Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This book examines ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics and explores challenging questions about the...  Read More >>

This book examines the etymological and semantic origins of luxuria in key Latin texts. It discusses the influence...  Read More >>

On Amist comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.  Read More >>

Argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period...  Read More >>

Wisdom of the North studies how and for what purposes proverbs were used by the composers of the sagas, thereby...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to consider in detail the relationships between Classical Latin and Ancient Greek as these...  Read More >>

This volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial...  Read More >>

Explores the mindset in which people approached reading and writing in the sixteenth century, specifically the idea...  Read More >>

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a...  Read More >>

Argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period...  Read More >>

The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and...  Read More >>

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This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem,...  Read More >>

This sixth volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic comprises five articles, each of which explores issues of...  Read More >>

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

These essays explore death as a Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career, revealing a unity in diversity that is typical of this...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the...  Read More >>

Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have created visual interpretations of Beowulf for decades, both illustrating...  Read More >>

This book represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical...  Read More >>

Bei Paulus findet sich eine programmatische Ablehnung der Rhetorik, die Teil einer dissimulatio artis (Verheimlichung...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical...  Read More >>