Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

Why does a 5th grader have to learn about the Sumerian Writing System and Literature?

This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self.

Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years.

The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or "e;songs of deeds"e;, provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in the French language for over one hundred and fifty years (c.

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Essays on aspects of early drama.

Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi thinkers.

Followed by many millions of Muslims throughout the world, Sufism is the heart of Islamic spirituality.

Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages.

This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny.

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

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the discipline of political economy.

Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures.

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato's Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence.

This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination.

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c.

This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde's aestheticism.

The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for society more generally.

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today.

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work-The Parable of the Three Rings-a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring.

This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society.

This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority.

In einer Welt, in der Mythen und Legenden die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion verwischen, erhebt sich die faszinierende Figur des Merlin als der geheimnisvolle Prophet und Zauberer.

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light.

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages.

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth.

This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic rhetoric.

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic.

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages.

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi.

This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives.

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

The volume is intended for classical philologists and a broad range of scholars working in the fields of theoretical, historical, and comparative linguistics with Ancient Greek, Latin, or Slavic languages as the primary evidence in their research.

Islam is more than a system of rigid doctrines and normative principles.

This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle.

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history.

This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century.

This book argues that Paradiso - Dante's vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative.

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state.

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks.

This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine's career and many of his decisions in context.

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France.

This book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts.