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  • Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
    Samer M. Ali
    Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a cult...
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    179,76 €

  • Call to Read
    Kirsty Campbell
    The Call to Read is the first full-length study to situate the surviving oeuvre of Reginald Pecock in the context of current scholarship on English vernacular theology of the late medieval period. Kirsty Campbell examines the important and innovative contribution Pecock made to late medieval debates about the roles of the Bible, the Church, the faculty of reason, and practices ...
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    179,90 €

  • Beyond Reformation?
    David Aers
    The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or 'passus,' a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument about medieval and early modern forms of Constantinian Christianity and reformation, and...
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    143,41 €

  • Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, The
    Muhsin J. al-Musawi
    In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an 'Age of Decay' followed by an 'Awakening' ...
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    219,45 €

  • Salvation and Sin
    David Aers
    In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with finely detailed and insightful close readings to explore a cluster of central issues in Christianity as addressed by Saint Augustine and by four fourteenth-century writers of except...
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    179,98 €

  • Greek Epitaphic Poetry
    Richard Hunter
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    46,60 €

  • Greek Epitaphic Poetry
    Richard Hunter
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    141,16 €

  • Plautus
    V. Sophie Klein
    This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults f...
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    95,78 €

  • Pindar and the Sublime
    Robert L. Fowler
    Pindar-the ’Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ...
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    114,97 €

  • Screening Love and War in Troy
    This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The...
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    128,06 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    43,78 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    140,80 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    120,20 €

  • Aristophanic Humour
    This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy - what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes’ humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion ...
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    50,85 €

  • Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts
    Sharon M. Rowley
    This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays investigate both the production of medieval texts and the people whose hands and minds created, altered and/or publ...
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    173,45 €

  • Writing the Holy Land
    Michele Campopiano
    The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a s...
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    158,02 €

  • Dante
    John Took
    An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante’s writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of ...
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    41,84 €

  • Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
    R. Jacob McDonie
    Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately 1,200 years of literature. This is a book on 'medieval literature' that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating medieval friendship in oratorical, ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts. ...
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    73,28 €

  • Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts
    This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social role...
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    124,09 €

  • A landscape of words
    Amy C. Mulligan / Amy CMulligan
    This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ’place’ and developed a ’spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity. ...
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    44,25 €

  • Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
    This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of ’encounter’ to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text. ...
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    157,00 €

  • Blake and Lucretius
    Joshua Schouten de Jel
    This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical ...
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    132,46 €

  • Truth and Wonder
    Robert Eaglestone
    Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It demonstrates the ways their philosophies still shape our reading, thinking and living. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Truth and Wonder
    Robert Eaglestone
    Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It demonstrates the ways their philosophies still shape our reading, thinking and living. ...
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    51,78 €

  • Epidicus by Plautus
    Catherine Tracy
    Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mis...
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    47,63 €

  • Interpreting and Judging Petrarch’s Canzoniere in Early Modern Italy
    Maiko Favaro
    Petrarch’s Canzoniere had a central role in the Italian Early Modern culture, especially - but not only - in the sixteenth century, as is shown by its remarkable diffusion in print and manuscript copies, and its status as supreme poetic and linguistic model. As a result, many commentaries and other types of texts aiming at explaining and evaluating Petrarch’s poems date from th...
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    139,19 €

  • UFOs In The Bible
    Ken Goudsward
    Ancient truths hidden in plain sight for thousands of years.In 1968 Erich Von Daniken cracked open a door that millions of the curious have peered through with wonderment and possibly some bewilderment. Now, standing on the shoulders of that giant, the door is soundly kicked wide open by Ken Goudsward in this astounding new examination of the scriptures, utilizing unprecedented...
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    20,21 €

  • Epidicus by Plautus
    Catherine Tracy
    Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mis...
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    34,04 €

  • Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature
    Geraldine Hazbun
    Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo, the ballad tradition, Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares, and Lope de Vega’s theatre, Geraldine Hazbun demonstr...
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    66,51 €

  • Cicero
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    140,65 €