The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages. With its themes of suf......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should ac......more

It is hardly possible to read Aristotle’s Poetics today without acknowledging the influence of its reception history: ou......more

In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccio’s significant contribution to li......more

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative fo......more

It critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative,......more

Semiotics and multimodality combined together create new forms of signification in the Divine Comedy. It contributes to ......more

The comparison of current theoretical approaches to Dante, particularly those mobilizing the resources of theology, serv......more

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated......more

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated......more

Maxims I and Maxims II, which comprise a seemingly haphazard assortment of Old English poetic gnomes (sayings put into v......more

Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discover......more

This book offers an accessible and concise introduction to the sagas of Icelanders, perfect for both general and academi......more

A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. Wh......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

New interpretations of different aspects of troubadour texts and lyrics, from their main themes and motifs to their rece......more

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of t......more

Much Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving be......more

The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich ind......more

This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists o......more

Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of......more

Examines how Armenia has been represented and "imagined" in texts from two periods in its history: the Middle Ages and t......more

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-s......more

Hildebert of Lavardin is one of the great poets of the Middle Ages, praised for his elegant style by his contemporaries ......more

Who was not born, was buried in his mother’s womb, and was baptized after death? Who first spoke with a dog? Why don’t s......more

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his o......more

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and ch......more

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in......more

Offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Games with a medieval setti......more

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multif......more

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studie......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Revising the histories of medievalism--the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied ......more

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evide......more

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Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the ......more

The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for histori......more

Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756-763), Tang dynasty elites questioned i......more

The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic dev......more

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and histori......more

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, th......more

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval ......more

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldl......more

Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Pati......more

The Displacement of the Body in Ã+lfric’s Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translat......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical,......more

Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works an......more

The battle of Maldon in 991 AD was a defeat. The Old English poem about it that survives, The Battle of Maldon, celebrat......more

Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive explores the possibilities of archival......more

Rather than being the lawless barbarian society that history and popular culture have painted it, medieval Scandinavian ......more

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors ......more

Found in Translation: Itinerant French Epics in Medieval Scandinavia contains English translations of three Old Norse-Ic......more

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards. Th......more

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards. Th......more

This book provides a stylistic analysis of Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, bringing together an array of linguistic frame......more

In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the......more

Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well......more

Upon the fall of the Han empire, the warlord Cao Cao (155-220) established a new political domain. The Cao court became ......more

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western m......more

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western m......more

This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the......more

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf, Lil Nas ......more

This volume is the first to examine in parallel the ways in which twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglo-American Dan......more

Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialo......more

In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation--inserting material from one te......more

Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in Engl......more

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante’s Commedia which reveal elements ins......more

The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader ......more

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth......more

During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond t......more

Petrarch’s Canzoniere had a central role in the Italian Early Modern culture, especially - but not only - in the sixteen......more

Dante engaged with an extraordinary range of traditions, disciplines and media, and a variety of speech-communities, cul......more