Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature: Ethics and Mischief in the Decameron

Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature: Ethics and Mischief...

Author: Olivia Holmes (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009224338
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Olivia Homes shows how the Decameron responds to classical and medieval didactic traditions through its mischievous...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages

Author: Iona McCleery
ISBN: 9781472569929
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography

Author: R. Scott Smith (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of New Hampshire) ,  Stephen M. Trzaskoma (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9780190648312
Format: Hardback
$296.00

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is the first comprehensive examination of ancient writings that...  Read More >>

Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon

Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens:...

Author: Professor Robert Holschuh Simmons (Monmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350214484
Format: Hardback
$170.00

What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice and Tranquility

Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy:...

Author: Javier Aoiz ,  Marcelo D. Boeri
ISBN: 9781350346543
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing...  Read More >>

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments,...

Author: Estelle Strazdins (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9780192866103
Format: Hardback
$271.95

Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity

Author: Iona McCleery
ISBN: 9781472569936
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the ‘medical triangle’ according to one of the texts...  Read More >>

The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives

The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives...

Author: Rosie Harman
ISBN: 9781350159020
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of...  Read More >>

The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible: Language and Boundaries of Self and Other

The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew...

Author: Cian Power
ISBN: 9783161593246
Format: Paperback
$240.64

Cian J. Power explores ideas about linguistic diversity from the...  Read More >>

Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England

Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval...

Author: Francine McGregor
ISBN: 9789004501256
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Equine Medicine explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of...  Read More >>

Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio

Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio

Author: Jesper Majbom Madsen ,  Andrew G. Scott
ISBN: 9789004524170
Format: Hardback
$498.96

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Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

Author: Margaret Clunies Ross ,  Kari Ellen Gade
ISBN: 9782503518985
Format: Hardback
$628.32

First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it...  Read More >>

The Book of Power: The Greatest Works of the Ages on Attaining Mastery, Magnetism, and Personal Power

The Book of Power: The Greatest Works of the Ages on...

Author: Mitch Horowitz ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798212922975
Format: Audio
$153.09

Discover the Secrets to Higher Living in One Volume  Read More >>

The Book of Power: The Greatest Works of the Ages on Attaining Mastery, Magnetism, and Personal Power

The Book of Power: The Greatest Works of the Ages on...

Author: Mitch Horowitz ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798212922982
Format: Audio
$153.09

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Revue Des Etudes Dantesques

Revue Des Etudes Dantesques

Author: Anna Pia Filotico ,  Sabrina Ferrara
ISBN: 9782406146568
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Contributeurs: Heloisa Abreu de Lima, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Alessandro Barbero, Alessandro Benucci, Elisa Brilli,...  Read More >>

Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts

Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts...

Author: George Corbett (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781108702447
Format: Paperback
$49.14

This book provides fresh, scholarly, but accessible analyses of key areas of Dante's thought and poetry, including...  Read More >>

Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation

Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval...

Author: Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781108708128
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array...  Read More >>

The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing...

Author: Robyn Faith Walsh
ISBN: 9781108793131
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for...  Read More >>

Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

Author: Diane J. Rayor (Grand Valley State University, Michigan) ,  André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9781108831680
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family...  Read More >>

In This Modern Age: Medieval Studies in Honour of Paul Edward Dutton

In This Modern Age: Medieval Studies in Honour of Paul...

Author: Courtney M. Booker ,  Anne A. Latowsky
ISBN: 9786156405678
Format: Hardback
$234.30

A collection of fourteen essays by scholars of the Carolingian era specializing in history, art history, and literature....  Read More >>

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of...

Author: Giovanni Fanfani ,  Mary Harlow
ISBN: 9781789259865
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Major series of studies exploring the use of ancient textiles and clothing as literary devices in the Greek and...  Read More >>

John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum: A Middle English Commentary on Giles of Corbeil’s Carmen de urinis in Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 328 and Manchester University Library, MS Rylands Eng. 1310

John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum: A Middle English...

Author: Javier Calle-Martin (Departamento de Filologia Inglesa, University of Malaga (Spain))
ISBN: 9781802078350
Format: Paperback
$121.41

A synoptic edition of the English version of John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum containing the commentary on Giles...  Read More >>

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with...

Author: Michael Van Dussen
ISBN: 9781802078299
Format: Paperback
$131.97

The first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by the hermit and mystic Richard...  Read More >>

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval...

Author: Sara Petrosillo
ISBN: 9780814215487
Format: Hardback
$243.10

Uniting feminist, formalist, and material historical approaches, explores how symbolic and literal hawking women...  Read More >>

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