Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to ...

In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-ce...

This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ le...

This volume showcases for the first time in the Clarendon Ancient History Series one of the best-known prose authors of classical Athens: Xenophon....

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-ph...

Originally published in 1994. This surveys the origin and development of one of Chaucer’s most problematic characters, Griselda, who through the ce...

A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read abou...

Throughout its existence, the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) has asserted its commitment to the need for humans to come together to ...

Originally published in 1922 and partly from periodicals this book provides a methodological introduction to the reading of Dante’s The Divine Come...

This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in ...

This is a book about the ways in which various intellectuals in the post-classical Mediterranean imagined the human community as a unified, homogen...

This volume, the first in a major new series which will provide authoritative texts of key non-canonical gospel writings, comprises a critical edit...

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, pri...

Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid’s fable takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the themes but loo...

This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the...

Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman ...

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happe...

Despite the fact that Athenians consumed great quantities of manufactured goods, and around half of the residents of classical Athens can be shown ...

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetr...

Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. ...

Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and conflicting versions of sanctity, Sanctifying Signs presents a critical study of Christia...

Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical lov...

The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative...

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes ...

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Naẓīf’s Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī. Totalling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and ...

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achiev...

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz...

Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s ...

This work demonstrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters pr...

This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the R...

Davina Grojnowski examines Life, the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, from a literary studies perspectiv...

The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, was translated ...

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant...

Although Apollonius of Rhodes' extraordinary epic poem on the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece has begun to get the attention it deserves, it...

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights ...

Eine spannende Zeitreise rund um den Planeten Was hat der Siebenjährige Krieg mit der Unabhängigkeit der USA zu tun, und warum studierten die Japan...

She, This in Blak takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic dis...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate ...

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the ...

The present edition of the first book of the Epistulae ex Ponto gives a revised text with a new translation, an extended introduction, and the firs...

Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama acr...

This volume, part of the Lectura Boccaccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Fou...

This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius; its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian e...