Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

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...