Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together...  Read More >>

Between 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s...  Read More >>

Uber Jahrhunderte hinweg lassen sich in fiktionaler Literatur stabile Muster erkennen, wie vom ""Jenseits der Gabe""...  Read More >>

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, preceded by a study showing how this technical treatise...  Read More >>

A recreation of medieval people’s experience of time.  Read More >>

Taking a pan-European perspective, this volume situates the Latin love poetry of the early modern period in relation...  Read More >>

The first ever volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms that examines the meanings and uses of “the...  Read More >>

These teaching and reference materials paint a vivid picture of the kinds of French that medieval English learners...  Read More >>

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, preceded by a study showing how this technical treatise...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Monographie beleuchtet die politische Dimension von Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, indem bei der...  Read More >>

Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era...  Read More >>

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Offering fresh perspectives on well-known texts, Against Reproduction is an accessible and compelling book that...  Read More >>

A collection of fourteen essays by scholars of the Carolingian era specializing in history, art history, and literature....  Read More >>

Brings an innovative comparative methodology to the study of medieval romance, integrating the understudied Castilian...  Read More >>

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This new comparative reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their...  Read More >>

Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae ist nicht nur das größte lateinische Wörterbuch der Welt, sondern zugleich das erste,...  Read More >>

In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined...  Read More >>

Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In...  Read More >>

A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising...  Read More >>

The Ass of the Gods rereads Apuleius’ Golden Ass and the Lucianic Onos through the patterns of ancient metamorphosis...  Read More >>

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The panegyric activity of Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus for the Ostrogoth rulers is exemplified only by a...  Read More >>

Among all the biblical epics the poem Heptateuchos by Ps. Cyprian most urgently needs a reliable critical edition...  Read More >>