Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The Icelandic sagas have long been famous for their alleged realism, and within this conventional view, references...  Read More >>

This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature...  Read More >>

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Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the...  Read More >>

Philologische Analysen von Sangsprüchen und Liedern Walthers von der Vogelweide belegen eine gedankliche Klammer:...  Read More >>

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval...  Read More >>

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

The pseudo-Galenic text De historia philosopha is a particularly useful one in that it can help us develop an idea...  Read More >>

Space in the Hebrew Bible is increasingly studied from the perspective of critical spatiality, emphasizing the social...  Read More >>

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and...  Read More >>

The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science,...  Read More >>

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Despite their removal from England’s National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly...  Read More >>

Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired...  Read More >>

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Despite their removal from England’s National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly...  Read More >>

Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired...  Read More >>

This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. While covering a wide...  Read More >>

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This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works...  Read More >>

Ancient and modern scholars have written many thousands of pages on resurrection in the New Testament. Fewer have...  Read More >>

"During the fourth century, Antioch on the Orontes was the most important imperial residence in the Roman Empire...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Selections From the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andokides, Lysias, Isokrates, Isaeos The principles which...  Read More >>

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