Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

From Pulitzer Prizewinner Garry Wills, the story of Augustines ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry W...

An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchants son became one of the most celebrated of all English writers...

Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative...

First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle Ages, giving insights into classical reception. Images of Minerva, the Roman godd...

New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages, highlighting their diversity and sophistication. From the great age of pastoral expansion ...

Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably wr...

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

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

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

Reveals the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the 9-17th centuries This collection brings together 14 es...

Seminal investigations into the most important aspects of medieval Scots texts, with a particular focus on editing and manuscript context. This ri...

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England. The barks, hoots and howls of animals and...

An exciting new approach to one of the most important texts of medieval Europe. The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold across the ag...

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

Essays on important topics in early music. Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars and performers of medieval m...

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...

Essays on aspects of early drama. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of inte...

Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts. The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of vario...

A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancie...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...