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  • Dante’s 'Other Works'
    Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante’s 'other works.'Rather than speak of Dante’s 'minor works,' according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to the eighteenth century, this volume puts forward the designation 'other works' both in light ...
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    178,98 €

  • Dante’s 'Other Works'
    Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante’s 'other works.'Rather than speak of Dante’s 'minor works,' according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to the eighteenth century, this volume puts forward the designation 'other works' both in light ...
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    63,52 €

  • Theophrastus
    James Diggle
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    127,80 €

  • The Reign of Constantine, 306-337
    Stanislav Doležal
    This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine’s career and many of his decisions in context. It traces events under the first Tetrarchy and then explores Constantine’s rise to power, his rule and reforms, and continuity and change with regard to his predecessors. It consi...
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    147,57 €

  • The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse
    Roberta Frank
    In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets.This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and hi...
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    92,21 €

  • 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 €

  • The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism
    Mario Ferrero
    This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or...
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    120,68 €

  • The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism
    Mario Ferrero
    This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or...
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    48,26 €

  • Writing Plague
    Alfred Thomas
    Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to 'plague writing' from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human 'hardware' has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the h...
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    134,59 €

  • 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 €

  • Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
    Robert Stuart
    Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien’s works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins b...
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    144,16 €

  • Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
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    152,82 €

  • 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 €

  • Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty
    Rebecca Usherwood
    This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fourth century to argue that the deconstruction of political legitimacy should be viewed, first and foremost, as a collective phenomenon, the result of the actions of a diverse range of people responding to political change. It also ...
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    147,14 €

  • The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
    Jason M Baxter / Jason M. Baxter
    Many readers know C. S. Lewis as the fantasy writer of the Chronicles of Narnia or the apologist of Mere Christianity. But few know how deeply Lewis was formed by medieval authors like Dante and Boethius and how he saw their worldviews’ relevance to the challenges of the modern world. Here, readers will encounter Lewis the medievalist to guide them in their own journey. ...
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    24,70 €

  • The Wounded Body
    This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ’cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, wh...
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    47,49 €

  • The Poetry of Dante’s Paradiso
    Jeremy Tambling
    This book argues that Paradiso - Dante’s vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante’s political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: th...
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    97,07 €

  • 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 €

  • Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism
    Plínio Junqueira Smith
    This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for Pyrrho: its concept, its principles, its reason, its criteria, its goals. In the first part, the author traces ...
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    144,39 €

  • Translating Christ in the Middle Ages
    Barbara Zimbalist
    This study reveals how women’s visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion.From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word. Translating Christ in this way required multiple transformations: divine speech into human la...
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    179,88 €

  • Translating Christ in the Middle Ages
    Barbara Zimbalist
    This study reveals how women’s visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion.From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word. Translating Christ in this way required multiple transformations: divine speech into human la...
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    71,72 €

  • Using Concepts in Medieval History
    This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite compl...
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    48,21 €

  • 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 €

  • Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
    Douglas Brooks
    Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was common from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. First published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the 18th century. ...
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    59,85 €

  • Acts of Recognition
    Lee Patterson
    Two dialectics are at work in this book: that between the past and the present and that between the individual and the social, and both have moral significance. The first two chapters are methodological; the first is on the historical understanding of medieval literature and the second on how to manage the inseparability of fact and value in the classroom. The next three chapte...
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    179,71 €

  • Affections of the Mind
    Emma Lipton
    Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class of society used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierarchy. Emma Lipton traces the unprecedented popularity of marriage as a literary ...
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    143,67 €

  • Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde
    More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in poetry, prose, and drama were widespread in western European vernacular languages. Visual portrayals of the story appear not only in manuscripts and printed books but in individual pictures and pictorial narratives, and on an amazing array of objects incl...
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    182,47 €

  • Studies in the Age of Chaucer
    Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography...
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    84,35 €

  • Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
    Samer M. Ali
    Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a cult...
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    179,76 €


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