Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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 ...

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

In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and ...

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist...

In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langlands Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and p...

Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval En...

This volume brings together Lee Pattersons essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, The ...

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to...

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their ...