Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to trace Quintilian's influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and...  Read More >>

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively...  Read More >>

Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis is a companion volume to Kaster's Oxford Classical Texts critical...  Read More >>

Neidhart ist neben Walther von der Vogelweide der bedeutendste und erfolgreichste Minnesänger der mittelhochdeutschen...  Read More >>

Brings together leading scholars whose discoveries and observations add new understanding to The Divine Comedy as...  Read More >>

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Beowulf as Children's Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of...  Read More >>

In his six books De locis affectis (On the recognition of diseased parts of the body), Galen of Pergamon developed...  Read More >>

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Brings together leading scholars whose discoveries and observations add new understanding to The Divine Comedy as...  Read More >>

This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings...  Read More >>

Raymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry responds to the general consensus that...  Read More >>

Contemporary women authors appropriate Shahrazad’s figure in their fictions in terms of themes and structure. This...  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval...  Read More >>

This volume provides a detailed commentary on the first eight lives of Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus, shedding...  Read More >>

Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of early Greek...  Read More >>

Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary...  Read More >>

In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker argues that rhetoric and theology establish blackness and whiteness as metaphors...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens...  Read More >>

Examines depictions of grief in the Middle Ages by exploring how grief relates to gender and identity, as well as...  Read More >>

Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary...  Read More >>

Reduite souvent a un preceptorat fonde sur des considerations materielles et venales, la relation entre le poete...  Read More >>

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of...  Read More >>