Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

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This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

Beowulf: An Epic Enigma (Book I) presents a bold new translation and commentary that reveals the poem as a riddling...  Read More >>

This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards...  Read More >>

This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,...  Read More >>

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A lively guide for educators reinterpreting an ancient epic through modern lenses. It examines memorable figures...  Read More >>

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Vous devez lire Candide pour le lycée ou par curiosité... mais vous manquez de temps, ou le style vous freine ?...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make...  Read More >>

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make...  Read More >>