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Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison by Theodore K. Rabb 9780691622101
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $70.24The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.40Continuing 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: $75.61Barbara 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $116.23This 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... -
Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 1: Spirit and Nature by Joseph Campbell
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.47Essays by Ernesto Buonaiuti, Friedrich Dessauer, C. G. Jung, Werner Kaegi, C. Kerenyi, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Adolf Portmann, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Erwin Schrodinger, and Walter Wili... -
Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda by Diana de Armas Wilson 9780691607238
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have... -
A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspective by Durant Waite Robertson 9780691621722
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $93.82What 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: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25Era 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 Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: Neofitus Iit Ad Deum by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon 9780691604862
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22Carved 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... -
Texts and Violence in the Roman World by Dr. Monica Gale 9781107027145
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $137.88From 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... -
Religious Art from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century by Emile Male
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.01From 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... -
Calendar of the Roman Republic by Agnes Kirsopp Michels 9780691622897
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44This book reconstructs the pre-Julian calendar of Rome on the basis of epigraphical and literary evidence, and analyzes its relation to the solar and lunar years. Mrs. Michels shows how the varied... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.54In 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: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22Chartres 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: $44.87Originally 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... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $85.97In 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... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963-1968 by W. H. Auden 9780691151717
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.76This 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: $52.23Illustrations 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: $141.90Booksplease Price: $131.50In 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: $116.10Booksplease Price: $111.12Literary 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: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55This 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: $41.43Literary 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: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.02Composed 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: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.95In 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... -
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD): History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity by Peter Gemeinhardt 9783110552430
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $17.16The 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... -
Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan by Brian P. Dunkle 9780198788225
Booksplease Price: $154.74Enchantment 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... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Malcolm Godden 9780521038560
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $43.72The 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: $116.10Booksplease Price: $105.81The 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: $201.89Booksplease Price: $137.95The 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: $43.86Booksplease Price: $43.72This 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: $46.44Booksplease Price: $38.96Cantate 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This 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... -
Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature by Jill Ross 9780802090980
RRP: $85.14Booksplease Price: $70.00Figuring 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)... -
The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture by Jennifer R. Ballengee 9781438424927
Booksplease Price: $33.63Explores 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... -
Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art by Colum Hourihane 9780691050379
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.70The 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.00There 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: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.97Chastity 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... -
Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History by Francesca Romana Berno
RRP: $132.23Booksplease Price: $126.27In 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... -
Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature by Brenda Machosky
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $60.95Taking 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... -
The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron 9780199959709
Booksplease Price: $95.42Rufinus' 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...