Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts: Volume II: Vitruvius, Cato, De agricultura and Varro, De re rustica, Porphyrio, and Priscian, Periegesis

Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts: Volume II:...

Author: S. P. Oakley (University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Kennedy Professor of Latin)
ISBN: 9780198848738
Format: Hardback
$377.00

This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius'...  Read More >>

Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on Trial

Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on...

Author: Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781316512746
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Justin Steinberg's field-defining work on Boccaccio's Decameron shows how historical changes in the prosecution...  Read More >>

Moderni E Antichi, II Serie, Anno IV (2022): Quaderni del Centro Di Studi Sul Classicismo Diretti Da Roberto Cardini

Moderni E Antichi, II Serie, Anno IV (2022): Quaderni...

Author: Edizioni Polistampa
ISBN: 9788859623120
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"TEMA 1 Leon Battista Alberti Lorenz Böninger, Lo studente Leon Battista Alberti e la sua investitura a priore di...  Read More >>

Polyphony and the Modern

Polyphony and the Modern

Author: Jonathan Fruoco
ISBN: 9781032006642
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Author: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Victoria Leonard
ISBN: 9780367764067
Format: Paperback
$83.99

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily...  Read More >>

Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World: Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature

Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World: Epistemological...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9780367566708
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and...  Read More >>

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire

Author: Dana Fields
ISBN: 9780367517991
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in...  Read More >>

The Liminality of Fairies: Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance

The Liminality of Fairies: Readings in Late Medieval...

Author: Piotr Spyra
ISBN: 9780367521653
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-picker

Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England...

Author: Catalin Taranu
ISBN: 9780367711085
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as...  Read More >>

Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal

Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal

Author: Antony Augoustakis ,  Neil W. Bernstein (Ohio University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367699895
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica.  Read More >>

Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production

Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral...

Author: Nicholas R. Jones ,  Chad Leahy
ISBN: 9780367641719
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn...  Read More >>

Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature

Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature...

Author: Veronica Menaldi
ISBN: 9781032051116
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores various representations and productions of love magic in medieval and early modern Iberian fictions....  Read More >>

The Story of Attila in Prose: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Estoire d’Atile en prose

The Story of Attila in Prose: A Critical Edition and...

Author: Roberto Pesce ,  Logan E. Whalen
ISBN: 9781032101118
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian...  Read More >>

Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders: Homegrown Stereotypes and Foreign Influences

Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders: Homegrown Stereotypes...

Author: William H. Norman
ISBN: 9781032045108
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in...  Read More >>

Byzantine Childhood: Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society

Byzantine Childhood: Representations and Experiences...

Author: Oana-Maria Cojocaru
ISBN: 9781032063447
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday life experiences,...  Read More >>

After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett

After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret...

Author: Liz James ,  Oliver Nicholson
ISBN: 9781032065458
Format: Paperback
$83.99

After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the...  Read More >>

The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation

The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation

Author: Karl Reichl
ISBN: 9781032038087
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores its significance for interpretation. The discussion...  Read More >>

Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists

Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists...

Author: Philostratus ,  Eunapius
ISBN: 9780674997530
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae

The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae

Author: Prof Michael Putnam (Professor Emeritus of Classics, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Brown University) ,  Prof Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780192869272
Format: Hardback
$195.95

In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor,...  Read More >>

The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives

The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives...

Author: Christoph Pieper ,  Pausch Dennis
ISBN: 9789004516434
Format: Hardback
$351.12

This volume, the first one dedicated to the ancient scholia to Cicero’s speeches, analyzes them from different angles...  Read More >>

The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus

The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus

Author: Kenneth Baxter Wolf
ISBN: 9781802078626
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians,...  Read More >>

Orations. Other Fragments

Orations. Other Fragments

Author: Cato ,  Gesine Manuwald
ISBN: 9780674997554
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Testimonia. Origines

Testimonia. Origines

Author: Cato ,  Gesine Manuwald
ISBN: 9780674997523
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry

Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood...

Author: Kathleen Kidder
ISBN: 9780674292420
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood?...  Read More >>

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