Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative

An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative

Author: Susan Aronstein ,  Tison Pugh
ISBN: 9780813041896
Format: Hardback
$184.67

The legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table permeate our culture: we find them in novels, movie...  Read More >>

Omero E I Suoi Oratori: Tecniche Di Persuasione Nell iliade

Omero E I Suoi Oratori: Tecniche Di Persuasione Nell...

Author: Stefano Dentice Di Accadia Ammone
ISBN: 9783110287691
Format: Mixed media product
$628.32

The birth of rhetoric istraced back to the 5th century B.C.E., when the first theoretical treatises on rhetoric...  Read More >>

Die Helden, Ihre Frauen Und Troja: 36 Kleine Portraits

Die Helden, Ihre Frauen Und Troja: 36 Kleine Portraits...

Author: Angelika Dierichs
ISBN: 9783805345217
Format: Hardback
$100.32

From A like Achilles to P like Priam, heroes are only men. Epithets such as the wailful and the evil-smelling prove...  Read More >>

Virgil: Aeneid Book XII

Virgil: Aeneid Book XII

Author: Virgil ,  Richard Tarrant (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9780521313636
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity...

Author: Suzanne Macalister
ISBN: 9780415642972
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus

Author: Michael A. Flower (Senior Research Scholar, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780195188684
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the...  Read More >>

Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History

Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance...

Author: Robert Goulding
ISBN: 9789400732148
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered...  Read More >>

The Kaiserchronik: A Medieval Narrative

The Kaiserchronik: A Medieval Narrative

Author: Alastair Matthews
ISBN: 9780199656998
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents a narratological analysis of the Kaiserchronik, or chronicle of the emperors. The Kaiserchronik...  Read More >>

Gilte Legende Vol III

Gilte Legende Vol III

Author: Richard Hamer (Emeritus Student of Christ Church College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199668175
Format: Hardback
$151.95

Contains an Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Glossary, and Index to complete this three-volume edition. Gilte Legende...  Read More >>

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus

Author: Michael A. Flower (Senior Research Scholar, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780195188677
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the...  Read More >>

Writing Medieval Women’s Lives

Writing Medieval Women’s Lives

Author: C. Goldy ,  A. Livingstone
ISBN: 9780230114555
Format: Hardback
$169.00

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women....  Read More >>

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of...

Author: E. Jenkins
ISBN: 9781349290659
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son...  Read More >>

Tacitus the Epic Successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories

Tacitus the Epic Successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative...

Author: Timothy Joseph
ISBN: 9789004229044
Format: Hardback
$419.76

This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus' (c. 55 - c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques...  Read More >>

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The Shaping of Heroes

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The...

Author: Florence Yoon
ISBN: 9789004229037
Format: Hardback
$401.28

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Indogermanische Grammatik / Band IV: Wortbildungslehre (Derivationsmorphologie) / Teil 1: Komposition / Fasc. 2: [lieferung 2]

Indogermanische Grammatik / Band IV: Wortbildungslehre...

Author: Thomas Lindner
ISBN: 9783825360702
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Der Teilband 'Komposition' (Wortzusammensetzung), der in Einzellieferungen seit Marz 2011 erscheint, behandelt die...  Read More >>

King Jesus Version: Essential Revelations

King Jesus Version: Essential Revelations

Author: Orin Leroy Moses, III ,  Orin Leroy Moses, III
ISBN: 9781695413818
Format: Paperback
$42.75

"This is a new translation of the New Testament that was made in order to showcase the Shuffled Manuscript Theory...  Read More >>

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of...

Author: E. Jenkins
ISBN: 9780230107144
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son...  Read More >>

Sangspruchdichter Unter Sich: Namentliche Erwahnungen in Den Spruchen Des 12., 13. Und 14. Jahrhunderts

Sangspruchdichter Unter Sich: Namentliche Erwahnungen...

Author: Mirjam Burkard
ISBN: 9783825360320
Format: Hardback
$147.84

Was hielt Rumelant von Sachsen von der kunst' des Marners und wie wurde Konrad von Wurzburg von seinen Dichterkollegen...  Read More >>

Performanz Von Wissen: Strategien Der Wissensvermittlung in Der Vormoderne

Performanz Von Wissen: Strategien Der Wissensvermittlung...

Author: Therese Fuhrer ,  Almut-Barbara Renger
ISBN: 9783825358327
Format: Hardback
$97.68

The reader will learn a lot from this collection of essays, beautifully edited [...] Jakob Fink, University of...  Read More >>

God and Charles Dickens: Recovering the Christian Voice of a Classic Author

God and Charles Dickens: Recovering the Christian Voice...

Author: Gary Colledge
ISBN: 9781587433207
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part II: Palestine 200-650

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part II:...

Author: Tal Ilan
ISBN: 9783161502071
Format: Hardback
$624.88

Although described as volume II, this is the last volume to appear in a series of four which documents all the named...  Read More >>

Le Lyrisme d'Eustache DesChamps: Entre Poesie Et Pragmatisme

Le Lyrisme d'Eustache DesChamps: Entre Poesie Et Pragmatisme...

Author: Karin Becker
ISBN: 9782812406096
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Eustache Deschamps (c. 1340 - 1404) has left us with a significant corpus of poetry, totalling some 1,500 texts....  Read More >>

System of Physic (GUL MS Hunter 509, ff. 1r-167v): A Compendium of Mediaeval Medicine Including the Middle English Gilbertus Anglicus

System of Physic (GUL MS Hunter 509, ff. 1r-167v): A...

Author: Laura Esteban Segura
ISBN: 9783034300773
Format: Paperback
$192.77

"Presents the first edition of ""Glasgow"", University Library, MS Hunter 509 (ff. 1r-167v), an English medical...  Read More >>

No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy

No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy

Author: C. W. Marshall (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada) ,  George Kovacs (Assistant Professor, Trent University)
ISBN: 9781780930152
Format: Paperback
$86.99

A commissioned collection of papers covering widely read works, fragmentary plays and lost authors, showcasing the...  Read More >>

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