Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world’s population at the time...  Read More >>

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur'an as a literary, religious and oral text to show how Qur'anic stories function...  Read More >>

"""I believe that the last thing the mature seeker needs in literature or talks today are chin-stroking ideas or...  Read More >>

This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive...  Read More >>

Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries....  Read More >>

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle...  Read More >>

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle...  Read More >>

Dem Troianer Aeneas ist es vom Schicksal bestimmt, nach Italien zu ziehen und ein Urahn der Romer zu werden. In...  Read More >>

Der Band enthalt eine vollstandige Ausgabe und deutsche Ubersetzung der altpersischen Versionen der meist dreisprachigen...  Read More >>

A new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian...  Read More >>

An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and...  Read More >>

Maurizio Bettinis Buch schildert die Praktiken und Paradigmen des Übersetzens in der griechischen und römischen...  Read More >>

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the...  Read More >>

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This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic...  Read More >>

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and...  Read More >>

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This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single...  Read More >>

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works....  Read More >>

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The Latin editions of the tragedies of ""Seneca"", from 1478 to 1878, are studied in order to identify the development...  Read More >>

Cette étude des aurores et des crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace éclaire la façon dont des éléments épiques...  Read More >>

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and...  Read More >>

The Latin editions of the tragedies of ""Seneca"", from 1478 to 1878, are studied in order to identify the development...  Read More >>

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