short description: A comprehensive study of translations of the Bible into English. Bruce traces the story from its beginnings to the publication of contemporary versions, and shows the impact of some
Recently retired (Paul-Valery U. of Montpellier), French scholar of 18th-century British literature Soulier-Detis has woven fragmented explanations about satirical painter and engraver William Hogarth
This is a complete guide to what the hieroglyph-inscribed objects found when Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb actually mean. The book is ordered by location, with sections on the Antechamber, t
Although Egyptian amphorae containing wine were labelled, these labels never state whether the wine inside was red or white. Using analysis of residue samples from amphorae this study determines what
Six of the eleven papers in this volume are revised versions of those given at a symposium session at the SAA meeting in Chicago in 1999, along with an introduction and four extra contributions.
By publishing these ten essays in English in the BAR series the research carried out by the contributors, and the evidence and fieldwork methodologies they cite, is made available to a much wider audi
At the heart of this study of Roman pottery in Macedonian Greece is a catalogue of over 1,900 vessels from five sites in the area of: Amphipolis, Philppi, Kepia, Abdera and Thasos. Vaitsa Malamidou's
Papers selected from the Sheffield Aegean Round Table discuss the Neolithic Knossos, long-neglected due to its more famous incarnations in the Bronze Age. Isaakidou (archaeology, U. of Sheffield, UK)
Contributors who are themselves presumably archaeologists, or at least anthropologists of some sort, demonstrate how to employ complexity--the interactions, multiple scales, and multiple layers of mea
In this book Amy Wygant reads Racine’s Phedre (1677) through an analysis of its seventeenth-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construc
Nerval’s Les Illumines (1852) has often been seen as a problem text, and as a strange supplement to his masterpieces Les Chimeres, Les Filles du feu and Aurelia. In this first book-length study, in En
Phillippo (classics, U. of Newcastle) analyzes the underlinings, brackets, asterisks, dashes, and other markings that French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-99) made in the two copies of the Gre
What role did Eastern Central European metropolises play in the culture-political changes before and after World War I? This study focuses on two centers: Prague, the capital of Austria's province of
By the middle of the third century, says Polish scholar Janiszewski, the well known Greek historians were wrapping up their careers and lives, apparently without having trained any successors, because
`A much-awaited, very welcome and timely book.'---Ronald Schuchard, Emory University`An elegant, lucid, and meticulously researched exposition of the specific nature and history of Anglo-Catholicism.'
James (archaeology, U. of Leicester, UK), whose PhD dissertation was on this material, has written a thorough account of the Roman and other arms and armor that were discovered at Dura Europos, a Roma
"The Perfection of Wisdom in 150 Verses" is one of the most influential and revered scriptures in East Asian esoteric Buddhism, and survives in five Chinese versions, a Tibetan translation, and a frag