The Franks were the most successful of all the barbarian peoples in establishing a kingdom in the...

The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance period were both a remarkable...

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety ...

The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the...

Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery:...

Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.

East German studies today is thriving. Scholars have shown East Germany to be a complex society w...

Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not on...

New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader.

New view of Remarque's novels as a chronicle of the century yet more than a mere reflection of hi...

The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and t...

This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his ...