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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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    38,15 €

  • Heloise and Abelard
    Étienne Gilson
    Perhaps the most famous romantic tragedy of the Middle Ages, the tale of Heloise and Abelard has long been renowned for its intense portrayal of the relationships between faith, carnal desire, and the intellectual life. Desperately in love and yet committed to the idea of the pure and chaste 'man of letters,' Abelard, along with Heloise, is forced to live a tortuous double life...
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    21,34 €

  • The Figure of Beatrice
    Charles Williams
    Dante’s extraordinary intensity of thought and experience may well be unequaled among poets, but this very power can all too often make his work seem formidable to many readers. Charles Williams’s Figure of Beatrice stands out amid the vast field of Dante scholarship for its uniquely sympathetic enthusiasm and clarity, which brilliantly unlock this master poet’s vast reach for ...
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    21,23 €

  • The Politics and Poetics of Cicero’s Brutus
    Christopher S. van den Berg / Christopher Svan den Berg
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    120,20 €

  • A New Handbook of Rhetoric
    Michele Kennerly
    A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory. ...
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    143,75 €

  • Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion
    Jacob Risinger
    An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of ...
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    135,80 €

  • Poetry and Freedom
    Paul Oppenheimer
    This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil that result in a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, wa...
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    57,54 €

  • Dante’s Divine Comedy
    Mark Vernon
    Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today.D...
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    28,14 €

  • Theorizing Medieval Race
    Victoria Turner
    In today’s discussions of religious difference and intolerance, the Middle Ages are often presented as a time of fixed racial, religious, and cultural identities, especially as regards the East and Islam. Representations of Saracens, however, show how literary traditions invite a more nuanced consideration of the complex and often surprising ways in which such non-Christian fig...
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    17,42 €

  • Inferno
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    A unique parallel edition of Dante’s Inferno with Dante’s Italian and Longfellow’s celebrated poetic translation on facing pages.'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, t...
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    24,97 €

  • Inferno
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    A unique parallel edition of Dante’s Inferno with Dante’s Italian and Longfellow’s celebrated poetic translation on facing pages.'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, t...
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    13,26 €

  • Ancient Greeks on the Human Condition
    Matthew Sims
    This book examines the writings of four ancient Greeks-Homer, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Each of these four individuals represents a different approach toward the human condition, ranging from the heroic and tragic to the comic and absurd. This book focuses on how the human condition can best be understood within the framework of these four perspectives by exam...
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    79,53 €

  • Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium
    Sarah Gador-Whyte
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    39,45 €

  • Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
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    44,13 €

  • Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
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    43,72 €

  • Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
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    61,67 €

  • Greek Memories
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    144,15 €

  • Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England
    Robert E. Stillman / Robert EStillman
    This book challenges the adequacy of identifying religious identity with confessional identity.The Reformation complicated the issue of religious identity, especially among Christians for whom confessional violence at home and religious wars on the continent had made the darkness of confessionalization visible. Robert E. Stillman explores the identity of 'Christians without nam...
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    135,12 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan GLeitch / 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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    157,16 €

  • Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
    Jessica Lightfoot
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    47,93 €

  • Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
    Jessica Lightfoot
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    120,36 €

  • Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
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    144,59 €

  • Rebel angels
    Jill Fitzgerald
    This book examines the ’fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical and secular power. ...
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    46,36 €

  • The Divine Comedy
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast.' - James Joyce.In the middle of our life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I ha...
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    16,84 €

  • Inferno
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast.' - James Joyce.In the middle of our life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I ha...
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    20,31 €

  • Inferno
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast.' - James Joyce.In the middle of our life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I ha...
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    9,91 €

  • The Divine Comedy
    Dante / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    'Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.' - T. S. Eliot'Dante’s poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature.' - Ian Thompson.'I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast.' - James Joyce.In the middle of our life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I ha...
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    25,94 €

  • Dante and Violence
    Brenda Deen Schildgen
    This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations.Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante’s oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of vi...
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    84,69 €

  • Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s Commedia
    Helena Phillips-Robins
    This study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God.In Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s 'Commedia,' Helena Phillips-Robins explores for the first time the ways in which the relationship between humanity and divinity is shaped through the performance of liturgy in the Commedia. The study draws on largely untapped thirteenth-century...
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    84,76 €

  • Dolphin Editions
    Paideia Institute
    This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was understood in the ancient world. Encountering and understanding the Iliad in its original language is to experience it in its most unmediated and authentic form. The commentary presented here is a goldmine of information for any stu...
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    23,60 €


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