Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts:...

Author: Pamela M. King ,  Alexandra F. Johnston
ISBN: 9780367562564
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars...  Read More >>

The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium’

The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert:...

Author: Luigi Andrea Berto
ISBN: 9780367710514
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume presents the analysis, English translation, and critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History...  Read More >>

Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto

Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto

Author: Maria Pavlova
ISBN: 9781781883501
Format: Paperback
$52.77

A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital...  Read More >>

Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei

Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex...

Author: Keith McMahon
ISBN: 9780674291355
Format: Hardback
$105.95

In Saying All That Can Be Said, Keith McMahon presents the first full analysis of the sexually explicit portrayals...  Read More >>

Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century

Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's...

Author: Jacqueline M Burek
ISBN: 9781914049101
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what...  Read More >>

Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark

Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark

Author: Adela Yarbro Collins
ISBN: 9783161615887
Format: Hardback
$314.90

This volume presents essays by Adela Yarbro Collins on the Gospel of Mark originally published between 1993 and...  Read More >>

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England...

Author: David K Coley
ISBN: 9780814255223
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Virgil'S English Translators: Civil Wars to Restoration

Virgil'S English Translators: Civil Wars to Restoration...

Author: Ian Calvert
ISBN: 9781474475655
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Analyses the translations of the Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeneid to reflect the cultural influence of Virgil over...  Read More >>

The Last Stroke a Detective Story

The Last Stroke a Detective Story

Author: Lawrence L. Lynch
ISBN: 9789358593068
Format: Paperback
$44.85

"Lawrence L. Lynch has authored a gripping book titled ""The Last Stroke: A Detective Story"". The mystery murder...  Read More >>

Idylls of the King

Idylls of the King

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
ISBN: 9789358592153
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Traces the story of Arthur's rule, from his first encounter with Guinevere and the quest for the Holy Grail to the...  Read More >>

The Danish History

The Danish History

Author: Saxo Grammaticus
ISBN: 9789358591972
Format: Paperback
$60.69

'The Danish History, Books I-IX' is an extraordinary historical work authored by Saxo Grammaticus, a renowned Danish...  Read More >>

Histoire Culturelle Des Editions Latines Des Tragedies de Seneque

Histoire Culturelle Des Editions Latines Des Tragedies...

Author: Pascale Pare-Rey
ISBN: 9782406142508
Format: Paperback
$150.48

"The Latin editions of the tragedies of ""Seneca"", from 1478 to 1878, are studied in order to identify the development...  Read More >>

Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks

Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks...

Author: Kathy Eden
ISBN: 9780226821269
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works....  Read More >>

Histoire Culturelle Des Editions Latines Des Tragedies de Seneque

Histoire Culturelle Des Editions Latines Des Tragedies...

Author: Pascale Pare-Rey
ISBN: 9782406142515
Format: Hardback
$298.32

"The Latin editions of the tragedies of ""Seneca"", from 1478 to 1878, are studied in order to identify the development...  Read More >>

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion,...

Author: David Townsend (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009206877
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual...  Read More >>

Hans Rosenplut: Weingrusse Und Weinsegen: Mit Weiteren Liedern Aus Der Tradition

Hans Rosenplut: Weingrusse Und Weinsegen: Mit Weiteren...

Author: Silvan Wagner
ISBN: 9783777628059
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Um den Handwerkerdichter Hans Rosenplut entstanden im Nurnberg des 15. Jahrhunderts die Weingrusse, eine Sammlung...  Read More >>

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion,...

Author: David Townsend (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009206884
Format: Hardback
$155.22

Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual...  Read More >>

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and...

Author: Martin J. Cropp (Department of Classics, University of Calgary (Canada))
ISBN: 9781802078237
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the...  Read More >>

Jordanes: Romana and Getica

Jordanes: Romana and Getica

Author: Peter Van Nuffelen (Department of History, Ghent University (Belgium)) ,  Lieve Van Hoof (Department of History, Ghent University (Belgium))
ISBN: 9781802078213
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique set of histories. The Getica narrates the history of the Goths from their...  Read More >>

The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - C. 1550): Text and Paratext, Codex and Context

The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France,...

Author: Graeme Small
ISBN: 9782503585994
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A collaborative investigation of one of the best-known works of late medieval European literature, the Franco-Burgundian...  Read More >>

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Gareth Williams (Professor)
ISBN: 9780231200714
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the...  Read More >>

Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies

Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies...

Author: Robin Norris ,  Rebecca Stephenson
ISBN: 9789463721462
Format: Hardback
$354.49

Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over...  Read More >>

The Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius

The Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius

Author: Scott Bradbury ,  David Moncur
ISBN: 9781802076837
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher and rhetorician, was one of late antiquity's most prolific letter writers....  Read More >>

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Gareth Williams (Professor)
ISBN: 9780231200707
Format: Hardback
$99.95

Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the...  Read More >>

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