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An introduction to the reception of classical antiquity in contemporary science fiction. By using up-to-date methods... Read More >>
Combining literary, historical, and cultural studies, Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy,... Read More >>
In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between... Read More >>
"The Reclus de Molliens is a 13th-Century didactic poet who was widely successful in the Middle Ages, but largely... Read More >>
The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance... Read More >>
Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature... Read More >>
This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic... Read More >>
Argues that Pindar's victory songs, when viewed within their contemporary religious landscapes, are engaged in theological... Read More >>
Matthew Day reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. In emphasizing... Read More >>
As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations... Read More >>
A new critical edition of this text, the first since 1908 and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts... Read More >>
This volume is the first detailed commentary on Cicero's Academica in over a century. It takes full account of the... Read More >>
Provides the first collective examination of Late Medieval intimate first-person narratives that blurred the lines... Read More >>
In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen Orgel considers the idea of the book not... Read More >>
In Lucans Bellum civile widmen sich zahlreiche langere Stellen der Darstellung von Naturphanomenen. Diese begleiten... Read More >>
Mitch Horowitz provides a deep dive into the classic, The Art of War, in this fascinating discussion on its meaning... Read More >>
Dante is not just a poet but also a philosopher, and he presents the same innovative force in both sides of his... Read More >>
The volume combines for the first time the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature in a pioneering collection... Read More >>
This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens... Read More >>
This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across... Read More >>
Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire... Read More >>
This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative... Read More >>
