Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift...  Read More >>

This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single...  Read More >>

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and...  Read More >>

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works....  Read More >>

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and...  Read More >>

This volume explores Cyprus in ancient literature and through contemporary evidence, discussing texts from Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

Cette étude des aurores et des crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace éclaire la façon dont des éléments épiques...  Read More >>

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Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet delves into the real origins of the legendary Arthur and reveals the true...  Read More >>

""This book explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition....  Read More >>

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist die arabische ekphrastische Dichtung in den Fokus der Arabistik geruckt. Mit diesem...  Read More >>

Die Bildung regionaler Identität im norddeutschen Kulturraum im Mittelalter  Read More >>

In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes,...  Read More >>

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves...  Read More >>

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just...  Read More >>

In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes,...  Read More >>

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves...  Read More >>

The language, texts, and bodies of prophecy challenge commonplaces about a disenchanted modernity and point the...  Read More >>

Ovid's gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables,...  Read More >>

Accompanied by comprehensive introductions and here translated into English for the first time, the two texts presented...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight....  Read More >>

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini...  Read More >>

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. Contributors deploy a wide...  Read More >>