Sebastian Scharff's Books

Approaches Hellenistic sport from the perspective of the athletes and horse owners and their sponsors. Analyzing victory poems as commissioned work, the book reveals the wider social and political impact of athletic achievements at the level of the polis, the region and the empire.

Presents unqiue portraits of many of the world's most influential artists.

Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations.

In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited its recipients to think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways.

Reveals the ways in which athletic self-presentation was used to deliver political messages and to increase social status.

Book's by Sebastian Scharff

Hellenistic Athletes

Hellenistic Athletes

A Pocketful of Contemporary Artists

A Pocketful of Contemporary Artists

The Ship of Fools

The Ship of Fools

Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages

Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages

Hellenistic Athletes

Hellenistic Athletes

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