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This is the first book-length study of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos in classical literature, not restricting... Read More >>
As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding... Read More >>
This book enhances understanding of the 14th-century Middle English dream vision poem Pearl, arguing that the poet... Read More >>
Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early... Read More >>
The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) were the ultimate source of a Western tradition... Read More >>
Apuleius in Africa addresses the problem of this intricate complex of different identities and its connection to... Read More >>
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Achilles presents the episodes in the life of this hero in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources.... Read More >>
The various Lives of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and supernatural assistance to pregnant... Read More >>
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this... Read More >>
Premiere femme a avoir ete admise a l'ENS de la rue d'Ulm puis a l'Institut for Advanced Study de l'Universite de... Read More >>
This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of... Read More >>
"This volume, originating from a conference on ""Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity""... Read More >>
Otherworlds offers a new perspective on the otherworlds depicted in British and Irish medieval literature. Read More >>
The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE seeks to upend conventional thinking about the development of drama... Read More >>
Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from... Read More >>
Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin... Read More >>
Sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, by examining how some early... Read More >>
"This collection of articles places the frequently discussed question of the introvert Self into a new interdisciplinary... Read More >>
FRANCIS BACON, the subject of the following memoir, was the youngest son ofhighly remarkable parents. His father,... Read More >>
As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new... Read More >>
The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to... Read More >>
