Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy.

This book examines William Langland's late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought.

This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world.

Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.

The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author, Aristotle.

This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture.

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of "e;pornographic literary theory"e; to open up Chaucer's ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis.

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature.

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments.

This book explores the global politics of disarmament through emerging international relations (IR) theories of discourse and imagination.

Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures.

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

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society.

According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention.

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern.

This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research.

The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India.

Elionor of Sicily, 1325-1375: A Mediterranean Queen's Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows Elionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III.

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "e;disability"e; and "e;monstrosity"e; in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies.

In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante's Divine Comedy.

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism.

In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century.

Twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most influential figures in Western literature, for his romantic poems on the legend of King Arthur gave rise to a tradition of storytelling that continues to this day.

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.

In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R.

Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries.

A "e;brilliant"e; examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation's-and the world's-security at risk (The Wall Street Journal).

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures.

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages.

This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions.

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a 'cultural symptom' and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre.

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature.

This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers.

This book examines the lasting impact of war on individuals and their communities in pre-modern Europe.

This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great.

Dentro del legado espiritual recibido a lo largo del tiempo, tal vez sea el sufismo el que mejor ha explicado y codificado el proceso de acercamiento a Dios, aunando una sólida enseñanza filosófica con una praxis bien definida.

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags.

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

This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

Explore the spiritual practices, legends, and traditions of various Indigenous tribes throughout the North American continent.

This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po).

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts.

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer''s medieval manuscripts in the early modern period.

This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizations.