Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The present book challenges the standard scholarly view according to which disease (morbus) in the De rerum natura...  Read More >>

The Kitāb al-Madḫal (""Book of the Isagoge"") is crucial for anyone who aims to fully understand Avicenna's (d....  Read More >>

Ibn Bāğğa's commentary on Aristotle's　On Generation and Corruption　is one of the first commentaries to elaborate...  Read More >>

The pre-modern world was much more concerned about freedom, imprisonment, and slavery than we might have assumed....  Read More >>

Chamber's introduction to Beowulf is the most comprehensive study of the whole problem of this remarkable Anglo-Saxon...  Read More >>

In this volume, several neighbouring disciplines, such as memory studies, literature, folklore studies, history...  Read More >>

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A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan.  Read More >>

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.  Read More >>

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval...  Read More >>

This book presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts that have scarcely been adopted,...  Read More >>

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""Obscene Pedagogies argues that sexual obscenity was a valuable tool for educating individuals about rape, consent,...  Read More >>

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages,  Read More >>

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature....  Read More >>

Includes Old French text and English translation of the life of Saint Eufrosine, who dressed as a man to become...  Read More >>

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature...  Read More >>

This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary...  Read More >>

This study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God. In Liturgical Song...  Read More >>

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium, a special issue of New Norse Studies, is a smorgasbord of noteworthy studies...  Read More >>

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to ""circumcise [his] lips""? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight's head...  Read More >>

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to ""circumcise [his] lips""? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight's head...  Read More >>

This book offers a new interpretation of Aeschylus’ tragic tetralogy Lycurgeia and Naevius’ tragedy Lycurgus, the...  Read More >>

This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest...  Read More >>