Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Ovid's Art of Love ( Ars Amatoria ) and its sequel Remedies for Love ( Remedia Amoris ) are among the most notorious...  Read More >>

The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or...  Read More >>

Here is presented a succinct and insightful account of the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey from antiquity...  Read More >>

Charles Moorman reexamines several major works of the western heroic tradition: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf,...  Read More >>

The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese,...  Read More >>

This is the first study to relate the Greek romances to Elizabethan drama. It focuses upon the Greek romance materials...  Read More >>

The culture of medieval Spain was anything nut homogeneous. It varied not only through time, with the approach of...  Read More >>

Brief narratives, or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale...  Read More >>

Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin...  Read More >>

The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- an...  Read More >>

While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature...  Read More >>

The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently...  Read More >>

This study examines all the characterizations of the female personality in the Divine Comedy, including representations...  Read More >>

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing....  Read More >>

Adam Usk, a fifteenth-century professor, royal advisor, schismatic, and spy, wrote a peculiar book in a reticent,...  Read More >>

This collection is the first full-length literary study on Machaut, France's leading poet and musician of the 14th...  Read More >>

Beginning with a consideration of Malory's ingenious chronology, this study shows that Malory achieved thematic...  Read More >>

The libro de los buenos proverbios, a key work in the medieval didactic tradition, is presented here for the...  Read More >>

Emotion in Action offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by focusing on the performance of collective emotion....  Read More >>

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.  Read More >>

An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential...  Read More >>

The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market...  Read More >>

Published in 1970, this important work interprets the poem with a focus on the idiosyncrasies of its originally...  Read More >>

This collection of essays honours the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies...  Read More >>

The book proposes a new understanding of eighteenth-century Quixotism in English thought and literary production....  Read More >>