Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies.

The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France.

The first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses.

A completely accessible but thought-provoking 2007 introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

Most of us grew up with Aesop's Fables-tales of talking animals, with morals attached.

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled "e;al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh"e;, is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world.

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

Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid''s account of Rome and its calendar.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Orvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula.

Professor Dihle sees the Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century B.

The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools, yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with sexual content.

This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912.

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors.

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship.

Argues compellingly for a new approach to ancient narrative which goes beyond narratology and is alert to its specific logic.

The Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received.

Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject.

Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative.

This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large.

To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance.

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine.

The first study of the reception of Aristotle in Medieval and Renaissance Italy that considers the ethical dimension of translation.

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art.

Robert Lepage''s work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature.

When, in the third century B.

California Studies in Classical Antiquity: Volume 12 offers an engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays that delve into the complexities of ancient Greek and Roman history, literature, and culture.

Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome offers a new interpretation of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem written during the reign of the emperor Vespasian (70-79 AD).

Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012.

Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully appreciate the work of this fascinating, complex and surprisingly modern writer.

Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry.

This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place.

A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius'' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique and profoundly influential work.

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama.

This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc.

Although it is often thought that Herodotus is a simple author, and that his Histories do not contain many passages requiring textual criticism, closer investigation reveals this view to be inaccurate.