Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. DischAngouleme was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of sci...

In 1253, this collection of fictional tales was translated from Arabic into the language of thirteenth-century Spain. It is one of the purest survi...

A fresh and exciting approach to this great work of classical literature Henry Power provides an overview of the whole poem, key extracts from the ...

References to the past play a significant role on many levels in both modern and ancient societies. What societies choose to remember and how they ...

The Instructions are Saint Louis''s second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. ...

This edition of Urban T. Holmes, Jr.''s exploration of medieval man includes an introduction and has been edited by Holmes''s son, Urban T. Holmes,...

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana. Later, when the story of Arthur was trans...

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France''s narrative technique.

The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined wi...

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

La Chancun de Willame is an Old French epic poem written before 1150 concerning Vivien''s resistance to an invading Moslem army and the efforts of ...

Ajax, the archetypal Greek warrior, has over the years been trivialized as a peripheral character in the classics through Hollywood representati...

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written ...

Offers a powerful revisioning of the genesis of American literary history, revealing that from its earliest moments, American literature owes its d...

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English relig...

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu ...

This is a student edition with full Glossary of Old English poems, from manuscripts dated between A.D. 975 and 1060, which are based on liturgical ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval English literature and one of the finest Arthurian tales in any language. Though its i...