Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produce...

The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classic...

The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classic...

This is the first new critical edition of De beneficiis in almost 100 years, based on a fresh examination of the extant archetype (N) and on more e...

'[A] fascinating new study builds a compelling case for the unique contribution of medieval and early modern girls to a number of cultural spheres...

In the early Middle Ages Naples underwent huge changes. She was able to acquire complete independence from the Byzantine Empire and to emerge as on...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public ...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary...

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

Described as the most beautiful book ever printed previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious lite...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western liter...

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a...

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. I...

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Matthew Wright brings Menanders Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-...

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intende...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, co...

Understanding what something is is a project that has long occupied philosophers. Perhaps no thinker in the Western tradition has had more influenc...

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage wit...

Yu Xuanji (c. 843-868) is one of the most interesting poets in premodern Chinese literature, and her approximately fifty extant poems include some ...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twel...

In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccios significant contribution to literary history remains under...

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporari...