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This new scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of... Read More >>
Virgil's Eclogues represent the introduction of a different genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. This work examines... Read More >>
In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is... Read More >>
No Western text boasts a life as long as the Iliad, and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction... Read More >>
In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and... Read More >>
De Imperio Cn. Pompeii (in support of Pompey), or Pro Lege Manilia, (in favour of the Manilian law) was Cicero's... Read More >>
The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political... Read More >>
Hellenic Whispers builds a picture of how Greek literature was received and reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century... Read More >>
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The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. A most... Read More >>
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself... Read More >>
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as the Word made flesh --an intriguing phrase that uses... Read More >>
Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages... Read More >>
In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century... Read More >>
In Printing the Middle Ages SiAn Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking... Read More >>
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In... Read More >>
