Books in the Cambridge Medieval Classics series

Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent'. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem, and to provide a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background.

The Architrenius is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the 'Arch-Weeper') on the threshold of maturity. Winthrop Wetherbee's prose translation is presented alongside the original Latin, and augmented by an introduction and extensive notes.

This book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from the surviving autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus. It is the first English translation of the texts.

Renowned poet Fleur Adcock provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, beside the Latin originals, brilliantly capturing their satire and coarse realism. This unique resource will appeal not only to medievalists but to all lovers of poetry.

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 by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and literary practice.

This book contains editions and translations of three texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his nephew: an exhortation to the study of 'philosophy' (On the Same and the Different), a dialogue on the nature of things (Questions on Natural Science) and a discussion concerning hawks (On Birds).

Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent'. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem, and to provide a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background.

Renowned poet Fleur Adcock provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, beside the Latin originals, brilliantly capturing their satire and coarse realism. This unique resource will appeal not only to medievalists but to all lovers of poetry.

This book contains editions and translations of three texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his nephew: an exhortation to the study of 'philosophy' (On the Same and the Different), a dialogue on the nature of things (Questions on Natural Science) and a discussion concerning hawks (On Birds).

The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. Often called the first Western treatise of childhood education, it forefronts the voice of the mother, whose moral position remains unique in a patriarchal society.

This first volume of Cambridge Medieval Classics offers the text of nine of the most outstanding plays composed and performed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the period of the finest flowering of medieval Latin drama. Newly edited and translated, the texts are given in Latin and English, with detailed apparatus to aid interpretation.

The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. Often called the first Western treatise of childhood education, it forefronts the voice of the mother, whose moral position remains unique in a patriarchal society.