BIC SubjectsLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval

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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 37 (2025)

Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Catalina Girbea

[Reinardus, 37] 2025. iv, 208 pp.
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Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage

Edited by Francesco Stella

The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by… read more
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 36 (2024)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 36] 2024. iv, 321 pp.
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The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel

Edited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García

This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history,… read more
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 35 (2023)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 35] 2023. iv, 240 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 34 (2022)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 34] 2022. iv, 197 pp.
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La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’

Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi

This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa, written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan, but… read more
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 29] 2021. xxiii, 208 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 33 (2021)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 33] 2021. iii, 167 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 32 (2020)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 32] 2020. iv, 212 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 31 (2019)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

Reinardus is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern… read more
[Reinardus, 31] 2019. iv, 273 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 30 (2018)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

Reinardus is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern… read more
[Reinardus, 30] 2018. v, 262 pp.
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The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval

Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more
[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 29 (2017)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

Addendum to vol. 29 (2017)

Cover illustration: Marginal miniature by Nikolaus Glockendon in the “Festevangelistar” of Michelfeld Abbey, 1515-1520 (Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Solg. Ms. 9. 2°, f. 18). Copyright Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg.

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[Reinardus, 29] 2017. iii, 284 pp.
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Vita coaetanea / A Contemporary Life / Vida coetánea / Vida coetània

Ramon Llull

Winner of the 2018 Premio internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti per il Mediterraneo in the category "Storia, Letteratura", awarded annually by Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy.The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life… read more
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 28 (2016)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 28] 2016. v, 185 pp.
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The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon

Joan Rois de Corella

Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and… read more
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The Book of the Order of Chivalry / Llibre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria / Libro de la Orden de Caballería

Ramon Llull

The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death, it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The… read more
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More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició

Edited by Anna Maria Babbi and Vicent Josep Escartí

The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and… read more
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 27 (2015)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 27] 2015. viii, 262 pp.
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 26 (2014)

Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele

[Reinardus, 26] 2014. vi, 224 pp.
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'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge

Bernat Metge

Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300’s. It consists of a dialogue between… read more
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The Book of Fortune and Prudence

Bernat Metge

These new translations of Bernat Metge’s Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia’s most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge’s masterwork, Lo somni (The… read more
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Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa: Novel·la cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana. Linguistic and Cultural Studies on 'Curial e Güelfa', a 15th Century Anonymous Chivalric Romance in Catalan

Editat per Antoni Ferrando

Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la anònima del segle XV escrita en llengua catalana, desconeguda fins al segle XIX i publicada por primera vegada el 1901. Es tracta d’una obra singular, a cavall entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, en què es conjuminen magistralment els components cavalleresc i… read more
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 3] 2012. xxi, 1193 pp. (2 vols.)
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Curial and Guelfa: A classic of the Crown of Aragon. Translated into English by Max W. Wheeler

Translated by Max W. Wheeler

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,… read more
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