Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Dones Que Mengen El Cor de l'Amant: La Poesia de Guillem de Cabestany, El Chatelain de Coucy I Reinmar Von Brennenberg

Dones Que Mengen El Cor de l'Amant: La Poesia de Guillem...

Author: Joan Dalmases
ISBN: 9791254692141
Format: Paperback
$97.68

La llegenda del cor menjat va gaudir d'una gran popularitat durant la Baixa Edat Mitjana, concretament a partir...  Read More >>

Sky and Earth: Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo

Sky and Earth: Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco...

Author: Giuseppe Mussardo ,  Gaspare Polizzi
ISBN: 9783031186103
Format: Paperback
$72.42

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional...  Read More >>

Opfer Und Opferformel

Opfer Und Opferformel

Author: Gunther Lapp
ISBN: 9783905719321
Format: Paperback
$277.20

The subject of this book is the ancient Egyptian offering ritual, in particular the offering of food, and the well-known...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages in Modern Culture: History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism

The Middle Ages in Modern Culture: History and Authenticity...

Author: Karl Alvestad (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway) ,  Robert Houghton (University of Winchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350266001
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched....  Read More >>

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in the 4th Century BCE

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in...

Author: Dr Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350250536
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon....  Read More >>

Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical...

Author: Amy Lather
ISBN: 9781474462365
Format: Paperback
$54.31

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Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages:...

Author: Ardis Butterfield (Yale University) ,  Ian Johnson (St Andrews University)
ISBN: 9781108492393
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between...  Read More >>

Vergil and Elegy

Vergil and Elegy

Author: Alison Keith ,  Micah Y. Myers
ISBN: 9781487547950
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean...

Author: Morris Silver
ISBN: 9780674272569
Format: Paperback
$59.95

During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled...  Read More >>

Medieval Translations and Their Readers

Medieval Translations and Their Readers

Author: Pavlina Rychterova ,  Jan Odstrcilik
ISBN: 9782503591902
Format: Paperback
$282.48

The papers gathered in this volume focus on 'Medieval Translations and their Readership', the special strand of...  Read More >>

Chaucer's Comic Providence

Chaucer's Comic Providence

Author: Aranye Fradenburg Joy ,  Janet Thormann
ISBN: 9781685710200
Format: Paperback
$58.08

"Chaucer's Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division...  Read More >>

Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650

Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650

Author: Brian Croke
ISBN: 9781032234809
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth

Author: Robert Stuart
ISBN: 9783030974770
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues,...  Read More >>

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in...

Author: Lauren Weindling
ISBN: 9780817361013
Format: Paperback
$92.27

‘Blood is thicker than water’, goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe...  Read More >>

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in...

Author: Lauren Weindling
ISBN: 9780817321482
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550

The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community...

Author: Nicole R. Rice
ISBN: 9780268205119
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate...

Author: Graham Zanker (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781009319874
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the...  Read More >>

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Author: Richard Meek (University of Hull)
ISBN: 9781009280266
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry...

Author: Marco Nievergelt (Forward College)
ISBN: 9780192849212
Format: Hardback
$283.00

This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical...  Read More >>

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern...

Author: Kathryn Taylor
ISBN: 9781644532997
Format: Paperback
$113.39

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Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Author: Laura Kalas (Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Medical Humanities) ,  Laura Varnam
ISBN: 9781526171580
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings...  Read More >>

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern...

Author: Kathryn Taylor
ISBN: 9781644533000
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing...  Read More >>

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