Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athe...

Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow in a rang...

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmo...

The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Iceland...

Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose ro...

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of E...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's ...

Outstanding. - The Sunday Times Beautifully written. The Times Superbly adroit. The Spectator Excellent. BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastin...