Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth centuries, are unusual because most vernacular ...

Zimmerman presents a new edition of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, also known as Asinus Aureus ('The Golden Ass'), which was written in the second centur...

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways...

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporari...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are not available for purchase. Pero López de Ayalas Chronicle of King Pedro provides a compelli...

Book XVI of Tacitus' Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian's monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from...

This critical edition of the 1131 La Passion Nostre Seigneur offers comprehensive English-language annotation and a glossary as ancillary materials...

The first work of genuine literary merit in Old French is the Vie de saint Alexis, and later reworkings of it attest to its popularity. This volume...

Through close readings of eight tales from the Conde Lucanor, Anibal A. Biglieri offers the foundation for a Poetics of short didactic narratives. ...

Part one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De...

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal wi...

After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyr...

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait''s French version ...

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut''s important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies an acrostic connecting the earli...

This volume contains fifteen essays, primarily in the areas of Romance philology and medieval literature, by former students, colleagues, and disti...

This study is an attempt to furnish data for our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions, particularly o...

In her study of Marie de France''s twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Chr...

Earthly Honest Things brings together the complete shorter writings of a leading international authority on William Langland. Of A. V. C. Schmidt''...

A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This ill...