Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

A Reading of Petronius’ Satyricon offers a detailed literary commentary on one of the surviving masterpieces of...  Read More >>

More than just beings subject to metamorphosis, Ovid's poems portray hybrid creatures. These studies analyze this...  Read More >>

This book shows the elite of Medieval China learned their most important skill: reading and writing in a range of...  Read More >>

In den letzten Jahrzehnten haben sich Emotionen als Gegenstand des Forschungsinteresses uber die traditionell hiermit...  Read More >>

Michael Psellos, Berater und Gelehrter am byzantinischen Kaiserhof, schildert die Geschichte Byzanz' vorrangig im...  Read More >>

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Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother...  Read More >>

This lively and wide-ranging study explores the reception of Aristophanes in the long-nineteenth century. It examines...  Read More >>

Das Buch Jesus Sirach stellt eine gewaltige Synthese weisheitlicher, kultischer, prophetischer, rechtlicher und...  Read More >>

The destruction of the Temple and the humiliation of the exile not only shook the foundations of Israel's pride...  Read More >>

The book makes available two vivid and lyrical expressions of medieval faith, one a rare example of female authorship,...  Read More >>

From the hagiographic mystery plays of the rhetoriqueurs to Marguerite de Navarre's comedies, the status of the...  Read More >>

Blut ist ein Faszinosum. In vielen Kulturen symbolisiert es Leben und Tod zugleich. Auch die mittelalterliche Literatur...  Read More >>

Built in the 6th century at the order of Emperor Justinian, the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai desert...  Read More >>

"From the hagiographic mystery plays of the rhetoriqueurs to Marguerite de Navarre's comedies, the status of the...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together related examples of medieval didactic dialogues. Texts of this kind were designed both...  Read More >>

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Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most challenging of the four works by the...  Read More >>

Thirteen essays explore how the study of tokens has advanced in recent decades, and what the potential is to advance...  Read More >>

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