Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The Shepherd of Hermas (70-150 CE) is one of the oldest Christian works from a major urban center. While the majority of manuscript evidence of the...

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth centurys intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Mi...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Mi...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early ...

This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of B...

That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicer...

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek langua...

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines ...

'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunt...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medie...

The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the...

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature ...

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshol...

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one ...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish,...

This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female...

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, pa...

Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through ...

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings th...