Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Aelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure...  Read More >>

119 col illus, 18 musical examples & 22 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

The study presupposes that processes of globalization did not only begin in the 20th century and concentrates on...  Read More >>

Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses, and explanatory footnotes. Laura L. Howes's full...  Read More >>

In diesem Band werden neun fragmentarisch uberlieferte Komodien des Aristophanes, darunter die Fragmente der ersten...  Read More >>

Set in northern Spain in 1250 AD, the book tells the story of a Basque girl on the brink of adulthood and her quest...  Read More >>

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This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c....  Read More >>

This volume contains papers read at the seventh meeting of the Aberdeen Prophecy Network, an interdisciplinary symposium...  Read More >>

Petronius' Satyrica, one of the significant fictional texts of Antiquity, stands since decades in the focus of international...  Read More >>

In the premodern world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. This volume brings...  Read More >>

Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring...  Read More >>

La propuesta del presente estudio consiste en realizar un examen exhaustivo de todos los discursos proféticos de...  Read More >>

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There is no evidence for explicit vernacular poetics within the early ""Meistergesang"" of the 14th and 15th century....  Read More >>

This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female...  Read More >>

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Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, 27 of them in color, The Art of Allusion amply exhibits the critical...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive account of asyndetic coordination in Latin, genre by genre, ever attempted. Discusses diverse...  Read More >>

Kat Godeu (The Battle of the Trees), a cryptic Middle Welsh poem attributed to the Taliesin persona, is shown to...  Read More >>

This authoritative commentary is the most comprehensive examination to date of the bilingual riddle tradition of...  Read More >>

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This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the...  Read More >>

Beowulf by All is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem, produced for the first time in workbook...  Read More >>

The precious stones mentioned by Dante in the Divine Comedy, stimulate us to embark on an archaeogemmological journey...  Read More >>