Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and...  Read More >>

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Decouvrir une histoire au Moyen Age, c'etait l'entendre lire - ou reciter - a haute voix, pour un public: le jongleur...  Read More >>

The Viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr...  Read More >>

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry...  Read More >>

Ziel der Studie ist die Konstellation konstruierte Weiblichkeit-narzisstischer Betrachter als Chiffre einer selbstreflexiven...  Read More >>

Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical...  Read More >>

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Weshalb unterlässt Parzival bei seinem ersten Besuch auf Munsalvaesche die Mitleidsfrage? Um dies zu beantworten,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante’s Comedy and his other...  Read More >>

Second volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together shorter essays on Homer's Iliad, Plato, Thucydides, and Paul, written by the Regensburg...  Read More >>

In the first pentad of his history, Livy presents the history of the city of Rome and its immediate surroundings,...  Read More >>

This study unites narratology and comic theory to describe evocative narrative strategies. It demonstrates how the...  Read More >>

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The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized...  Read More >>

This is the first full study on several ›lost‹ poets of ancient Greek comedy and their fragments.  Read More >>

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In this work, James Frohlich analyzes the Septuagint translation technique in Jeremiah 39(46)-41(48):3 and 52 in...  Read More >>

First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception....  Read More >>

Presents Nepos as a thinker in his own right  Read More >>

The Acts of the Council of Ephesus of 431 consist of a wide variety of documents, including proceedings and letters,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically...  Read More >>

Re-evaluates Xenophon's supposed admiration of Sparta and argues that his work, the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia, is a...  Read More >>