Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Un livre incontournable pour les amateurs de littérature classique. Regroupant des résumés de plusieurs romans,...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

In the early modern period, authors drew extensively on ancient forms and models to introduce their readership to...  Read More >>

This is a short cultural history of the fox in the Middle Ages, outlining medieval views on foxes and illustrating...  Read More >>

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait...  Read More >>

Car on ne le lit plus du tout et il est de ceux que l'on ne conna�t que par ce que les professeurs de philosophie...  Read More >>

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia...  Read More >>

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Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: ""Internationally Nationalist"",...  Read More >>

In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation,...  Read More >>

Ovid’s Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions...  Read More >>

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Olivia Homes shows how the Decameron responds to classical and medieval didactic traditions through its mischievous...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is the first comprehensive examination of ancient writings that...  Read More >>

This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of...  Read More >>

What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than...  Read More >>

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing...  Read More >>

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Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the ‘medical triangle’ according to one of the texts...  Read More >>

Cian J. Power explores ideas about linguistic diversity from the...  Read More >>

Equine Medicine explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of...  Read More >>

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First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it...  Read More >>

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