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A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspective by Durant Waite Robertson 9780691621722
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $152.73What were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118... -
The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature by Ricardo J. Quinones 9780691605791
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $101.58Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Gothic Visionary Perspective by Barbara Nolan 9780691602929
Booksplease Price: $123.08Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape... -
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings by Thomas Taylor 9780691622170
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $189.21This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of... -
Texts and Violence in the Roman World by Dr. Monica Gale 9781107027145
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $224.45From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The... -
Peter the Venerable and Islam by James Aloysius Kritzeck
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6: Novela/Nivola by Miguel de Unamuno 9780691609522
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $134.38The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library... -
Religious Art from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century by Emile Male
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95From his series of definitive works on religious art in medieval France, and later in Italy, Spain, Flanders, and Germany, as well, the author has chosen those passages most significant and... -
The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: Neofitus Iit Ad Deum by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon 9780691604862
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Carved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example of "the fine style" of mid-fourth-century sculpture... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $139.94In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $85.53In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores... -
Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century: The Literary Influence of the School of Chartres by Winthrop Wetherbee 9780691619903
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to,... -
Life and Letters in the Fourth Century by Terrot Reaveley Glover 9781107687950
Booksplease Price: $73.04Originally published in 1901, this book examines life in the Roman Empire in the late fourth century through 'the writings of a series of typical men' from the period, focusing on literature rather... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963-1968 by W. H. Auden 9780691151717
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $157.52This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing... -
Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index Thomas H. Ohlgren 9781879288102
Booksplease Price: $85.03Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the... -
Studies in the Christian Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity by W. Evenepoel 9789042933491
RRP: $233.10Booksplease Price: $213.11In this volume twenty-two studies published by Willy Evenepoel in international journals and collections during the period 1978-2010 have been brought together, namely two general... -
The Poetics of Personification by James J. Paxson 9780521445399
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $180.89Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'... -
Latin Literature of the Fourth Century by J. W. Binns 9780415740159
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire,... -
The Poetics of Personification by James J. Paxson 9780521106313
Booksplease Price: $67.45Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'... -
Satires. Eupolemius by Amarcius, 11th cent.
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $53.76Composed in Germany by a monastic poet steeped in classical lore and letters, the Satires of Amarcius (Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus) unrelentingly attack both secular vices and ecclesiastical... -
Iberian Fathers, Volume 1: Writings of Martin of Braga, Paschasius of Dumium, and Leander of Seville by Martin of Braga 9780813228280
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.78In this volume, The Fathers of the Church returns to the Christian Latin writers of the Iberian Peninsula, hitherto represented only by Orosius (Vol. 50) and Prudentius (Vols. 43, 52).What is now... -
Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan by Brian P. Dunkle 9780198788225
Booksplease Price: $251.90Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan offers the first critical overview of the hymns of Ambrose of Milan in the context of fourth-century doctrinal song and Ambrose's own... -
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD): History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity by Peter Gemeinhardt 9783110552430
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $27.93The present volume's focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Malcolm Godden 9780521038560
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $71.17The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume... -
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 by Professor Michael Lapidge 9780521802109
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $172.24The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume... -
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD): History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity by Peter Gemeinhardt 9783110263510
RRP: $328.65Booksplease Price: $224.57The present volume's focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Clemoes 9780521038409
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $71.17This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and... -
The Proper of Time: Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter by Andrew Wadsworth 9780813239026
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $63.42Cantate Domino is a five-volume commentary on the texts of the newly translated hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours. The hymns which recently appeared for the first time as a single corpus of English... -
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom by Diane Fruchtman 9781032263250
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must... -
The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture by Jennifer R. Ballengee 9781438424927
Booksplease Price: $54.75Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.The Wound and the Witness offers a historically grounded approach to an... -
Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature by Jill Ross 9780802090980
RRP: $138.60Booksplease Price: $113.95Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic)... -
Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art by Colum Hourihane 9780691050379
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.77The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a broad range of moral qualities--virtues and vices--is one of the most dominant themes in the history of Christian art. The complex... -
The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: <I>Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, </I>and <I>Philoctetes</I> by Sophocles 9781421411378
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.55There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the... -
Ambiguous Antidotes: Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain by Hilaire Kallendorf 9781487502133
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.65Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius' Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has... -
Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature by Brenda Machosky
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $99.23Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of Appearing seeks to revise the history of aesthetics, identifying it is an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical criteria... -
Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History by Francesca Romana Berno
RRP: $215.25Booksplease Price: $205.55In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate... -
The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron 9780199959709
Booksplease Price: $155.34Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and... -
Plotinus Ennead I.1: What is the Living Thing? What is Man? Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Gerard J.P. O'Daly 9781930972988
Booksplease Price: $71.65Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussing various Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic views... -
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin by Anke Walter 9780198843832
Booksplease Price: $246.58Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present...