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  • Medieval Literature
    Dominique Battles
    Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western medieval literature from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, spanning both the Latinate and Germanic traditions. ...
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    62,45 €

  • Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
    Rachel Stenner
    Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality. ...
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    35,63 €

  • Dante’s Purgatory
    David Bruce
    This is a Study Guide / Discussion Guide for Dante’s PURGATORY, the second part of his 'DIVINE COMEDY, In this volume, Dante the Pilgrim climbs the Mountain of Purgatory with his guide, the Roman epic poet Virgil. Dante purges the seven deadly sins, and at the top of the mountain he finds the Forest of Eden, aka the Garden of Eden. Finally, he sees Beatrice for the first time a...
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    10,65 €

  • Evidentiality in Sa’di’s Poetry and Prose
    Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari / Masoumeh Mehrabi
    This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa’dī, focused on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world. ...
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    35,67 €

  • Erotic Medievalisms
    Elan Justice Pavlinich
    Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf, Lil Nas X’s 'Montero,' Patience Agbabi’s 'The Kiss,', direct sexual desires towards social justice. It is about sexual liberation from oppressive disciplines by means of representation in popular culture ...
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    73,55 €

  • Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry
    Joseph St. John
    Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in Genesis A, Genesis B, and Beowulf, exploring the manner whereby the texts adapt biblical myth with reference to the Christian exegetical tradition and Anglo-Saxon secular social values. ...
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    241,11 €

  • The Tyrants of Corinth
    Daniel Ogden
    The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies, animal-helpers, arbitrary violence, necrophilia and vengeful ghosts. ...
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    66,32 €

  • The Tyrants of Corinth
    Daniel Ogden
    The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies, animal-helpers, arbitrary violence, necrophilia and vengeful ghosts. ...
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    240,81 €

  • Models, Methods, and Morality
    This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies in past decades. The contributions collected here respond to the prevailing tendency to measure ancient Mediterranean economies using methods and techniques designed for assessing the performance of modern economies, considering a range of approaches that mig...
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    266,44 €

  • Pindar and Greek Religion
    Hanne Eisenfeld
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    39,23 €

  • Premodern ruling sexualities
    This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities - the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities - and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities. ...
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    169,56 €

  • Speed the plough; A comedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
    Thomas Morton
    Speed the plough; A comedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future ...
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    14,94 €

  • The Celian Moment & Other Essays
    Charles Williams
    'He is best known by his criticism. I have learned much from it.' -C. S. LewisCharles Williams (1886-1945), friend of T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis and admired by W. H. Auden, was a versatile man of letters. He wrote supernatural thrillers, plays, theology and journalism but he saw poetry and criticism as being his real work. This is a new collection of his literary essays, taken...
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    18,02 €

  • Dante and His Circle
    Julia Bolton Holloway
    In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante’s literary career in its rich context. Dante and His Circle discusses the encyclopaedic multicultural education in classical literature, law, ethics, rhetoric, diplomacy, poetry, music and cosmology Brunetto Latino gave to Guido Cavalcante...
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    171,74 €

  • Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China
    Benoît Vermander
    Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. ...
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    241,30 €

  • Medieval afterlives
    This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and popular dramatic tropes. ...
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    169,18 €

  • Fantastic histories
    Victoria Flood
    Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality. ...
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    157,12 €

  • Conceiving bodies
    Dana Oswald
    The Old English remedies for women’s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as women’s medicine. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Chaucer (Yearbook of English Studies 53)
    The Yearbook of English Studies vol. 53, edited by Sue Niebrzydowski and Vicki Kay Price, brings together international researchers who share their current work on aspects of Geoffrey Chaucer’s poetry, under the title Chaucer. Diversity characterizes the genre and subject matter of Chaucer’s poetry. His compositions range from reworkings of classical myth to the conceit of cont...
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    228,66 €

  • Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
    Tom Harrison
    This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. ...
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    73,14 €

  • Petrarch’s Penitential Psalms and Prayers
    Francesco Petrarca
    The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the 'Father of Humanism.' ...
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    50,40 €

  • Theory Does Not Exist
    Paul Allen Miller
    A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern. ...
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    158,45 €

  • Bestsellers and masterpieces
    Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ’modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies. ...
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    44,13 €

  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
    The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions. ...
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    43,87 €

  • The Invisible Man
    Herbert George Wells
    On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages.The Invisible Man tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected by a soci...
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    12,50 €

  • The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
    First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London’s masterpiece. Based on London’s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike. ...
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    8,52 €

  • Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
    Carolyne Larrington
    A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fictionality and the emergence of interiority. ...
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    156,98 €

  • Literatures of the Hundred Years War
    This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approach that moves beyond the Anglo-French core. ...
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    42,20 €

  • Life of Aesop the Philosopher
    Grammatiki A. Karla / David Konstan
    The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop in general, the history of the textual tradition, and a new edition of the late antique version alongside David Kons...
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    43,99 €

  • Cú Chulainn’s Death
    Bettina Kimpton
    The death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero Cú Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly complex poetry. This revised critical edition with introduction, text, translation, textual notes, and glossary provides linguistic, literary, and metrical analyses of the tale, as well as a brief discussion of early Irish poetics. ...
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    19,51 €


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