Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production...

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published i...

The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial ...

Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political r...

A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It e...

Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...

Gallus Reborn is the first comprehensive study of the publication history and reception of the works that have been attributed to Gaius Cornelius G...

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

Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part ...

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty,...

First published in 1988, David Aers explores the treatment of community, gender, and individual identity in English writing between 1360 and 1430, ...

The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the Song of Songs, the ...

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists unde...

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spains fall from imperial ...

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the ...

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the frag...

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the mediev...

Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of ...

Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and mode...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...