Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Volez Oir: Etudes Sur La Litterature Francaise Du Moyen Age: Articles Des Annees 1974-2008

Volez Oir: Etudes Sur La Litterature Francaise Du Moyen...

Author: Anna Drzewicka
ISBN: 9788376382494
Format: Paperback
$58.08

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Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology

Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature...

Author: Geert Jan van Gelder
ISBN: 9780814738269
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century,...  Read More >>

Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature

Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature

Author: Victoria Emma Pagán ,  Mark Fenster
ISBN: 9780292756809
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts...  Read More >>

Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology

Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature...

Author: Geert Jan van Gelder
ISBN: 9780814770276
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Presents classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions...  Read More >>

Ancient Philosophical Poetics

Ancient Philosophical Poetics

Author: Malcolm Heath (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780521168687
Format: Paperback
$51.72

What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them...  Read More >>

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages

Author: Robert Boenig
ISBN: 9781606351147
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Explores Lewis’s personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues convincingly...  Read More >>

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and...

Author: B. Findley
ISBN: 9781349294572
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition...  Read More >>

Annals

Annals

Author: Tacitus ,  Cynthia Damon
ISBN: 9780140455649
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

Author: Rex Stem ,  Stephen Rex Stem
ISBN: 9780472118380
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Presents Nepos as a thinker in his own right  Read More >>

The Structure of Chaucer’s Ambiguity

The Structure of Chaucer’s Ambiguity

Author: Yoshiyuki Nakao
ISBN: 9783631624388
Format: Hardback
$122.13

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Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and...

Author: B. Findley
ISBN: 9780230112582
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition...  Read More >>

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

Author: G. Ashton ,  D. Kline
ISBN: 9781349340859
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary...  Read More >>

Um Leib und Leben: Das Wissen von Geschlecht, Körper und Recht im Nibelungenlied

Um Leib und Leben: Das Wissen von Geschlecht, Körper...

Author: Tilo Renz
ISBN: 9783110252743
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Die Studie analysiert das Nibelungenlied aus wissenspoetologischer Perspektive. Sie fragt nach dem Verhältnis der...  Read More >>

The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past

The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past...

Author: T. Pugh ,  S. Aronstein
ISBN: 9780230340077
Format: Hardback
$179.00

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest...  Read More >>

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

Author: G. Ashton ,  D. Kline
ISBN: 9780230337343
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary...  Read More >>

Dark Chaucer: An Assortment

Dark Chaucer: An Assortment

Author: Eileen Joy ,  Nicola Masciandaro
ISBN: 9780615701073
Format: Paperback
$55.44

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Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics

Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics

Author: Cliodhna Carney ,  Frances McCormack
ISBN: 9781846823367
Format: Hardback
$130.95

This collection reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's...  Read More >>

Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles

Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles...

Author: Juliana Dresvina ,  Nicholas Sparks
ISBN: 9781443841450
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing...  Read More >>

«Phaedra» – Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine: Translated by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska

«Phaedra» – Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides,...

Author: Małgorzata Budzowska ,  Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
ISBN: 9783631633052
Format: Hardback
$102.98

This award-winning book deals with the ethical aspect of emotions in human decision making in literature. The broadest...  Read More >>

The Shaping of English Poetry- Volume II: Essays on 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Langland and Chaucer

The Shaping of English Poetry- Volume II: Essays on...

Author: Gerald Morgan
ISBN: 9783034308540
Format: Paperback
$142.83

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Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays

Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions,...

Author: Ingo Gildenhard (Ingo Gildenhard Durham University UK)
ISBN: 9781909254152
Format: Paperback
$41.27

Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by...  Read More >>

Debating the Roman de La Rose: A Critical Anthology

Debating the Roman de La Rose: A Critical Anthology...

Author: Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo, Canada)
ISBN: 9781280732232
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Around the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary truth and...  Read More >>

The Experience of Tragic Judgment

The Experience of Tragic Judgment

Author: Julen Etxabe (University of Helsinki, Finland)
ISBN: 9781283871365
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality,...  Read More >>

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