Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European n...

This book blurs the line between high and low culture throughout literary history. The common story in literary studies is that the emergence of po...

The popular fascination with dragons and dragon slayers is manifest in the endlessly repeated plots of sword-and-sorcery romances and in the mass-p...

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviatin...

Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was w...

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Agesthe volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloisebecame the parents of their so...

The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficu...

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Ciceros presence in the cultural history of Basel from the citys foundation to...

Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing ph...

This latest volume from accomplished literary critic Franco Ferrari offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the ...

Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the...

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the r...

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become a...

The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for its inconsistencies. And this is what gives the Glo...

How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by fe...

Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac i...