Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of...  Read More >>

"The Hilyat al-kurama', literally ""The Ornament of the Magnanimous"", was compiled in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth...  Read More >>

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic...  Read More >>

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their...  Read More >>

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Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary...  Read More >>

An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides...  Read More >>

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil’s texts....  Read More >>

Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and...  Read More >>

Explores the textual representations of fear and its cognate emotions (anger, envy, and hatred) in Flavian epic...  Read More >>

Examines how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic,...  Read More >>

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Gregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role,...  Read More >>

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that...  Read More >>

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Dieser Gesamtentwurf christlicher Lehre ist im Anschluss sowohl an Luther als auch an Schleiermacher als denkende...  Read More >>

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This study analyzes French translations of the Odyssey from the Renaissance to the present day. It contributes to...  Read More >>

Sidonius Apollinaris was an inhabitant of southern Roman Gaul in the mid fifth centuryAD, when it was threatened...  Read More >>

Volume 2 comprises the following tragedies attributed to Seneca: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes,...  Read More >>

Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical...  Read More >>

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined - and changed...  Read More >>

This study analyzes French translations of the Odyssey from the Renaissance to the present day. It contributes to...  Read More >>