Overview :The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of... Read More
Overview :Goodnight Hockey is the perfect bedtime board book for every hockey fan The rhyming text, exciting illustrations, and classic sport combina... Read More
Overview :'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies' downfall first' In a series ... Read More
Overview :The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of ... Read More
Overview :This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. It... Read More
Overview :Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only med... Read More
Overview :"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English,... Read More
Overview :A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance--Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Casti... Read More
Overview :In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles ... Read More
Overview :Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy... Read More
Overview :Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks w... Read More
Overview :Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities--and a killer on the loose--she's lea... Read More
Overview :Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introdu... Read More
Overview :Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a brilliant mystery set in a fictitious medieval monastery. The text is rich with literary, historical... Read More
Overview :The vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960-980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because... Read More
Overview :Cicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspir... Read More
Overview :This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly ... Read More
Overview :The bestselling saga of Eirik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and the first American explorers The all-time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Cla... Read More