Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black...

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (r. 12261270) was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the...

Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (11331189) and an original contribution to our understan...

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Romes first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another mans wife and made it known to t...

Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word dating, which usuall...

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical ...

A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflect...

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of role...

Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century,...

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) A thrilling an...

In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prio...

One of the leading scholars of Greek literature over the past decades, Luigi Enrico Rossi (1933-2009) opened new fields of research and influenced ...

Athenaeus Deipnosophists (The Learned Banqueters) is a major Imperial period Greek text in and of itself, but also a source of thousands of fragme...

Here lies entombed the renowned King Arthur in the island of Avalon. Inscription found at Glastonbury in the late 12th century King Arthur most pr...