Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced...  Read More >>

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Presenting case studies on the transformation and demise of various polytheistic religions, it highlights the pivotal...  Read More >>

Sophocles' Women of Trachis resonates with the complexity of life, expressing happiness entwined with despair and...  Read More >>

This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated...  Read More >>

The image and voice of abandoned women are a familiar topic to students of classical Chinese poetry. This book explores...  Read More >>

L'Egypte des pharaons n'est pas que pyramides monumentales, temples majestueux ou tombes inviolees. Elle nous a...  Read More >>

It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization,...  Read More >>

"The knowledge of ancient Sabina, in its various aspects, territorial, institutional, cultural and socio-economic,...  Read More >>

Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in...  Read More >>

La llegenda del cor menjat va gaudir d'una gran popularitat durant la Baixa Edat Mitjana, concretament a partir...  Read More >>

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional...  Read More >>

The subject of this book is the ancient Egyptian offering ritual, in particular the offering of food, and the well-known...  Read More >>

"""This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched....  Read More >>

This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon....  Read More >>

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This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between...  Read More >>

Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Amy Lather shows the different ways in which matter interacted...  Read More >>

This collection explores Vergil's engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions,...  Read More >>

During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled...  Read More >>

The papers gathered in this volume focus on 'Medieval Translations and their Readership', the special strand of...  Read More >>

"Chaucer's Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division...  Read More >>