Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

‘Blood is thicker than water’, goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe...  Read More >>

This book is focussed on the development of modern understanding of how the ways of seeing and recording the past...  Read More >>

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues,...  Read More >>

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A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars...  Read More >>

Nicole Rice's original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production...  Read More >>

Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical...  Read More >>

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This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings...  Read More >>

Explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing...  Read More >>

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.  Read More >>

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Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring...  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and...  Read More >>

A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle's Ethics...  Read More >>

Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory...  Read More >>

The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective...  Read More >>

The first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica with Herodotus' Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean...  Read More >>

Der in englischer Sprache verfasste Forschungsbericht zu Ovids Metamorphosen wurde von einem Forscher: innenteam...  Read More >>

A careful reading of Plato’s works show that Thrasymachus and Callicles, his famous immoralists, are unselfconsciously...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of...  Read More >>

When Virgil tells of the flight of the Trojans and their conflict-ridden arrival in Italy in his Aeneid, his own...  Read More >>