Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit

The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the...

Author: Dr Rose A Sawyer (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846512
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children...  Read More >>

Le Livre Royal

Le Livre Royal

Author: Jean de Chavenges ,  Nathalie Leinekugel Le Cocq
ISBN: 9782406146155
Format: Paperback
$147.84

Around 1345, Jean de Chavenges (a cleric from Champagne) composed Le Livre royal, dedicating it to the king Philip...  Read More >>

Scapegoat Carnivale’s Tragic Trilogy: Euripides’s Medea, Euripides’s Bacchae, and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus

Scapegoat Carnivale’s Tragic Trilogy: Euripides’s Medea,...

Author: Lynn Kozak
ISBN: 9780228017646
Format: Paperback
$80.21

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An Introduction to the Metaphysical Thought of John Peckham: Texts and Translations of Selected Quodlibetal Questions and the Summa de Esse et Essentia with Commentary

An Introduction to the Metaphysical Thought of John...

Author: Franziska van Buren
ISBN: 9780874622676
Format: Paperback
$56.80

Provides translations of and extensive commentary on John Peckham's Summa de Esse et Essentia and a selection of...  Read More >>

Le Livre Royal

Le Livre Royal

Author: Jean de Chavenges ,  Nathalie Leinekugel Le Cocq
ISBN: 9782406146162
Format: Hardback
$295.68

Around 1345, Jean de Chavenges (a cleric from Champagne) composed Le Livre royal, dedicating it to the king Philip...  Read More >>

Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary: Text, Music, Performance, and Genre Liminality

Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary: Text, Music, Performance,...

Author: Eliška Kubartová Poláčková (Masaryk University, Brno)
ISBN: 9781641894562
Format: Hardback
$382.80

A study of medieval Marian laments, a performative genre that offered clerical and lay audiences a deeply inspiring...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Author: Daisy Delogu ,  Anne-Hélène Miller
ISBN: 9781603295680
Format: Paperback
$61.60

One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view...  Read More >>

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography,...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781108741538
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  Read More >>

Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta

Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta

Author: Noreen Humble (University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781108810470
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Re-evaluates Xenophon's supposed admiration of Sparta and argues that his work, the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia, is a...  Read More >>

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric and Other Topics

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781108741514
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across...

Author: Athena Kirk (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9781108744959
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing...  Read More >>

The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography

The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments,...

Author: Matthew P. Loar (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) ,  Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781108727792
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This volume explores the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome. Targeting...  Read More >>

Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception

Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception...

Author: Tom Geue (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Elena Giusti (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781108823319
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary...  Read More >>

Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy

Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead...

Author: Bridget Martin
ISBN: 9781802078442
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Author: Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107692091
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of early Greek...  Read More >>

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in...

Author: Jody Enders
ISBN: 9780472055852
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Prize-winning theatre historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences...  Read More >>

The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination

The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination...

Author: John Farrell
ISBN: 9781032431574
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Politics, Law and Disorder in the Garden of Eden: The Quest for Identity

Politics, Law and Disorder in the Garden of Eden: The...

Author: N. A. Haug
ISBN: 9781680537178
Format: Hardback
$166.10

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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology

Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology...

Author: Adrian Kelly (University of Oxford) ,  Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108727174
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Addresses one of the most important current questions in the study of antiquity – the contribution of the Near East...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Author: Daisy Delogu ,  Anne-Hélène Miller
ISBN: 9781603295673
Format: Hardback
$144.10

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Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in...

Author: Jody Enders
ISBN: 9780472075850
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Prize-winning theatre historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences...  Read More >>

Accustomed to Obedience?: Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480-294 BCE

Accustomed to Obedience?: Classical Ionia and the Aegean...

Author: Joshua P. Nudell
ISBN: 9780472133376
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great,...  Read More >>

Les Aenigmata de Symposius: Jeux Et Dissimulations

Les Aenigmata de Symposius: Jeux Et Dissimulations

Author: Pierre Siegenthaler
ISBN: 9783796547317
Format: Hardback
$285.12

Dans son recueil d'Aenigmata, le poete latin Symp(h)osius (IVe-Ve s.) fait preceder chaque enonce d'un titre qui...  Read More >>

Der Goldene Esel Oder Metamorphosen: Lateinisch - Deutsch. Mit Einer Griechisch-Deutschen Ausgabe Von (Ps.?-)Lukian, Lukios Oder Der Esel

Der Goldene Esel Oder Metamorphosen: Lateinisch - Deutsch....

Author: Apuleius ,  Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783111000589
Format: Hardback
$213.81

"The Golden Ass (title in the manuscripts: Metamorphoses) by Apuleius (2nd century AD) is the only completely preserved...  Read More >>

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