Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present.

The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes.

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.

Caesar's Civil War, the story of the general's contest with the Pompeian party through nineteen months of civil war, is an unfinished masterpiece.

Tras la caida de Troya, Eneas huye de una ciudad reducida a humo y cenizas, obedeciendo el mandato divino: fundar un nuevo imperio lejos de su patria.

Tras la caida de Troya, los vencedores parten hacia sus hogares cargados de tesoros, pero su impiedad provoca la ira de los dioses.

Sentenciado por el oraculo de Delfos a cometer crimenes atroces contra su propia sangre, Edipo es abandonado por sus padres y criado por los reyes de Corinto.

Hijo de la musa Caliope, Orfeo recibe la lira del mismisimo Apolo, convirtiendose en el musico mas prodigioso de la antiguedad.

Bajo el rostro sereno de Apolo, dios de la luz y la musica, late una pasion indomable que amenaza con desbordarse.

En la Edad de Oro, el titan Crono gobierna sobre dioses y mortales, pero vive atormentado por una profecia: sera destronado por su propio hijo, igual que su padre Urano.

Dedalo, el gran arquitecto de Atenas, es celebre por sus obras prodigiosas: edificios que desafian el tiempo, ingenios asombrosos y estatuas que parecen cobrar vida.

This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.

This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe.

Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy.

The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade.

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch's legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy.

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins.

Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins.

Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.

This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.

The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy.

Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch's legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy.

Der Humanist Thomas Morus treibt in seiner Utopia ein humorvolles Spiel, dem eine ernste Botschaft unterliegt, und legt so den Grundstein fur ein neues literarisches Genre.

Der Humanist Thomas Morus treibt in seiner Utopia ein humorvolles Spiel, dem eine ernste Botschaft unterliegt, und legt so den Grundstein fur ein neues literarisches Genre.

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The fall of Lucifer.

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Ce roman commence comme un policier classique.

Cet ebook regroupe les oeuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire.

Es war ein Glucksfall.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley.

Contenu:Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volée, Le Scarabée d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Vérité sur le cas de M.

Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew war ein russischer Schriftsteller.

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection.

The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca.

Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

Part 1: Logic (Organon)Categories, translated by E.