In a substantially revised version of the doctoral dissertation at the University of Manchester in 2008, Bowskill (Hispanic studies, Swansea U., Wales) examines the mechanisms, power structures, and v
The excavations revealed scant evidence for occupation before or throughout the Neolithic period, but increasing activity through the Beaker and Bronze Age. As at other sites in the region, there seem
There is an old fundamentalist argument that the world will eventually be destroyed in the Apocalypse, so there is no point in caring for it. When one reads about the delicate balance of the first mom
A long time in the making (life sometimes interferes with book making), this volume stems from an eponymous 2003 conference organized by the departments of religion and religious studies at Duke U. an
This is a data-oriented grammatical description of Middle Egyptian, a now extinct Pharaonic language, spoken and written in the hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts, between 2100 and 1700 before our era,
This collection examines the question of whether the specific features of agrarian production condition the forms and social relations of production, in studies of eight times and places across Europe
In spring 1875, otherwise a rare calm in international relations, France took initial baby steps to rebuild her military from the devastation of 1870. Otto von Bismarck, Germany's Iron Chancellor, pro
This study proposes to examine the case of Homo erectus whose phylogenetic position and taxonomic status remain unclear despite considerable research aimed at identifying this taxon from archaic forms
Landgrafova and Navratilova continue their long-term project of setting the love songs in the context of their time and place, which began with their 2007 Czech translation of the songs. Among the que
A revised and updated edition of the book that first appeared in the Eighties and still remains the main critical work written from outside the movement. This engaging introduction to Anthroposophy is
The astrolabe - often quoted as "the earliest computer" - is a mechanical instrument capable of performing astronomical computations. This study offers a new interpretation of its role in the Latin cu
The Black Sea region was a demarcation area between Greek and "barbarian" societies. But this borderland saw tentative settlements of Greeks as well as trade between the cultures. Bilde and Petersen,
Beginning in the reign of Merenre, the family ruling the 12th Upper Egyptian province, as well as a number of non-royal contemporaries, excavated tombs in a cliff near the village of Deir El-Gebrawi,
Some said Rome's strength and longevity was due to the active intervention of the Roman gods. Augustine was not disposed toward believing such notions, and the third and fourth books of his masterpiec
Tell el-Hayyat, the focus of this volume, is situated in the Jordan Rift Valley approximately two kilometres east of the Jordan River on the first terrace above the present floodplain. This work detai
I, Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagorus, shall relate a love story that took place in Syracuse. Thus begins the earliest of the canonical Greek romances, the 1st century CE his
The first volume, on chronology and administration, was published in 1992. Here begins a series of studies on art, architecture, and other aspects of the cemetery in Upper Egypt that was surveyed, exc
Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'
In this wide-ranging study Richard Hibbitt provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism, tracing its chronological development and proposing a synthesis of its di
This collection is set within the horizon of Jesuit mission in East Asia which is best examplified by the great Mateo Ricci whose work centuries ago anticipated in so many ways the dialogue between re
Shear explores questions concerning the degree of economic and religious power held by the king in the Mycenaean world of second millennium BC Greece and its environs. She combines evidence from three
From 1996 to 2003, archeologists, paleoclimatologists, geologists, and other specialists applied state-of-the-art climate models (from ice core and pollen data) for Europe to the question of what led
This archaeological monograph reports on an expedition that "for practical reasons" limited itself to the epigraphy and architecture of the similar tombs at Giza (Egypt) that belong to Seshathetep, Ne
Short description: The author shows that the New Testament pattern of unity is two-fold. It is a pattern of complementarity, not of uniformity. One emphasises the institutional, traditional and partic
This entertaining and readable study looks at Anthony Alsop (d. 1726), the author of elegant and brilliantly witty Latin odes in the manner of Horace. The full text of Alsop's Latin and English works
The topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape during the Holocene. - The landscape evolution is vizualized in series of palaeogeographical maps and the driving mechanisms behind
With the redevelopment of the former car park adjacent to Baskerville House as part of the Library of Birmingham project, the opportunity arose to examine some of the most complete remains of the 19th
This study investigates the grave assemblages of the non-elite during the New Kingdom, using several different burial sites. Based on the author's database of over 3,000 artefacts, the statistical res
In this study the author discusses the typo-chronological correlation of ceramic production of a conventional 'Late Copper Age' 'Boleraz/Baden'-type settlement excavated at Balatonoszod-Temetoi dulo (
Wilkinson's study forms part of a long-term research strategy that is aimed at examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Empha
The human transformation available at the 'limen' (literally: the edge or threshold), noticed across different cultures by anthropologists, is at the heart of the Gospel. Indeed the liminal place is t
The subject of ‘magic' has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround the
How does a Christian discern the will of God? While this question lies at the heart of the Christian moral life, religious communities struggle to articulate responses that balance simple faith and ra
The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient text
A complex enclosure identified by aerial photography at Dunragit Galloway, was demonstrated by excavation to have been of Late Neolithic date, and comprised three concentric timber ramped post-rings,
‘Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe' takes a hard look at the history of the Salvation Army in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and its long history with both the government and the rest of the church. Norman H.
