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  • Philoponus
    Michael Share
    This volume completes, starting from chapter 6, the commentary by the young Philoponus on Aristotle’s Categories, of which chapters 1-5 were previously published in this series (Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1-5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts). This ancient commentary was the first work in the Aristotelian syllabus after a general introduct...
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    174,00 €

  • Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France
    This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music
    This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world. Contributors examine bands from across the globe, including: Blind Guardian (Germany), Therion (Sweden), Celtic Frost, Eluveitie (Switzerland), Ex Deo (Canada/Italy), Heimdall, Stormlord, Ade (Italy), Kawir (Greece), Theatre of Tragedy (Norway), Iron Maiden, Ba...
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    193,38 €

  • The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
    Laura Varnam
    This book places us at the heart of medieval religious life, standing inside the church with the medieval laity in order to ask what it meant to them and why. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it examines the interplay of vernacular literature, ritual and material culture at the centre of parish life. ...
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    36,80 €

  • 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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    132,89 €

  • Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition
    Haila Manteghi
    Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.Haila Manteghi here offers a complete survey of that deep tradition, ranging from analysis...
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    59,72 €

  • Augustine
    Peter White
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    126,05 €

  • Philosophy as Drama
    Plato’s philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with established genres, such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and rhetoric in a variety of ways. This intertextuality reinforces the relevance of material from other types of literary works,...
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    173,83 €

  • The Psychomachia of Prudentius
    Aaron Pelttari
    Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachia, combines epic language and theological speculation to offer a powerful vision of Roman and Christian triumphalism. Yet this important work—one of the most popular and influential poems of the Middle Ages—is unfamiliar to most cont...
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    42,38 €

  • Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes. ...
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    129,12 €

  • Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection
    Christopher Metcalf
    A collection of seventeen previously unpublished Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BC and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Includes a general introduction, transliterations, translations, commentaries, hand-copies and photographs of all texts. ...
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    146,49 €

  • Demosthenes
    Judson Herrman
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    39,15 €

  • 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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    156,97 €

  • 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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    180,68 €

  • Performing Medieval Text
    Texts of different kinds grant insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages: epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; liturgical rites and ceremonial manuals; manuscripts, illuminations, modern adaptations and editions, and many more. Adopting a range of disciplinary perspectives—literary studies, liturgical studies, and musicology—this collection of essays reveals...
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    17,40 €

  • The Multilingual Muse
    In the late Middle Ages, the Low Countries — ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg successors — boasted a dynamic literary culture in both French and Dutch. Speakers of these languages interacted in more ways than might be expected. Writers shared topics and techniques; works were translated; printers who spoke one language published material in the other. The Multi...
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    17,52 €

  • Water in Medieval Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination. ...
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    58,06 €

  • Transatlantic Shell Shock
    Austin Riede
    Upon the end of the Great War in 1918, soldiers and nurses returned to their homes on either side of the Atlantic. Although no longer actively engaged in fighting, they still suffered the traumatic effects of war. Caught between society’s ideas of masculinity and war, these men and women struggled to communicate their experiences.Transatlantic Shell Shock examines the private a...
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    44,30 €

  • The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
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    122,79 €

  • In Search of Humanity
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy. ...
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    66,89 €

  • Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy
    Richard F. Hardin / Richard FHardin / Thomas Cragin
    This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus’s reception apart from that of the quite different dramatist Terence. The latter half takes up the Plautine traits that appear in the practice of English comic dramatists ca. 1500–1640. ...
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    54,53 €

  • 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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    157,48 €

  • Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
    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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    169,59 €

  • The Spiritual Couplets of Rumi
    Sufi Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi / Edward Henry Whinfield
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi Mevlana/Mawlana ("our master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Taj...
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    26,50 €

  • Narratology
    Genevieve Liveley
    This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present ’old wine in new wineskins’, but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narrato...
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    123,54 €

  • Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
    Nancy Bradley Warren
    Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international writer raises no eyebrows. Similarly, a claim that Chaucer’s writings participate in English confessional controversies in his own day and...
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    143,66 €

  • Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
    Nancy Bradley Warren
    Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international writer raises no eyebrows. Similarly, a claim that Chaucer’s writings participate in English confessional controversies in his own day and...
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    64,70 €

  • Theater of the Word
    Julie Paulson
    In Theater of the Word:Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long ass...
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    143,74 €

  • Theater of the Word
    Julie Paulson
    In Theater of the Word:Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long ass...
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    64,78 €

  • Homer’s Ancient Readers
    Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the texts...
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    57,10 €


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