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What was it about the work that propelled it through a progression of medieval cultures and into an exalted position in the world of English letters?

Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

So vielfältig und zahlreich zeitliche Inkonsistenzen in Ovids Metamorphosen sind, so unscharf und divers ist auch das Bild, das sich in bisherigen Deutungen zu diesen oft Anachronismen genannten Textphänomenen zeigt.

His main subjects were the branches of a military force; infantry; cavalry; chariots; elephants; arms ; manoeuvres; military evolutions; marching formation. The work ends with words of command. He wrote also a work on natural phenomena.

The contributions gathered in this volume discuss the complex topic of translating in medieval Italy from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the philological approach with a detailed social and cultural analysis.

In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is ...

In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act.

Despite the richness of its facets, the short religious epic has been largely neglected by scholars until now.