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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World: Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature by Albrecht Classen 9780367566708
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von... -
In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition by John Freccero 9780823264285
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port... -
Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic by Peter White 9780199914340
Booksplease Price: £49.88Cicero 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... -
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert 9780521547819
Booksplease Price: £34.09In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces... -
![Dante's "Other Works": Assessments and Interpretations by Zygmunt G. Baranski 9780268202385](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2171686/2171038/9780268202385__14279.1709377839.jpg?c=1 "Dante's "Other Works": Assessments and Interpretations by Zygmunt G. Baranski 9780268202385")
Dante's "Other Works": Assessments and Interpretations by Zygmunt G. Baranski 9780268202385
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.36Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante's "other works." Rather than speak of... -
The Human Spirit: Beginnings from Genesis to Science by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle 9780271082059
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.14In this volume, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle probes significant concepts of the human spirit in Western religious culture across more than two millennia, from the book of Genesis to early modern science... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer 9780811216722
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.76In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective by William F. Zak 9780739175101
Booksplease Price: £122.85A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak, seeks to identify in Shake-speare'e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
Booksplease Price: £55.04Imitating 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
![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... -
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,...