Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Theophrastus: Characters

Theophrastus: Characters

Author: James Diggle (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108831284
Format: Hardback
$194.04

Theophrastus: Characters is a work of supreme importance and interest both as a pioneering text of world literature...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Author: Terri Bourus
ISBN: 9781800735538
Format: Hardback
$230.29

The first edition of Hamlet - often called 'Q1', shorthand for 'first quarto' - was published in 1603. The essays...  Read More >>

The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin

The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin

Author: Nigel Bryant ,  Cuvelier
ISBN: 9781783276967
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays

The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays

Author: Martin Meiser
ISBN: 9783161549175
Format: Hardback
$427.97

The Septuagint is an important source for the study of ancient Judaism and, in terms of textual development and...  Read More >>

Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays

Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays

Author: Emma Lipton ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253856
Format: Hardback
$171.60

""In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic...

Author: Sotiris Manolopoulos
ISBN: 9781032171876
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the ‘tragic’ reading of politics, presented by Euripides in...  Read More >>

Der Bunte Roman: Der Farbgebrauch Im Antiken Und Christlichen Roman Unter Besonderer Berucksichtigung Von Petrons 'Satyrica', Den 'Metamorphosen' Des Apuleius Und Den Pseudoklementinischen Rekognitionen

Der Bunte Roman: Der Farbgebrauch Im Antiken Und Christlichen...

Author: Beate Klein
ISBN: 9783515090469
Format: Paperback
$155.76

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Alia Ex Alia Nexa: Untersuchungen Zur Struktur Von Ciceros Philosophieren

Alia Ex Alia Nexa: Untersuchungen Zur Struktur Von Ciceros...

Author: Marco Bleistein
ISBN: 9783825347918
Format: Hardback
$161.04

Die Studie zeigt ein fur Cicero konstitutives Denkmuster in seinen philosophischen Schriften auf und nutzt die Erkenntnisse...  Read More >>

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Author: Marina Gerzic ,  Aidan Norrie
ISBN: 9780367504649
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 43

Medieval English Theatre 43

Author: Meg Twycross ,  Sarah Carpenter
ISBN: 9781843846307
Format: Paperback
$90.56

The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore.  Read More >>

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Author: Dr Sarah Olsen ,  Professor Mario Telò
ISBN: 9781350249615
Format: Paperback
$52.99

"This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens...  Read More >>

The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform

The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the...

Author: Rebecca Stephenson
ISBN: 9781487547479
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca...  Read More >>

Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200

Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism,...

Author: Heather Blurton ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253924
Format: Hardback
$158.27

William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming...  Read More >>

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts...

Author: Rodney M Thomson
ISBN: 9781783274550
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The collection of medieval manuscripts at Pembroke College is an important one. Its most striking feature is that...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III

Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Elizabeth Emery (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843846253
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.  Read More >>

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Author: Dr Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA) ,  Professor Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9781350249622
Format: Hardback
$160.00

"This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens...  Read More >>

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781316516683
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

The Owl and the Nightingale: And the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

The Owl and the Nightingale: And the English Poems of...

Author: Susanna Fein ,  Susanna Fein
ISBN: 9781580445214
Format: Hardback
$340.56

An edition and accompanying translation of this late C13th anthology of early Middle English verse.  In addition...  Read More >>

Rosenplutsche Fastnachtspiele: Edition Und Kommentar Von Nurnberger Spieltexten Des 15. Jahrhunderts (Einschliesslich Der Fastnachtspiele in Der Handschrift Dresden, Slub, Mscr.Dresd.M.183)

Rosenplutsche Fastnachtspiele: Edition Und Kommentar...

Author: Klaus Ridder ,  Rebekka Nocker
ISBN: 9783757400248
Format: Hardback
$496.32

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Fruhe Tiroler Fastnachtspiele

Fruhe Tiroler Fastnachtspiele

Author: Patrizia Barton ,  Beatrice Von Lupke
ISBN: 9783757400774
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Der Band bietet eine kommentierte Neuedition von vier Tiroler Fastnachtspielen des 15. Jahrhunderts: Tanawaschel,...  Read More >>

The Reign of Constantine, 306–337: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman Empire

The Reign of Constantine, 306–337: Continuity and Change...

Author: Stanislav Doležal
ISBN: 9783030974633
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and, more generally, the political history of the...  Read More >>

The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf

The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf

Author: Francis Leneghan (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843846291
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle.  Read More >>

The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England

The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading,...

Author: Professor Laura Saetveit Miles
ISBN: 9781843846284
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the...  Read More >>

Ripetizione e riformulazione nell’ ›Iliade‹: La tecnica discorsiva dell’ἄγγελος nella rappresentazione omerica della comunicazione verbale a distanza

Ripetizione e riformulazione nell’ ›Iliade‹: La tecnica...

Author: Ombretta Cesca
ISBN: 9783110634365
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The book deals with a particular category of repetitions in the Homeric epics and specifically in the Iliad: those...  Read More >>

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Author: Brian McMahon ,  Annemari Ferreira
ISBN: 9780367408305
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. This book will be of great...  Read More >>

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