Language & Literature
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Four Byzantine Novels [Hardback]
Elizabeth Jeffreys (Translator)
£75.00ISBN: 9781846318252
Published by : Liverpool University Press
This volume is first in a new series of "Translated Texts for Byzantinists", modelled on Liverpool's long-running Translated Texts for Historians. It contains prose translations of four novels composed in Constantinople ... .... Learn More -
Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte: Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer [Hardback]
Shabo Talay (Editor); Hartmut Bobzin (Editor)
£51.00ISBN: 9783895007194
Published by : Reichert Verlag
English summary: This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Orien... .... Learn More -
Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie) [Hardback]
Francisco del Rio Sanchez (Author)
£98.00ISBN: 9783895006289
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients
Volume: 16
The library of the George & Mathilde Salem Foundation (Aleppo) is one of the most important private collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. It contains 547 volumes in Arabic, Syriac and other languages about Christian and Islamic t... .... Learn More -
Traces of Song: Selections from Ancient Arabic Poetry [Paperback]
Walid Khazendar (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780954497552
Published by : St John's College Research Centre
This book brings together two of the most important and fascinating art forms in Arabic culture: poetry and calligraphic painting. Walid Khazendar, one of the leading poets in the Arab world, has selected and translated into English twenty-five... .... Learn More -
Macedonius Consul: The Epigrams [Paperback]
John Madden (Editor)
Regular Price: £28.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9783487100593
Published by : Georg Olms Verlag
Macedonius Consul is the author of forty one epigrams preserved in the Greek Anthology, and belonged to the court of Justinian at Constantinople. The epigrams were published in 567 by Agathias in his collection of contemporary epi... .... Learn More -
Poems of Alcimus Acdicius Avitus [Hardback]
George W. Shea (Translator)
Regular Price: £21.00
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9780866982146
Published by : Arizona State University
Presents an English translation of the six poems of Avitus, the sixth century Bishop of Vienne, along with their two related prologues addressed to his brother-in-law Sidonius Apollinaris. The first five provide narratives on Biblical themes, the ... .... Learn More -
Gregory of Nazianzus: Autobiographical Poems [Hardback]
Carolinne White (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780521472814
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Gregory of Nazianzus was one of the three leading orthodox Christians in the Greek church of the fourth century. Although his sermons are widely known he also wrote thousands of lines of verse. Here his autobiograpghical poems are presented in ... .... Learn More -
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Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecution [Paperback]
John Moorhead (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780853231271
Published by : Liverpool University Press
This account of the Vandal persecutions of the Christian inhabitants of North Africa was written in 484. It reflects the attitudes of a community able to look on the activities of the Vandals as merely one chapter in a long history of persecution. .... Learn More -
Cassiodorus: Cassiodorus [Paperback]
S. J. B. Barnish (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780853234364
Published by : Liverpool University Press
Cassiodorus's Variae have not been issued in translation since 1886. Presented in the form of letters, they are a major source for late Roman government and on the cultural attitudes of the time; and they are a mine of information on the inter... .... Learn More