Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian...  Read More >>

This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in...  Read More >>

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday life experiences,...  Read More >>

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After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores its significance for interpretation. The discussion...  Read More >>

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Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians,...  Read More >>

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This volume, the first one dedicated to the ancient scholia to Cicero’s speeches, analyzes them from different angles...  Read More >>

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily...  Read More >>

In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor,...  Read More >>

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood?...  Read More >>

Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing...  Read More >>

Augustin zeichnet in den Büchern XV-XVIII seines Werkes De ciuitate dei die Geschichte der Menschheit nach. Dabei...  Read More >>

Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus.  Read More >>

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops not only reports the biographies of the Neapolitan bishops during those centuries,...  Read More >>

This book marks a major contribution to the field of Greek and Byzantine philosophical exegesis, and will be valuable...  Read More >>

This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities,...  Read More >>

Explores the notoriously difficult ancient Greek poetry of Aeschylus and Pindar and seeks to articulate the complex...  Read More >>

"Die ""Wiener Studien"", gegrundet 1879, sind eine internationale wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie,...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus....  Read More >>

"At the end of the fourteenth century, the Ovide moralise was ""demoralized"" in a few manuscripts, those of the...  Read More >>

Challenging established narratives of literary history, this book explores how the earliest known Greek poets signposted...  Read More >>