Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Vict...

Why do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wiz...

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, intern...

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells ...

Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occ...

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells ...

Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this...

When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain he proposed ...

This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of...

The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a...

This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both liter...

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly be...