Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The contributions to this anthology aim to provide some impulses on the relationship between norm and deviance in...  Read More >>

The first examination of the concepts of narrative voice and time in the Icelandic Sagas.  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Aeschylus' Agamemnon written by 12 international contributors, with an English translation...  Read More >>

"""In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume offer a ground-breaking investigation into the birth of new literatures in the vernacular...  Read More >>

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field's modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations...  Read More >>

Drawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation....  Read More >>

Changes in the marking of direct discourse show us the vitality of Latin and the creativity of Late Latin authors,...  Read More >>

The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s...  Read More >>

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and...  Read More >>

Les commentaires de Servius aux oeuvres de Virgile connurent un succes considerable durant des siecles et ils sont...  Read More >>

"This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating...  Read More >>

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The Book of Kells is traditionally thought to have been made by an extensive team of scribes and artists. Using...  Read More >>

Il libro VIII del Bellum Civile di Lucano descrive uno degli episodi più significativi dell'intera storia della...  Read More >>

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

"Justin Arft explores how the Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale ""poetics of interrogation""...  Read More >>

The Book of Kells is traditionally thought to have been made by an extensive team of scribes and artists. Using...  Read More >>

This book contains a translation into modern French of the letters Christine de Pizan wrote in 1401-1402 during...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>