Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The riddles collected in the Exeter Book anthology form a distinct subset of Old English literature. Their provenance and concerns range from the l...

This book focuses on the development of Attic comedy as it is evinced in four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes: Polyidus, Daedalus, Aeolosicon, an...

Reminding readers of John Drydens persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Drydens otherworldliness involves more than Chri...

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholar...

Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples approaches poems as acts of cultural identity and investigates how a group of authors used poetry to dev...

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacem...

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. ...

In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common ...

This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contempor...

What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language...

This book is the first study to focus on a metaliterary interpretation of Maximianus Elegies, and aims to fill a major gap in international literat...

From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Greats global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of...

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous me...

Offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Games with a medieval setting are commercially lucra...

The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of...

Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, rel...

This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret...

The aim of this book is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as def...

This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The stu...

This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitb al-Madal, which opens Avicennas (d. 1037) most comprehensive s...

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volumes contributi...

Why do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contempo...

Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two ver...

This book focus on Athenian art in the second half of the fifth century, one of the most important periods of ancient art. Including papers on arch...

The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has r...

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of medieval Med...

A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counter...

A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counter...

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narrat...

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historia...

In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These develo...

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychos...

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and med...

The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. ...

For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Ce...