Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Love in the Age of War explores soldier characters that were at the center of many of Menander’s plays. While later...  Read More >>

Provides the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition,...  Read More >>

Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch...  Read More >>

"The Attic lexicon from the 2nd century AD, called Antiatticista, mainly deals with ""non-canonical"" authors and...  Read More >>

This book examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest...  Read More >>

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The life and the adventures of Brendan seafaring saint from Ireland have been told, rewritten and re-narrated...  Read More >>

Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools...  Read More >>

This book traces the intellectual influence of Herodotus among ancient Greek writers living under the Roman Empire....  Read More >>

This is the second edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete...  Read More >>

A new approach to reading Dante's La Comedia Divinia through the lens of art history. Dante, Artist of Gesture brings...  Read More >>

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but...  Read More >>

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114)...  Read More >>

"Does ""authorship"" still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to...  Read More >>

The contributions to this anthology aim to provide some impulses on the relationship between norm and deviance in...  Read More >>

The first examination of the concepts of narrative voice and time in the Icelandic Sagas.  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Aeschylus' Agamemnon written by 12 international contributors, with an English translation...  Read More >>

"""In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume offer a ground-breaking investigation into the birth of new literatures in the vernacular...  Read More >>

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field's modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations...  Read More >>

Drawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation....  Read More >>

Changes in the marking of direct discourse show us the vitality of Latin and the creativity of Late Latin authors,...  Read More >>

The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s...  Read More >>

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and...  Read More >>