Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People

Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized...

Author: Elan Justice Pavlinich
ISBN: 9781032232058
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf,...  Read More >>

The History of Alfred of Beverley

The History of Alfred of Beverley

Author: John Slevin ,  Lynda Lockyer
ISBN: 9781783274888
Format: Hardback
$284.63

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Ancient Love Letters: Form, Themes, Approaches

Ancient Love Letters: Form, Themes, Approaches

Author: Anna Tiziana Drago ,  Owen Hodkinson
ISBN: 9783110999693
Format: Hardback
$214.41

This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE,...  Read More >>

The ›Epigramma Paulini‹: Critical Edition with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary

The ›Epigramma Paulini‹: Critical Edition with an Introduction,...

Author: Roberto Chiappiniello
ISBN: 9783110996173
Format: Hardback
$171.51

The Epigramma Paulini, a late-antique poem of uncertain date and authorship, contains a dialogue structured on the...  Read More >>

Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with...

Author: Christine Schott
ISBN: 9781501523373
Format: Hardback
$293.01

Fanfiction as a genre has exploded in popularity among young adults in the internet age. It also bears resemblance...  Read More >>

Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon

Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of...

Author: Kenneth J. Yin
ISBN: 9781433192647
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The present volume includes a foreword by prominent Dungan poet Iskhar Shisyr, an introductory chapter, footnotes,...  Read More >>

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations...

Author: Robert Penella
ISBN: 9780472133338
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom...  Read More >>

Aspects of the Novel

Aspects of the Novel

Author: E M Forster
ISBN: 9781645603528
Format: Paperback
$31.68

E. M. Forster, one of England's most distinguished writers, shares what he believes are the seven important aspects...  Read More >>

Der Juengere Titurel: Untersuchungen zur Ueberlieferungs- und Textfrage auf der Grundlage der Varianz der Hss. A und X: Mit Transkriptionen der Hss. A und X sowie einer Strophenkonkordanz

Der Juengere Titurel: Untersuchungen zur Ueberlieferungs-...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Heike Link
ISBN: 9783631806500
Format: Hardback
$178.54

Die Arbeit untersucht die Varianz der Hss. A und X als Vertreter der Hauptfassungen des sog. Jüngeren Titurel (13....  Read More >>

Piers the Plowman

Piers the Plowman

Author: William Langland
ISBN: 9783348088213
Format: Paperback
$89.50

Piers the Plowman is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of...  Read More >>

China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Medieval Relations as Represented in Early Chinese Records

China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient...

Author: Friedrich Hirth ,  Victor H. Mair
ISBN: 9780755639410
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world’s population at the time...  Read More >>

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

The Book of Power Lib/E: The Greatest Works of the Ages...

Author: Mitch Horowitz ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798212922968
Format: Audio
$269.25

"""I believe that the last thing the mature seeker needs in literature or talks today are chin-stroking ideas or...  Read More >>

Aeneas ALS Held Und Erzahler: Zur Narrativen Gestaltung Von Vergils Aeneis

Aeneas ALS Held Und Erzahler: Zur Narrativen Gestaltung...

Author: Ruth Monreal
ISBN: 9783525311479
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Dem Troianer Aeneas ist es vom Schicksal bestimmt, nach Italien zu ziehen und ein Urahn der Romer zu werden. In...  Read More >>

The Wife of Bath Lib/E: A Biography

The Wife of Bath Lib/E: A Biography

Author: Marion Turner ,  Marion Turner
ISBN: 9781705081020
Format: Audio
$210.54

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle...  Read More >>

Die Altpersischen Inschriften Der Achaimeniden: Editio Minor Mit Deutscher Ubersetzung

Die Altpersischen Inschriften Der Achaimeniden: Editio...

Author: Rudiger Schmitt
ISBN: 9783752007169
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Der Band enthalt eine vollstandige Ausgabe und deutsche Ubersetzung der altpersischen Versionen der meist dreisprachigen...  Read More >>

The Wife of Bath: A Biography

The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Author: Marion Turner ,  Marion Turner
ISBN: 9798212410908
Format: Audio
$326.70

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle...  Read More >>

Charlemagne in Italy

Charlemagne in Italy

Author: Professor Jane E. Everson ,  Professor Jane E. Everson
ISBN: 9781843846710
Format: Hardback
$284.63

An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and...  Read More >>

Vertere – Paradigmen des Übersetzens in der Kultur der Antike

Vertere – Paradigmen des Übersetzens in der Kultur der...

Author: Maurizio Bettini ,  A. Theodor Fasen
ISBN: 9783662661727
Format: Hardback
$197.97

Maurizio Bettinis Buch schildert die Praktiken und Paradigmen des Übersetzens in der griechischen und römischen...  Read More >>

Homicide in the Attic Orators: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context

Homicide in the Attic Orators: Rhetoric, Ideology, and...

Author: Christine Plastow
ISBN: 9781032474854
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ?Attar and Persian Sufi Didacticism

The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ?Attar...

Author: Austin O'Malley
ISBN: 9781474475112
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Examines ?Attar's didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective  Read More >>

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

Author: Edward Pettit
ISBN: 9781800647725
Format: Paperback
$142.43

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic...  Read More >>

Dante Degli Ungheresi

Dante Degli Ungheresi

Author: Morana Cale ,  Gian Paolo Marchi
ISBN: 9791254692264
Format: Paperback
$97.68

At head of title: Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma.  Read More >>

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

Author: Edward Pettit
ISBN: 9781800647732
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic...  Read More >>

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