Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of Herodotus' Histories and...  Read More >>

This second volume's selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy on Screen considers a wide range of films which engage openly with narrative and performative aspects...  Read More >>

Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's...  Read More >>

Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact...  Read More >>

Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the...  Read More >>

The connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who...  Read More >>

Temps du repos, des recits, de la sexualite, de l'ivresse et des plaisirs, la nuit est propice aux embuscades, aux...  Read More >>

This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography...  Read More >>

This study of the history and development of Greek and Latin handwriting from earliest times to the end of the fifteenth...  Read More >>

Francis Hueffer (1845–89), music critic of The Times and an early advocate and interpreter to the British of Wagner,...  Read More >>

Bishop of Durham and bibliophile, Richard de Bury (1287–1345) was an influential figure during Edward III's reign....  Read More >>

This book provides an overview of Lucretius' philosophical poem 'De rerum natura' intended to clarify the poem's...  Read More >>

A marvellous resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of medieval dreams, visionary experience and...  Read More >>

A unique A-Z reference work of over 3,100 entries spanning the length and breadth of classical literature. It ranges...  Read More >>

Vie d'Alexandre [expliquée, annotée et revue pour la traduction française par V. Bétolaud] Date de l'édition originale:...  Read More >>

Vie de Marius [traduction de Ricard, revue par E. Sommer, auteur de l'explication littérale et de l'annotation,...  Read More >>

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Konkurrenzlose Quellensammlung, unverzichtbar in Studium und Unterricht. Der Begleitband zum erfolgreichen Studienbuch...  Read More >>

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The Old English translation of the Biblical Judith is preserved in only one manuscript, the B L Cotton Vitellius...  Read More >>

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature....  Read More >>