Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Seven Against Thebes

Seven Against Thebes

Author: Aleksander Krawczuk ,  Tom Pinch
ISBN: 9789998795204
Format: Paperback
$44.85

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Maqamat Al-Nasr Fi Manaqib Imam Al-'Asr

Maqamat Al-Nasr Fi Manaqib Imam Al-'Asr

Author: Muhammad B Ahmad Al-Zamlakani ,  Yehoshua Frenkel
ISBN: 9783847114574
Format: Hardback
$121.44

A unique Mamluk manuscript tells the story of a Damascene jurist. Ibn al-Zamlakani's story revolves around a dramatic...  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica: Aristophanes Fr. 101-204

Fragmenta Comica: Aristophanes Fr. 101-204

Author: Andreas Bagordo
ISBN: 9783949189579
Format: Hardback
$242.88

Band 10.4 der Fragmenta Comica vervollstandigt die Kommentierung und Ubersetzung der fragmentarisch erhaltenen Komodien...  Read More >>

Seven Against Thebes

Seven Against Thebes

Author: Aleksander Krawczuk ,  Tom Pinch
ISBN: 9789998795211
Format: Hardback
$65.97

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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the...

Author: Scott Oldenburg (Associate Professor, Tulane University)
ISBN: 9780271087160
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A narrative of Elizabethan London through the eyes of William Muggins, an impoverished silk-weaver who wrote poetry...  Read More >>

Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato

Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European...

Author: Serena Connolly
ISBN: 9783110788846
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary

The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text...

Author: Davide Amendola
ISBN: 9783110600919
Format: Hardback
$212.70

The extant twenty columns of a late second-century BCE collection of texts sometimes referred to as the Demades...  Read More >>

La imagen descartada

La imagen descartada

Author: C. S. Lewis's
ISBN: 9788412244373
Format: Paperback
$52.67

C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural...  Read More >>

Ciceros Rede ›Pro L. Cornelio Balbo‹: Einleitung und Kommentar

Ciceros Rede ›Pro L. Cornelio Balbo‹: Einleitung und...

Author: Malte Helfberend
ISBN: 9783110795608
Format: Hardback
$171.51

In 56 BCE, Cicero defended Lucius Cornelius Balbus of Spain, one of the Pompey and Caesar Triumvirate's protégés,...  Read More >>

Wandel Des Kulturellen - Wissen Der Rhetorik - Wege Der Metapher: Ausgewählte Aufsätze

Wandel Des Kulturellen - Wissen Der Rhetorik - Wege...

Author: Udo Friedrich ,  Andreas Hammer
ISBN: 9783110764314
Format: Hardback
$353.73

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Schriften Udo Friedrichs, die drei Paradigmenwechsel in der mediävistischen Forschung...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts after Hans Urs von Balthasar

Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts...

Author: Oleg Bychkov
ISBN: 9780813236452
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Examines Hans Urs von Balthasar's study of ancient and medieval theological aesthetics in his Glory of the Lord...  Read More >>

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 35

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 35

Author: S.P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9780838645055
Format: Paperback
$222.53

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history...  Read More >>

Middle and Neo-Babylonian Literary Texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, Jena

Middle and Neo-Babylonian Literary Texts in the Frau...

Author: Enrique Jimenez
ISBN: 9783447118811
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The book contains first editions of thirty-three cuneiform tablets from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection,...  Read More >>

"John of Garland, ""Integumenta Ovidii""": Text, Translation, and Commentary

"John of Garland, ""Integumenta Ovidii""": Text, Translation,...

Author: Kyle Gervais
ISBN: 9781580445269
Format: Hardback
$105.47

John of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a thirteenth-century allegoresis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: newly edited and...  Read More >>

Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in...

Author: Sylvia Huot
ISBN: 9780268206659
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants in French prose romances demonstrates fantasies of conflict and conquest...  Read More >>

Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred

Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the...

Author: Barbara Newman
ISBN: 9780268206574
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Newman highlights the ways in which the premodern reader understood sacred and secular not as opposing points but...  Read More >>

Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval...

Author: Clare Costley King'oo
ISBN: 9780268206598
Format: Hardback
$330.00

King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth...  Read More >>

Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England

Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in...

Author: Lori Ann Garner
ISBN: 9780268206956
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Structuring Spaces illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within...  Read More >>

Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of...

Author: Pina Palma
ISBN: 9780268206802
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual...  Read More >>

Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity

Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity...

Author: William Kuskin
ISBN: 9780268206758
Format: Hardback
$264.00

In this pioneering work, William Kuskin turns a keen eye on the literary production of early modernity and discovers...  Read More >>

Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature...

Author: Stacy S. Klein
ISBN: 9780268206789
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating...  Read More >>

Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval...

Author: Katherine C. Little
ISBN: 9780268207113
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact...  Read More >>

Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800

Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism...

Author: Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009243483
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English...  Read More >>

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