European ancient literature

The author of the medieval encyclopedia “On the Properties of Things,” Bartholomew of England, was probably born around 1190. There is an assumption that he ...

John Donne’s “Sacred Sonnets” struck me with the power of passions, the intensity of love, suffering, the depths of despair and repentance. The title of each...

· New Life· Feast· On Popular Eloquence· Poems of the Florentine Period· Poems Written in Exile· Poems about the Stone Lady· Latin Poems· The Question of Wat...

Matteo Bandello (c. 1485–1561) is an outstanding Italian short story writer of the 16th century. Born in Castelnuovo in Piedmont. In his youth he joined the ...

“Appeals to the Lord in Hours of Need and Disaster” (1623) is one of the brightest literary monuments of the era, combining a diary, a medical bulletin, a ph...

This is the most complete collection of Icelandic strands ever published, both in the original language and in translation into foreign languages. In additio...

Nicephorus Gregoras is a Byzantine polymath, historian and astronomer, a participant in theological, so-called “hesychast” disputes of the mid-14th century, ...

Following the example of medieval codes, the cover contains the best examples of treatises on monsters written in the Middle Ages: “The Book of Beasts and Mo...

The essay “On Libraries” (Latin: “De bibliothecis syntagma”) by the Flemish humanist Just Lipsia (1547–1606) laid the foundation for two humanities that fina...

The publication offered to the reader contains translations into Russian of sources on the history of Christianity in Spain in the 1st millennium. For the fi...

Francesco Petrarca is the creator of European lyric poetry, who was the first to substantiate the importance of the poet as an original thinker. This edition...