Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries.

This is a useful collection of 120 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students at GCSE and A level.

This book offers a discussion of the kalam cosmological argument, and presents a defence of a version of that argument after critically evaluating three of the most important versions of the argument.

This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians.

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Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance.

In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical study themselves.

Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism.

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism-a new term introduced in this collection-present in contemporary popular culture.

Plotin ist der intensivste und kraftvollste Denker im Kontext spätantiker Philosophie, von großer unmittelbarer und geschichtlich weitreichender Ausstrahlung.

Die Konstruktion und Darstellung einander überkreuzender Zeitlichkeiten ist nicht erst in der Moderne ein wesentliches Merkmal von Kunst und Literatur.

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme.

"e;Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature,"e; writes Bart Ehrman, "e;is the degree to which it was forged.

This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most controversial works.

Kinderlosigkeit ist kein biologisches Schicksal, sondern sozial und kulturell geprägt, argumentiert Regina Toepfer.

A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding.

This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary.

Argues that Plato''s Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights.

This work examines the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey and their subsequent reception.

A study of Ælfric''s saint''s Lives in their contemporary political and intellectual setting.

Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English.

The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area.

One of the first volumes to explore the intersection of economics, morality, and culture, this collection analyzes the role of the developing monetary economy in Western Europe from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

This study makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the development of ancient Platonism and of the influence of Greek philosophy on Christian thought.

Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d.

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people.

This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries.

Sheds new light on the topic of women in tragedy by focusing on neglected evidence from the fragments.

Gods have always lived among humans.

Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece.

This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in later literature and culture.

This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance.

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus.

A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human?

After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves.

New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond.