Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

First volume in a new edition of Douglas's Eneados, providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the...

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cult...

The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglass The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunba...

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from...

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance again...

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance again...

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection know...

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemp...

Laudat poeta multa loca pulcherrima, quae vidit visitavitque in multis orbis terrarum partibus. Alloquitur autem amicos, inter quos poetas philosop...

Offers a new theory of history through an original reading of Lucretius' De Rerum NaturaFor Lucretius, history means something surprisingly differe...

Ovid's stories melt moral conventions, explore ambiguities, and dissolve boundaries between men, women, animals, gods, plants, and the mineral worl...

First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value. The Book of the Duchess, ...

Patrick Paul Hogans A Student Commentary on Pausanias, Book 1, introduces the first book of Pausanias Description of Greece to students of Classica...

Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from anc...

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends tha...

These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a va...

Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, The Big Red Book is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Suf...

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones ...

Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thu...

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, rough...