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• Literary form -- History
• History -- To 1500

• Form and Reform: Reading Across the Fifteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Shannon Noelle Gayk and Kathleen Ann Tonry, contrib. by Jessica Brantley, Andrew Cole, Karen A. Winstead, Rebecca Krug, Robert John Meyer-Lee, Mishtooni Bose, and James Simpson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Peter W. Rose (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Remember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), by Catherine Brown (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Nicola McDonald (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anglo-Castilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c1978), by Wendy R. Childs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Ideals and Expectations During the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2019), by Rutger Kramer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Ideals and Expectations During the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2019), by Rutger Kramer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Andrea Denny-Brown (PDF at Ohio State)

• Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia: Comparative Approaches (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages v25; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Eirik Hovden, Christina Lutter, and Walter Pohl
  • PDF with commentary at brill.com
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• The Episcopate in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth Century, by Richard A. Fletcher (PDF files at Libro)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt et al.: P. Lang, c2017), ed. by Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, and Jan Clauss
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter, Nach Südeuropäischen Quellen (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1889), by Max Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier ((based on) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967), by Robert I. Burns (PDF files at Libro)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas (1996), by Edward Cook (multiple formats at Google)

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