Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literar...

The Dictionary of the Poetry of Walther von der Vogelweide completely maps out the scope and semantic content of the vocabulary used by possibly th...

In Greek and Latin, tropes () are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and stylistic norm (), either for stylistic purposes or for ne...

The purpose of this edition is to take up Buechelers admirable sylloge of Carmina Latina Epigraphica (1895-1926, 3 volumes). Since 1926 many new La...

The concept of loves wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept in Medieval French, Occitan,...

Im Rahmen des griechisch-lateinischen Alexanderromans stechen die Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis des Iulius Valerius (frühes 4. Jh. n.Chr.) durch i...

Professor Michael Meier-Brugger's distinguished and productive career in Greek and Indo-European historical linguistics finds fitting tribute in th...

How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice o...

The notion that ideas and judgments about music are based on culturally specific and national frames of reference and ideologies was not invented i...

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dantes Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageant...

This volume makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, including the original Occitan t...

Alongside Cicero and Pliny the Younger, Emperor Augustus has been the third important writer of private letters in the Late Republic period and th...

A Companion to Vergils Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the ...

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democ...

Medieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the company of diverting and entertaining voices f...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial stu...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial stu...

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

The Petra Papyri Volume V (2018) is the final publication of the Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that...

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waste...

Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art...

ikyat Abu al-Qsim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab al...

The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that e...

Der Band nimmt gewisse, mit dem Begriff Theurgie assoziierte Wandlungen innerhalb des spätantiken Neuplatonismus in den Blick. Theurgie wird vor al...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

In fächerübergreifender Perspektive setzen sich die Beiträge mit der Produktivität des Zweifels in der mittelalterlichen Kultur und Literatur ausei...

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (15911635) ist einer der bemerkenswertesten Autoren im Umfeld der Literaturreformbemühungen des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Di...

Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The Stanzas of the Graves or Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain,...