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  • Dialect Variation in Northern Middle English
    Jay Gilbert
    This book investigates the concept of the Northern Middle English dialect area as largely homogenous, taking its core data from four Northern manuscripts of the devotional poem, The Pricke of Conscience. The NME area has been little studied, due largely to a lack of localised manuscripts. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English is an invaluable resource for the dialectolog...
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    49,54 €

  • 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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    157,19 €

  • Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
    Zygmunt G. Barański
    Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, ...
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    33,82 €

  • Painful pleasures
    Christopher Vaccaro
    The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture. ...
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    168,95 €

  • God’s Exiles and English Verse
    John D. Niles
    This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressions of late Anglo-Saxon literary culture. 2 illus. ...
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    40,60 €

  • Medieval literary voices
    Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text - the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text - and how they mediate embodied life and material presence. ...
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    157,04 €

  • Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature
    Sarah Baechle
    A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors’ speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works. ...
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    187,30 €

  • Theophrastus
    James Diggle
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    120,40 €

  • The Slave's Little Friends
    The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the ou...
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    22,50 €

  • Captains Courageous
    Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 book Captains Courageous chronicles the exploits of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the privileged son of a railroad magnate, who is saved from drowning in the North Atlantic by a Portuguese fisherman. The novel was first published in McClure’s as a serial in the November 1896 issue, with the final episode appearing in May 1897. The full work was then...
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    20,19 €

  • The Enthymeme
    James Fredal
    Examines the concept of the enthymeme in ancient Greek rhetoric, arguing that it is a technique of storytelling aimed at eliciting from the audience an inference about a narrative. ...
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    51,63 €

  • The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
    Caitlin Flynn
    The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities. ...
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    144,99 €

  • Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
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    144,21 €

  • Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
    Jason M Baxter
    C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance lit...
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    24,70 €

  • Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century
    Christoph J. Pretzer / Christoph JPretzer
    The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for historical templates they could use to model the emerging political and cultural identities in their own texts. The Kaiserchronik, the first chronicle to be written in the Middle High German vernacular, is a prime example of this development as it connects the rulers...
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    139,18 €

  • The illusion of the Burgundian state
    Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin / Christopher Fletcher
    This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state. ...
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    169,11 €

  • Greek Epitaphic Poetry
    Richard Hunter
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    41,67 €

  • Greek Epitaphic Poetry
    Richard Hunter
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    126,40 €

  • 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 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    126,04 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    38,84 €

  • Thucydides
    Christopher Pelling
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    107,90 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Cicero
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    125,90 €

  • Dante Beyond Borders
    Dante engaged with an extraordinary range of traditions, disciplines and media, and a variety of speech-communities, cultures, genres and media have received his work: from Spain, France and Germany to North America and the Indian sub-continent; and from medieval multilingualism and early modern humanism to contemporary politics, translations and databases. Those multiple conte...
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    138,15 €

  • Practising shame
    Mary C Flannery / Mary C. Flannery
    Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. ...
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    35,82 €


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