Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois

Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism...

Author: David Withun (Head of School, Head of School, Jacksonville Classical Academy)
ISBN: 9780197579589
Format: Hardback
$169.95

Classical influences and allusions are found throughout the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, the prominent African American...  Read More >>

Inscriptions from Lisht: Texts from Burial Chambers

Inscriptions from Lisht: Texts from Burial Chambers...

Author: James P. Allen
ISBN: 9781588397164
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This volume incorporates all of the inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and...  Read More >>

Le Printemps Des Metaphores: Etude Sur l'Ecriture Metaphorique Au Xiie Siecle

Le Printemps Des Metaphores: Etude Sur l'Ecriture Metaphorique...

Author: Samuel Molin
ISBN: 9782406132394
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The book presents the emergence and development of the metaphorical language used in French literary works in the...  Read More >>

Le Printemps Des Metaphores: Etude Sur l'Ecriture Metaphorique Au Xiie Siecle

Le Printemps Des Metaphores: Etude Sur l'Ecriture Metaphorique...

Author: Samuel Molin
ISBN: 9782406132400
Format: Hardback
$229.68

The book presents the emergence and development of the metaphorical language used in French literary works in the...  Read More >>

Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250: Cry of the Turtledove

Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts,...

Author: A. S. Lazikani
ISBN: 9783030599263
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers...

Author: Mary Wellesley
ISBN: 9781529400946
Format: Paperback
$24.99

With an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour...  Read More >>

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Author: Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009048484
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in...  Read More >>

The Medieval Devil: A Reader

The Medieval Devil: A Reader

Author: Richard Raiswell ,  David R. Winter
ISBN: 9781442634176
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The Medieval Devil highlights the many ways in which the devil has been imagined and re-imagined over the centuries....  Read More >>

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English...

Author: Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009100588
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval...  Read More >>

The Manuscript Transmission of Platos Laws (Books I and V)

The Manuscript Transmission of Platos Laws (Books I...

Author: Anton Sadovskyy
ISBN: 9783752006070
Format: Hardback
$388.08

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Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Author: Stephen Halliwell
ISBN: 9780192894205
Format: Hardback
$467.95

Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume...  Read More >>

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Neil W. Bernstein (Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Ohio University)
ISBN: 9780198838166
Format: Hardback
$323.95

Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August...  Read More >>

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Author: Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781316517819
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in...  Read More >>

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms...

Author: Alexandra Verini
ISBN: 9783031009167
Format: Hardback
$181.10

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism...  Read More >>

The Greek Mythology: The Complete Knowledge of Classic And Greek Mythical-Lengendary

The Greek Mythology: The Complete Knowledge of Classic...

Author: Jessica C Layman
ISBN: 9798839608221
Format: Paperback
$25.64

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La tradizione manoscritta dell’“ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale: “Mise en page” e “mise en texte”

La tradizione manoscritta dell’“ars dictaminis” nell’Italia...

Author: Sara Bischetti
ISBN: 9783110701500
Format: Hardback
$137.19

This volume is dedicated to the study of medieval ars dictaminis. Analyzing several manuscript witnesses, it sheds...  Read More >>

Rethinking Orality II: The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication System in the Case of the Archaic Epos

Rethinking Orality II: The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication...

Author: Andrea Ercolani ,  Laura Lulli
ISBN: 9783110750744
Format: Hardback
$159.50

This is the second of two volumes on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry,...  Read More >>

Myth and History: Close Encounters

Myth and History: Close Encounters

Author: Menelaos Christopoulos ,  Athina Papachrysostomou
ISBN: 9783110779585
Format: Hardback
$240.15

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Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics

Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics...

Author: David Hadbawnik
ISBN: 9781501518829
Format: Hardback
$237.57

Postmodern poets’ disparate engagements with medieval material, language, and forms.  Read More >>

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