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Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and... Læs mere
This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261-1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late medieval period to begin reviving classical Latin in his works.
These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most prominent philosophers and biographers of the ancient world.
First published in 1949 this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time.
Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Charting a course through Cicero's celebrated career, Shane Butler examines the relationship between speech and writing in Roman oratory.
This book provides a close reading of Augustine's Confessions and Eusebius' Life of Constantine to demonstrate that early... Læs mere
Places Margery Kempe in the context of the society of late-medieval Kings. This book contains an exploration of Margery's spirituality.
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.
Anna Komnene's history of her father, the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, is an enormously important twelfth-century Byzantine text.... Læs mere
Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great... Læs mere