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The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this... Read More >>
This work re-examines Juvenal's big fish satire through detailed scholarly commentary. It includes the original... Read More >>
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Drawing on diverse literary traditions, the author of the fourteenth-century Meditationes Vitae Christi transformed... Read More >>
Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic... Read More >>
English summary: In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Strassburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of... Read More >>
This book is the first modern commentary on the second book of Seneca's Epistulae Morales. It contains a substantial... Read More >>
The ME 'Mirror', a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN 'Miroir' by Robert de Gretham,... Read More >>
S. T. Joshi is acknowledged as a leading authority on supernatural fiction; he has also published books on atheism,... Read More >>
The Birth of the Author argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible... Read More >>
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission... Read More >>
A 21st century modernization of the classic Arthurian tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Also including illustrations,... Read More >>
Creates an Aeneas for our time: an age of liquid modernity, when identities seem fungible and precarious, amid a... Read More >>
Presents an Aeneas for our time: an age of liquid modernity, when identities seem fungible and precarious, amid... Read More >>
This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in... Read More >>
The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America,... Read More >>
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing... Read More >>
How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and... Read More >>
This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True... Read More >>
In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily... Read More >>
