Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
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Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
James ClearCurrent price €17.70Original price €20.99THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: OVER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDETransform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now.Peop...
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Praise of Folly
Desiderius ErasmusCurrent price €13.99Original price €14.50Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour...
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The Tales of Ise
Penguin Books LtdCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Jap...
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Beyond the Northlands : Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Eleanor Rosamund BarracloughCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen ma...
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The Art of Rhetoric
AristotleCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of th...
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The Iliad
HomerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. T...
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Inferno (Collins Classics)
Dante AlighieriCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of...
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The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzleFor the first time, a complete reproduction ...
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Seneca''S Letters from a Stoic
Lucius SenecaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame der...
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Metamorphoses
OvidCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These ...
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The Medieval Pig
Dolly JørgensenCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eat...
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Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales: The Transmission and Reception of the Welsh Bardic Grammars
Michaela JacquesCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, ...
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Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyrs Dialogue with Trypho
Matthijs den DulkCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Justin Martyrs Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the de...
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Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Guido JuckelandCurrent price €51.65Original price €62.99The legendary story of Beowulf comes to us in only one medieval manuscript with no illustrations. Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have ...
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Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
Dorota DutschCurrent price €86.99Original price €99.99Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual functions, taking as...
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Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis
PetroniusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
John Norton-SmithCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucers art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspect...
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The Life of Dante
Giovanni BoccaccioCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.
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Horror in Classical Literature: On a Profound and Elementary Principle
Edmund P. CuevaCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintent...
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2
Manchester University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five mille...
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Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro
Taylor & Francis IncCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro ofrece una selección de obras literarias de ocho escritoras medievales, renace...
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The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse
Roberta FrankCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poets workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse re...
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Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...
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Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies
Brooke HunterCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scola...
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Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica
Dionysius of HalicarnassusCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99How to write a speech in ancient Greek.This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285312) tha...
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Arator: Historia Apostolica
Richard J. HillierCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Arators Historia Apostolica, published with papal approval and to great acclaim in 544, is an enthralling epic poem which retells the story of the ...
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Geschichte als Element antiker Kultur
Hans-Joachim GehrkeCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Current price €61.19Original price €67.99Save 10% -
Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing, Recycling, Sharing
Benjamin FranklinCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. During the long fifteenth c...
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Chaucer: The Basics
Jacqueline TasioulasCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also ...
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Römische Werte und römische Literatur im frühen Prinzipat
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Historische Narratologie - Mediävistische Perspektiven
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer''s Iliad
Oxford University PressCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer''s Iliad
Oxford University PressCurrent price €109.79Original price €121.99The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...
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A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
D B MonroCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99Current price €65.69Original price €72.99Save 10% -
Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The authors included in this volumeIlarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turovare remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Ap...
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Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The authors included in this volumeIlarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turovare remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Ap...
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The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender
R. WaughCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. ...
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The Matter of Virtue: Women''s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Holly A. CrockerCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99If material bodies have inherent, animating powersor virtues, in the premodern sensethen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in ...
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Ulysses and the Limits of Dantes Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dellumanesimo dantesco
Lino PertileCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99In his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulyss...
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Parisiana poetria
John of GarlandCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The Parisiana poetria, first published around 1220, expounds the medieval theory of poetry (ars poetica) and summarizes early thirteenth-century th...
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Navigating Narratives: Tsurayukis Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
Gustav HeldtCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan thr...
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The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486280
Johns Hopkins University PressCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in ...
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Ovidian Transversions: ''Iphis and Ianthe'', 1350-1650
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Ovidian Transversions: ''Iphis and Ianthe'', 1300-1650
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The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature: A Study of a Medieval Arab Hero
M. C. LyonsCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The Man of Wiles - terrorist or saint? The Man of Wiles (otherwise known as the Master Thief, the Trickster or the Fool) appears in every hero cycl...
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