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  • Crestien’s Guillaume d’Angleterre / William of England
    Ian Short
    An amusing tale of late twelfth-century social mobility, the romance tells of a bewildering series of adventures that befall a fictitious king who deliberately abandons his royal status to enter the ’real’ world of knights, wolves, pirates and merchants. He and his family are finally reunited at Yarmouth thanks to a climactic stag hunt. ...
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    120,87 €

  • Festive Enterprise
    Jill P. Ingram / Jill PIngram
    Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation o...
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    143,49 €

  • Festive Enterprise
    Jill P. Ingram / Jill PIngram
    Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation o...
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    71,84 €

  • 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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    157,15 €

  • Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature
    In this volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation, manipulation and representation of ancient war landscapes in literature. Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and influence the affective experience of its participants. At the same time, warfare transforms landscapes, both physically and in the way in wh...
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    160,62 €

  • 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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    157,22 €

  • Heroes Masked and Mythic
    Christopher Wood
    Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon ...
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    57,30 €

  • Tolkien and the Classical World
    Hamish Williams
    While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world - the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome - has received far less attention. This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien’s literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history...
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    39,70 €

  • Image and Argument in Plato’s Republic
    Marina Berzins McCoy
    Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation. ...
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    42,92 €

  • Conversations
    Syrithe Pugh
    The volume brings together classicists and early modernists to discuss the vital role played by engagement with classical literature in the Renaissance and beyond. Vibrant discussions of Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marvell, Milton and others illuminate how generations of poets have imagined their relation to their predecessors and their own place in the unfolding c...
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    157,26 €

  • Medievalist Comics and the American Century
    Chris Bishop
    The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop pre...
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    50,16 €

  • Transfiguring medievalism
    Cary Howie
    Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to show how bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the surprising porousness of time and flesh. ...
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    157,59 €

  • From Hittite to Homer
    Mary R. Bachvarova / Mary RBachvarova
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    45,96 €

  • Fifteenth-Century Lives
    Karen A. Winstead / Karen AWinstead
    In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and...
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    64,77 €

  • Fifteenth-Century Lives
    Karen A. Winstead / Karen AWinstead
    In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and...
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    143,72 €

  • The Legend of Seleucus
    Daniel Ogden
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    47,31 €

  • Lysistrata
    Aristophanes
    Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier’s bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic affection in an effort to quell the violence. Set during the Peloponnesian War, the women of Greece, led by Lysistrata, create a plan to stifle the conflict between Athens and Sparta. Toge...
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    6,57 €

  • Poetics
    Aristotle
    The Poetics is a fundamental text that examines the development, production and effectiveness of poetry as it pertains to a writer and their intended audience. The author uses notable works to educate the reader on specific themes and methodology. The Poetics gives a basic definition of poetry that establishes format and intent. It’s an early representation of criticism that ex...
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    6,80 €

  • Possibilities of Lyric
    Francesca Southerden / Manuele Gragnolati
    Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are...
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    10,97 €

  • Erôs, Song, and Philosophy in Plato
    Chara Kokkiou
    Erôs, Song and Philosophy in Plato suggests alternative paths of understanding the true Philosophical Muse in Plato’s works. Through the discussion of certain Platonic dialogues, it interweaves erôs, mousikê, and philosophy to unravel new insights into Plato’s philosophical thought and tension of rejecting and accepting the established culture. ...
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    129,36 €

  • Play time
    Daisy Black
    An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experience time differently. ...
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    157,39 €

  • Vyāsa Redux
    Kevin McGrath
    Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and ’Vyāsa Redux’ examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization. ...
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    57,92 €

  • 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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    133,16 €

  • 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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    132,56 €

  • 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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    143,49 €

  • Mythos and Voice
    Charles Underwood
    Charles Underwood focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey to illuminate the characters’ journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. He explores how the epic narrative illustrates an ancient tradition’s understanding of how one learns to make one’s way as an active agent in an uncertain world. ...
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    54,44 €

  • An Unexpected Journal
    An Unexpected Journal / Annie Crawford / Holly Ordway
    A Garden of Medieval MindsThe medieval period was a time of greats: great courage, great words, great light, and great darkness. The writers, philosophers, and artists of the time still touch and influence our lives today. This volume celebrates these masterpieces that merged the physical and the spiritual into meaningful, incandescent truth.Contributors:C.M. Alvarez:  'Death, ...
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    20,66 €

  • Spenser and Virgil
    Syrithe Pugh
    An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser’s pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser’s acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets. ...
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    36,67 €

  • Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail
    Alfred Nutt
    The legend of the Holy Grail (also known as the Grail Quest, Quest for the Holy Grail) is one of the most enduring in Western European literature and art. This book describes the events that led to the rise of the legend associated with the grail, based on textual material and historical facts. Alfred Nutt describes the literary evolution of the legend of the Holy Grail (Chrest...
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    12,13 €

  • Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail
    Alfred Nutt
    The legend of the Holy Grail (also known as the Grail Quest, Quest for the Holy Grail) is one of the most enduring in Western European literature and art. This book describes the events that led to the rise of the legend associated with the grail, based on textual material and historical facts. Alfred Nutt describes the literary evolution of the legend of the Holy Grail (Chrest...
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    21,23 €


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