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Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition by Patrick J. Geary 9780691008622
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary... -
Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison by Theodore K. Rabb 9780691622101
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £52.15The 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... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.63This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691656274
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings by Thomas Taylor 9780691622170
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.73This 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... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14In 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Chartres 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,... -
The Medieval Prison: A Social History by G. Geltner
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Prison challenges this view by tracing the... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6: Novela/Nivola by Miguel de Unamuno 9780691609522
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.86The 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... -
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe by Valerie Irene Jane Flint 9780691001104
Booksplease Price: £63.73"There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes." So writes Valerie Flint in this powerful work on magic in... -
Religious Art from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century by Emile Male
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49From 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... -
Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda by Diana de Armas Wilson 9780691607238
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55In 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: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.68What 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.09Era 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... -
Texts and Violence in the Roman World by Dr. Monica Gale 9781107027145
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88From 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... -
History of Anglo-Latin Literature, 597-740 by Whitney French Bolton 9780691649764
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £98.50Taking as its chronological and geographical limits the period and area of Anglo-Saxon domination, this study provides a guide to the Latin literature that existed alongside the vernacular. It does... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.60In 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... -
Life and Letters in the Fourth Century by Terrot Reaveley Glover 9781107687950
Booksplease Price: £32.82Originally 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: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.80This 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: £40.04Illustrations 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: £111.00Booksplease Price: £102.39In 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: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Literary 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: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This 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: £32.12Literary 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'... -
Satires. Eupolemius by Amarcius, 11th cent.
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.46Composed 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... -
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD): History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity by Peter Gemeinhardt 9783110263510
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £100.12The 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... -
Iberian Fathers, Volume 1: Writings of Martin of Braga, Paschasius of Dumium, and Leander of Seville by Martin of Braga 9780813228280
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42In 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
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £95.00Enchantment 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: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.30The 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: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.89The 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: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02The 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 by Peter Clemoes 9780521038409
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.89This 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: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.20Cantate 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... -
Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World Maijastina Kahlos 9781399514446
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Two major transformations of Late Antiquity redefined what it meant to be Roman: the Christianisation of imperial power and the collapse of the Western Roman state. This book examines how Prudentius,... -
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom by Diane Fruchtman 9781032263250
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This 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: £25.94Explores 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: £66.00Booksplease Price: £54.26Figuring 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03The 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50There 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: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69Chastity 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...