Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Fifty-two specialists on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to this work, divided into four fields...  Read More >>

Explores what kind of stories emerge from classical epic when similes are front and center. Combines the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues....  Read More >>

Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian...  Read More >>

Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.  Read More >>

"""Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of...  Read More >>

This book provides the modern reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and...  Read More >>

"The aim of this study is to establish, in a comparative approach between the epic fiction of the ""chanson de geste""...  Read More >>

Christian authors in the Middle Ages came to elaborate the figure of the being who has gone astray. They developed...  Read More >>

""This book explores the reception of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragic heroines Phaedra and Medea in the poems...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory...  Read More >>

Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. This volume provides an engaging introduction...  Read More >>

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors....  Read More >>

The aim of this study is to establish, in a comparative approach between the epic fiction of the ""chanson de geste""...  Read More >>

Christian authors in the Middle Ages came to elaborate the figure of the being who has gone astray. They developed...  Read More >>

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period,...  Read More >>

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors....  Read More >>

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3 b/w illus, 2 col illus & 6 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

Davina Grojnowski examines Life, the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus,...  Read More >>

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object...  Read More >>

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An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature....  Read More >>

The book presents ten accounts of tournaments from the 12th to the 14th century and offers a translation into modern...  Read More >>