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  • Love Through the Ages
    Rajesh Giri
    Love Through the Ages: The Impact of Famous Love Stories on Modern Relationships is an enchanting exploration of the profound influence that iconic love stories have had on our understanding and experiences of love in the present day. From timeless classics to contemporary tales, this book takes you on a captivating journey through the ages, uncovering the universal truths and ...
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    11,03 €

  • The Poetic Edda Six Cosmology Poems
    Maria Kvilhaug
    The Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals on the path to immortality. A lore that is, despite having been transmitted in writing by medieval monks and scholars, deeply steeped in ancient Pre-Christian beliefs. ...
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    15,52 €

  • Courtly Love revisited in the Age of Feminism
    Antonia Southern
    Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Antonia Southern tries to do both with both. Courtly Love focuses a feminist lens on fourteen authors, some well-known and some less so. They aimed variously to entertain, amuse, instruct...
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    143,02 €

  • 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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    43,93 €

  • Greek Memories
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    45,90 €

  • Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
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    43,87 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan Leitch
    This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet. ...
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    44,11 €

  • Difficult pasts
    Mimi Ensley
    Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. ...
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    157,36 €

  • Aspects of the Novel
    E.M. Forster
    Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster’s Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptual tools to approach the study of novels. His lectures, compiled in this book, are invaluable for students and researchers who intend to pursue their critical studies on the genre of fiction, cutting across languages, cultures and lit...
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    16,39 €

  • The gift of narrative in medieval England
    Nicholas Perkins
    This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Objects of affection
    Myra Seaman
    This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and socially mindful human household members. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto
    Maria Pavlova
    A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most influential narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. By combining historical research and close reading and bringing to bear a wealth of literary and documentary sources, some of wh...
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    23,23 €

  • The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew
    Peter Haidu
    Ovid’s gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables, found its way into the fourteenth century Ovide moralisé with a signature at its mid-point: Crestiens li gois, the great twelfth century romancer’s early avatar. Writing two generations after the Jewish massacres of the First Crusade, Christian the Goy playfully...
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    17,69 €

  • Hybrid healing
    Lori Ann Garner
    This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Naso The Poet, The Loves and Crimes of Rome’s Greatest Poet
    Jacek Bocheński / Tom Pinch
    Rome’s greatest poet was sent into exile for life and his works were consigned to damnatio memoriae -- eternal forgetting. But they weren’t forgotten. Readers touched by their beauty preserved their precious volumes and copied them by hand so that the literature which had offended the government of Rome may yet live on forever. And it has.But who was Ovid? And what crime did he...
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    34,06 €

  • The heat of Beowulf
    Daniel C. Remein
    The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains insensible. ...
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    157,00 €

  • A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
    D. B. Monro
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    63,82 €

  • A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
    D. B. Monro
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    42,12 €

  • Violent Victorian Medievalism
    Mary Boyle
    medievalism, n. ’the reception, interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages in post-medieval cultures’ Louise D’Arcens, 2016 A fascination with the Middle Ages shaped public life in the nineteenth century - and in exchange, it reshaped the Middle Ages into a form still dominant today. Englishness became inextricably connected with a reimagined medieval past express...
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    9,52 €

  • Menander
    Alan H. Sommerstein
    This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian N...
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    39,78 €

  • The Second Voynich Manuscript
    Matti Charlton
    What if there existed a second Voynich Manuscript that continued where the first one left off? The Voynich Manuscript is a real and legendary text, written in a yet-undeciphered language or script, containing fantastic and detailed scientific-like examinations of what appear to be flora. The drawings have their own weird and wonderful style. So what if a second Voynich Manuscri...
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    35,72 €

  • Pindar and Greek Religion
    Hanne Eisenfeld
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    120,26 €

  • The Christian Mission of Jesus
    Don Wesley Davis
    The Gospel of Mark begins with the author telling his readers that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God and that he had something very specific to say about his upcoming ministry in Galilee. Mark gives his readers the exact wording of Jesus’ mission statement in Mark 1:15, which are words that Jesus would have spoken almost four decades prior to Mark’s time of writing. Sch...
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    24,29 €

  • Seven Against Thebes
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Seven Against Thebes was one of the most important myths of antiquity: in The Iliad, Agamemnon and Diomedes kept referring to its heroes as their personal ideals. For the next two thousand years, it was the subject of countless poetic and dramatic works. One of Europe’s best-selling authors of books on antiquity discusses the myth, its roots in the Bronze Age, its historical tr...
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    19,75 €

  • Seven Against Thebes
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Seven Against Thebes was one of the most important myths of antiquity: in The Iliad, Agamemnon and Diomedes talked about its heroes as their unattainable ideals. For the next two thousand years, it was the subject of countless artistic depictions, poems and dramatic works. Here, one of Europe’s best-selling authors of books on antiquity introduces the myth, its roots in the Bro...
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    30,16 €

  • Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
    Scott Oldenburg
    A narrative of Elizabethan London through the eyes of William Muggins, an impoverished silk-weaver who wrote poetry about the plague, motherhood, childrearing, poverty, and the responsibility individuals have to one another. ...
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    42,63 €

  • Petrarch and Dante
    Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question of both literary and cultural history. In this volume nine leading scholars of Italian medieval literature and culture address this question involving the two foundational fig...
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    179,47 €

  • Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante’s Divine Comedy
    Katherine Powlesland
    Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante’s Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what is it that makes the poem so particularly involving? And why might videogames help us understand this better? Drawing on new theories in cognitive neuroscience and videogame critical theory, in this ground-breaking analysis Katherine Powlesland reveals the nar...
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    139,22 €

  • Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language
    Francesca Southerden
    In Dante’s Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he ’used and shaped’ (Par. XXVI, 114) and affirms the rather unstable, yet malleable, character of the vernacular tongue, which is tied both to natural variation and to pleasure. Examining the ways in which the garden and language are intertwined in the works of Dante and Petrarch, this book considers t...
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    138,87 €

  • Looking at Agamemnon
    David Stuttard
    Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus’ greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding Agamemnon from its relationship with ancient myth and ritual to its modern reception. There is a diverse array of discussion ...
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    51,13 €


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