Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occu...

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism,...

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells o...

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells o...

Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this ...

The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a ...

Every known society wears some form of clothing. It is central to how we experience our bodies an...

When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain he proposed a...

This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of ...

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, interna...

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly bec...

This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both litera...