Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the most pressing a...

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission. Romance was the most popular secul...

Essays bringing out the richness of the hitherto neglected Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland. ...

An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades. The interrelation of so-called literary and historical sources of the ...

New approaches to a range of Old English texts. Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked de...

This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin. Family int...

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a ...

Comprehensive survey of the legend of Charlemagne in the medieval German-speaking world. The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespr...

First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders,...

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman. The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plo...

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad re...

Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness ...

In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learningclassical Arabic and medi...

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature. During the Middle Ages, the li...

Modern theoretical approaches throw new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and other French texts from the Middle ...

Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval English Theatre ...

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating...

Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...

The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore. Medieval English Theatre is the premier ...

An examination of four written accounts of medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem. What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a yo...

A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature. In early English literature ca 700-1000 C.E., demons are represent...

Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triump...

An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the understudied Icelandic mappae mundi. The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn betwee...

A vast cabinet of curiosities.Stephen GreenblattEclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.Frederic Raphael, Literary Revi...