Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred

The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues...

Author: Susan Irvine ,  Malcolm R. Godden
ISBN: 9780674055582
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, a 6th century meditation on fate, free will, and virtue, was translated from...  Read More >>

A Prince without a Kingdom: The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era

A Prince without a Kingdom: The Exilarch in the Sasanian...

Author: Geoffrey Herman
ISBN: 9783161506062
Format: Hardback
$366.65

The Exilarchs, professed scions of the biblical Davidic royal line, were leaders of the Jews of Babylonia in antiquity....  Read More >>

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies...

Author: Dirk Sacré ,  Gilbert Tournoy
ISBN: 9789058679291
Format: Paperback
$179.83

Volume 61  Read More >>

A Catalogue of Works Pertaining to the Explanation of the Creed in Carolingian Manuscripts

A Catalogue of Works Pertaining to the Explanation of...

Author: Susan Keefe
ISBN: 9782503544076
Format: Hardback
$430.32

The catalogue identifies works used to explain the creed in Carolingian collection volumes compiled for the instruction...  Read More >>

Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity

Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European...

Author: Roger D. Woodard (State University of New York, Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781139136426
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This book examines the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European...  Read More >>

The Satires of Juvenal

The Satires of Juvenal

Author: Juvenal ,  Richard George
ISBN: 9780954483722
Format: Hardback
$38.79

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The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and...

Author: F Storr ,  Alex Struik
ISBN: 9781481266369
Format: Paperback
$34.29

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the...  Read More >>

Reading Inebriation in Early Colonial Peru

Reading Inebriation in Early Colonial Peru

Author: Mónica P. Morales ,  Dr. Anne J. Cruz
ISBN: 9781409443339
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Women of Pliny's Letters

The Women of Pliny's Letters

Author: Jo-Ann Shelton
ISBN: 9780415374286
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny...  Read More >>

Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378–1417

Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism,...

Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780271058641
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks beyond the political and...  Read More >>

Medieval Autographies: The ""I"" of the Text

Medieval Autographies: The ""I"" of the Text

Author: A. C. Spearing ,  R. William
ISBN: 9780268017828
Format: Paperback
$84.48

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"P. Ovidii Nasonis ""Epistula ex Ponto"" III 1": Testo, traduzione e commento

"P. Ovidii Nasonis ""Epistula ex Ponto"" III 1": Testo,...

Author: Beatrice Larosa
ISBN: 9783110298499
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The Epistula ex Ponto III 1, composed by Ovid to his wife in the 2nd period of his relegatio, is the summary of...  Read More >>

Sexualmoral und politische Stabilität: Zum Vorstellungszusammenhang in der römischen Literatur von Lucilius bis Ovid

Sexualmoral und politische Stabilität: Zum Vorstellungszusammenhang...

Author: Maike Steenblock
ISBN: 9783110306255
Format: Hardback
$248.73

Moral und Politik stehen in der römischen Literatur in einem engen Vorstellungszusammenhang; sittlicher Niedergang...  Read More >>

The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry

The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and...

Author: Jan Kwapisz ,  David Petrain
ISBN: 9783110270006
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus

Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to...

Author: Eleni Manolaraki
ISBN: 9783110297676
Format: Hardback
$274.47

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Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory

Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory...

Author: Emma Campbell ,  Robert Mills
ISBN: 9781843843290
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Essays examining both the theory and practice of medieval translation.  Read More >>

Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community

Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship...

Author: Jennifer N Brown (Contributor) ,  Donna Alfano Bussell (Customer)
ISBN: 9781903153437
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages....  Read More >>

Oath and State in Ancient Greece

Oath and State in Ancient Greece

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein ,  Andrew James Bayliss
ISBN: 9783110284386
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the...  Read More >>

Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten: Die geographisch-ethnographischen Exkurse in den ""Res Gestae"" des Ammianus Marcellinus

Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten: Die geographisch-ethnographischen...

Author: Wiebke Vergin ,  Wiebke Vergin
ISBN: 9783110296938
Format: Hardback
$274.47

Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary approach transcending historical eras. The international editorial board...  Read More >>

Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity in Imperial Spain

Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity in...

Author: Lucia Binotti (Customer)
ISBN: 9781855662452
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption...  Read More >>

Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600

Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600...

Author: Merridee L. Bailey
ISBN: 9781903153420
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves.  Read More >>

Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature...

Author: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
ISBN: 9781843843306
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes...  Read More >>

Aristotle's Psychology of Signification: A Commentary on ""De Interpretatione"" 16a 3-18

Aristotle's Psychology of Signification: A Commentary...

Author: Simon Noriega-Olmos
ISBN: 9783110287653
Format: Hardback
$188.67

This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and its psychological...  Read More >>

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