Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page...

The Sushén hòujì (Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena), attributed to the celebrated poet Táo Qián (365-427), is a compilation of anecdote...

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of official writings on behalf of the Crown. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awa...

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius presence in later prose writers, on the other ha...

In den Anfängen der Germanistik im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, die zunächst fast nur eine altgermanistische Philologie war, gehörten Übersetzungen nich...

Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human life and behavior, as well as in communication. This interdisciplinar...

10 Jahre nach der völlig neu ausgerichteten 15. Auflage der Lachmann-Cormeau-Ausgabe erscheint eine 16. Auflage. Der Herausgeber Thomas Bein hat ei...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contribut...

The triumphal procession determined the thoughts and actions of the Romans to a great extent. This applies not only to the period of the late Repu...

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...