Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

An examination of the subject of "e;fame"e; in Lydgate, showing it as central to his work.

A modern edition of the sources and major analogues of all the Canterbury Tales, prepared by members of the New Chaucer Society.

WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardExaminations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.

An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions.

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters.

Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship.

In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.

An examination of the ways in which Gower's poetry engages with contemporary law and legal questions.

The Continuations of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval are here examined as constituting a discrete genre of medieval literature.

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages.

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance.

A listing of the latest publications on Marie de France.

Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in his historical and cultural context.

An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes.

Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked.

The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture.

A history of the letter in pre-modern French culture.

Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead.

WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardJohn Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "e;official"e; writings on behalf of the Crown.

Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.

The author analyses six novels of the "e;boom"e; in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications.

Offers an entirely new way of interpreting and examining Anglo-Saxon texts, via theories derived from cognitive studies.

The question of what medieval "e;courtliness"e; was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "e;reality"e;, is debated in this volume.

An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.

The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature, investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film.

An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner.

Presents a new view of literary history by demonstrating how the earliest known Greek poets signposted their allusions to tradition.

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages.

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C.

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "e;Richly detailed and illustrated.

A new generation of teachers envisions a liberal arts education that is good for everyone.

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE.

In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a "e;grail.

Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade.

"e;This book has monumental stature.

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary appetites of the urban population.

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

Der Epikureismus gehört zweifellos zu einer der umstrittensten Philosophenschulen in der Antike.

Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the universities.

Described as 'the most beautiful book ever printed' previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources.

First published in 1926, Primitive Culture in Italy intends to determine to what extent there survived, in the ancient civilization with which it deals, any characteristic features of savage life and thought.

Described as 'the most beautiful book ever printed' previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources.

First published in 1959, Outlines of Classical Literature is a guide for students of English literature who too often come to this difficult and complex subject with little or no knowledge of one of its principal sources.

First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical and early post-classical writings in the Latin tongue, and is a companion to the Handbook of Greek Literature.

First published in 1925, Primitive Culture in Greece dispassionately reviews the claim that the Greeks were 'heathen' and asks how much of the savage ancestry was left in the classical Greek.