Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Second Edition

Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics:...

Author: Olga M. Davidson
ISBN: 9780674073203
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing...  Read More >>

Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations

Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations

Author: Aaron Johnson ,  Jeremy Schott
ISBN: 9780674073296
Format: Paperback
$54.21

One of the most significant contributors to late antique literary culture, Eusebius of Caesarea has received only...  Read More >>

Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God

Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God...

Author: William C. Chittick ,  Seyyed Hossein Nasr
ISBN: 9780300185959
Format: Hardback
$111.95

Provides a look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual...  Read More >>

Von Hier Nach Dort: Der Philosophiebegriff Bei Platon

Von Hier Nach Dort: Der Philosophiebegriff Bei Platon...

Author: Brigitte Theophila Schur
ISBN: 9783847101611
Format: Hardback
$229.68

English summary: Often, when studying Plato, a selective understanding of philosophy is applied that does not do...  Read More >>

The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography: A Comparative Study of Literary Histories by Stephen Owen and Chinese Scholars

The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography:...

Author: Min Wang
ISBN: 9783642353888
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. This comparative analysis...  Read More >>

Wie Anders War Das Mittelalter?: Fragen an Das Konzept Der Alteritat

Wie Anders War Das Mittelalter?: Fragen an Das Konzept...

Author: Manuel Braun
ISBN: 9783847101574
Format: Hardback
$213.84

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Fifteenth-Century Studies 38

Fifteenth-Century Studies 38

Author: Barbara I Gusick (Customer)
ISBN: 9781571135582
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Annual collection of essays on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, this year emphasizing topics in medieval...  Read More >>

The Words of Moses: Studies in the Reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period

The Words of Moses: Studies in the Reception of Deuteronomy...

Author: Sarah J.K. Pearce
ISBN: 9783161507335
Format: Hardback
$440.39

Recent studies highlight the character of Deuteronomy's laws of public officials (Deut. 16.18-18.22) as the first...  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: 9781107654136
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities...

Author: Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
ISBN: 9783039119127
Format: Paperback
$146.32

Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as ‘other’. This...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant and Alexander Hamilton, the Founders of Federalism: A Political Theory for Our Time

Immanuel Kant and Alexander Hamilton, the Founders of...

Author: Roberto Castaldi
ISBN: 9782875740168
Format: Paperback
$102.98

The book compares Kant's and Hamilton's political thought. It highlights their complementarity in the development...  Read More >>

Jerome's Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae with an Introduction, Text, and Translation

Jerome's Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium...

Author: Andrew Cain (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder)
ISBN: 9780199672608
Format: Hardback
$530.00

Composed in 404, Jerome's Epitaph on Saint Paula (Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae) is an elaborate eulogy commemorating...  Read More >>

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

Author: Tacitus ,  S. J. V. Malloch (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107011106
Format: Hardback
$328.61

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A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval...

Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari ,  Karla Mallette
ISBN: 9780802098689
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical...  Read More >>

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean...

Author: Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781107036321
Format: Hardback
$232.88

In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women...  Read More >>

Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English

Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English...

Author: Michiko Ogura
ISBN: 9783631627747
Format: Hardback
$159.91

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The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume VI

The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume VI

Author: Arthur George Warner ,  Edmond Warner
ISBN: 9780415865890
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Volume 157

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Volume...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781414494364
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Classical And Medieval Literature Criticism assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey and a Catalogue

The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey...

Author: Ulrike Krischke
ISBN: 9783631642696
Format: Hardback
$214.63

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Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers

Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts,...

Author: Ralph Hanna, III (Keble College (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780859898713
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph...  Read More >>

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume III: 1520-1600

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume III: 1520-1600

Author: E. J. W. Gibb ,  Edward G. Browne
ISBN: 9780906094396
Format: Paperback
$884.40

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of...  Read More >>

Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer

Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval...

Author: Dr Charlotte Brewer (University of Oxford) ,  Professor of English and Fellow of Emmanuel College Barry Windeatt (Emmanuel College, Cambridge University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781299739017
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twentieth century, first through his...  Read More >>

Médiévisme et Lumières: le Moyen Age dans la Bibliothèque universelle des romans

Médiévisme et Lumières: le Moyen Age dans la Bibliothèque...

Author: Véronique Sigu
ISBN: 9780729410748
Format: Paperback
$155.25

A la fin du dix-huitième siècle, le médiévisme paraît scindé en deux courants distincts: l’un fondé sur une érudition...  Read More >>

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