Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The six verse satires by Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 AD) seem like a modern text (e.g. Arno Schmidt) due to the...  Read More >>

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to...  Read More >>

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This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering...  Read More >>

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England.  Read More >>

Explores discussions of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations in late medieval English sermons,...  Read More >>

Founded in 1945 by P. O. Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has evolved over time to reflect...  Read More >>

Mit der vermeintlichen Entdeckung des heiligen Kreuzes Jesu durch Helena beginnt die faszinierende Geschichte des...  Read More >>

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The...  Read More >>

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Godric of Finchdale was a hermit, merchant, and medieval saint. His life was recorded by Benedictine monk Reginald...  Read More >>

""Employs Chaucer as a lens to argue that Anglo-French translation of formes fixes poetry helped rebuild cultural...  Read More >>

The Persian period has long been considered a ""dark era"" in Israel's history. For this reason, research has mainly...  Read More >>

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

This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious...  Read More >>

Presents a sustained close reading of the final version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the most searching...  Read More >>

Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde examines the cross-media nature of this Arthurian story...  Read More >>

This book focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues...  Read More >>

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Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual...  Read More >>

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This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'...  Read More >>

The best of Greek lyric poetry pushes at the very limits of what is possible with language and meaning.  Read More >>