Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical persp...

Examines how Armenia has been represented and imagined in texts from two periods in its history: the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century. Toda...

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, thi...

Although ancient Greek festivals are well understood on the basis of textual evidence, there is no up-to-date or sustained treatment of these dyna...

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English stage. Shaw and Euripides ar...

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly provides a scholarly review of Gree...

In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen in einem Korpus mittelhochdeutscher Artusromane mit computergestützten Methoden, insbesond...

John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life and his works f...

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then polemic is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevita...

Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and th...

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of ess...