Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eat...

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, ...

Justin Martyrs Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the de...

The legendary story of Beowulf comes to us in only one medieval manuscript with no illustrations. Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have ...

Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual functions, taking as...

Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian...

Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucers art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspect...

Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintent...

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five mille...

Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro ofrece una selección de obras literarias de ocho escritoras medievales, renace...

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poets workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse re...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scola...

How to write a speech in ancient Greek.This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285312) tha...

Arators Historia Apostolica, published with papal approval and to great acclaim in 544, is an enthralling epic poem which retells the story of the ...

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. During the long fifteenth c...

Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also ...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devot...