Inszenierungen feudaladeliger Herrschaft, die in heldenepischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts ihren festen...  Read More >>

Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun”...

Author: B. Moloney
ISBN: 9781137306968
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis...  Read More >>

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English...

Author: Malcolm Andrew ,  Ronald Waldron
ISBN: 9781846319495
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four famous 14th century...  Read More >>

Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiography

Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a...

Author: Roland Deines ,  Christoph Ochs
ISBN: 9783161521812
Format: Hardback
$464.97

10 of 11 contributions were published previously (4 in German, 6 in English).  Read More >>

Sidelights on Teutonic History During the Migration Period

Sidelights on Teutonic History During the Migration...

Author: M. G. Clarke
ISBN: 9781107696327
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Originally published in 1911, this book attempts to discover the amount of historical truth underlying the allusions...  Read More >>

Revenge in Athenian Culture

Revenge in Athenian Culture

Author: Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781472524348
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where...  Read More >>

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Author: Edward M. Harris ,  Delfim F. Leao
ISBN: 9781472524188
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. This collection of essays provides a sample of...  Read More >>

Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600

Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought...

Author:
ISBN: 9781472530769
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the...  Read More >>

The Model of Poesy

The Model of Poesy

Author: William Scott ,  Gavin Alexander (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521196116
Format: Hardback
$235.44

This recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599, the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary...  Read More >>

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Author: Shari Lowin (Stonehill College, USA)
ISBN: 9780415824163
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry...  Read More >>

Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England

Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England

Author: Robyn Malo
ISBN: 9781442645639
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uses the literary study of relics to address issues of clerical and...  Read More >>

The Shorter Writings of Ulrich Putsch: """Diarium"", ""Oraciones super missam"" and ""Manuale simplicium sacerdotum"""

The Shorter Writings of Ulrich Putsch: """Diarium"",...

Author: Nigel Harris
ISBN: 9783034309769
Format: Paperback
$119.28

A companion to the 2007 volume The Light of the Soul, this book presents the texts of three Latin works that are...  Read More >>

The Compilational History of the Megilloth: Canon, Contoured Intertextuality and Meaning in the Writings

The Compilational History of the Megilloth: Canon, Contoured...

Author: Timothy J. Stone
ISBN: 9783161523755
Format: Paperback
$194.32

"Timothy J. Stone explores the canonical shape of the third part of the Hebrew canon, the Writings, challenging...  Read More >>

Divine Presence and Absence in Exilic and Post-Exilic Judaism: Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism Vol. II

Divine Presence and Absence in Exilic and Post-Exilic...

Author: Izaak J. de Hulster ,  Nathan MacDonald
ISBN: 9783161524332
Format: Paperback
$255.90

The catastrophic events at the beginning of the sixth century BCE resulted in a theological crisis for the Judean...  Read More >>

Plutarchs Dialog De E apud Delphos: Eine Studie. Ratio Religionis Studien II

Plutarchs Dialog De E apud Delphos: Eine Studie. Ratio...

Author: Tobias Thum
ISBN: 9783161526916
Format: Paperback
$259.79

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The Mirror of Minds or John Barclay's Icon Animorum

The Mirror of Minds or John Barclay's Icon Animorum...

Author: John Barclay ,  Mark Riley
ISBN: 9789058679451
Format: Hardback
$168.19

In this essay from 1614, the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and...  Read More >>

The pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the Middle English Tradition

The pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the...

Author: Ian Johnson (Norwich Research Park Norfolk United Kingdom) ,  Allan F Westphall
ISBN: 9782503542768
Format: Hardback
$480.48

This is a collection of pioneering studies by a distinguished transatlantic team of scholars on a neglected yet...  Read More >>

Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600

Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600...

Author: Theresa Hamilton
ISBN: 9781443849494
Format: Hardback
$129.35

We all have the ability to recognize and create humour. But how do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin...  Read More >>

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