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Callimachus: Aetia: 2 Volume Pack by Annette Harder Publisher Comments Callimachus' Aetia, written in Alexandria in the third century BC, was an important and influential poem which inspired many later Greek and Latin poets. Papyrus finds show that it was widely read until late antiquity and perhaps well into the Byzantine... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $377.75 New - Hardcover 
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Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language by John Alan Halloran Publisher Comments With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author's Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $71.95 New - Trade Paper
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Studies in Medievalism XXI: Corporate Medievalism (Studies in Medievalism) by Karl Fugelso Publisher Comments Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon by Gerard O'daly Publisher Comments Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late antiquity. In this volume, O'Daly looks at Prudentius' lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, which were published early in the fifth century AD. Reflecting the religious concerns... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $206.25 New - Hardcover
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Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies) by Seeta Chaganti Publisher Comments This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University's English Department. Inspired by Georgetown's Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan by Kazuaki Tanahashi Publisher Comments Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple... (read more) Available October 9, 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Prophecies: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Nostradamus Publisher Comments In time for the end of the world: the first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved... (read more) Available July 31, 2012 Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Chronicle of Duke Erik: A Verse Epic from Medieval Sweden by Erik Carlquist Publisher Comments Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $52.95 New - Hardcover
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Performance and the Middle English Romance (Studies in Medieval Romance) by Linda Marie Zaerr Publisher Comments Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Theogony / Works and Days by Hesiod Publisher Comments C.S. Morrissey's brilliant translations bring a modern sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod's two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy. Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Antonina Harbus Publisher Comments A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry. Professor John Hines, Cardiff University Cognitive approaches to literature offer new and exciting ways of interpreting... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Sir Thomas Malory: The Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies) by P. J. C. Field Publisher Comments Malory completed his Morte Darthur before March 1470. The manuscript is lost, but the two most important surviving witnesses to its text were both produced shortly afterwards: Caxton's edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $272.50 New - Hardcover
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Kommentar (Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare) by Joachim Latacz Synopsis Im Zentrum des Kommentars zum 9. Gesang steht die Interpretation der Gesandtschaft, die das griechische Invasionsheer zu Achilleus schickt, um ihn mit seiner Elitetruppe der Myrmidonen vom Kampfboykott abzubringen, und die Frage, warum der ErzAhler alle... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $141.50 New - Hardcover
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Dialogues, Volume 1: Charon and Antonius (I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano Publisher Comments Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $29.25 New - Hardcover
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Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community by Jennifer N. Brown Publisher Comments Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $108.50 New - Hardcover
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Text und Bersetzung (Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare) by Joachim Latacz Publisher Comments The central subject of the commentary on Book 9 is the interpretation of the embassy that the Greek army sent to Achilles in order to persuade him and his elite troops, the Myrmidons, to end their boycott of the hostilities, as well as the question of... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Runes: A Handbook by Michael P. Barnes Publisher Comments Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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Latin Panegyric (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Roger Rees Publisher Comments What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Shawl of Mist: Tanka: Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style by Yukiko Inoue-smith Publisher Comments The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions and on meanings attached to natural images that are common to all of... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $35.75 New - Trade Paper
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Virgil's Eclogues by Len Krisak Publisher Comments Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire--a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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