Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Incorporeal Heroes: The Origins of Homeric Images

Incorporeal Heroes: The Origins of Homeric Images

Author: Leo S. Klejn
ISBN: 9781443841887
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The author investigates the origins of the heroes of the Iliad, to establish if they were real historical figures...  Read More >>

Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures

Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity...

Author: Elizabeth Elliott
ISBN: 9781409424185
Format: Hardback
$79.99

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Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature

Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature...

Author: Karina Marie Ash
ISBN: 9781409447498
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nasir-i Khusraw

Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nasir-i...

Author: Alice C. Hunsberger
ISBN: 9781780761305
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Written by authorities on Nasir-i Khusraw and Persian literature, and originally presented as papers at a conference...  Read More >>

Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse

Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse

Author: Karen Elaine Smyth, Dr
ISBN: 9781283015189
Format: Undefined
$329.87

Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of...  Read More >>

Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative

Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative...

Author: Phyllis Gaffney
ISBN: 9781282963214
Format: Undefined
$329.87

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval...  Read More >>

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic...

Author: Marek Tamm ,  Linda Kaljundi
ISBN: 9781283297448
Format: Undefined
$369.47

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Author: Kathy Cawsey
ISBN: 9781283047616
Format: Undefined
$329.87

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over...  Read More >>

Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin

Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin...

Author: Patricia Timmons ,  Robert Boenig (Texas A&M University)
ISBN: 9781280689833
Format: Undefined
$303.47

Accessible and useful to students and scholars of medieval and Spanish studies, this is the first English translation...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)...

Author: Peggy Knapp
ISBN: 9781283591706
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the...  Read More >>

Hans Folz and Print Culture in Late Medieval Germany

Hans Folz and Print Culture in Late Medieval Germany...

Author: Caroline Huey
ISBN: 9781283382694
Format: Undefined
$303.47

By integrating the different themes across Folz's oeuvre in all its profusion and variety, Huey offers new insights...  Read More >>

Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-Century Byzantium...

Author: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Floris Bernard (Ghent University) ,  Kristoffel Demoen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781280570667
Format: Undefined
$356.27

Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on...  Read More >>

Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion

Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion

Author: Alexander L Kaufman, Dr
ISBN: 9781282295346
Format: Undefined
$329.87

Accounts of Jack Cade's 1450 Rebellion, each inherently different and highly subjective, form the dominant entry...  Read More >>

Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris

Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris...

Author: Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University. Ohio Wesleyan University, USA Ohio Wesleyan University, USA Ohio Wesleyan University, USA Ohio Wesleyan University, USA) ,  Professor Barbara K Gold (Hamilton College, UK)
ISBN: 9781299716117
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications...  Read More >>

Fatherhood and Its Representations in Middle English Texts

Fatherhood and Its Representations in Middle English...

Author: Rachel E Moss
ISBN: 9781299875074
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The figure and role of the late-medieval father is reappraised through a close reading of a range of documents from...  Read More >>

Racher Und Gerachte: Konzeptionen, Praktiken Und Loyalitaten Der Rache Im Spiegel Der Attischen Tragodie

Racher Und Gerachte: Konzeptionen, Praktiken Und Loyalitaten...

Author: Bernadette Descharmes
ISBN: 9781299470064
Format: Electronic book text
$142.19

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Medieval Women's Writing

Medieval Women's Writing

Author: Diane Watt (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
ISBN: 9781299534254
Format: Electronic book text
$184.67

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Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century

Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early...

Author: Laurie Shepard
ISBN: 9781299810198
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook

Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook

Author: Joan Grimbert Tasker
ISBN: 9781299810402
Format: Electronic book text
$364.19

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

Author: Ernst Robert Curtius
ISBN: 9781299402775
Format: Electronic book text
$116.03

In this magnificent book (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars...  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: Malgorzata Budzowska
ISBN: 9781299549920
Format: Electronic book text
$147.71

Emotions as 'the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world' constitute a necessary component of the human...  Read More >>

Ogling Ladies: Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature

Ogling Ladies: Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature...

Author: Sandra Lindeman Summers
ISBN: 9781299818774
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer

Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer

Author: Professor Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781299818781
Format: Electronic book text
$184.67

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