Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

Described as the most beautiful book ever printed previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious lite...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western liter...

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a...

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. I...

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...