Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Examines a range of ancient biographical texts, exploring how formal narrative categories such as time, space and...  Read More >>

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials,...  Read More >>

Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle...  Read More >>

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Incest appeared as a frequent motif of medieval literature. The tales ranged from inadvertent encounters, intentional...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 assembles critical responses to the literatures of the 15th through the 18th...  Read More >>

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on...  Read More >>

Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek...  Read More >>

Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity, and biblical...  Read More >>

Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek...  Read More >>

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Julian among the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library...  Read More >>

Die in diesem Band präsentierten Miniaturen wollen zeigen, welche Antworten das Judentum, das Christentum und der...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking study of the work of ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho. The author debunks the postmodernist scholarship...  Read More >>

In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature, Tina Boyer offers an analysis of giants as antagonists and heroes in medieval...  Read More >>

Valuing Landscape explores how physical environments affected the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity....  Read More >>

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