Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice o...

The notion that ideas and judgments about music are based on culturally specific and national frames of reference and ideologies was not invented i...

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dantes Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageant...

This volume makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, including the original Occitan t...

Alongside Cicero and Pliny the Younger, Emperor Augustus has been the third important writer of private letters in the Late Republic period and th...

A Companion to Vergils Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the ...

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democ...

Medieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the company of diverting and entertaining voices f...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial stu...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial stu...

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

The Petra Papyri Volume V (2018) is the final publication of the Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that...

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waste...

Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art...

ikyat Abu al-Qsim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab al...

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...