Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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 ...

Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political r...

A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It e...

Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...

Gallus Reborn is the first comprehensive study of the publication history and reception of the works that have been attributed to Gaius Cornelius G...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part ...

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty,...

First published in 1988, David Aers explores the treatment of community, gender, and individual identity in English writing between 1360 and 1430, ...

The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the Song of Songs, the ...

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists unde...