A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than did Mary Magdalene, and perhaps nowhere in later medieval England was cultural preoccupation with the Magdalene stronger than in fifteenth-century East Anglia.
Plotin ist der intensivste und kraftvollste Denker im Kontext spätantiker Philosophie, von großer unmittelbarer und geschichtlich weitreichender Ausstrahlung.
This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500.
The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer's Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC.
Internationale Autorinnen und Autoren präsentieren den aktuellen Forschungsstand in der griechisch-byzantinischen Paläographie und Manuskriptforschung.
Tools of Literacy is a thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse or dróttkvætt, the literary production of Iceland in the thirteenth century, and of the textual culture which nurtured the poets.
The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature?
Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society's definition of what is acceptable.
Erstmals werden hier zwei frühneuzeitliche Jedermann-Dramen gemeinsam vorgelegt und einem breiteren Publikum erschlossen: die Hecastus-Komödie des niederländischen Humanisten Georgius Macropedius und ihre frühneuhochdeutsche Bearbeitung durch Hans Sachs.
Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious.
Latin epics such as Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Civil War, and Statius's Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order.
Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive study of malaria in ancient Italy since the research of the distinguished Italian malariologist Angelo Celli in the early twentieth century.
The overwhelming concentration on questions of allegory in Dante studies, Franco Masciandaro contends, has come at the expense of considerations of the poem's literal dimension.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II's four years in English captivity.
Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.
Essays on the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book, and the post-medieval reception of such texts.
European Erotic Romance examines the Renaissance publication and translation of the ancient Greek erotic romances, and English adaptations of the genre by Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth.
"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.
The concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy.
LA GRAN E IMPRESCINDIBLE OBRA SOBRE LA HISTORIA DE LA LITERATURA GRIEGADesde su publicación original, la Historia de la literatura griega, de Albin Lesky, marcó un hito en el estudio de la cultura de la Antigüedad.
This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans' 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on the trilogy in recent years.
