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  • An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women

    Edited by Stephen Harrison, Dr. Gesine Manuwald ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
    This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside accessible translations, with introductions and notes that contextualise the texts within their authors' careers and the intellectual climate of their time. The selected works reflect a range of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Editors

    by Stephen Harrison ...
    “Strikingly relevant" [Taylor Lorenz], The Editors is a thriller that reveals the battles behind the internet's most contested information source: Wikipedia.Aim for Neutrality. We Need Better Sources. Anonymity is Fundamental. Keep Developing.The editors know these principles. The editors follow them every day – usually. The editors may not be recognized on the street, but they craft the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The History of Hornsea

    East Yorkshire

    by Stephen Harrison ...
    Hornsea is ordinary, no different from countless other towns and villages scattered across the face of England. Yet, at the same time, it is unique, a product of local conditions and forces, of ceaseless interactions between people and their environment over the last 10,000 years. It is this opposition that gives Hornsea meaning and character. A sense of place.In this new book, archaeologist and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bubbles

    The fabubbulous story of Angelique's Nursery School

    by Malcolm Howard ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Harrison ...
    Angelique has long thin legs, long thin arms and a turned-up nose on which sits an enormous pair of spectacles. Her spectacles are so big that they look like magnifying glasses and make her eyes look very large. She normally wears black shoes, a blue dress and a red scarf, and she had just been awarded all her Certificates and Diplomas to become a teacher. But she needs a job. Retuning to her home ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander the Great

    Lives and Legacies

    by DR Stephen Harrison ...
    Series series Great Lives of the Ancient World
    This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander’s military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander’s story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the vital roles that other figures played in historical events. By considering the social and intellectual currents of ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Biblical Women As Enablers

    by Dr. Stephen Harrison, Richard Huizinga ...
    Biblical Women have enabled men and women to accomplish many things that arguably they would not have accomplished without these women. Come see the only person, man, or woman, who ever renames God. Find depth in women you thought you might know but whose stories you have only previously scratched the surface. Come see the woman who laughed at far out statements by God and the named her child ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

    Classical Connections

    by Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
    Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • How to Be Content

    An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess

    by Horace, Stephen Harrison ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentmentWhat are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome’s greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65–8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life—above all else, a life of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII

    Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento

    by Stephen Harrison ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
    A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

    Edited by Stephen Harrison, Dr. Gesine Manuwald, William M. Barton, Bobby Xinyue ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
    Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

    Making Connections

    by Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
    Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Apuleius in European Literature

    Cupid and Psyche since 1650

    by Stephen Harrison, Regine May ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines the reception of the long two-book romantic story of Cupid and Psyche in European literature from 1650 ... Read more

    $98.09 USD