Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The popular fascination with dragons and dragon slayers is manifest in the endlessly repeated plots of sword-and-sorcery romances and in the mass-p...

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviatin...

Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was w...

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Agesthe volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloisebecame the parents of their so...

The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficu...

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Ciceros presence in the cultural history of Basel from the citys foundation to...

Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing ph...

This latest volume from accomplished literary critic Franco Ferrari offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the ...

Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the...

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the r...

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become a...

The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for its inconsistencies. And this is what gives the Glo...

How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by fe...

Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac i...

Ovids Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city,...

Examines Hans Urs von Balthasar's study of ancient and medieval theological aesthetics in his Glory of the Lord and confirms and critiques certain ...

This collection looks beyond the literary, religious, and philosophical aspects of Chaucers texts to a new mode of interdisciplinary scholarship: o...

In publication since 1960 and now in its ninth volume, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, an...

The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part ...

This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to rea...

The authors included in this volumeIlarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turovare remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Ap...

In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered an influential part of the broade...

The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting. The short-lived genre of La...

Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early mode...

What do we mean by space in the Iliad? The aim of this book is to offer a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the different types and func...

Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical...

Ancient Romes original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary ...