Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation...

Author: Laura Kalas
ISBN: 9781843846840
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.  Read More >>

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Author: Paul Russell
ISBN: 9780814253779
Format: Paperback
$98.20

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment...  Read More >>

Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

Author: Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108723169
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring...  Read More >>

The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in...

Author: Eugenio Refini (New York University)
ISBN: 9781108741439
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and...  Read More >>

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X: Translation and Commentary

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X: Translation and...

Author: Joachim Aufderheide (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781107506947
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle's Ethics...  Read More >>

Greek Memories: Theories and Practices

Greek Memories: Theories and Practices

Author: Luca Castagnoli (University of Oxford) ,  Paola Ceccarelli (University College London)
ISBN: 9781108458351
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory...  Read More >>

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments

Author: James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108718622
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective...  Read More >>

Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Author: Giuseppe Pezzini (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Barnaby Taylor (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108727815
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman...  Read More >>

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

Author: A. D. Morrison (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781108729253
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Examines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica with Herodotus' Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean...  Read More >>

Lustrum Band 63 - 2021

Lustrum Band 63 - 2021

Author: Marcus Deufert ,  Juan A Estevez Sola
ISBN: 9783525802373
Format: Paperback
$303.60

Der in englischer Sprache verfasste Forschungsbericht zu Ovids Metamorphosen wurde von einem Forscher: innenteam...  Read More >>

Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the...

Author: Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Dr. Christopher Stray (Honorary Research Fellow, Swansea University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350333451
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of...  Read More >>

Plato’s Tough Guys and Their Attachment to Justice

Plato’s Tough Guys and Their Attachment to Justice

Author: Peter J. Hansen
ISBN: 9781498590990
Format: Paperback
$67.99

A careful reading of Plato’s works show that Thrasymachus and Callicles, his famous immoralists, are unselfconsciously...  Read More >>

Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis: Anachronismen als literarische Technik

Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis: Anachronismen als literarische...

Author: Dennis Pausch
ISBN: 9783525311523
Format: Hardback
$150.05

When Virgil tells of the flight of the Trojans and their conflict-ridden arrival in Italy in his Aeneid, his own...  Read More >>

Dialogpoetik der Quaestiones Convivales von Plutarch

Dialogpoetik der Quaestiones Convivales von Plutarch...

Author: Anna Ginesti Rosell
ISBN: 9783525361566
Format: Hardback
$222.50

Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales is a typical example of Imperial Miscellaneous literature. At first glance, his...  Read More >>

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Author: Emily Kesling
ISBN: 9781843846833
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME)...  Read More >>

The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China

The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early...

Author: Zeb Raft
ISBN: 9780674291379
Format: Hardback
$86.95

The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the History of Liu-Song,...  Read More >>

Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians

Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews...

Author: Frederick E. Brenk ,  Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
ISBN: 9789004531956
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Frederick Brenk has devoted a scholarly lifetime to explicating the complexities of Plutarch’s thought. Plutarch...  Read More >>

Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics and Rhetoric

Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics...

Author: Mar�lia Futre Pinheiro ,  Massimo Fusillo
ISBN: 9789493194540
Format: Hardback
$290.40

"In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second...  Read More >>

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Jan Bloemendal ,  Reinhold F. Glei
ISBN: 9781538177853
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Volume 48 presents the outcome of an international workshop (“Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama”) held...  Read More >>

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages:...

Author: Dr Kathryn Loveridge ,  Liz Herbert McAvoy
ISBN: 9781843846567
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical,...  Read More >>

Galen's Humanistic Medicine: The Essay, Quod Optimus Medicus

Galen's Humanistic Medicine: The Essay, Quod Optimus...

Author: Aileen R. Das
ISBN: 9783161619571
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The present volume offers an edition, updated English translation of, introduction to, and seven multi-authored...  Read More >>

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