Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors represent Latin, Slavic, En...

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybrid...

Demosthenes oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political ...

Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction introduces and analyses the reception of classical antiquity in contemporary science fiction. By ...

This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works ...

Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradati...

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating...

The word medieval is often used in a negative way when talking about contemporary issues. Why the Middle Ages Matter refreshes our thinking about t...

This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered th...

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published i...

Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works and archival evidence. Prof...

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations...

One of the few texts written in the twilight years of Henry VIs reign, John Hardyngs first Chronicle, completed in 1457, offers the observations, h...

This edition presents for the first time newly edited and translated versions of the texts known collectively as the Katherine Group, contained in ...

A la fin du dix-huitième siècle, le médiévisme paraît scindé en deux courants distincts: lun fondé sur une érudition sèche, lautre se jouant des co...

Composed around 1250 by an unknown author in the region of Orléans, the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses is the most widely disseminated ...

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social ci...

This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of...

This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered th...

THIS WAS DRAWYN BY A KNYGHT PRESONER, SIR THOMAS MALLEORE, THAT GOD SENDE HYM GOOD RECOVER. In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian ...

Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique set of histories. The Getica narrates the history of the Goths from their earliest origins until the mid...

Composed toward the end of the fourteenth century, the anonymous Sir Torrent of Portingale is a Middle English romance defined by its outsized prop...

Named for the former owners of the manuscript containing them, the Towneley Plays present some of the best-known examples of Middle English drama. ...

Brunetto Latini's La rettorica is the first Italian translation of Cicero's early and widely influential De inventione, and this volume is a transl...

Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some for...

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinkas engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the firs...

Ovids Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city,...

The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance claims in the Athenian courts...

In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. ...

The six Latin Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer ('Terence'), written in the earlier second century BC, were well known in the ancient Roman world ...

Over the last few decades, the field of trauma studies has shed new light on biblical texts that deal with individual and collective catastrophe. I...