Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

In 1456, with the help of the Muslim faqīh Yça Gidelli, Juan de Segovia accomplished a trilingual Qur'an (Castilian,...  Read More >>

Das Buch Exodus ist sowohl Teil des Pentateuch, der Tora, als auch der großen Sammlung von Erzählungen über die...  Read More >>

When the Gospel writings were produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient...  Read More >>

Diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius donated his personal library, including some 6,000 editions of Classical...  Read More >>

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Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694), a classical book, was published more than a century...  Read More >>

The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered...  Read More >>

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy  Read More >>

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A scholarly edition of The Philocalia of Origen presenting a new translation in English alongside an amended facing-page...  Read More >>

This book explores the origins and diffusion of the Prester John legend and its influence on theology, politics,...  Read More >>

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Ironie und Ambiguität spielen in neueren Untersuchungen und Kommentaren zum Ijobbuch eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle....  Read More >>

Drawing from theorizations of specters and haunting, Specters of Cavafy develops spectrality as a lens for revisiting...  Read More >>

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related...  Read More >>

Dante engaged with an extraordinary range of traditions, disciplines and media, and a variety of speech-communities,...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Canzoniere had a central role in the Italian Early Modern culture, especially - but not only - in the...  Read More >>

A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem’s first pentad draws a programmatic...  Read More >>

Follows the success of Chantry's Previous title Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic (2021) This new volume builds on...  Read More >>

This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham....  Read More >>

The Early English Text Society (EETS) was founded in 1864 by F. J. Furnivall, who was fascinated by medieval texts...  Read More >>

One of GCP's bestselling backlist staples is now in oversize.  Read More >>