Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 48 is a special issue that presents the outcome of an international workshop ("Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama") held (virtually) at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in June 2021. The conference was hosted by Jan Bloemendal, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This volume contains six transnational and/or translingual case studies of early modern theatre and four reviews which cover various epochs, genres and discourses.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 46 is a special issue presenting the results of an international conference on the Latin Josephus, which was held at the University of Bochum, Germany, in September 2019. It comprises six articles on a wide variety of aspects of the Latin Josephus tradition and a review of a recently published edition of Josephus's De Bello Iudaico, book 1.

Literary scholars have long been aware of the phenomenon of intertextuality in the early modern age and hence in neo-Latin literature. Yet so far there have been very few historical or systematic studies engaging with specific adaptation procedures operating between individual texts or classes of text. This volume presents an initial sequence of case studies on the use of intertextual writing strategies such as parody, contrafactum, or cento in the Latin literature of Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. They are based on new research approaches centering around text typology and the history of literary functions.

In the Middle Ages, Boethiusa (TM) a oeConsolatio Philosophiaea is one of the most influential philosophical works from Late Antiquity. It was frequently commented on and translated. This collected volume examines the commentaries and translations of the famous text from a European perspective and thus paves the way for interdisciplinary research into the medieval reception of Boethiusa (TM) work. The volume contains chapters by linguists and literary scholars from a variety of disciplines, together with historians and philosophers.

The Early Modern Age (15tha "18th cents) saw the appearance of a vast number of Latin plays. The papers collected in this volume analyse exemplars of individual dramas or complexes of dramas to provide insights into the fundamental structures of the genre, but also into differences determined by history, denomination and function. Attention is also paid to theoretical dramatic and theatrical texts which reflected, accompanied and in their turn influenced the development of drama composition and stage practice. Finally, future research areas are indicated and wish lists set up.