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  • Debating medieval Europe

    The early Middle Ages, c. 450–c. 1050

    by Craig Caldwell, Paul Fouracre, Jinty Nelson, Simon Loseby, Charles Insley, T. J. H. McCarthy, Paul Oldfield, Robert Portass ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the historical accounts provided by other textbooks to expose the contested foundations of apparently settled ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Ravenna

    Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange

    by Judith Herrin, Jinty Nelson ...
    Series series IHR Conference Series
    In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Jinty Nelson, Damien Kempf ...
    Series series Studies in Early Medieval History
    For earlier medieval Christians, the Bible was the book of guidance above all others, and the route to religious knowledge, used for all kinds of practical purposes, from divination to models of government in kingdom or household. This book's focus is on how medieval people accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants and hymns, or sermons ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • A Cabinet Of Roman Curiosities : Strange Tales And Surprising Facts From The World's Greatest Empire

    by J. C. McKeown ...
    Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre ... Read more

    $12.89 USD

  • American King James Version

    Holy Bible (AKJV, 1999)

    by Two Sparrows Bibles, Michael Peter Engelbrite ...
    Series series TSB King James Version
    This translation of the Bible is based on the KJV by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite. It is a word-for-word update of the spelling and vocabulary without any changes to grammar.This edition was put into the public domain on November 8th, 1999.Two Sparrows Bibles are meticulously designed for ease of navigation, a pleasure to read in any modes (night, day or sepia) with emphasis on typography and ... Read more

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  • Classical Literature

    An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond

    by Richard Jenkyns ...
    The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Harry Potter and the Classical World

    Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic

    by Richard A. Spencer ...
    J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling's quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Literary Friends And Acquaintance

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Mr. William Dean Howells has written many books of several kinds which have entertained a great many people of all kinds, but no single book of any kind in which his various talents appear to such advantage to themselves and enjoyment of their readers as in his 'Literary Friends and Acquaintance', which, briefly described as a personal retrospect of American authorship, is in reality a series of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rebellion of Absalom

    by Keith Bodner ...
    With extraordinary range and literary energy, the story of Absalom’s rebellion in 2 Samuel ranks as the most elaborate and extensively narrated internal political event in the Hebrew Bible, complete with a host of scandalous and sordid events: illicit sex, murder, cover-up, petty crime, to name a few. For many students approaching the historical books of the Bible, however, texts often fail to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Romance between Greece and the East

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson ...
    The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh ... Read more

    $44.29 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

  • The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas

    Original Language and Influences

    by Simon Gathercole ...
    Series Book 151 - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
    This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more ... Read more

    $43.49 USD