Subtitled `The identification of secular elite settlements in western Britain AD 400-700', this book presents the theory of historical archaeology in practice, seeing how new perspectives may be able
It is unusual for a volume in the English Episcopal Acta series to cover the episcopate of a single bishop. However, Peter des Roches was one of the most important and controversial figures in the po
The Miwa Project constituted an international, multi-disciplinary research programme focussed on the Miwa site in south-eastern Nara Prefecture, Japan, occupied since c.1000 BC. Making use of non-dest
Serving as a comprehensive introduction for students as well as researchers new to the field of creep and creep fracture, this well-illustrated text summarises theoretical and practical approaches to
This book is aimed at those in both industry and academic institutions who require a grounding not only in the basic principles of this important field but also in the practical aspects of evaluating
To date, no comprehensive treatment of Egyptian magic has focused on the practice of the magician. Both general studies and textual publications have emphasized instead the religious elements in the c
Based on a PhD thesis presented to Newcastle University in 1992, this book assesses through a specific survey area the efficiency of Raymond Selkirk's Piercebridge formula for Roman river transportati
Eighteenth-century Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, witnessed a growing interest in China on the part of many great thinkers, inspired by reports of the Jesuit missionaries.
A comprehensive glossary which provides clear definitions of over 500 terms used to describe church architecture and furniture. An invaluable reference for use in the field and for all those who have
An account of the pre-Islamic hill top fortress of Shahr-i Zohak and its many turrets as recorded by Allchin and Professor Codrington in 1951, and these and other defensive sites in the Bamiyan Area v
The 400-plus acta recorded in this volume, 170 of which have never been printed before, form an important archive for the study of the seven bishops that presided in the period from 1070-1214. Harper
This treatise, based on data from the 1982 to 1986 excavations at Nohmul, aims to reconstruct some aspects of the cultural history and population structure, and to identify changes in that structure o
Professor Fehling's important study of source-citations in Herodotus first appeared in German in 1971 ( Die Quellenangaben bei Herodot ). It proved controversial at the time, setting its face as it di
Even in its incomplete form (the final volume is still in preparation), the Commentary on the Amores of Ovid has become a scholarly standard. The introductions to each elegy are succinct, readable a
A selection of nine papers from the 46th International Congress of Americanists. Papers are by: A F Aveni & H Hartung, C C Coggins & R D Drucker, S Milbrath, V R Bricker, F Tichy, S Robiou-Lamarche, P
This thesis reports on experiments designed to throw light on the functional interpretation of basalt tools from late prehistoric sites in southwestern British Columbia.
This useful study is divided into two parts: the first describes the evidence for areas of extra-mural occupation around Romano-British towns. The second part consists of general discussion of the typ
Draws attention to pots used as parts of bellows and urges excavators to explore their contexts more carefully for they surely indicate that furnaces were present in the vicinity. The second part cons
Nineteen papers covering every aspect of this topic: coinage and history, chronology, styea hoards, styea phases and goups, metal analysis, Royal coins, names on coins, and many other notes. From the
This is an account of large-scale excavations revealing the development of an extensive Iron Age settlement and small Roman town in Hertfordshire from c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 450. Among the furnished b
Volume 5 of PLLS was the last of the Liverpool series of seminar volumes. Between 1975 and 1985 the Liverpool Latin Seminar held 52 ordinary meetings and 4 colloquia, involving altogether 156 papers a
The objective of the work of W. South Coblin has been to collect various materials on Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages into a single list and to arrange this list in a clear and convenient form, wi
In this volume (in Italian), Professor Marco Fantuzzi presents a critical text of the Adonidis Epitaphium by the Hellenistic Greek poet Bion of Smyrna, who worked between 130-120 BC and 57-55 BC. Th
Girolamo Fracastoro (?1478-1553) was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. He was born in the northern Italian city of Verona, into a prominent local family.
The study of medieval attitudes towards death, from sociological, historical, literary artistic and theological viewpoints, has long been a major scholarly preoccupation in France. The first British c
The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the nineteenth century. Dom Casmurro (1899) is one of his most impo
This is a short 'position paper' describing the author's analysis of varying burial practices between the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods in Egypt. This period has been seen as crucial in the d
Paul of Venice's Logica Magna is an invaluable repository for 14th-century logical theories. In this treatise on necessity and contingency, Paul gathers together a wide range of arguments on the quest
Contents: The Pre-Conquest Sculptural Tradition in Durham (Rosemary Cramp); Early Medieval Durham: the Archaeological Evidence (M.O.H. Carver); The Spiral Piers of Durham Cathedral (Eric Fernie); The
This volume contains the majority of the papers delivered to a colloquium on Modern Arabic Literature held in July 1974. Their range and variety pay tribute to the achievements of a literature which,
This volume illustrates a unique set of ivory panels discovered in a single chamber of Fort Shalmaneser and discusses their iconography and their arrangement and function as palace furniture.
A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to an
