Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century.

Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology.

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides.

At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ.

We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response.

In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media.

In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature.

This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit.

Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West.

Virgil's Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention.

Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns.

This book explores some of the most prominent literary responses to the collective trauma of a fallen city.

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

'Collaboration' is a complex cultural and political phenomenon: the combined practice of two or more artists, simultaneously or across time, or the willing (and therefore publicly reprehensible) collusion implied by the term's specifically historical meaning.

In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy.

The book presents an analysis of communicative structures and deictic elements in Hellenistic dedicatory epigrams.

Die mittelalterlichen logischen Traktate "De obligationibus" legten die Grundlagen für die Ausbildung der Methode der hypothetischen Argumentation, der zentralen Grundformen des wissenschaftlichen Denkens in der Moderne.

The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.

'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

What made the Romans laugh?

Die Werke von Ovid haben in der europäischen Kultur-, Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte eine lebhafte Rezeption und Aneignung erfahren.

A magickal guide to working with runes and plant allies for manifestation, healing, and spellwork*; 2025 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award*; Examines the herb and plant connections of each of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark as well as correspondences with deities, astrology, tarot, and crystals*; Provide examples and tips on how runes and plants may be combined within spells and ritual for manifesting, protecting, healing, banishing, and more*; Explains how runes and plants can be worked with for the soulful process of rewilding and connecting with Mother NatureIn this magickal grimoire, herbalist witch Nicolette Miele immerses readers in the wisdom and folklore of the 24 Elder Futhark runes as well as their correspondences with deities, astrology, tarot, crystals, and plants.

What made the Romans laugh?

Extrait : "Il est, parmi les gens de lettres, une caste d'individus qui, tout en ayant de nombreux rapports avec eux, ne vivent pas moins à part, ont des mœurs différentes, une religion particulière, ne se préoccupent guère que du passé, pensent peut-être quelquefois à l'avenir, mais font peu de cas du présent.

Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Arminius die Politiker und Heerführer, Konsuln und Kaiser, die legendären Könige und die großen Familien Roms werden in diesem kleinen Lexikon in knappen und zuverlässigen Artikeln beschrieben, dazu die wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der Goten, Kelten und Germanen.

Ulrich Prills Einführung erschließt Dantes sprach- und staatstheoretische Schriften, sie präsentiert seine Lyrik und sein Hauptwerk "Die Göttliche Komödie".

A Spectator Book of the YearIt's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice.

Xerxes, Perikles, Alexander der Große - die Staatsmänner und Feldherrn, Könige und Tyrannen, die mythischen Gründerfiguren der griechischen Antike einschließlich etwa der Perser, Parther und der hellenistischen Dynastien werden in diesem kleinen Lexikon mit den wichtigsten Taten und Daten versammelt.

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods.

Seven the Thread of God: How God Sevened Himself, Made Covenant, and the Role Sevens Play in Restoring Us to God from Genesis to Revelation is a story of promise, transgression, and redemption, as well as a beacon of hope in a world that has become chaotic and divisive.