Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largely oversha...

Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from ...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeograph...

High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma ofhis life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the TrojanWar? A fathers se...

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions - what motivated Augustine to di...

A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poe...

Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection. The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of...

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of encounter te...

The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood ...

The presence of repetitions is a typical formal feature of the Homeric poems, a type of poetry that, before reaching a written version, has been o...

Il presente volume intende indagare la tematica dellars dictaminis secondo un approccio di impianto codicologico e paleografico, ovvero attraverso...

Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspi...

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were des...

Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: it's magical and...

An exploration of Stoicisms central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem t...