Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page...

The Sushén hòujì (Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena), attributed to the celebrated poet Táo Qián (365-427), is a compilation of anecdote...

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of official writings on behalf of the Crown. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awa...

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius presence in later prose writers, on the other ha...

In den Anfängen der Germanistik im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, die zunächst fast nur eine altgermanistische Philologie war, gehörten Übersetzungen nich...

Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human life and behavior, as well as in communication. This interdisciplinar...

10 Jahre nach der völlig neu ausgerichteten 15. Auflage der Lachmann-Cormeau-Ausgabe erscheint eine 16. Auflage. Der Herausgeber Thomas Bein hat ei...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contribut...

The triumphal procession determined the thoughts and actions of the Romans to a great extent. This applies not only to the period of the late Repu...

Clemency plays an important role among Livys concepts of value. This work offers a wide-ranging analysis of this virtue, in order to highlight its...

This anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast b...

Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R (mgf 1062 [Niederösterreich, ca. 1280]) enthält zehn Lieder, zu denen am Blattrand Strophen nachgetragen sind. ...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

In den bisherigen Entwürfen einer Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des Neids gilt das späte 18. Jahrhundert als Wendepunkt: Während mittelalterliche...

The fourth volume in the Petra Papyri series, the scholarly publication meticulously documenting, translating and interpreting the information reco...

This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from it...

This is the third volume in the series of commentaries on Early Greek Epic Fragments (EGEF III). It contains introduction, text, translation, and c...

Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer co...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional govern...

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the ...

Panegyrik ist der wohl prägendste Sprechgestus spätantiker Literatur und basiert auf einem Kommunikationsgefälle zwischen laudator und laudandus. W...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news i...

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyn...

This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and...

Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. ...

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last deca...

Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the...

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new a...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der um 1410 im Umkreis des Konstanzer Bischofshofs entstandenen Verserzählung Der Ring von Heinrich Wittenw...

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdiscip...

The Göttinger Forum was founded in 1998 as a free, electronic publication and alternative to conventional journals. The GFA contains multi-discipli...