Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Laevius is the only pre-Catullan Latin love poet whose work can still be reconstructed. This book collects and discusses approximately 50 fragment...

The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts...

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The ...

Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as...

The ideal accompaniment for students reading the Aeneid in English or Latin, this book guides readers through Virgils complex work. The essentia...

Anders Cullheds study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later cla...

A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesRea...

Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelate...

James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peop...

This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy,...

Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often per...

Winner of the ASTR Translation Prize 2023. Winner of CAMWS' 2024 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award.This book brings to English readers, in its entirety for t...

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...

'Collaboration' is a complex cultural and political phenomenon: the combined practice of two or more artists, simultaneously or across time, or the...

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representat...

Published in 1984: These texts which have been little studied for their literary qualities represent a vital link between the didactic tradition of...

First published in 1882, this volume formed the sixth part of a unique series of English-language Charlemagne romances. It contains three poetic te...

This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the History of T...

This title was first published in 2002. Moderatus was an Elizabethan romance, probably the first published work of the 16th-century Welsh gentleman...

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman o...

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Los...

First published in 1999, this edition of Walter the Chancellors account of the wars of the Antiochenes against the Muslims in the early twelfth cen...

Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poit...

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together some of the best recent work on the period before and after the Norman Conquest and makes an i...

Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughe...

Published in 1966: The present study attempts in its fashion to supply a connected account of this somewhat neglected phase of medieval literary li...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

Global Medieval Contexts 5001500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designe...

Published in 1931: The Epyllion From Theocritus to Ovid discusses Greek Epics along with extracts of Poems.

Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of classical and humanities. His Attic Nights contains information on many aspects of antiquity, and preser...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste, examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural h...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from h...

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeares relationship to the classic in two broad sense...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our understanding of the politic...

Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did medieval literary culture...

Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince...

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled someti...

Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the death of his...

Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these ...

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production...

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published i...

The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial ...