Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential...  Read More >>

This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God...  Read More >>

The old Attic comedy of Aristophanes reflects the political, social and cultural life in Athens of the 5th century...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Latin script from...  Read More >>

Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the...  Read More >>

Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history,...  Read More >>

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While intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism, the notion of 'intervisuality' has only recently...  Read More >>

'Anticlassicisms' react to the various forms of 'classicisms.' This volume discusses the history and possible implications...  Read More >>

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For the embodiment of scholarly discourse(s) in comedy, two parameters are crucial: the theatricality and performative...  Read More >>

Miriam Goldstein demonstrates that Toledot Yeshu , the notorious parody of the life of Jesus, was popular and long-lived...  Read More >>

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Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together...  Read More >>

Between 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s...  Read More >>

Uber Jahrhunderte hinweg lassen sich in fiktionaler Literatur stabile Muster erkennen, wie vom ""Jenseits der Gabe""...  Read More >>

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, preceded by a study showing how this technical treatise...  Read More >>

A recreation of medieval people’s experience of time.  Read More >>

Taking a pan-European perspective, this volume situates the Latin love poetry of the early modern period in relation...  Read More >>

The first ever volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms that examines the meanings and uses of “the...  Read More >>

These teaching and reference materials paint a vivid picture of the kinds of French that medieval English learners...  Read More >>

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, preceded by a study showing how this technical treatise...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Monographie beleuchtet die politische Dimension von Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, indem bei der...  Read More >>

Brings an innovative comparative methodology to the study of medieval romance, integrating the understudied Castilian...  Read More >>

Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era...  Read More >>