Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign ...

First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of way...

In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir ...

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints'' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of sa...

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto''s Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italia...

Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne is a portion of a medieval Arthurian prose romance extracted from a longer work entitled La Suite du Merlin. Editor P...

The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period....

D. J. Conlon examines Guy of Warwick, a popular thirteenth century Saxon legend adapted into Anglo-French prose in the fourteenth century.

This is a critical edition of an adaptation of the Discipline Clericalis, the first western collection of eastern apologues, written between 1105 a...

In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust engages the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, the corpus mysticum of the medieva...

Only a few plays by Sophocles - one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens - have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from ...

A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for...

A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for...

Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterf...