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...