Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Argues that devotional and legal witnessing practices offered medieval writers a distinct vocabulary they could...  Read More >>

In the past decade, classical scholarship has been polarized by questions concerning the establishment of a literary...  Read More >>

Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History by Randy P. Schiff contributes to recent...  Read More >>

Though in many respects similar to us moderns, the Greeks and Romans often conceived things differently than we...  Read More >>

The first translation of Graverini's groundbreaking study on Apuleius' second-century CE novel The Golden Ass.  Read More >>

During his last two decades (ca. 2 BCE-17 CE), Ovid composed, but never completed, his Fasti, an elegiac representation...  Read More >>

Uncovers new insights about the Chester-le-Street scribes and their tumultuous time, rife as it was with various...  Read More >>

This collection works with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality...  Read More >>

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""This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places,...  Read More >>

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars....  Read More >>

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This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which...  Read More >>

This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of...  Read More >>

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Volume 4 of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic presents six innovative articles on a diverse array of subjects....  Read More >>

The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient...  Read More >>

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This compact and engaging text provides unique insights into the issues of ‘dharma’ in the Indian epic the Mahābhārata....  Read More >>

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A for An. A hotel. A heroic man. Before an unaccented aspirate use an. The contraryusage in this country comes...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; The studies hover about four foci: normative...  Read More >>