Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle Eng...

A full survey of the Last Things as treated in a wide range of Old Norse literature. The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamen...

Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of th...

A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue. The Willoughby...

Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu's avat...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeare...

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right...

Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small ...

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity o...

The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed ...

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Itali...

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with i...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gre...

Lange als rein rezipierende und damit zu vernachlässigende Vertreter der antiken Philosophie angesehen, werden die philosophischen Werke von Römern...

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature ...

The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its ...