Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Korpus der griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller" verfügbar.

Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances.

Volume 37 Literary Appropriationsexamines medieval literature in a different light.

A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.

This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians -those who lived in Byzantium.

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition.

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Der italienisch-sprachige Band bietet einen Kommentar zu den Fragmenten und Testimonien von zwölf griechischen Komödiendichtern des 4.

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy.

While most of its contemporary religions have faded away, Israelite religion continues to have a major influence in the world.

This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century.

Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand's work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this volume explore the creation and transmission of canonical texts and the motives of their compilers but also address the issues of how the law was interpreted and used by diverse audiences in the earlier middle ages, with especial focus on the eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students.

Even in Archaic times in Greece, Homer's Iliad had canonical status.

This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.

In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis.

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne.

To the perennial question "e;which comes first, the music or the words?

This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism.

The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.

The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent.

This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought.

This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Hirtengeschichten von Daphnis und Chloe" verfügbar.

In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works.

The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical play cycle into the reign of Elizabeth I.

Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic.

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today.

Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell.

Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus's reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal.

The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west.