Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history...  Read More >>

The book contains first editions of thirty-three cuneiform tablets from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection,...  Read More >>

Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants in French prose romances demonstrates fantasies of conflict and conquest...  Read More >>

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King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth...  Read More >>

Structuring Spaces illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within...  Read More >>

Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual...  Read More >>

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Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating...  Read More >>

Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact...  Read More >>

John of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a thirteenth-century allegoresis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: newly edited and...  Read More >>

Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English...  Read More >>

Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores...  Read More >>

This volume provides the first systematic study of the translation and reception of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone...  Read More >>

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This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed,...  Read More >>

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts.  Read More >>

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The treatises 10 and 11 recount, with talent and erudition, the return by the Adriatic to Venice, which is amply...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets...  Read More >>