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Der jesuitische Heroidenbrief
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 280.00Between 1514 and 1663 the genre known as Heroides, coined by Ovid, was maintained almost entirely by modern Latin poets. This book considers the period, which has up to now remained almost unheeded in the history of the genre. It looks at the collections of epistles by relevant authors (Eobanus Hessus, Andreas Alenus, Jacob Bidermann, Baudouin Cabiliau,... more...
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 40.00A unique perspective on the Arthurian tradition with particular focus on Geoffrey of Monmouth. more...
Complete New Testament Greek
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 35.18All you need to read, write and understand New Testament Greek. more...
The Singing Masters
The Lilliput Press 1990; US$ 10.19Fascinating... a delight not to be missed. It's a rare treat indeed to find such an honest, penetrating, wise and thoughtful autobiobiography.' - Eilís Dillon, The Irish Times 'A beautifully-written book.' - Benedict Kiely, Sunday Independent 'Wonderfully lyrical... and extremely well written. It is haunting and memorable. When you finish it, you... more...
Prescribing Ovid
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 36.99Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, as much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely... more...
Alcuin
BRILL 2004; US$ 223.00An intellectual biography of Alcuin, the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne. It examines his early years in Northumbria and his time at the Carolingian court, reassessing the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, and the significance of his large output. more...
In the footsteps of the ancients
BRILL 2000; US$ 138.00This study shows the stages of intellectual development through which humanism emerged as a European phenomenon. An investigation of humanist culture in Italy between 1260 and 1340 shows how classical Roman rhetorical forms took root in Italy two generations before Petrarch. more...
Andreas Capellanus on Love?
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00A new look at Andreas Capellanus's De amore. more...
Die Dramen Jacob Lochers und die frühe Humanistenbühne im süddeutschen Raum
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 224.00The dramatic works of Jacob Locher (1471-1528) have largely fallen into oblivion. Introduced here in chronological order, they are set within their cultural contexts. In 1495, Jacob Locher was the first German author to stage a tragedy on the classical model. His stage presentations of contemporary events placed the theatre as a means of influencing... more...
Das lateinische Drama der Frühen Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 147.00The Early Modern Age (15th?18th cents) saw the appearance of a vast number of Latin plays. The papers collected in this volume analyse exemplars of individual dramas or complexes of dramas to provide insights into the fundamental structures of the genre, but also into differences determined by history, denomination and function. Attention is also paid... more...









