Lament past 1999

This chapter explores the importance of lament for the dead within historical and romance narratives composed in Scotland between c.1438 and c.1500 in both Older Scots and Latin. T...

Abstract Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides’ Suppliant Wo...

The Italian Wars stimulated an enormous poetic response which drew on the literary traditions of the peninsula—including history writing—and fed or shaped a widespread demand for n...

The Psalms raise many difficult and controversial issues. Who are the enemies in the Individual Lament Psalms? How many Royal Psalms are there and what was the role of the king in ...

Latin verse inscriptions, the so-called carmina epigraphica, are among the treasures of our epigraphic heritage. They are especially demanding because of their metrical form, lengt...