Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence...

Author: Jonathan N. Badger (St. John's College, Annapolis, USA)
ISBN: 9780415625623
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Focuses on Sophocles' dramatization of fundamental political impasses and applies these to the competing political...  Read More >>

Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Professor Ahuvia Kahane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781441100108
Format: Paperback
$46.99

An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary...  Read More >>

How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and...

Author: Carolyn Dinshaw
ISBN: 9780822353539
Format: Hardback
$271.79

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The Lost Valley / The Wolves of God

The Lost Valley / The Wolves of God

Author: Simon Clark ,  Algernon Blackwood
ISBN: 9781481946414
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Algernon Blackwood is the 20th century master of supernatural fiction, and this volume from Stark House Press collects...  Read More >>

Lessico, Argomentazioni E Strutture Retoriche Nella Polemica Di Eta Cristiana (III-V Sec.)

Lessico, Argomentazioni E Strutture Retoriche Nella...

Author: A Capone
ISBN: 9782503543918
Format: Paperback
$258.72

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"Il dossier della ""domus divina"" in Egitto"

"Il dossier della ""domus divina"" in Egitto"

Author: Giuseppina Azzarello ,  T. M. Hickey
ISBN: 9783110247183
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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The Lyric of Ibycus: Introduction, Text and Commentary

The Lyric of Ibycus: Introduction, Text and Commentary...

Author: Claire Louise Wilkinson
ISBN: 9783110288940
Format: Hardback
$274.47

Ibycus is a crucial figure in the world of archaic poetry, whose work has not received the attention it deserves....  Read More >>

Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Professor Ahuvia Kahane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781441179463
Format: Hardback
$190.00

An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary...  Read More >>

Schreiben, Bildung und Gespräch

Schreiben, Bildung und Gespräch

Author: Eckart Conrad Lutz
ISBN: 9783110281521
Format: Hardback
$382.77

Dieses Buch handelt vom Schreiben bei Baudri de Bourgueil, Gervasius von Tilbury, Otto von Freising, Rudolf von...  Read More >>

Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles: With a new edition of the Greek text by Ioannis Vassis

Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church...

Author: Liz James
ISBN: 9781409431671
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Collected Studies on the Septuagint: From Language to Interpretation and Beyond

Collected Studies on the Septuagint: From Language to...

Author: Jan Joosten
ISBN: 9783161517334
Format: Hardback
$280.49

In this volume Jan Joosten brings together seventeen articles, published in journals and collective volumes between...  Read More >>

A Companion to Ovid

A Companion to Ovid

Author: Peter E. Knox (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
ISBN: 9781118451342
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This volume features more than 30 newly commissioned essays by noted scholars writing on various aspects of Ovid's...  Read More >>

Brill's Companion to Horace

Brill's Companion to Horace

Author: Hans-Christian Gunther
ISBN: 9789004223622
Format: Hardback
$794.64

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The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method

The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition...

Author: Jessica A. Boon
ISBN: 9781442644281
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of...  Read More >>

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to...

Author: Seeta Chaganti (University of California Davis)
ISBN: 9780823243280
Format: Undefined
$158.40

"This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown...  Read More >>

Translating the Middle Ages

Translating the Middle Ages

Author: Karen L. Fresco ,  Charles D. Wright
ISBN: 9781409446972
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table

Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation,...

Author: Dennis E. Smith ,  H. Taussig
ISBN: 9781349434039
Format: Paperback
$219.00

This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2)...  Read More >>

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama

Author: Christina M. Fitzgerald ,  John T. Sebastian
ISBN: 9781554810567
Format: Paperback
$195.23

An important collection of over forty fully annotated plays from the medieval period with substantial introductions....  Read More >>

The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style

The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical...

Author: S. Walker
ISBN: 9781137269447
Format: Paperback
$169.00

Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudiesTolkien's unparalleled popularity has been...  Read More >>

Sprechen mit Gott

Sprechen mit Gott

Author: Nine Miedema ,  Angela Schrott
ISBN: 9783050059761
Format: Hardback
$633.60

Redeszenen gehören zu den wichtigsten Bestandteilen mittelalterlicher wie auch moderner Erzähltexte. Ihre vielfältigen...  Read More >>

Ti Glossa Mou Edosan Elliniki: Homenaje a la Prof. Penelope Stavrianopulu

Ti Glossa Mou Edosan Elliniki: Homenaje a la Prof. Penelope...

Author: Felipe G Munoz ,  Fernando Garc Romero
ISBN: 9783832533472
Format: Paperback
$227.04

This book contains the papers through which colleagues and friends wish to pay a tribute of gratitude, acknowledgement...  Read More >>

Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Author: John T Sebastian
ISBN: 9781580441810
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The Croxton Play of the Sacrament is a Middle English drama that recounts a tale of five Syrian Jews who physically...  Read More >>

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche: Myth in Art from Antiquity to Canova

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche: Myth in Art from Antiquity...

Author: Maria Grazia Bernardini
ISBN: 9788882657222
Format: Paperback
$427.68

At head of title: Ministry of cultural heritage; Special superintendency for the historical, artistic and ethno-anthropological...  Read More >>

L'Iconographie de la Bible Historiale

L'Iconographie de la Bible Historiale

Author: E Fournie
ISBN: 9782503535326
Format: Paperback
$242.88

Composee a la fin du XIIIe siecle par le clerc picard Guyart des Moulins, la Bible historiale fait partie des plus...  Read More >>

Charles D'Orleans

Charles D'Orleans

Author: C Galderisi
ISBN: 9788886609531
Format: Paperback
$248.16

La fortune critique du Prince-poete semble connaitre depuis une soixantaine d'annees un succes inversement proportionnel...  Read More >>

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