Search Results: Medieval Studies from Ancient World Books

Fordham University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Paperback. 0823211185 . Light wear to corners with light creasing to corners of front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 270 pages .

University of California Press. Near Fine. 1991. Softcover. 0520074076 . 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 355 pages; The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrier Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad around 700 BC imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western European culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances through periods of Greek, Roman, and Christian imperialism in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues. .

Madrid: Editora Nacional. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. 8427605080 . Bump to bottom corner of vol. 2. Else minor shelfwear to both volumes. ; ISBN: 8427605064 (v. 2) ISBN: 8427605072 (v. 1). Organized by the Asociación Espanola de Filosofía Medieval, Sept. 1972. Includes bibliographies. Articles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin. ; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; Vol. 1/2/2024; 1399 pages .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0198143524 . Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He also put together an anthology of epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred of his epigrams, showing considerable taste and elegance. He also wrote marginal notes on the Periegetes of Pausanias. After the death of Justinian… Read More

Turnhout: Brepols. Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 2503048811 . xviii, 499pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII (188) ; 499 pages .

Turnhout: Brepols. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 2503048838 . Very light shelfwear. ; lxxxi, 318pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII a (188 A) ; 318 pages .

Imprimerie Catholique. Good. 1971. Softcover. Spine browned. Tears and chipping to wraps with a bit of loss. Some pages corner creased. ; The Arabic text here presented is of importance for an adequate understanding of Alfarabi's thought and his technical terminology and for a better appreciation between Greek and Arabic philosophy. The grasp of the real significance of Greek terms in their Arabic context is indispensable for the study of the "Second Teacher's" subsequent commentaries on the Stagirite. Arabic Text. ; Recherches De L'Institut De Lettres Orientales De Beyrouth Tome XIII; 263 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1874-1875. Hardcover. Books have been rebound in attractive brown marbled boards. Rubbing to extremities. Pages are tanned. Light foxing throughout ; Text in Latin; Apparatus in Latin. 2 volume set. This edition was arranged by Viktor Gardthausen, and includes a dated list of Roman consuls for the years 353 through 380 AD. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Peter Lang Pub Inc. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0820456853 . Appears unread. Inner cover is date-stamped, otherwise as New condition. ; Where does a literary text originate and how is it formed? This book focuses on the author as the motivating agent of the text. It is conducted with reference to two texts from the end of the twelfth century in which the material selected by the author operates as the vehicle for the central ideas. The structure and amplification of the material bring the author's intention to the fore, clarifying and enhancing the initial conception of the work. Far from being a contrived and artificial framework, fiction is defined as a craft which organizes and glosses material, creating unity through authorial perspective. ; Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society; Vol. 59 .

Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press. Fair. 1921. Softcover. Gift inscription in ink to half-title "From H. J. Thomson - J. J. Savage". Some pencil notes. Spine cover torn. Tape stains to wraps. Spine has some tape to spine. Browning to wraps. Reading copy only. Contents shaken. ; St. Andrews University Publications, No. XIII; 185 pages .

Groningen. Near Fine. 2000. Softcover. Light shelfwear to wraps. Light bumping to spine ends. ; International Conference on the Ancient Novel, ICAN 2000.; 8vo; 139 pages .

University of Exeter Press. Fine. 2000. Softcover. 0859892565 . Ancrene Wisse (also Ancrene Riwle) or Guide for Anchoresses is a monastic rule (or manual) for anchorite nuns, written in the early 13th century; Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies; 192 pages .

Bristol Classical Press. Very Good. 1992. Softcover. 0715616900 . Small tear to base of spine. Light rubbing to wraps. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Duckworth Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Editions; 9.2 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches; 330 pages .

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802005772 . DJ protected in mylar covering. New reading of De Amore by Andreas Capellanus; 8vo; 194 pages .

Macmillan & Co. , Ltd. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Inner front hinge is cracked exposing webbing but textblock is firmly attached. Fraying to corners and spine ends. Former owner's details from Oct. 1934 on front free-endpaper. ; Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature; 167 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0521802105 . Dustjacket has a few tears along top of book. General edgewear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 30 includes: Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface; The illness of King Alfred the Great; The social context of narrative disruption in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College; 23 Psychomachia; Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts; Bibliography for 2000.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 30; 374 pages .

London: Guild Publishing Corp.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Not First Edition. Hardcover. Has remainder mark (permanent marker line on bottom text block). Mild Shelfwear. ; Over 200 Illustrations in colour and black and white, with background notes, maps and commentary. Oversize. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0521332028 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving very light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three recent discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated - as a variety of oral expression and as exemplified in a particular poet's treatment of a particular Latin source. A useful summary of the… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0521085578 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Keywords from the Contents: pre-Viking Age church in East anglia; Old english Orosius and latin texts; Origin of Standard Old English and Aethelwold's school; Beowulf; Andreas; Exodus and treasure of Pharaoh; vision of paradise: Old English Phoenix; Jonah story: narrative technique in Old English homilies; manuscript of Leiden riddle; northumbria and Book of Kells; Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor; Anglo-Saxon house. ; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 1; 344 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0521790719 . Corners lightly bumped. General shelfwear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon "migration myth"; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The "robed Christ" in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 29; 368 pages .