Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This is Volume IX of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol VI, includes the genealogical table of the Sasan...

First published in 1934, this book covers a broad array of ancient Greek literature, taking into account the most acknowledged of the Greek authors...

Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and th...

This is Volume IV of a collection of thirteen on Persia. Originally published in 1905, this text looks at the first part of the SHÁHNÁMA OF FIRDAUS...

The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period o...

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Ch...

First Published in 2000. This is Volume VIII of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol V, includes Kaianian ...

Conspiracy theory as a theoretical framework has emerged only in the last twenty years; commentators are finding it a productive way to explain the...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary response...

Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflection, ranging from the 16th century to the 20th,...

There is no city in history more evocative than Troy. Since the famous poet Homer wrote his Iliad and Odyssey in the 8th century BC, many others ha...

This is Volume V of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol II, includes the Kaianian Dynasty, Kai Kaus and t...

First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old...

First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol III, includes the Kaian...

Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explo...

The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed ...

First Published in 2000. This is Volume XII of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol IX, includes the Sasan...

This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old ...

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices...

An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two...

This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John F...

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of T...

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterby Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Can...

The Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural ...