Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturlusons Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old No...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manife...Loe edasi...
This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars across Dante studies and translation studies to chart the English-language translation journey of the Divine Comedy from the 18th century to the present....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature....Loe edasi...
This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people discussed unusual bodies in early modern England because they provided newsworthy entertainment, revealed the will of God, and demonstra...Loe edasi...
This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th...Loe edasi...
Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE....Loe edasi...
This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetrys work i...Loe edasi...
This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film....Loe edasi...
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede....Loe edasi...
The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy....Loe edasi...
Dantes Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity....Loe edasi...
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during th...Loe edasi...
The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of papers addressing some of his many interests, reflecting his deep and growing influence over half a century, and marking out areas for ongoing debate and developme...Loe edasi...
This volume, originally published in 1991, presents English translations of four complete Latin texts essential for any understanding of the fictional treatment of Alexander in the medieval literature of western Europe....Loe edasi...
Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen Nicholsons studies of the military religious orders and the crusades....Loe edasi...
