Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Old English Poems of Cynewulf

The Old English Poems of Cynewulf

Author: Cynewulf ,  Robert E. Bjork
ISBN: 9780674072633
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English...  Read More >>

Literary Works

Literary Works

Author: Alan of Lille ,  Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780674059962
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Alan of Lille was renowned for his learning, his contributions to systematic theology, and his Latin poetry. The...  Read More >>

The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Author: Mark C. Amodio (Vassar College, USA)
ISBN: 9780631226987
Format: Paperback
$53.95

The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry...  Read More >>

Commenter la Thebaide (16e-19e s.): Caspar von Barth et la tradition exegetique de Stace

Commenter la Thebaide (16e-19e s.): Caspar von Barth...

Author: Valery Berlincourt
ISBN: 9789004207110
Format: Hardback
$968.88

Following an overview of their broader tradition, this book analyses in detail the commentaries on Statius' Thebaid...  Read More >>

Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragoedien

Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragoedien

Author: Andreas Heil
ISBN: 9789004244535
Format: Hardback
$216.24

In four separate studies, this wirk shows that Seneca, in his tragedies Thyestes, Hercules furens, Troas (Troades)...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda: Rhetoric in Practice

A Commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda:...

Author: Paula Rose
ISBN: 9789004228221
Format: Hardback
$868.56

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T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 2

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 2

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ,  Titus Maccius Plautus
ISBN: 9780511710605
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume...  Read More >>

The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic

The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient...

Author: Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781139060080
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Explores ideas of vision, gender and power from Homer to Nonnus, Virgil to Silius Italicus. Readers of epic and...  Read More >>

Christopher Marlowe in Context

Christopher Marlowe in Context

Author: Emily C. Bartels (Rutgers University, New Jersey) ,  Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781139060882
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural...  Read More >>

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299: Volume VII

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299:...

Author: Rosalind M.T. Hill
ISBN: 9780901503954
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten...  Read More >>

Courtier's Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's Welscher Gast

Courtier's Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin...

Author: Kathryn Starkey
ISBN: 9780268041441
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Establishes the unique importance of Thomasin von Zerclaere's Welscher Gast as a document of social practices and...  Read More >>

Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances: Florimond of Albany, Sir Colling the Knycht, King Orphius, Roswall and Lillian

Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances: Florimond of Albany,...

Author: Professor Rhiannon Purdie
ISBN: 9781897976364
Format: Hardback
$103.50

First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition.  Read More >>

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8]

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Papers read...

Author: E A Jones ,  Alexandra Barratt
ISBN: 9781843843405
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL...  Read More >>

Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred

Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the...

Author: Barbara Newman
ISBN: 9780268036119
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity

Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity...

Author: William Kuskin
ISBN: 9780268033255
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Beginning Old English

Beginning Old English

Author: Carole Hough (School of English and Scottish Language, Glasgow) ,  John Corbett (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU, TAIPA)
ISBN: 9780230301405
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This simple introduction to Old English focuses on how the language works, using accessible illustrations from surviving...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Aristotle

The Poetics of Aristotle

Author: S H Butcher ,  Aristotle
ISBN: 9781490394282
Format: Paperback
$23.63

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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics...

Author: Eleanor Johnson
ISBN: 9780226015842
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Literary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments...  Read More >>

Solidaridad femenina en los romances medievales ingleses

Solidaridad femenina en los romances medievales ingleses...

Author: Maria Lourdes Alonso ,  Los Ojos Del Silencio
ISBN: 9781490391823
Format: Paperback
$15.84

Estudio de las relaciones femeninas en los romances medievales ingleses a traves del analisis de su interaccion...  Read More >>

Reading Piers Plowman

Reading Piers Plowman

Author: Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780521687836
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The great fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman is one of the most dazzling literary creations of the English Middle...  Read More >>

A Companion to Terence

A Companion to Terence

Author: Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ,  Ariana Traill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9781405198752
Format: Hardback
$307.95

A Companion to Terence is a useful research tool for the growing number of scholars, students and critics of Terence...  Read More >>

Homer

Homer

Author: Richard Rutherford
ISBN: 9781107670167
Format: Paperback
$54.31

This is a revised version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It is a clear introduction...  Read More >>

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