This volume contains case studies that examine how medieval cultures (western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish) adopted ideas from the past and from each other in fields such as philosophy, literatur
This study aims to identify patterns of warfare in the southern French Iron Age through examination of the documentary, settlement, iconographic and osteological evidence for warfare in this region, e
Scheetz (biblical and exegetical studies and Old Testament languages and literature, Tyndale Theological Seminary, the Netherlands) begins by reviewing the scholarship on intertextuality, canon critic
Papers from a session on 'Mother Earth' sites presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in Valetta, Malta, in September 2008. The papers discussed the
Mobility not only challenges the everyday lives of millions of people, it also challenges scientific understandings of society, culture and space. Based on long-term mobile ethnographic research conne
The main body of this volume is a comprehensive gazetteer of sites in the Roman province of Moesia Superior, providing details of settlement in the Pre-Roman Iron Age, the Roman Empire and in Late Ant
This volume was formulated as an academic tribute to the late British scholar of French literature, Elizabeth Fallaize. In addition to containing remembrances of Fallaize and her contributions to the
Published to accompany a 2012 exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, this beautifully illustrated catalog features numerous essays as well as lengthy catalog entries that delve into the meth
One of the most important aspects of David Bates's distinguished career has been his readiness to engage - as few of his predecessors did - with the world of modern French scholarship. The outcome of
The result of a symposium co-sponsored by the U. of Michigan and the German Archaeological Institute, this fine volume of articles presents detailed analysis of specific towns, fortifications, church
Archaeologists survey a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world to transport and store liquid, and is found in contexts from domestic deposits to ship's holds but rarely i
This volume reports on excavation carried out in 2005-2007 in advance of rail line construction of a wealthy Augustinian nunnery founded in 1150 (and later expanded). A church and surrounding building
Yemen is justly famed as one of the world's most dramatically beautiful countries. Seen in the Yemen brings the people, architecture and landscapes of this ancient culture alive to the reader through
The Austrian Academy of Sciences held an international conference in Vienna during November 2005 where the 23 papers here were presented. They focus on the Early Upper Palaeolithic, encompass a wide r
discovered in Suffolk in November 1992. Buried in the fifth century ad, the spectacular finds included twenty-nine superb pieces of gold jewellery, a dozen silver vessels, nearly a hundred silver spoo
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a typology of the traditional fishing craft of south and west Sri Lanka, based on more than a decade's painstaking work recording the fast vanishing vessels o
An account of the intellectual development, public face, and private turmoil of the early-Victorian preacher Frederick William Robertson, Beardsley's biography both revisists the better-known aspects
An overview essay by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) introduces this volume of essays, describing the historiography of gender theory with regard to early-modern Europe, setti
Revising her Ph.D. dissertation at Monash University in Australia, Hewlett investigates the experience of individual rural communities within the hinterland of Florence during the Renaissance, three c
The purpose of this volume is to reveal as much information as possible on the nature of dance in Old Kingdom Egypt. Evidence from tomb paintings is plentiful, and Kinney is able to identify several s
In 2007, a conference was held at the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague to discuss the problems of establishing chronology in ancient Egypt. The papers presented here cover methods of dating, st
The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15 thought-provoking chapters from contributors around the world. A sequel
The British Museum began work at the Egyptian site of Kom Firin in 2002, and the excavations and studies are ongoing. This first volume of the site reports accounts for the work on the temple of Ramse
Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabic script which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC and precedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least fou
This catalogue publishes more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels from the ancient Near East in the collection of the British Museum; the majority of the vessels come from cities of norther
There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage prov
This report publishes and analyses archaeological work undertaken at the Romano-British settlement at Wilderspool in Warrington from 1991-93. Settlement at the site began in the 1st century AD, and it
The rich collection of Greek and Roman inscriptions, found on grave stele, temple pediments, and a variety of other stone monuments and fragments are catalogued in this volume. Each entry includes a p
This volume of essays, the first in a new 'Christinaity in Asia Series, from the Trinity Theological College, Singapore, marks a fresh approach to articulate the character of Christian social engageme
Polish historian Tomasz Derda and others have edited a collection of articles on the excavation of a number of auditoria in a section of Alexandria. These seem to indicate a center of learning in Late
The First World War of 1914-18 affected nearly every family in Britain, as well as those whose homes were in distant parts of what was then the British Empire, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealan
Discovered on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 1868, the massive basalt statue known as Hoa Hakananai'a was transported to England on the HMS Topaze and given to the British Museum. In this report, Van Til
This book explores several issues in the emerging field of science and religion which are of common interest to different religions. The main idea underlying this book is that modern science poses cha
White's text on culture, which he considered to be the central idea of anthropology, is now considered a classic in the field, although at their time it pushed the envelope of study about how cultures
For much of the 20th century, New Zelaand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed so religion would wane. Secularisation- the fading into insignific
Since Antiquity, theologians, philosophers, and scientists have often compared nature to a book that might, under the right circumstances, be read and interpreted to reveal the Author of nature, God.
