Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it...  Read More >>

A unique Icelandic saga combining history and fiction to tell a story of doomed heroism in tenth-century Scandinavia....  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought At this point we encounter two terminological...  Read More >>

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and...  Read More >>

Meisner offers a new interpretation of four Orphic theogonies: Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic. The...  Read More >>

An English lit account of how contemplation worked for medieval audiences and how works were presented to readers...  Read More >>

This study is a review of the treatment accorded feudal and courtly values in the Siège de Barbastre and the Beuvon...  Read More >>

"The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally...  Read More >>

An English lit account of how contemplation worked for medieval audiences and how works were presented to readers...  Read More >>

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval...  Read More >>

""Originally published in French as Survivances des lucioles, copyright 2009 by Les âEditions de Minuit . . . Paris""--...  Read More >>

In Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica. A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism, Tine Scheijnen offers a thorough...  Read More >>

"Wie keine andere mythische Figur der Antike vereint Herakles diverse Charaktereigenschaften in sich, die oft in...  Read More >>

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of...  Read More >>

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of...  Read More >>

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female...  Read More >>

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The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living...  Read More >>

Histoire littéraire de la France. T. XVI, XIIIe siècle / [Par dom Brial, Daunou, Amaury Duval, Ginguené, de Pastoret...  Read More >>

Brings together studies by scholars from a range of academic disciplines to assess the central position of Virgil...  Read More >>

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first...  Read More >>

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the...  Read More >>

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society....  Read More >>