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Prudentius' Psychomachia Prudentius 9781032189888
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and... -
The Hymns of Prudentius by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius 9781438513645
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438513645Author Aurelius Clemens PrudentiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Book... -
Works: v. 2 by Prudentius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His... -
Works: v. 1 by Prudentius
Booksplease Price: £25.18Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His... -
Prudentius' Psychomachia: A Reexamination by Macklin Smith 9780691644424
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £101.87Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians. Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner... -
Prudentius' Psychomachia: A Reexamination by Macklin Smith 9780691617275
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians. Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner... -
The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity by Aaron Pelttari
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.77In The Space That Remains, Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of the major fourth-century poets since Michael Robert's foundational The Jeweled Style. It is the first book to give equal... -
The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity by Aaron Pelttari 9780801452765
Booksplease Price: £66.61In The Space That Remains, Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of the major fourth-century poets since Michael Robert's foundational The Jeweled Style. It is the first book to give equal... -
Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity by Cillian O'Hogan 9780198749226
Booksplease Price: £117.70Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural... -
Prudentius' Crown of Martyrs: Liber Peristephanon Len Krisak 9781032177526
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Prudentius' Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius' vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs. To... -
Prudentius' Crown of Martyrs: Liber Peristephanon by Len Krisak 9780815353270
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.67Prudentius' Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius' vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs. ... -
The Psychomachia of Prudentius: Text, Commentary, and Glossary by Aaron Pelttari 9780806164021
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachia, combines epic language and theological... -
SoulStrife: The Psychomachia of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens William Levitan 9798893721102
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26For well over a thousand years, from its composition in the early fifth century, the Psychomachia, the great allegory of moral strife within the divided soul by Latin poet Prudentius, remained a... -
How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In by Prudentius 9780691220345
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptationHow to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures... -
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul by Marc Mastrangelo
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £41.21The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly... -
Prudentius' Hymns for Hours and Seasons: Liber Cathemerinon by Nicholas Richardson
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Combining faithfulness to the Latin with sensitivity to Prudentius' poetic qualities, Nicholas Richardson offers a precise yet creative verse translation of a major work by one of the most important... -
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The Origin of Sin: An English Translation of the "Hamartigenia" by Prudentius
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £20.15Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-ca. 406) is one of the great Christian Latin writers of late antiquity. Born in northeastern Spain during an era of momentous change for both the Empire and the... -
Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius by Michael Roberts 9780472104499
Booksplease Price: £75.55Prudentius' Peristephanon is a collection of martyr texts from a vital period for the growth of martyr cult in the West. Building on recent work on the cult of the saints and on the sacralization of... -
Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader by Anthony Dykes
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of... -
The Prudentius's Epos. a Bridge Between Classicism and Latin Middle Ages by Elisa Sicuri 9783668455115
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668455115Author Elisa SicuriFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader by Anthony Dykes 9781107519091
Booksplease Price: £32.12Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of... -
Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity: Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs by Paula Hershkowitz 9781107149601
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.64This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of... -
Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative: From Prudentius to Alan of Lille by Jeffrey Bardzell
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book... -
Prudentius' Hymns for Hours and Seasons: Liber Cathemerinon Nicholas Richardson (Merton College, University of Oxford, UK) 9781138202474
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Combining faithfulness to the Latin with sensitivity to Prudentius' poetic qualities, Nicholas Richardson offers a precise yet creative verse translation of a major work by one of the most important... -
The Annals of St-Bertin: Ninth-Century Histories, Volume I by Janet L. Nelson
Booksplease Price: £23.54The Annals of St-Bertin, covering the years 830 to 882, are the main narrative source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century. This richly-annotated translation by a leading British specialist... -
Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry by Philip Hardie 9780520295773
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.20In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79Continuing 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
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Barbara 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... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the... -
Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature by R. Barton Palmer 9780813069517
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39The rise of an influential new family of poetry in the Middle AgesThis book is the first collective examination of Late Medieval intimate first-person narratives that blurred the lines between... -
Joyful Noise: Some authors, their times and their hymns Charles Moseley 9781915412157
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Singing is a very important human activity, argues Charles Moseley. It is about bonding, about a sense of shared community, as we see in modern football crowds or in the marching songs of armies... -
Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy by Seth Lerer 9780691611310
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.35This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate... -
The Medieval Prison: A Social History by G. Geltner 9780691162058
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25The 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... -
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity by Simon Goldhill 9780691149844
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture... -
The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: Neofitus Iit Ad Deum by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon 9780691604862
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Carved 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... -
The Inward Turn of Narrative by Erich Kahler
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.17Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this... -
The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle by Elizabeth Sears 9780691655598
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.20Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated... -
Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography by John V. Fleming
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that...