Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a language of instruction and, from the thirteenth century ...

Anglo-Saxon lexicography studies Latin texts and words. The earliest English lexicographers are largely unidentifiable students, teachers, scholars...

The Displacement of the Body in Ãlfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source mate...

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes ...

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England...

Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source ...

The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and...

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impote...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impote...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impote...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

This book adds to an international bibliography specialised on the reception of Homer, including studies on Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian and Arge...

The riddles collected in the Exeter Book anthology form a distinct subset of Old English literature. Their provenance and concerns range from the l...

This book focuses on the development of Attic comedy as it is evinced in four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes: Polyidus, Daedalus, Aeolosicon, an...

Reminding readers of John Drydens persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Drydens otherworldliness involves more than Chri...

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholar...

Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples approaches poems as acts of cultural identity and investigates how a group of authors used poetry to dev...

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacem...

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. ...

In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common ...

This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contempor...

What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language...