Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Argues that the mysterious Roman satirist Juvenal actively worked to wipe all trace of the author from the text...  Read More >>

Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman...  Read More >>

A fresh and wide-ranging exploration of the themes of conflict and consensus across the early Greek hexameter tradition...  Read More >>

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 >>

This is the first French bilingual edition of Chaucer's works, accompanied by a new translation introduced by the...  Read More >>

This is the first French bilingual edition of Chaucer's works, accompanied by a new translation introduced by the...  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 >>