Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Accompanied by a new translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics X, this volume presents a hybrid between a traditional commentary and a scholarl...

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Med...

A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript. Extravagantly he...

Addendum to vol. 29 (2017)Cover illustration: Marginal miniature by Nikolaus Glockendon in the Festevangelistar of Michelfeld Abbey, 1515-1520 (Nür...

In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the ...

During the Middle Ages, Mary was the most powerful of saints, and the combination of her humanity and her proximity to the divine captured the medi...

The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the authors earliest works. After his d...

Speeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek period (fifth to fourth century...

Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature, emphasising the vibrancy of the field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work ...

New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. ...

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in which Gower's wo...

The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity. The Canterbury...

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at ...

New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded...

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan. The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the me...

A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle English poems con...

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a...

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a maj...

A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Re...

An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be...