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Ziolkowski M Jan
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in…
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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 113 includes new essays on Greek and Roman Classics by Andrew Merritt, Georgios Kostopoulos, Christian Vassallo, Guy Westwood, Peter Osorio, James J. Clauss and…
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
Jan M Ziolkowski
Controversy has raged about Christian perspectives on Muslims in Dante’s Divine Comedy. One extreme emphasizes clash of civilizations, another peaceful cohabitation. Dante’s fit within orientalism remains debated. Sifting the issues…
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the…
Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Nigel Wireker or Nigel de Longchamps, was a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, during the troubled decades after the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. This…
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This volume makes most wide-ranging attempt ever to probe the natures, origins, and consequences of obscenity in medieval literature, art, theater, and law. One large section examines obscenity in medieval…
Explores the links between tales preserved in Latin from the Middle Ages and ‘classic’ fairy tales from the collections of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
Bringing together cartography, history, philosophy, philology, and other disciplines, Dante and the Greeks taps into the knowledge of scholars of the medieval West, Byzantium, and Dante. Essays discuss the presence…
A companion to the first-ever English translation of Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin, published alongside the Latin in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. This supplement offers an extensive…
In this work, Ziolkowski pits wise Solomon against a wily peasant named Marcolf. While it is widely known by name, until now it has not been translated into any modern…
Nota Bene explores a little-known juxtaposition of verbal text and musical notation in the Middle Ages. This particular intersection deserves attention from those interested in music, the reception of classical…
The Cambridge Songs is the most important anthology of songs from before the thirteenth-century Carmina Burana. It contains panegyrics and dirges, political poems, comic tales, religious and didactic poems, and…
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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 112 includes Olga Levaniouk, The Dreams of Barcin and Penelope ; Paul Hosle, Bacchylides’ Theseus and Vergil’s Aristaeus ; Vayos Liapis, Arion and the…
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Peter Abelard
Presents the letters exchanged between Peter Abelard and Heloise that shed light on the relationship between the man and woman, as teacher and student, lovers, husband and wife, monk and…
Dag Norberg
Dag Norberg’s analysis and interpretation of medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears in here English, with a…
A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers. -Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
Anatole France
Writers, illustrators, and musicians from the Middle Ages to the present have loved this simple, medieval tale. In 1890, Anatole France adapted the original poem as the short story Le…
Sextus Amarcius
The Satires of Amarcius unrelentingly attack both secular vices and ecclesiastical abuses of the late eleventh century. The Eupolemius is a late-eleventh-century Latin epic that recasts salvation history, from Lucifer’s…
Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that display the mysteries of the rogue biography that is Solomon and Marcolf…
Nigel of Canterbury
Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales illustrating her boundless mercy. Tract on Abuses rails against ecclesiastical corruption…
The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it…
