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History of literature
- Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller was born on the 10th of November 1759 in Marbach, in the Duchy of Württemberg, named after King Frederick the Great but called Fritz by…
- Matter of RomeThe Matter of Rome is the name medieval poets gave to an entire world of stories: the myths, wars, and heroes of classical Greece and Rome, refracted through…
- Elizabethan literatureElizabethan literature names the body of writing produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, from 1558 to 1603. In those forty-five years, English…
- Matter of BritainThe Matter of Britain is the name given to one of the three great story cycles that shaped medieval European literature.
- Latin literatureLatin literature began on a single day in 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. The man who wrote it, Livius Andronicus, was not…
- EpigramThe epigram began not in books but on stone. Ancient Greek writers carved short poems onto votive offerings at sanctuaries and onto the graves of the dead…
- Neo-Latin studiesThe study of Latin and its literature from the Italian Renaissance to the present day defines a vast field known as Neo-Latin studies.
- Renaissance LatinRenaissance Latin is the literary style that humanist scholars forged from roughly the fourteenth to the fifteenth century, insisting that the centuries of…
- History of literatureThe history of literature is the story of how prose and poetry came to entertain and educate readers, and how the techniques behind those works developed…
- Greek literatureGreek literature stretches across roughly two thousand eight hundred years, from poems fixed around 800 BC to novels published today.
- Neo-LatinNeo-Latin is the name scholars give to the Latin written and spoken across Europe from the Italian Renaissance onward, a style that deliberately turned its…