The earliest vitreous materials in Egypt date to c.4000 BC although the production of glass, faience, frit or 'Egyptian blue' does not really take off until the 18th dynasty. Andrew Shortland combines
In this detailed study, Liddiard examines the processes and factors which determined the number, distribution and location of castles and considers how a castle's construction altered its environment.
Professor Sauerländer is the leading authority on Gothic sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papers collected here have been published over the last 35 years. They represent importa
A study which aims to assess the importance of animals to the Late Neolithic community of Sabi Abyad in northern Syria and the broader significance of the evidence from this site for our understanding
Contents Include: An introduction to the grave, conservation, metallurgical and other analyses, a catalogue of organic and inorganic materials, and a discussion of dates and context.
The subtitle, or perhaps the title, for this volume should read: "Critical review of Strzygowski and other historians of Armenian architecture." Maranci, who undertook this project as a dissertation
Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a
A series of eight insightful and accessible papers, derived from a conference held in Lampeter in 1998, which explore the combination of myth, science and reason in Plato's account of the world's crea
The period AD 300-600 saw huge changes. The Graeco-Roman city-state was first transformed then eclipsed. Much of the Roman Empire broke up and was reconfigured. New barbarian kingdoms emerged in the R
In this lively and imaginative tale of unreliable magic, Simon receives his great-grandfather's Magic Box for his 7th birthday. Soon he finds that he can summon up two eccentric friends from another w
An examination of the critical strategies devised by scholars over the last century in their attempt to discover the meaning of the ancient texts which comprise the New Testament.
A short, straightforward biography of William Bompas (1820-1906), the adventurer who became bishop to the isolated groups of believers in the far north of America during the Gold Rush. For 9-13 year o
A short, straightforward biography of Toyohiko Kagawa, the preacher and campaigner for social justice whose devotion to the poor of Tokyo before, during and after the Second World War made him famous
The biography of a major British academic and cleric of the early 20th century, revealing his talent for controversy, his role in the reconciliation between the Anglican and Catholic Churches, and his
The world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, cannot be entered without knowledge of the shtetl — the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers in this volume, most of them presented at the seco
Edward Bond has been, since his controversial arrival on the theatrical scene in 1965, one of Britain's most distinctive and important theatre writers. This study examines his work, from The Pope's We
Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of ma
This latest EEA volume publishes the acta of the bishops of Salisbury 1078-1217, during which period the see was located at Old Sarum. This distinguished sequence of five bishops includes Roger, Henry
Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to
Twenty-eight papers discuss new archaeological data and interpretations of evidence from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in the area encompassing Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia, the Balkans, and the Lower
An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to
Patrick ffrench gives an imaginative theoretical reading of the unsettling masterpiece, Histoire de l'oeil (1928), by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-
The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in twelve new papers from a distinguished international cast, s
This life work of a well-known scholar creates a unique record of over 800 artefacts found in more than 100 European collections before the end of the eighteenth century. Extensively illustrated, the
A substantial volume geared towards theoretical approaches to burial data. The author looks at the social dimensions of mortuary evidence and the implimentation of multivariate analysis, in particular
An excavation report on this Mesolithic site discovered in 1967. Susann Palmer and a number of other contributors describe the archaeological evidence and stratigraphy, the geophysical survey and arte
This study is a partial inventory of the new women's narrative and aims to provide a broad literary framework through which both the general reader and the student can appreciate the characteristics a
This book reassess Taine as the very model of the European intellectual int he second half of the nineteenth century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised
Presents the architecture and associated finds from 39 locations in Areas B, C, D, and F in the Minoan town of Pseira, the Bronze Age settlement off the coast of Crete that was excavated between 1985
Professor Sauerländer is the leading authority on Gothic sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papers collected here have been published over the last 35 years. They represent importa
Livy's work is of interest to two distinct schools of history and literary criticism and Forsythe argues that this has resulted in some conflicting interpretations about various aspects, including Liv
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is both a pivotal and a representative figure in the development of the twentie
