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  • The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy
    Rupert Jackson
    This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province’s independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from Hadrian’s Wall, London and other sites across the country, and richly illustrated throughout with photographs and maps, this reli...
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    160,32 €

  • Imagined Romes
    C. David Benson / CDavid Benson
    A study of ancient Rome as a prominent topic in the works of Middle English poets. Discusses how each these poets conceives of ancient Rome and Romans, both pagan and Christian, and why it matters to their work. Includes the works of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. ...
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    50,22 €

  • The Song of the Figures by Jose Maria Eguren
    Jose Garay Boszeta / Jose Maria Eguren
    'He speaks to us; and his explanations of some of his symbols suggest to us the rarest of illusions. It occurs to me he is an oriental prince who travels in pursuit of impossible sacred bayaderes' - Cesar VallejoOriginally published in Peru in 1916, The Song of the Figures, Jose Maria Eguren’s second volume of poetry, consolidated his reputation as one of the leading voices of ...
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    24,35 €

  • 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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    126,55 €

  • Antigone Uninterrupted
    Wendy Bustamante
    This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer. We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus. While other w...
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    48,45 €

  • 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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    173,67 €

  • Harley manuscript geographies
    Daniel Birkholz
    This first-ever monograph on the celebrated medieval miscellany Harley 2253 (c. 1340) uses methods derived from cultural geography to revise prevailing understandings of English literary history. The Harley manuscript’s extraordinary diversity of texts has a counterpart in the monograph’s topical range and flexibility of approach. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Reading Poetry, Writing Genre
    This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. 'Genre' has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history o...
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    54,89 €

  • The Subjection of Women
    John Stuart MILL
    The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then continued work on The Subjection of Women...
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    16,42 €

  • Euripides and the Politics of Form
    Victoria Wohl
    How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues ...
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    47,58 €

  • Confronting crisis in the Carolingian empire
    This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ’Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by an author is also an actor in his own work. ...
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    145,17 €

  • Confronting crisis in the Carolingian empire
    This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ’Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by an author is also an actor in his own work. ...
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    35,80 €

  • Saints and Symposiasts
    Jason Konig
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    44,73 €

  • Fellini’s Eternal Rome
    Alessandro Carrera
    *** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory, Carrera introduces the reader to a new appreciation of Fellini’s work....
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    55,22 €

  • Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
    Tim William Machan
    This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia. Protestant and monarchical, the Scandinavian region became an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status. ...
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    157,59 €

  • The Homeric Centones and the Acts of the Pilate
    J. Rendel Harris / JRendel Harris
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    26,85 €

  • The Homeric Centones and the Acts of the Pilate
    J. Rendel Harris / JRendel Harris
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    14,06 €

  • Affective medievalism
    Stephanie Trigg / Thomas A Prendergast / Thomas A. Prendergast
    The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages. ...
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    37,33 €

  • The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity
    Elizabeth DePalma Digeser / Justin Stephens / Robert M. Frakes
    Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered only in terms of the ’decline’ from classical standards. Recent classical scholarship strives to consider this period on its own terms. Taking the reign of Constantine the Great as its starting point, this book examines the unique i...
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    54,74 €

  • Antigone Uninterrupted
    Wendy Bustamante
    This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer. We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus. While other w...
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    59,84 €

  • 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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    180,32 €

  • Study Guide to Darkness at Noon and The Age of Longing by Arthur Koestler
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Arthur Koestler, one of the twentieth century’s greatest political writers. Titles in this study guide include Darkness at Noon and The Age of Longing. As an influential voice of anti-Soviet literature, Koestler demonstrates that ethical imperatives cannot be over-analyzed or r...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to The Crucible and Other Works by Arthur Miller
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Arthur Miller, two-time Tony Winner and 1949 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama. Titles in this study guide include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory Of Two Mondays, A View From The Bridge, After The Fall, and Incident at Vichy. As an influential, yet contr...
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    14,84 €

  • Study Guide to Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, thought to be written as the author approached the middle of his career. As a theatrical comedy of the late-sixteenth-century, Much Ado About Nothing poses the question of how love expresses itself. Moreover, it suggests to readers that people who g...
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    6,80 €

  • Study Guide to The Birth of Tragedy and Other Works by Friedrich Nietzsche
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. Titles in this study guide include The Birth of Tragedy, The Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Beyond Good and Evil. As a prominent influencer of modern intellectual history, Nietzsche's...
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    12,81 €

  • Study Guide to Richard III by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Richard III, which explores fate and freedom as it plays out in the life of a monarch. As a historical play of the late-sixteenth-century, Richard III plays with humor and the dichotomy between how King Richard presented himself versus how his subjects viewed him. The play ...
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    8,55 €

  • Study Guide to Silas Marner and Middlemarch by George Eliot
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Eliot, who developed the method of psychological analysis in modern fiction. Titles in this study guide include Silas Marner and Middlemarch. As a revolutionary voice of literary realism and psychological insight of the nineteenth-century, Eliot’s books were considered i...
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    12,74 €

  • Study Guide to The Invisible Man and Other Works by H. G. Wells
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by H. G. Wells, whose science fiction pioneered society’s ideas of the future. Titles in this study guide include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and Tono-Bungay. As a chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I, Wells to...
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    12,84 €

  • Study Guide to The Metaphysical Poets
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the metaphysical poets, including Abraham Cowley, George Herbert, John Donne, and Henry Vaughn. These four poets are recognized for a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of verse. As a collection of 17th century poetry, these poets employed an innovative and original appr...
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    6,80 €

  • Study Guide to As You Like It by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s 'great' or 'middle' comedies. As a satirical tale of pastoral romance, As You Like It examines the cruelties and corruption of court life and love. Moreover, Shakespeare amusingly weaves a tale of love manifested in varied forms but tar...
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    8,57 €


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