Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for...  Read More >>

"This study of Leontius of Neapolis fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual and social environment...  Read More >>

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified...  Read More >>

An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.  Read More >>

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent...  Read More >>

An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe....  Read More >>

Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.  Read More >>

First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.  Read More >>

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From...  Read More >>

English Summary: Far from the traditional approach that has long prevailed, and which made the Oresteia the representation...  Read More >>

Taking Pindar as its focus, this volume offers the first book-length study devoted to the rhetoric and realities...  Read More >>

A unique collection of essays that provides theoretical basis for the value of using creative teaching assignments...  Read More >>

Essays tackling the difficult but essential question of how medievalism studies should look at the issue of what...  Read More >>

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English summary: Thomasin's von ZerklAere Welscher Gast is the first detailed doctrine of courtly moral and virtue...  Read More >>

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings,...  Read More >>

Dans Les Fantomes du roman epistolaire d'Ancien Regime, Isabelle Tremblay analyse les modes de presence de l'interlocuteur...  Read More >>

The writing of a literary text is as a retrospective explanation of what is happening in the present, including...  Read More >>

Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies contains a wide variety of comparative studies of the writings of Plato...  Read More >>

This is a seminal book, first published in 1961. Over the past six decades, T.N. Devare's work has been widely recognised...  Read More >>

The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context is...  Read More >>

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings,...  Read More >>

"""This study examines the form of Chaucer's poetry over its content. Primarily his chosen language, English, compared...  Read More >>