Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.

Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Islendingasogur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Islendingasogur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

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The subjects of medieval romance are the great and permanent concerns of the human mind.

This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century.

Sappho – ein Name, der seit über zweitausend Jahren für Leidenschaft, Schönheit und dichterische Meisterschaft steht.

Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders.

First Published in 1934, this book gives a general survey of the history of classical Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle.

In the 5th century B.

Wie sah das Leben des jungen Jesus zwischen seiner Geburt und seinem zwölften Lebensjahr aus?

A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other.

A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle.

Die antike Welt birgt unzählige Schätze, die im Laufe der Zeit verloren gingen – zerstört durch Kriege, Naturkatastrophen oder den Lauf der Geschichte.

The Normans in France and England left a rich legacy in historiography and literature, which is the subject of this volume.

Epen sind die altesten verschriftlichten Grotexte vieler Sprachen.

Georgien – ein Land, dessen einzigartige Schrift, tief verwurzelte religiöse Traditionen und reiches kulturelles Erbe eine literarische Geschichte von unvergleichlicher Tiefe und Schönheit hervorgebracht haben.

The Normans in France and England left a rich legacy in historiography and literature, which is the subject of this volume.

Step into the world of the 8th century BCE and uncover the profound messages of Amos, a prophet whose voice called for justice and righteousness in a time of inequality and spiritual complacency.

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy.

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities.

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Führer durch die französische Literatur des Mittelalters" verfügbar.

The purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matiere de Bretagne.

Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray's death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet.

The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west.

Im Zentrum dieser Monographie steht die Frage, wie die römischen Autoren Horaz, Ovid und Seneca die Darstellung eigener Schwäche, eigenen Scheiterns und eigenen Fehlverhaltens als Mittel ihrer literarischen Selbstinszenierung einsetzen.