Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy, and...  Read More >>

The importance of scribes in the production of Chaucer's poetry has become increasingly apparent. Challenging widely...  Read More >>

This book argues that in the work of Horace, Virgil, and Propertius, the language and imagery of the chorus articulate...  Read More >>

Engaging with a wide range of textual and visual sources, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred develops a fresh conceptual...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower Society First comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts...  Read More >>

Examines the rise of popular religious currents in the later Middle Ages, and studies a range of texts, composed...  Read More >>

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  Read More >>

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  Read More >>

Jerusalem verbindet Erwartungen und Hoffnungen der klassischen monotheistischen Religionen Judentum, Christentum...  Read More >>

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This volume features an international group of experts on the literature, philosophy, and religion of the ancient...  Read More >>

The book explores the relations between classicism and anti-classicism. In case studies and theoretical reflections...  Read More >>

Before 1800, the German word 'Wahn', today associated with 'Wahnsinn' (madness), was situated in a quite different...  Read More >>

Narrative sind grundlegende Konstituenten sozialer Identitaten, die innerhalb von Gemeinschaften traditionsbildend...  Read More >>

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First English translation of, and detailed commentary on the fragments of Laberius, who composed mimes, a form of...  Read More >>

This comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire...  Read More >>

Intended for cultural historians and literary scholars, this volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen...  Read More >>

Challenging the current view that Old Comedy is politically neutral, Keith Sidwell argues that poets belonged to...  Read More >>

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic...  Read More >>

This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with...  Read More >>

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