Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Operas based on Greek drama - primarily tragedy - have been, and are, among the most important in the repertoire,...  Read More >>

Between Medieval Men is a radical new study of same-sex relations (both erotic and non-erotic) in the Anglo-Saxon...  Read More >>

The Critical Survey of Mythology and Folklore series offers analytical articles and plot summaries of the major...  Read More >>

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for...  Read More >>

Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about orators and not military men....  Read More >>

Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing...  Read More >>

A portrait of daily life in tenth-century China during the turbulent period of transition following the disintegration...  Read More >>

This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas and is the first monograph to offer systematic literary analysis...  Read More >>

An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and...  Read More >>

Traces Lucan's epic technique  Read More >>

English summary: Alexander of Aphrodisiass De mixtione, on the mixture of physical bodies and growth, is commonly...  Read More >>

A volume offering an introduction to one of the most colourful characters of Welsh literature, and celebrating the...  Read More >>

English summary: This critical edition and French translation presents the works of Apollodorus of Pergamon and...  Read More >>

Smaller Middle High German rhyming couplets (bispel, speeches, verse narratives) represent significant innovations...  Read More >>

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This collection presents major portions of a Berlin conference on ancient geography. The volume is devoted to questions...  Read More >>

Exploring how the historical memory of Charlemagne was used to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in...  Read More >>

This volume contains Professor Roland Teske’s translation of William of Auvergne’s Divine Rhetoric along...  Read More >>

News & World Report,3 but also in the financial sections of The New York Times,4 The Wall Street Journal,S 6 8 Business...  Read More >>

Adam of Saint-Victor's (+ 1146) sequences are recognized as sophisticated liturgical poetry, the highest development...  Read More >>

This is a fictional autobiography of a street boys apprenticeship to various cruel and treacherous masters: a blind...  Read More >>

English summary: The fact that most medieval and Renaissance authors were trained jurists helps explain why love...  Read More >>

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