Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spains fall from imperial ...

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the ...

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the frag...

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the mediev...

Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of ...

Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and mode...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...

Originally compiled and published in 1922, this volume contains three studies on Early Greek Thought: E. Hofmann's Qua Ratione; J. W. Beardslee's F...

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his la...

This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs...

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occur...

Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates a vivid chapter ...

The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed in...

Published in 1987: In this volume, the author presents the Three Literary Letters of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The works of Dionysius are regarde...

Published in 1992, this text discusses Les Voeux du Heron, a short text, comprising only 442 lines that was popular in the late Middle Ages but is ...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro ofrece una selección de obras literarias de ocho escritoras medievales, renace...

Published in 1987: In this volume, the author presents the Three Literary Letters of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The works of Dionysius are regarde...

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue traditio...

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the ...

Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. ...

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

Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'E...

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this vole contains the full text and translation of Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus, alongside textual ...

First published in 1906, The Fool of Quality; a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke, is the only one of his works whi...

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...

This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Colle...

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