Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244434)
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers,...Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197917510)
This is the first scholarly edition of the earliest book about hunting in English. Edward, Second Duke of York (d. 1415), adapted his treatise from an earlier French manual, but added much new material, and it is considered to be an accurate represe...Loe edasi...
Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the authors over the circulation of their works allowed scribes to employ particularly refined strategies aimed...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849287)
Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, re...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691263557)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723720)
Fills a gap in medieval studies by exploring the significance of the snail. When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so has the study of animals—long focusing on the “...Loe edasi...
Redefining Faith in Dantes Divine Comedy offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the worlds most studied poems. Through close readings of all three canticles, Jason Aleksander shows how Dantes poem provocatively reconfigures faith as a mode of cr...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009628877)
This book offers an innovative study of the uses of writing in early medieval England during a pivotal century of political and societal upheaval. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval England, the viki...Loe edasi...
This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the belly-monstrous as a crucial point of intersection between mothers...Loe edasi...
Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments....Loe edasi...
Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments....Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted as creatures, objects, ideas, or people—were historically contingent and grounded in an often-hazy interplay...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love a...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526187772)
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbrias epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression....Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....Loe edasi...
Andrew D Buck, Katy Mortimer, James H. Kane, Stephen J Spencer, Edward Caddy, Peter W Edbury, Susan B. Edgington, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Katherine J Lewis, Mark McCabe...
This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom....Loe edasi...
Stephen H Rigby, Shannon McSheffrey, Alex T Brown, David Crook, Anne Curry, Louisa Foroughi, Helen Fulton, Martin Heale, Katherine J Lewis, John Marshall...
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives....Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197917510)
This is the first scholarly edition of the earliest book about hunting in English. Edward, Second Duke of York (d. 1415), adapted his treatise from an earlier French manual, but added much new material, and it is considered to be an accurate represe...Loe edasi...
Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the authors over the circulation of their works allowed scribes to employ particularly refined strategies aimed...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849287)
Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, re...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691263557)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723720)
Fills a gap in medieval studies by exploring the significance of the snail. When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so has the study of animals—long focusing on the “...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787294)
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress...Loe edasi...
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for...Loe edasi...
Redefining Faith in Dantes Divine Comedy offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the worlds most studied poems. Through close readings of all three canticles, Jason Aleksander shows how Dantes poem provocatively reconfigures faith as a mode of cr...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009628877)
This book offers an innovative study of the uses of writing in early medieval England during a pivotal century of political and societal upheaval. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval England, the viki...Loe edasi...
This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the belly-monstrous as a crucial point of intersection between mothers...Loe edasi...
Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments....Loe edasi...
Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments....Loe edasi...
