Nine outstanding plays composed during the period of the finest flowering of medieval Latin drama.

A collection of essays written by pupils, friends and colleagues of Professor Peter Dronke, to honour him on his retirement. The essays address the question of

How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience--and feel--their place within the future history of humankind

De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced b

Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that hav