Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

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

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

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

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius’ 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification...  Read More >>

A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

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

Sara S. Poor provides a welcome alternative to an understanding of religious women's agency as resistance or transgression,...  Read More >>

Essays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political...  Read More >>

Diving into their mythic lore and transformation, The Little Book of Unicorns reveals the allure and multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

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

The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya's influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse...  Read More >>