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Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics
Continuum International Publishing 1993; US$ 100.00This collection of essays brings together into one volume papers from the Society of Biblical Literature meetings in 1990 and 1991. This volume divides itself neatly into two sections. Part I, Verbal Aspect, includes two major presentations and responses on the topic of Greek verbal aspect. The subject is an important one, and one that promises not... more...
Bede and the End of Time
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and his writings had a profound influence on the development of English Christian thought. Taking account of his beliefs about the end of time, this book offers sophisticated insights into his life, his works and the role that eschatological thought played in Anglo-Saxon... more...
Matthias Bergius (1536-1592)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 107.84Hauptbeschreibung Matthias Bergius (1536-1592), langjähriger Rektor der Katharinenschule in Braunschweig und später Universitätsprofessor in Altdorf, hinterließ als leidenschaftlicher Anhänger der Reformation ein umfangreiches Werk, das zum einen, in hohem Maße anlass- und zeitgebunden, den Glaubensstreit des konfessionellen Zeitalters widerspiegelt,... more...
The Silent Masters
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 50.00In the tension between competing ideas of authority and the urge to literary experiment, writers of the High Middle Ages produced some of their most distinctive achievements. This book examines these themes in the high culture of Western Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, showing how the intimate links between the writer and the censor,... more...
The Harmonious Organ of Sedulius Scottus
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00This book introduces and translates Sedulius Scottus? Prologue to his Collectaneum in Apostolum and his commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians. The introduction outlines the historical context of composition, identifies Sedulius? literary model - Servius, explains pertinent philological and stylistic issues of Sedulius? Latin, explores his use of... more...
Der Jedermann im 16. Jahrhundert
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00This work presents, for the first time together, two early modern everyman plays in which the radical changes of the Reformation era are reflected- a distinctive excerpt from a history of subject matter that reaches from the late antiquity to Hofmannsthal and further to Philip Roth. The introduction, translation and commentary make the works available... more...
Späthumanismus in Schlesien
De Gruyter 1994; US$ 154.00Sp Thumanismus in Schlesien: Caspar Dornau (1577-1631). Leben Und Werk. more...
Bucolica - Fünf Eklogen
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 133.00One of the most neglected areas of German humanism is the tradition of pastoral poetry in New Latin modeled on Virgil`s eclogues. Among the most prominent New Latin bucolic poets is Simon Lemnius (1511-1550), best known otherwise for his earlier poetic broadsides against Luther. The present edition is a major step towards a better understanding and... more...
John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 95.00John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose,... more...
It's Still Greek to Me
Baker Publishing Group 1998; US$ 21.99Proof that learning grammar doesn't have to be boring. This easy-to-understand and humorous guide is for students in their second year of Greek study. more...









