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Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover): Stefano Trovato Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover)
Stefano Trovato
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses Julian from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture and will therefore appeal to all those interested in Byzantine perspectives on Late Roman history / Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture will appeal to researchers and students alike in Byzantine perspectives on Julian, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the Later Roman Empire / This book will also appeal to those interested in Byzantine Historiography.

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women - A Tragic Reading of Politics (Hardcover): Sotiris Manolopoulos Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women - A Tragic Reading of Politics (Hardcover)
Sotiris Manolopoulos
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A psychoanalytic reading of The Suppliant Women with implications extended to contemporary politics. Applies the tragic reading of politics. Considers hubris in public life.

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy - Perspectives Across the Humanities (Paperback): John Burns, William Gahan,... The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy - Perspectives Across the Humanities (Paperback)
John Burns, William Gahan, Stephanie Quinn, Matthew Flamm
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel, a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates, all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities.

Edda - Prologue and Gylfaginning (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Anthony Faulkes Edda - Prologue and Gylfaginning (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Anthony Faulkes; Snorri Sturluson
R368 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Art of Greek Comedy (Hardcover): Katherine Lever The Art of Greek Comedy (Hardcover)
Katherine Lever
R3,037 Discovery Miles 30 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.

Classical Mythology: The Basics - The Basics (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Richard Martin Classical Mythology: The Basics - The Basics (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Richard Martin
R2,598 Discovery Miles 25 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A concise guide to Classical Mythology by a well respected expert in the field which allows students to contextualize primary sources with information about the culture and society in which they were conceived. A new chapter focuses on the use of myth in the modern world, allowing student to examine critically the persuasive power of well-known images from antiquity and how these images can be exploited. Provides an authoritative guide to students in a field which has become distorted by pet theories and reinterpretations, allowing students to engage with with key academic theories without losing sight of the myths themselves. Guides students through Classical Mythology from the earliest myths to modern retellings in computer games, films, art and music allowing the students to see a continuum between work and identify key trends in the reception of mythic stories.

The Riverside Chaucer - Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Geoffrey Chaucer,... The Riverside Chaucer - Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition, an international team of experts completely re-edited all the works, added glosses to appear on the page with the text, and greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography, and glossary. In short, the Riverside Chaucer is the fruit of many years' study - the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's Complete Works.

Translation, Reception and Canonization of The Art of War - Reviving Ancient Chinese Strategic Culture (Hardcover): Tian Luo Translation, Reception and Canonization of The Art of War - Reviving Ancient Chinese Strategic Culture (Hardcover)
Tian Luo
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient yet invaluable Chinese military classic that is still relevant today. This book presents a systematic and in-depth investigation into the translation and reception of The Art of War in Western strategic culture. Aided by three self-built corpora, this book adopts a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and takes both the core text and its paratexts of The Art of War into consideration. The author highlights the significance of proper approaches to translating culture in regards to the core text and effective measures of culture reconstruction in regards to the paratexts. It is revealed by this investigation that the translated Sun Tzu has undergone three major stages before its canonization in Western discourse. The findings bring to light the multiple factors that contribute to the incorporation of Sun Tzu's strategic wisdom into Western culture. For scholars interested in translation studies, (critical) discourse analysis, as well as strategic studies, this book provides fresh insights and new perspectives.

Authorship and Identity in Late Thirteenth-Century Motets (Hardcover): Catherine A. Bradley Authorship and Identity in Late Thirteenth-Century Motets (Hardcover)
Catherine A. Bradley
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers new insights into the musical, poetic, and curatorial reception of thirteenth-century composers' works in their own time. It uncovers, beneath the surface of an anonymous motet book, unsuspected interactions between authors and traces of compositional identities.

A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture (Hardcover): Richard Stoneman A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture (Hardcover)
Richard Stoneman
R3,708 Discovery Miles 37 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer who sought the secret of immortality and discussed the purpose of life with the naked sages of India, he became a model for military achievement as well as a religious prophet bringing Christianity (in the Crusades) and Islam (in the Qur'an and beyond) to the regions he conquered. This innovative and fascinating volume explores these and many other facets of his reception in various cultures around the world, right up to the present and his role in gay activism.

Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium (Paperback): Margaret Mullett Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium (Paperback)
Margaret Mullett
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.

Pals leizla. The Vision of St Paul 2017 (Mochi, Norse, Old, Latin, Paperback): Dario Bullitta Pals leizla. The Vision of St Paul 2017 (Mochi, Norse, Old, Latin, Paperback)
Dario Bullitta
R301 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Homer - The Very Idea (Paperback): James I. Porter Homer - The Very Idea (Paperback)
James I. Porter
R527 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R59 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of this character, James I. Porter explores the sources of Homer's mystique and their impact since the first recorded mentions of Homer in ancient Greece. Homer: The Very Idea considers Homer not as a man, but as a cultural invention nearly as distinctive and important as the poems attributed to him, following the cultural history of an idea and of the obsession that is reborn every time Homer is imagined. Offering novel readings of texts and objects, the book follows the very idea of Homer from his earliest mentions to his most recent imaginings in literature, criticism, philosophy, visual art, and classical archaeology.

