Zbirka: Klasična zgodnja in srednjeveška
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Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens(2018) BARRENECHEA, FRANCISCO (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK)A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious experiences (oracles, healings, epiphanies) to engage with the religious discourse of his time, with a particular focus on the comedy Wealth. This book opens upVezava: Trda123,83 € -
Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England(2017) NOVACICH, SARAH ELLIOTT (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY)Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows how medieval writers and artists pondered ways of preserving and transmitting the past, and considered the pleVezava: Trda83,89 € -
Boastful Chef(2000) WILKINS, JOHN (SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets soughVezava: Trda405,33 € -
How Dead Languages Work(2020) GEORGE, COULTER H. (PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS, PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA)Different languages have different personalities, and there is a lot that can be lost in translation. This volume offers an engaging and accessible introduction to six ancient and medieval languages, introducing their most distinctive features and showingVezava: Trda47,51 € -
Dragon in the West(2021) OGDEN, DANIEL (PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in contemporary fiction and cinema, Ogden reveals how the dragon was known to the ancient Greek and Roman worlVezava: Trda81,24 € -
Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATESVolume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek(2019) VAN EMDE BOAS, EVERT (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),RIJKSBARON, ALBERT (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM),HUITINK, LUUK (UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN),DE BAKKER, MATHIEU (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM)This entirely new, comprehensive reference grammar of Classical Greek is aimed at students, teachers and academics. It combines traditional grammatical description with the latest insights from Greek and general linguistics, covering morphology, syntax, aVezava: Mehka70,33 € -
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity(2022) DERBEW, SARAH F. (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS)Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while critiquing modern classical misappropriations which retroactively project contemporary theories of race and skin color onto archaic settVezava: Trda47,88 € -
The Devil's Historians - How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past(2020) AMY KAUFMANVezava: Mehka37,41 € -
Rebel Angels(2021) FITZGERALD, JILL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to exprVezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England(2021) PERKINS, NICHOLASThis critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholarsVezava: Trda77,52 € -
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Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation(2022) MILES, PROFESSOR LAURA SAETVEITWinner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryWinner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies AwardAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary'sVezava: Mehka58,55 € -
Medievalism: a Critical History(2017) MATTHEWS, PROFESSOR DAVID (DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES)An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.Vezava: Mehka38,60 € -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain(2021) JEFFS, AMYA vivid and beautifully illustrated mythology of the British Isles - reframing ancient stories that deal with human themes of extinction, connection to landscape, parenthood, defiance, love and loss.Vezava: Trda41,58 € -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain(2022) JEFFS, AMYA vivid and beautifully illustrated mythology of the British Isles - reframing ancient stories that deal with human themes of extinction, connection to landscape, parenthood, defiance, love and loss.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250(2021) LAZIKANI, A. S.This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. Across eight chapters, the book examines the dialogic encounters generated by comparative readings of Muhyddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240), ‘Umar IbVezava: Trda100,31 € -
Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours(2020) NAGY, GREGORYThe ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’sVezava: Mehka38,13 €
