Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by P...

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essa...

This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on...

Aristotle, Rhetoric II: A Commentary completes the acclaimed work undertaken by the author in his first (1980) volume on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. The ...

Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, an...

The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an i...

In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history ...

Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, a...

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical G...

Many books discuss the theology and doctrine of the medieval liturgy: there is no dearth of information on the history of the liturgy, the structur...

A long-awaited reevaluation of Chaucer through the lens of sacrifice by a major figure in medieval studiesHistoricism and its discontents have long...

This anthology features nearly 300 works in 14 linguistic areas: Latin hymns and lyrics from 800 to 1300...Carmina Burana...Proven al lyrics...Ital...

This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "...

The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.

The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. ...

The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. ...

By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants o...

Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A...

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition mig...

Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in...