Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Clemency plays an important role among Livys concepts of value. This work offers a wide-ranging analysis of this virtue, in order to highlight its...

This anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast b...

Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R (mgf 1062 [Niederösterreich, ca. 1280]) enthält zehn Lieder, zu denen am Blattrand Strophen nachgetragen sind. ...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

In den bisherigen Entwürfen einer Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des Neids gilt das späte 18. Jahrhundert als Wendepunkt: Während mittelalterliche...

The fourth volume in the Petra Papyri series, the scholarly publication meticulously documenting, translating and interpreting the information reco...

This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from it...

This is the third volume in the series of commentaries on Early Greek Epic Fragments (EGEF III). It contains introduction, text, translation, and c...

Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer co...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional govern...

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the ...

Panegyrik ist der wohl prägendste Sprechgestus spätantiker Literatur und basiert auf einem Kommunikationsgefälle zwischen laudator und laudandus. W...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news i...

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyn...

This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and...

Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. ...

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last deca...

Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the...

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new a...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der um 1410 im Umkreis des Konstanzer Bischofshofs entstandenen Verserzählung Der Ring von Heinrich Wittenw...

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdiscip...

The Göttinger Forum was founded in 1998 as a free, electronic publication and alternative to conventional journals. The GFA contains multi-discipli...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

Der Baumgarten des höfischen Romans ist kein beliebiger, topischer Schauplatz. Als Schwellenraum besitzt er ein spezifisches Handlungs- und Konflik...

The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005 was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity, as it brought ...

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on ...

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Mid...

Can words be danced? Can dance be written down? What inspires choreographers? How do dancers write? This volume delves into questions like these a...

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts,...

Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the s...

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid VIII, giving full L...

In der Reihe Deutsche Literatur erscheinen Studien und Quellen der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Es hand...