Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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This book is the third edition of a successful textbook. Essentials of Early English is a practical and highly accessible...  Read More >>

To be placed at the beginning of the 1280s, if not a few years earlier, the Partenopeus de Blois constitutes a publishing...  Read More >>

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L'Ovide moralise a joue un role significatif pour la connaissance des mythes antiques et la creation de nouvelles...  Read More >>

The collection of medical definitions from the late first or early second century AD, which has come down to us...  Read More >>

As the most comprehensive and best preserved mythographic text, the Bibliotheca is an often consulted source on...  Read More >>

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

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration),...  Read More >>

Homer's Iliad is the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek literature. Reading Homer makes it accessible to students...  Read More >>

Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory...  Read More >>

Thucydides is well known for his fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As Joho shows in this book, these constructions...  Read More >>

Homer in Wittenberg discusses Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the...  Read More >>

This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic...  Read More >>

Outstanding film and television directors drew inspiration from antiquity when creating the Wild West, and the Graeco-Roman...  Read More >>

This scholarly work focuses on encounters with light, telling the story of ""seduction"" from the Middle Ages through...  Read More >>

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Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse...  Read More >>

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever-thanks to digital...  Read More >>

One of the hallmarks of the Arabic literature of the Mamluk era is the very frequent use of semantic ambiguity,...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

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Provides a book-by-book commentary on the The Iliad’s 24 parts. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer...  Read More >>

Working from the example of the mythic prophet Cassandra, this book uses insights from translation theory to uncover...  Read More >>