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  • Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

    L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre

    by Daron Burrows ...
    "The thirteenth-century French comic dits of Les Escommeniemanz au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre are two of the earliest vernacular texts to articulate anticlerical satire against the abuse of excommunications and indulgences. In Les Escommeniemanz, a relentless series of excommunications is promulgated against a broad range of social groups accused of activities ranging from the illegal and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

    by Leslie Kurke ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Roman Homosexuality

    Second Edition

    by Craig A. Williams ...
    Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Approaches to Middle English

    Variation, Contact and Change

    Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Javier Calle-Martín ...
    Series Book 47 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England, together with other more linguistically-oriented approaches on ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Greek History: Archaic to Classical Age: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jennifer Roberts ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edited by Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Stealing Helen

    The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

    Edited by Andrew Feldherr ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity

    by Roger D. Woodard ...
    This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Biomedical Institutions, Biomedical Funding, and Public Policy

    Edited by H. Hugh Fudenberg ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The world is on the threshold of a great new industrial revolution, a 1 scientific-industrial revolution. Recombinant DNA technology and hybridoma technology ("monoclonal antibodies") have already pro vided unique investment opportunities for venture capitalists. Hence published reports of biomedical research are no longer restricted to scientific journals, but now appear regularly not only in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy

    Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'

    by Simon Gilson ...
    Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced the way in which Dante's work was produced and circulated, from editing and translation to commentaries, ... Read more

    $124.69 USD

  • Ovid, Metamorphoses X

    by Ovid ...
    Series series Latin Texts
    Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples), ... Read more

    $29.99 USD