Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹: Identity, Intertext and the Sublime

The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹: Identity,...

Author: Jean-Michel Hulls
ISBN: 9783111265865
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This book is a detailed study of identity and selfhood in the Thebaid which explores major characters in the poem...  Read More >>

The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021

The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical...

Author: Richard Hunter ,  Antonios Rengakos
ISBN: 9783111276496
Format: Paperback
$68.55

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of...  Read More >>

Porphyry, ›On Principles and Matter‹: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries

Porphyry, ›On Principles and Matter‹: A Syriac Version...

Author: Yury Arzhanov ,  Porphyry
ISBN: 9783111274669
Format: Paperback
$25.65

The treatise On Principles and Matter preserved in Syriac derives most probably from Porphyry of Tyre. This text...  Read More >>

Kulturgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Wahrsagerei

Kulturgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Wahrsagerei

Author: Christa Agnes Tuczay
ISBN: 9783111253688
Format: Paperback
$42.81

The quest for truth, foreseeing the future, finding answers to acute questions: all this was promised by oracles...  Read More >>

Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der ›Argonautika‹ des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)

Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und...

Author: Stefanie Stürner
ISBN: 9783111259376
Format: Paperback
$42.81

The Libyan episode (4. 1223-1781) is one of the key passages in Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica and has thus far...  Read More >>

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Author: Dimitrios Kanellakis
ISBN: 9783111276618
Format: Paperback
$34.23

Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic...  Read More >>

Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy

Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy...

Author: Shannon McHugh
ISBN: 9789463720274
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution...  Read More >>

Greek Translations of Roman Gods

Greek Translations of Roman Gods

Author: Bradley Buszard
ISBN: 9783111071794
Format: Hardback
$188.67

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the translations of Roman gods in literary Greek. It addresses Roman...  Read More >>

Géométrie et philosophie des mathématiques au Xe siècle: Œuvre mathématique d’al-Sijzī. Volume II

Géométrie et philosophie des mathématiques au Xe siècle:...

Author: Roshdi Rashed ,  Pascal Crozet
ISBN: 9783111167947
Format: Hardback
$222.99

Al-Sijzī est un mathématicien de la deuxième moitié du xe siècle. Il occupe une place centrale au sein d'une génération...  Read More >>

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Galenos ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783111246116
Format: Hardback
$87.09

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Guy de Warwick Et Herolt d'Ardenne En Prose

Guy de Warwick Et Herolt d'Ardenne En Prose

Author: Sophie Lecomte
ISBN: 9782406146667
Format: Paperback
$150.48

The publication offers a new critical edition of the mise en prose of Gui de Warewic (first half of the 15th century)....  Read More >>

Guy de Warwick Et Herolt d'Ardenne En Prose

Guy de Warwick Et Herolt d'Ardenne En Prose

Author: Sophie Lecomte
ISBN: 9782406146674
Format: Hardback
$298.32

The publication offers a new critical edition of the mise en prose of Gui de Warewic (first half of the 15th century)....  Read More >>

Pearl

Pearl

Author: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571302963
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem  Read More >>

Guiraut Riquier: Las Cansos: Kritischer Text Und Kommentar

Guiraut Riquier: Las Cansos: Kritischer Text Und Kommentar...

Author: Ulrich Molk ,  Susanne A Friede
ISBN: 9783825369255
Format: Paperback
$108.24

"Ulrich Molks unersetzbare Edition der 'Cansos' des Guiraut Riquier von 1962 liegt hier in einer von Susanne Friede...  Read More >>

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments Auf Basis Der Handschriften Des Fruhen X-Astes Unter Berucksichtigung Der Gesamten Uberlieferung Textband

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments...

Author: Tomas Tomasek ,  Frank Schafer
ISBN: 9783796545337
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Edition von Gottfrieds Tristan-Roman gehorte lange zu den grossten Desideraten...  Read More >>

FrC 16.6 Nausikrates - Nikostratos

FrC 16.6 Nausikrates - Nikostratos

Author: Anna Lamari
ISBN: 9783949189753
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus. By...  Read More >>

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments Auf Basis Der Handschriften Des Fruhen X-Astes Unter Berucksichtigung Der Gesamten Uberlieferung Textband

Tristan Und Isolde: Kritische Edition Des Romanfragments...

Author: Tomas Tomasek ,  Frank Schafer
ISBN: 9783796545320
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Edition von Gottfrieds Tristan-Roman gehorte lange zu den grossten Desideraten...  Read More >>

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England

'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval...

Author: Ciaran Arthur
ISBN: 9781837650286
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

Author: Rachel A. Burns (University of Oxford) ,  Rafael J. Pascual (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781802700244
Format: Paperback
$92.27

An up-to-the-minute survey of the importance of metrical analysis to textual criticism in Old English studies from...  Read More >>

The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam: Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād

The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam: Chapters...

Author: Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History)
ISBN: 9781802078527
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Zoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion...  Read More >>

Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development: Graeco-Roman

Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development:...

Author: J. W. H. Atkins
ISBN: 9780367764197
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient...  Read More >>

English Literary Criticism: The Renascence

English Literary Criticism: The Renascence

Author: J. W. H. Atkins
ISBN: 9780367763329
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance. It discusses the...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

Author: Jeffrey John Dixon
ISBN: 9781476687940
Format: Paperback
$50.60

For hundreds of years, the Grail story has haunted the western imagination. But the original medieval texts are...  Read More >>

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