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A Literary Guide to Provence by Daniel Vitaglione 9780804010351
Booksplease Price: £33.39Provence through the eyes of its writers-those who wrote of it in Provencal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty-that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence... -
Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice Massimiliano Morini 9780367434854
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini... -
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature by Rebecca Lemon 9780470674994
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.21This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of... -
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance by Katherine Crawford
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in... -
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition by Graham James McAleer 9780268207427
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.00In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. In this book, Graham McAleer and Alexander... -
Masterpieces of Philosophical Literature by Thomas L. Cooksey 9780313331732
Booksplease Price: £51.21Some works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced philosophy. Written expressly for high school and college... -
St. Augustine, His Confessions, and His Influence by Paul Rorem 9781978702370
Booksplease Price: £80.73This book introduces Augustine of Hippo and his influence on Christian theology. It introduces the reader to Augustine's Confessions and their historical reception, especially during the Middle Ages... -
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance by Katherine Crawford 9780521749503
Booksplease Price: £32.12When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in... -
Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic by Peter White 9780195388510
Booksplease Price: £96.92Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models... -
Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua by Sarah R. Kyle
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling 9780195087444
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.75This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's... -
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume I: Earlier Renaissance by Paul Holberton 9781912168255
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £49.18Long anticipated and hugely welcome, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral... -
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume II: Later Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassicism by Paul Holberton 9781912168262
Booksplease Price: £50.78Long anticipated and hugely welcome, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral... -
What Else Is Pastoral?: Renaissance Literature and the Environment by Ken Hiltner 9780801449406
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.24Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley... -
Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought: A Racialized Canon Maurizio Meloni 9781041008675
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book provides a historical and conceptual analysis of patterns of racialized otherness in European thought, traversing primary sources, historical periods, and national archives, to show that... -
Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower by David Michael Hertz 9781442645387
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy's fascist period, Eugenio Montale - winner of the 1975 Nobel... -
Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower by David Michael Hertz 9781487519995
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy's fascist period, Eugenio Montale - winner of the 1975 Nobel... -
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from... -
Welcome to Midland by Logen Cure 9781646050697
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas... -
Counterfactuals by Christopher Prendergast 9781350090095
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.67What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they... -
Archimedes and the Roman Imagination by Mary Jaeger 9780472035717
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.72Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to... -
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Peter Brand 9780521666220
Booksplease Price: £56.93Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive... -
![Emblems of Desire: Selections from the "Delie" of Maurice Sceve by Richard Sieburth 9780812236941](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2865026/2864361/9780812236941__40452.1715090489.jpg?c=1 "Emblems of Desire: Selections from the "Delie" of Maurice Sceve by Richard Sieburth 9780812236941")
Emblems of Desire: Selections from the "Delie" of Maurice Sceve by Richard Sieburth 9780812236941
Booksplease Price: £40.04This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Sceve's poem cycle Delie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great... -
Chaucer`s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by Frederick M. Biggs 9781843845355
Booksplease Price: £32.13A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possible direct link between the two greatest... -
Complete Poems. a Bilingual Edition by Pernette Du Guillet 9780772720658
Booksplease Price: £32.60In 1545, the first edition of the Rymes presented the young Pernette du Guillet as a model of feminine virtue and learning for other ladies to emulate. Pernette du Guillet has long been identified as... -
Counterfactuals by Christopher Prendergast 9781350090088
Booksplease Price: £85.65What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they... -
Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society by Joelle Rollo-Koster 9781442215320
Booksplease Price: £86.43With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joelle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city... -
Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society by Joelle Rollo-Koster 9780810894990
Booksplease Price: £33.49With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joelle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £47.48Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to... -
Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought by Risto Saarinen 9780199606818
Booksplease Price: £104.74Weakness of will, the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's own better judgment, has remained a prominent discussion topic of philosophy. The history of this discussion in ancient, medieval, and... -
Chaucer`s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by Frederick M. Biggs 9781843844754
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.88A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possible direct link between the two greatest... -
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann 9780691116099
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring... -
From She-Wolf to Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples by Elizabeth Casteen
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.12In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326-1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's most important polities. For nearly forty years,... -
Monteverdi's Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal Tim Carter 9780197759196
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.60"Ah, alas!" The "faithful shepherd" Mirtillo's woeful sigh of unrequited love, delivered with outrageous musical dissonances, has rung through the ages since the first publication of Claudio... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 3: Paradiso by Robert M. Durling 9780195087420
Booksplease Price: £66.53Robert Durling's much-anticipated translation of the Paradiso, the third and final volume of Dante's Divine Comedy, is available at last. Durling's prose translations of the Inferno and the... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.54The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the... -
Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science Natasha Piano 9780674295377
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70A searing argument-and work of meticulous scholarship-about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our political system vulnerable to... -
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry Konstantin Batyushkov 9780231185400
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of... -
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Konstantin Batyushkov 9780231185417
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of...