Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corps...

This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic ...

The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of produ...

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings ...

In 1401 Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of L...

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range...