Early Modern English Marginalia (Hardcover): Katherine Acheson Early Modern English Marginalia (Hardcover)
Katherine Acheson
R3,843 Discovery Miles 38 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier scholarship that established marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as records of reading motivated by cultural, social, theological, and personal inclinations (Brayman [Hackel] and Orgel), and as practices inspired by material affordances particular to the book and the pen (Fleming and Sherman). They further the study of the practices of marginalia as a mode - a set of ways in which material opportunities and practices overlap with intellectual, social, and personal motivations to make meaning in the world. They introduce us to a set of idiosyncratic examples such as the trace marks of objects left in books, deliberately or by accident; cut-and-pasted additions to printed volumes; a marriage depicted through shared book ownership. They reveal to us in case studies the unique value of mar- ginalia as evidence of phenomena as important and diverse as religious change, authorial self-invention, and the history of the literary canon. The chapters of this book go beyond the case study, however, and raise broad historical, cultural, and theoretical questions about the strange, marvelous, metamorphic thing we call the book, and the equally mul- tiplicitous, eccentric, and inscrutable beings who accompany them through history: readers and writers.

Medieval Manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian Library - A Descriptive Catalogue (Hardcover): Daniela Mairhofer Medieval Manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian Library - A Descriptive Catalogue (Hardcover)
Daniela Mairhofer
R6,872 Discovery Miles 68 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Bodleian Library possesses a significant collection of Latin medieval manuscripts from Germany, most of them acquired and donated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s. They are precious survivals from the period of the Thirty Years' War. Their significance arises not just from the number of individual manuscripts but from the fact that they represent substantial portions of the libraries of ecclesiastical houses in Wurzburg, Mainz and Eberbach. This book presents a detailed description of the fifty-six manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian, most of them from the cathedral chapter (the Domstift St. Kilian). The majority date from the ninth century, and are extremely important from a textual and palaeographical point of view: they constitute the most important single library of Carolingian manuscripts in the British Isles. Wurzburg was one of the leading Anglo-Saxon foundations on the continent of Europe, planting cultural roots which are manifested in almost every aspect of the manuscripts themselves. The catalogue provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions of these manuscripts in all their aspects, especially their texts - there are many important early copies of the texts of the Church Fathers - and their scripts, some of whose forms are unique to Wurzburg. Detailed attention is also paid to the physical characteristics of the manuscripts, their decoration, binding, and provenance. Each of the manuscripts is illustrated.

The Life of Dante (Paperback): Giovanni Boccaccio The Life of Dante (Paperback)
Giovanni Boccaccio
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations - A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (Paperback): Michael Van Dussen Richard Rolle: On Lamentations - A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (Paperback)
Michael Van Dussen
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents the first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), a hermit and mystic whose works were widely read in England and on the European continent into the early modern period. Rolle's explication of the Old Testament Book of Lamentations gives us a glimpse of how the biblical commentary tradition informed what would become his signature mystical, doctrinal, and reformist preoccupations throughout his career. Rolle's English and explicitly mystical writings have been widely accessible for decades. Recent attention has turned again to his Latin commentaries, many of which have never been critically edited or thoroughly studied. This attention promises to give us a fuller sense of Rolle's intellectual, devotional, and reformist development, and of the interplay between his Latin and English writings. Richard Rolle: On Lamentations places Rolle's early commentary within a tradition of explication of the Lamentations of Jeremiah and in the context of his own career. The edition collates all known witnesses to the text, from Dublin, Oxford, Prague, and Cologne. A source apparatus as well as textual and explanatory notes accompany the edition.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age (Paperback): Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic (Paperback): Lucius Seneca Seneca's Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
Lucius Seneca
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Three More Plays by Aristophanes - Staging Politics (Hardcover): Jeffrey Henderson Three More Plays by Aristophanes - Staging Politics (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Henderson
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first volume to collect these 3 political plays in one volume. Intro and commentary discusses these texts in the context of Greek history and politics, but also political science and theory as regards more recent eras, including our own, allowing students to relate to the material and work comparitively. The 3 plays selected are the world's first detailed portrayal of demagogy, making them very topical to contemporary readers.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Western Manuscripts (Hardcover, New):... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Western Manuscripts (Hardcover, New)
Rodney M. Thomson
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford present an extraordinary variety of items, from humanist texts associated with Erasmus to John Dee's alchemical books and many vernacular MSS. This is the first full catalogue, with a large number of illustrations. The College of Corpus Christi, Oxford, was a 'Renaissance' institution both as to its foundation date (1517) and the intention of its founder, Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. Both Fox himself and his choice as the College's first President, John Claymond, were friends of Erasmus, who approved of the foundation and especially of its library. Fox intended his foundation to be a conduit of Italian humanism to Oxford and to the English clergy. In itsextraordinary variety, this collection is a challenge to the cataloguer. Some manuscripts relate to the programme of the College's founder and first President, but most of the manuscripts reflect the particular interests of collectors from the late sixteenth century onwards. John Dee's books for example, mostly small, unpretentious and often fragmentary or made up of fragments, constitute a gold-mine for the historian of medieval chemistry and alchemy.These are supplemented by an important group of astronomical, arithmetical and medical texts. There is a substantial clutch of twelfth- and thirteenth-century manuscripts from Lanthony Priory. Noteworthy, too, is the large number of manuscripts in several vernaculars: Old and Middle English and French, Old Irish, Catalan, and even a few words of fifteenth-century Czech. The bindings of the Corpus manuscripts have been wholly neglected. Many books retain important medieval bindings, some as early as the twelfth century, and a substantial number of beautiful blind-stamped bindings of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A special place in the collection is occupied by the approximately 1, 200 manuscript fragments, taken from bindings of books in the library in the late nineteenth century.

