Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

English summary: Joel Thomas offers readers a dynamic and innovative analysis of Virgils Aeneid and Ovids Metamorphoses....  Read More >>

Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women...  Read More >>

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic....  Read More >>

This book presents ten new essays on aspects of the Greek poet Stesichorus, whose works have only recently been...  Read More >>

Argues that seven plays - The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of...  Read More >>

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and...  Read More >>

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This book offers a comprehensive commentary on Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, the earliest surviving full scale epic...  Read More >>

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four...  Read More >>

An internationally recognized expert on ancient Greek rhetoric provides the definitive history and analysis of the...  Read More >>

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the...  Read More >>

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Statius’s Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between AD 89 and 96. The verse is light in...  Read More >>

An internationally recognized expert on ancient Greek rhetoric provides the definitive history and analysis of the...  Read More >>

This volume offers a systematic study of the use of literary quotations in Pliny s letters. By looking at exemplary...  Read More >>

Classic comedy concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the...  Read More >>

It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric’s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of...  Read More >>

A three volume set of Nicholson's translation of Rumi's famous poem on Islamic mysticism.  Read More >>

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Nicholas Ellis examines the interplay present in early Jewish literature between authors' theological assumptions...  Read More >>

This volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which significant choices...  Read More >>

Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread...  Read More >>

Discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore's Etymologiae on the compilation of early medieval enigmata....  Read More >>

This book is Volume II of the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531)....  Read More >>

This book is Volume I of the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531)....  Read More >>