Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

I contributi raccolti nel volume risalgono alle rispettive comunicazioni presentate nella sezione di linguistica del convegno del Deutscher Italianistenverband, svoltosi dal 20 al 22 marzo 2014 alla Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg e dedicato al tema delle relazioni .

The concern of the book is whether Hilary of Poitiers compromised the Nicene faith, a charge suggested even in Hilary's own day, when he attempted to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans.

Dieses Buch untersucht fiktionale und historiographische Texte des Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit als Reflexionsmedien politischer Redekultur.

Parzivals ritterliche Identitat gilt gemeinhin als Ubergangsidentitat"e;, tatsachlich bildet sie die unabdingbare Voraussetzung fur sein Gralkonigtum.

Geschichten uber die Liebe und den Streit mittelalterlicher Sanger haben eine lange Tradition.

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In Printing the Middle Ages Sin Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world.

Offers new readings of Mandeville's Travels in its original historical context, in its textual history and in the present day.

In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word.

Geschichten uber die Liebe und den Streit mittelalterlicher Sanger haben eine lange Tradition.

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.

With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Senecas plays.

The Middle Ages (c.

By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character.

With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Senecas plays.

By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character.

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.

It is said that a monument now stands before the high church of Caerleon: an anvil pierced through with a sword.

The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine reception not covered to date through its international case studies.

The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine reception not covered to date through its international case studies.

Weather Magic in Medieval Scandinavia explores how people in medieval Scandinavia understood and attempted to influence the weather through magic.

In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the Aeneid from several different interpretive angles.

In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the Aeneid from several different interpretive angles.

Weather Magic in Medieval Scandinavia explores how people in medieval Scandinavia understood and attempted to influence the weather through magic.

Medieval literature and the imagination of C.

Medieval literature and the imagination of C.

This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions – Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian – to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes and states we think of as emotion.

This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions – Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian – to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes and states we think of as emotion.

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus.

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus.

The first comprehensive English-language reference devoted to Mount Athos (also known as the Holy Mountain), The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos examines the principal centre of monasticism in the Byzantine world and its enduring influence on pan-Orthodox spirituality.

The Unknown Odysseus is a study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot and another, more subversive, anonymous figure whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero moves and about the shape and meaning of human life.

The Unknown Odysseus is a study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot and another, more subversive, anonymous figure whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero moves and about the shape and meaning of human life.

Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers.

The first comprehensive English-language reference devoted to Mount Athos (also known as the Holy Mountain), The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos examines the principal centre of monasticism in the Byzantine world and its enduring influence on pan-Orthodox spirituality.

Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers.

The structural and symbolic purposes of ruins in literary texts have a long history, yet few scholars explore their importance within J.

Since the Middle Ages, bears have most frequently been seen as objects.

The essays in this edited collection extend our understanding of the challenges and opportunities that the classical world afforded Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The essays in this edited collection extend our understanding of the challenges and opportunities that the classical world afforded Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J.

Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies.

Women's Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture.

Middle English devotional compilations - consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts - have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals.

The literatures of medieval Wales and Ireland are among the richest vernacular traditions of medieval Europe.

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with?

King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages.

King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages.