Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This volume integrates philosophical and religious perspectives on the relation between body and soul. Focusing...  Read More >>

The leitmotif of this volume is the concept of 'author images', which is used in modern literary studies to describe...  Read More >>

The Medieval Devil highlights the many ways in which the devil has been imagined and re-imagined over the centuries....  Read More >>

The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the...  Read More >>

These Characters are people we know―they're our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell....  Read More >>

These Characters are people we know―they're our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell....  Read More >>

The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the...  Read More >>

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England...  Read More >>

Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the...  Read More >>

Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine”...  Read More >>

Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (erōs) or friendship (philia). In...  Read More >>

Illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an expression of the crisis of civic identity...  Read More >>

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The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the...  Read More >>

Charts the understudied topic of women's friendship in medieval literature across a range of texts and historical...  Read More >>

This book investigates the concept of the Northern Middle English dialect area as largely homogenous, taking its...  Read More >>

This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity....  Read More >>

Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of...  Read More >>

This volume analyses the rhetorical thought of Eustathios of Thessalonike in his monumental Commentary on the Iliad....  Read More >>

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Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides’ fragmentary play, the Ino, and...  Read More >>

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This study analyzes French translations of the Odyssey from the Renaissance to the present day. It contributes to...  Read More >>

The Dresden manuscript Ob.47 is an unknown mid-fifteenth-century vernacular translation of the life of Alexander...  Read More >>

Offers an in-depth comparative study of two classic literary works, examining essential themes such as change, the...  Read More >>