Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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,...

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...