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The Sword
A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.
The Decameron First Day in Perspective
This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.
Curial and Guelfa
Among 15th-century literature in the Romance languages, Curial and Guelfa is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. It is a veritable jewel of late medieval European literature and of narrative in the Crown of Aragon in particular. Curial shares a range of features realism, humanity, believable deeds of chivalry, historical background, allusions to everyday life, elements of humour and parody, variation between literary and popular language with contemporary French chivalric narratives, and with the Valencian Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc. In this company, however, Curial stands out for the predominance in it of the sentimental component, for a significant incidence of l...
Botanical Icons
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the history of botanical illustration in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period. By examining Greek, Latin, and Arabic botanical inquiry in this early era, Andrew Griebeler shows how diverse and sophisticated modes of plant depiction emerged and ultimately gave rise to practices now recognized as central to modern botanical illustration. The author draws on centuries of remarkable and varied documentation from across Europe and the Mediterranean. Lavishly illustrated, Botanical Icons marshals ample evi...
The Classical Review
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Lustrum
Internationale Forschungsberichte aus dem Bereich des Klassischen Altertums.
Myths of the Underworld Journey
This book was first published in 2004. Plato, Aristophanes and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through a close analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition. For these authors, myth is an agonistic discourse, neither a kind of sacred dogma nor a mere literary diversion, but rather a flexible tool that serves the wide variety of uses to which it is put. The traditional tale of the journey to the Underworld in Greek mythology is neither simple nor single, but each telling reveals a perspective on the cosmos, a reflection of the order of this world through the image of the other.
L’Europa cavalleresca i la ficció literària
Al volum tercer s’analitza l’ambientació del Curial (geopolítica, indumentària, música, numismàtica, heràldica...) i es desxifra una elaborada i curiosa onomàstica, amb una evident càrrega al·legòrica (la Güelfa, l’Arta, Làquesis, Tura, Melchior, etc) i clars paral·lelismes amb personatges històrics de l’Europa cavalleresca del segle xv. Figures com Renat d’Anjou, Gherardo Dandolo o el duc de Venosa són ridiculitzades per haver-se oposat als projectes d’Alfons el Magnànim. Alguns protagonistes de la ficció literària (Curial, Boca de Far, Ambròsio de Spíndola, el senyor Salanova, Salonés de Verona, Del Chastell...) evoquen els noms d’amics i de rivals del gran camarlenc i diplomàtic Enyego d’Àvalos. D’altres (Maça-Cornell, Cardona, Martines de Luna, Ximenes d’Urrea...) reten homenatge a cavallers criats amb ell a València, que ocupaven altes responsabilitats de govern al Nàpols del 1445.
Byzantine Studies
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