Pahari paintings of an ancient romance

Marvels and the marvellous are synonymous with medieval romance. Yet scholars often express disappointment at the wonders they find in Middle English romance. This chapter asks a s...

This chapter discusses several developments pertaining to the phenomenon of ‘moral romance’ as well as the state of the novel at mid-century. The 1740s were a pivotal decade for th...

This article explores the question of Middle English romance. Literal questions, variously rudimentary, enigmatic, preposterous, provide the impetus for understanding the genre as ...

How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Explori...

This chapter discusses the romance of Ninus and Semiramis, the two great Mesopotamian rulers and city-founders. A papyrus from the first century CE seems to tell their story in the...

The chapter presents the two types of Romance palatalization that have given rise to patterns of allomorphy. These involve principally the first-person singular present indicative ...

The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially a...

This study examines how the particular character of Grail romances follows from the incongruous meeting of courtly and Christian discourses, combined for the first time in LeConte ...