Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

"This book provides vocabulary and commentary to Statius' unfinished epic poem Achilleid (""[The book or story]...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

This is the first monograph systematically to apply modern principles of ecotheology to early medieval literature...  Read More >>

This work is a critical edition of the works of sixth-century theologian, Leontius of Byzantium.  Read More >>

 Read More >>

At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle...  Read More >>

Blending narrative with clear explanations of key events and sources, this undergraduate textbook deconstructs the...  Read More >>

An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.  Read More >>

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.  Read More >>

Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and...  Read More >>

This major new edition of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the first full-scale edition for a hundred and thirty years,...  Read More >>

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

 Read More >>

This book challenges the adequacy of identifying religious identity with confessional identity. The Reformation...  Read More >>

The author uses the theoretical writings of Islamic theologians, jurists, and philosophers to describe the conceptOverall,...  Read More >>

The book includes contributions from specialists in the history of philosophy as well as specialists in contemporary...  Read More >>

The first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli’s epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna...  Read More >>

In The Books behind the Masks Anthony Spalinger continues his work on the warrior kings of pharaonic Egypt. Here...  Read More >>

Die Erzahlkunst des Mittelalters hat asthetisch so raffinierte wie gehaltvolle Textzeugnisse dafur hervorgebracht,...  Read More >>

By analysing performances of Greek tragedy that have been staged in British, French and German national institutions...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

Voices speak to us out of poetry books. When we as moderns read ancient poetry, we attempt to make those voices...  Read More >>