Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Books

Hartford: An Epic Poem is a literary work written by William Colegrove and published in 1905. The book is a poetic tribute to the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and its rich history. Through vivid imagery and lyrical language, the author takes the reader...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This essential and widely used collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, presents new translations of two visions and newly edited versions of previously translated ones. Describes the place of these works in medieval literature and...

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this...

Liber ""Emendationes In Suidam Et Hesychium V2: Et Alios Lexicographos Graecos (1790)"" auctore Toup, Jonathan, est opus quod emendationes continet in Suidam et Hesychium, duo lexica Graeca, ac alios lexicographos Graecos. Hoc opus in duas partes...

Barnabae Epistula est liber qui integram Graece iterum edidit, auctore Hilgenfeld Adolpho. In hoc libro, veterem interpretationem Latinam, commentarium criticum et adnotationes continet. Opus anno MDCCCLXXVII editum est.This scarce antiquarian book is a...

Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863) is a book in the English language by Aristoteles.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this...

De Zeden Der Wilden Van Amerika is een boek geschreven door Joseph-Francois La Fiteau in 1731. Het boek beschrijft de levenswijze en gebruiken van de inheemse volkeren van Noord-Amerika, zoals de Iroquois, Huron en Algonquin. La Fiteau beschrijft onder...

""Aristoteles Philosophie Der Kunst"" ist ein Buch des deutschen Philosophen Gustav Teichmuller aus dem Jahr 1869. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Philosophie des antiken griechischen Philosophen Aristoteles in Bezug auf Kunst und �����sthetik...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Aristoteles �����ber Kunst, besonders �����ber Trag������die"" (1870) von Joseph Hubert Reinkens ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die aristotelische �����sthetik, insbesondere �����ber die Trag������die. Das Buch untersucht die verschiedenen...

""A Historical Account Of The Heathen Gods And Heroes, Necessary For The Understanding Of The Ancient Poets"" is a book written by William King and published in 1772. It is a comprehensive study of the mythology and legends surrounding the gods and...

The Anglo-Norman Poem On The Conquest Of Ireland By Henry The Second is a historical work written by Francisque Michel in 1837. The book is a translation of a medieval poem that describes the conquest of Ireland by King Henry II of England in the 12th...

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in Genesis A, Genesis B, and Beowulf, exploring the manner whereby the texts adapt biblical myth with reference to the Christian...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

""Genesis And Its Authorship: Two Dissertations"" is a book written by John Quarry in 1873. The book consists of two separate dissertations, both of which focus on the book of Genesis in the Bible. The first dissertation explores the authorship of...

Fo-Ka, Parties 1 et 2: Ou Les M�����tamorphoses, Conte Chinois (1777) de Baret, Paul est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de Fo-Ka, un jeune homme qui vit dans la Chine ancienne. Fo-Ka est un homme tr�����s ambitieux qui souhaite devenir riche et...

Libri quinque Consolationis Philosophiae Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii sunt opus magnum quod auctore Boethio scriptum est. In hoc libro, Boethius, qui erat senator Romanus, de tristitia et dolore loquitur. Consolationis Philosophiae est tractatus de...

La Collection D'Anciens Evangiles: Ou Monumens Du Premier Siecle Du Christianisme, Extraits De Fabricius, Grabius Et Autres Savans (1769) de Voltaire est un livre qui rassemble des extraits d'�����vangiles anciens du premier si�����cle du christianisme...

Cicero's Cato Major et Laelius: cum notis criticis et philologicis (1818) est opus quod continet duos dialogos Ciceronis, Cato Maiorem et Laelium. In Cato Maiore, Cato senex disputat cum Scipione Africano de virtute, senectute et morte. In Laelio,...

Christian Songs, Translations, And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by James Gilborne Lyons and published in 1861. The book includes a variety of religious poems, including hymns and translations of Latin hymns. Additionally, the collection...

Christ and Antichrist is a poem written by an anonymous author who identifies himself only as ""A Layman."" The poem is divided into seven cantos and was first published in 1840. The work is a religious allegory that tells the story of the struggle...

Ceres and Persephone, A Child Play: With The Hymn To Demeter (1902) is a play written by Maud Menefee. The play is based on the Greek myth of Ceres and Persephone, in which Persephone, the daughter of Ceres, is abducted by Hades and taken to the...

""Celtic Manuscript In Relation To The Macpherson Fraud: With A Review Of Professor Freeman�������s Criticism Of The Viking Age"" is a scholarly work by James Cruikshank Roger, published in 1890. The book explores the relationship between Celtic...

Bibliothecae Sanskritae Sive Recensus Librorum Sanskritorum Hucusque Typis Vel Lapide Exscriptorum Critici Specimen est opus Ioannis Gildemeister, quod anno MDCCCXLVII editum est. In hoc libro, auctor recenset libros Sanskritos, qui usque ad tempora sua...

Il libro ""Biblioteca Ecclesiastica e di Varia Letteratura Antica e Moderna V1"" del 1790, scritto da un autore anonimo, ����� un'opera che raccoglie una vasta selezione di testi appartenenti alla letteratura ecclesiastica e non solo. La raccolta...

Johann Christophori Wolfii Curae Philologicae et Criticae in IV Priores S. Pavli Epistolas Part 1 (1732) est liber qui auctore Wolf, Johann Christopho scriptus est. In hoc libro, auctor curas suas philologicas et criticas in quattuor priores epistolas...

Sophista est liber qui intitulatur ""Lexicon Homericum"" auctore Apollonio Sophista. In hoc libro, auctor explicat vocabula et locutiones quae in carminibus Homeri occurrunt. Opus est divulgatum anno MDCCCXXXIII et continet multas paginas. Apollonius...

King Arthur and the Myth of History considers why, in the 12th century, tales of a 6th-century British king who achieved immortality in an apparently hopeless struggle to repel Saxon invaders, suddenly emerged full blown, virtually from nowhere. Further,...

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the...

This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire, who have long been over-shadowed by the pre-eminence...

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is...

In The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700, Nancy Bradley Warren expands on the topic of female spirituality, first explored in her book Women of God and Arms, to encompass broad issues...

Agnes of Harcourt is an important though little-known 13th-century author. Born into a leading Norman noble family, she became an abbess at the new royal Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, founded just outside of Paris by Isabelle of France, sister of Louis...

A Courtier's Mirror establishes the unique importance of Thomasin von Zerclaere's Welscher Gast as a document of social practices and concerns in medieval German-speaking court society. This epic-length illustrated didactic poem enjoyed immense...

For centuries England's writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the...

In The Claims of Poverty, Kate Crassons explores a widespread ideological crisis concerning poverty that emerged in the aftermath of the plague in late medieval England. She identifies poverty as a central preoccupation in texts ranging from Piers...

In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with finely detailed and insightful close readings to...

Le livre intitul����� ""Le Po�����te Sans Fard, Ou Discours Satiriques En Vers (1697)"" est �����crit par Fran�����ois Gacon. Il s'agit d'un recueil de po�����mes satiriques qui ont �����t����� publi�����s pour la premi�����re fois en 1697. Les...

Ladakhi Songs is a book written by H. Francke and published in 1899. The book is a collection of traditional songs from the Ladakh region of India, which is located in the northernmost part of the country. The Ladakhi people have a rich cultural...

""Aristotelische Schriftstellen, Buch 1: Zur Nikomachischen Ethik (1864)"" von Moritz Vermehren ist eine Sammlung von Schriftstellen des antiken griechischen Philosophen Aristoteles, die sich auf seine ""Nikomachische Ethik"" beziehen. Die...