Against the Tide - The Story of the Adomnan of Iona (Paperback): Warren Bardsley Against the Tide - The Story of the Adomnan of Iona (Paperback)
Warren Bardsley
R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tells the story of the Adomnan of Iona, author of the early medieval classic Life of Columba and revered composer and promulgator of the seventh century 'Law of the Innocents' ensuring the protection of non-combatants in times of war.

Euripides' Medea - Translation and Theatrical Commentary (Hardcover): Michael Ewans Euripides' Medea - Translation and Theatrical Commentary (Hardcover)
Michael Ewans
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them. The introduction discusses the social and cultural context of the play and its likely impact on the original audience, the way in which it was originally performed, the challenges which the lead roles present today and Medea's implications for the modern audience. The text of the translation is followed by the 'Theatrical Commentary' section on the issues involved in staging each scene and chorus today, embodying insights gained from a professional production. Notes on the translation, a glossary of names, suggestions for further reading and a chronology of Euripides' life and times round out the volume. The book is intended for use by theatre practitioners who wish to stage or workshop Medea and by students both of drama, theatre and performance and of classical studies.

Spiritual Formation as the Hero's Journey in John of Ruusbroec (Hardcover): Robert Pelfrey Spiritual Formation as the Hero's Journey in John of Ruusbroec (Hardcover)
Robert Pelfrey
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the theology of spiritual formation developed by fourteenth-century Flemish mystic John of Ruusbroec, arguing that his formational path clearly and consistently displays the characteristics of the archetypal narrative structure of the hero's journey. To start with, a hermeneutical dialogue between scholars of the hero's journey and Ruusbroec is established, employing the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The author then examines the stages and tropes of the hero's journey according to Vladimir Propp, Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, Rene Girard, Dean Miller, and others, exploring the parallels in Ruusbroec's writing and theology of spiritual formation. The book follows Ruusbroec's story of answering the divine call, journeying inward and experiencing the trials of spiritual transformation, attaining the treasure of divine union, and returning in loving service to others. Finally, the ramifications of the argument for the interpretation and application of other mystical and heroic narratives are considered. Offering a new perspective on John of Ruusbroec, mystical theology, and the hero's journey as a spiritual quest, this volume will be of interest to scholars of mysticism, theology, formative spirituality, narrative theory, and religious literature of the Low Countries.

Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity - Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces (Paperback): Debbie Felton Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity - Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces (Paperback)
Debbie Felton
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used for by individuals and communities, and how language, use, and the passage of time invest spaces with meaning. In addition to this 'spatial' turn in scholarship, recent years have also seen an 'emotive' turn - an increased interest in the study of emotion in literature. Many works on landscape in classical antiquity focus on themes such as the sacred and the pastoral and the emotions such spaces evoke, such as (respectively) feelings of awe or tranquillity in settings both urban and rural. Far less scholarship has been generated by the locus terribilis, the space associated with negative emotions because of the bad things that happen there. In short, the recent 'emotive' turn in humanities studies has so far largely neglected several of the more negative emotions, including anxiety, fear, terror, and dread. The papers in this volume focus on those neglected negative emotions, especially dread - and they do so while treating many types of space, including domestic, suburban, rural and virtual, and while covering many genres and authors, including the epic poems of Homer, Greek tragedy, Roman poetry and historiography, medical writing, paradoxography and the short story.

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