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The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance
By: Heffernan, Carol F.
Published by: Boydell & Brewer

The Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance and this study reveals much about its use and significance, offering fresh readings of a number of texts. These include the legend of Constance, where the mercantile details of the eastern Mediterranean reinforce the setting; the portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of Good Women; details in the Squire's Tale; and aspects of orientalism in the Middle English 'Floris and Blauncheflur' and 'Le Bone Florence of Rome', the latter related to analogous oriental tales about heroic women who remain steadfast in virtue. more...

Price: $80.00

Parzival
By: von Eschenbach, Wolfram; Edwards, Cyril (ed.)
Published by: Boydell & Brewer

Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. more...

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Philosophical Chaucer
By: Miller, Mark; Minnis, Alastair
Published by: Cambridge University Press

This innovative study argues that the Canterbury Tales represents Chaucer's most extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. Mark Miller uncovers Chaucer's debt to Boethius, Augustine, and other philosophers and shows how Chaucer's literary experiments represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains relevant to today's philosophical enquiry. more...

Price: $73.00

Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages
By: Marenbon, J. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV

This collection of essays, written to honour Professor Peter Dronke on his retirement, addresses the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. more...

Price: $206.00

Polyeideia
By: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin
Published by: University of California Press

This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. more...

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Propertius in Love
By: Propertius, Sextus; Slavitt, David R.
Published by: University of California Press

These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are amongst the best of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, who was born around 50 BC, a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia". more...

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Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
By: Neville, Jennifer; Keynes, Simon; Orchard, Andy
Published by: Cambridge University Press

The author argues that Old English poetic descriptions of the natural world were not a reflection of physical conditions but a literary device used to define important issues, such as the state of humanity, the power of individuals and the relationship between God and creation. more...

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Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity
By: Walker, Jeffrey
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" primarily as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity. In essence, Jeffrey Walker's study accomplishes what in the world of rhetoric studies amounts to a revolution: he demonstrates that in antiquity rhetoric and poetry could not be viewed separately. more...

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Sacrifice Your Love
By: Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment—that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today and beyond. more...

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Seeing Double
By: Stephens, Susan A.
Published by: University of California Press

When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. more...

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