Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major...  Read More >>

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories...  Read More >>

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that...  Read More >>

How did the Greeks and Romans perceive rape? How seriously was it taken, and who were seen as its main victims?...  Read More >>

Bristling with interdisciplinary insights, this book will open up new dimensions for Dante scholars and attract...  Read More >>

Greek mythical heroines are still with us! Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle women, Alcestis…This volume presents...  Read More >>

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Did city literature in the Middle Ages present towns differently from historical sources? The medieval town is first...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in different...  Read More >>

Did city literature in the Middle Ages present towns differently from historical sources? The medieval town is first...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative...  Read More >>

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period....  Read More >>

In this volume, Benjamin D. Giffone shows that the coexistence of at least three cultic centralization models within...  Read More >>

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The widely accepted view of exile in the Book of Daniel is that it was an ongoing reality which went beyond the...  Read More >>

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This conference volume features cutting edge research from an international cohort of scholars on the still-controversial...  Read More >>

This volume offers a collection of twenty-six studies by David T. Runia on the writings and thought of Philo of...  Read More >>

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances...  Read More >>

With an investigation into the landscapes and environments - real, topical, imaginary, recalled and traversed by...  Read More >>

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature honors the career and scholarship of Denise N. Baker....  Read More >>

First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical...  Read More >>

First published in 1959, Outlines of Classical Literature is a guide for students of English literature who too...  Read More >>

First published in 1925, Primitive Culture in Greece dispassionately reviews the claim that the Greeks were ‘heathen’...  Read More >>

First published in 1926, Primitive Culture in Italy intends to determine to what extent there survived, in the ancient...  Read More >>