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The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history, and his advice is enduringly useful and entertaining.

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Using meticulous geographical analysis, Vinci shows that many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic.

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These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition.

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Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, this title offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. This book explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives.

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Gower wrote his vernacular poem Confessio Amantis at the same time as Chaucer embarked on The Canterbury Tales . It is therefore not overly surprising that Gower's poem is far less known today than Chaucer's. This study seeks to reinstate Confessio Amantis to its rightful place in the history of English literature by examining its ethics.

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Brings together the important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, to provide a contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. This book aims to understand the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures.

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Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.

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An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.

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A study of the use of architectural allegory to symbolize religious and ideological systems in the Middle Ages. Assessing major texts such as Chaucer's "House of Fame" as well as lesser-known works, it charts the evolution of this tradition in relation to social, political and religious contexts.

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This work brings together the disciplines of history and English literature to present interpretations of late 14th-century English society.

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This work looks at how Christine de Pizan's texts constantly negotiate the hierarchial and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. It places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity and categories of difference.

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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.

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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.

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The first cultural analysis of the secret literature of Spain's last Muslim communities.

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The first cultural analysis of the secret literature of Spain's last Muslim communities.

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This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious writing in English and their broader cultural significance.

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"Paperback reissue with a new introduction by Colin Burrow, 2013"--t.p. verso.

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The development of a modern' form of scientific enquiry occurred in the late Middle Ages and under the umbrella of Christianity, but Leupin argues that the desire to quantify and find empirical bases for things goes back much earlier than Galileo and Copernicus.

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Reveals the lack of historical basis for heterosexuality as the norm.