European ancient literature

The novel “Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart” belongs to the pen of the outstanding medieval writer - Chretien de Troyes. The well-known story about Lancel...

The masterpieces of world love poetry collected in the book - Ovid's poems and elegies, the biblical "Song of Songs", sonnets, and other poetic and prose wor...

Bernard of Clairvaux - abbot of the Clairvaux monastery, a prominent church figure, a classic of Western European mystical theology. One of the most educated...

“The beginning of literature is folklore recorded in writing,” argued Vladimir Propp. In France, folk poetry formed the basis of all genres of professional l...

“Hesperian Sayings” is a unique and amazing monument of European literature. They were written in Ireland in the 7th century in a special, “Hesperian” langua...

The book introduces readers to two monuments of Byzantine prose: the “Love Letters” of Aristenetos (VI century) and the “Tale of Isminia and Ismina” by Evmat...

In this collective work, dedicated to the European nobility of the 16th-17th centuries, the following range of issues was chosen for research: Definition of ...

The book includes the most striking and informative monuments of historical thought of the 8th-9th centuries: “The Life of Charlemagne” by Einhard, “Annals o...

Based on the study of pictorial monuments and plots of Scythian folklore preserved by ancient authors, the work examines the ideas about the universe inheren...

The poem “Song of the Crusade against the Albigensians” (first half of the 13th century) is the only monument of Old Occitan literature that combines histori...

Anthology compiled and published in 1953 by the outstanding scientist and teacher B.I. Purishev (1903-1989) and significantly updated and expanded in the sec...