Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishi...

The battle of Maldon in 991 AD was a defeat. The Old English poem about it that survives, The Battle of Maldon, celebrates the extreme valour of By...

Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and h...

Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolific letter writers of late a...

Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation an...

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare...

This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa'd,...

This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers...

In a time of aggressive imperial expansion, Latin elegists expressed geographical concerns about boundaries and limits through masculine and femini...

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Rom...

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His pla...

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repe...

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their ...

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Horace's Satires, giving full Latin...

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the...

Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages - a curious compendium of cats unlike any you've ever lapped up before. Medieval Cats is the purr...

Taking the reader through the fragmentary text of Petronius Satyrica in a coherent sequence, this book gives a deeper understanding of the fascinat...

This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings alive one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. I...