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.
A collection of eight lectures, now translated into English, which clearly reappraise Old Norse religion and Old Icelandic folk beliefs. Topics include a reinterpretation of the gods and giants of Old
The Word in the Desert is an account of conservative reaction to the reform of liturgical language in the Western Church over the last 30 years. It is the first such study of this very significant phe
Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora. The volume inclu
Modern societies often claim to be democracies in order to enjoy greater legitimacy. Still, to understand the concept of democracy and how to justify it, the definition of it as self-determined is not
Excavations at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, Kent, undertaken in 2004/5 uncovered a dense area of archaeological remains including Bronze Age barrows and enclosures, and a large prehistoric mortuary featur
Sven Leif Ragnar de Roode analyzes Dutch, English, and German perceptions of European integration against the backdrop of dominant elements of national self-images in a comparative perspective. The st
The 14 talks delivered during the February 2011 conference chronicle the creation of the department of coins and medals at the British Museum in 1861, the growth of the museum's coin collection and ca
Archaeologists, most from Britain but others from across Europe, explore the context of technological innovations during the period by modelling, applying art history and archaeology to a group of pro
The conference which gave rise to these proceedings was called to clarify the historical processes that led to the development of abundant and complex relations between the two regions during a time s
Is the existence of God a matter of faith or knowledge?Does God sometimes act miraculously or are there physical causes for everything?Is morality absolute or relative?Are humans truly free or does Go
By examining patterns in depositional practice as well as the geographic and site distribution of copper alloy vessels in Roman Britain, this book offers an analysis of the varying and divergent pract
The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten j
The monograph evaluates results of the archaeological research of the area of the Fifth-Dynasty Tomb AC 26 (formerly known as Pyramid Lepsius no. 23) and Late Sixth-Dynasty Tombs AC 32 carried out by
PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, a
In novels written at the end of the long nineteenth century, women in Germany and Austria engaged with some of the most pressing social questions of the modern age.
This volume publishes the proceedings of the Theban Symposium that took place in May 2010, in Granada, Spain, at the Institute for Arabic Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on th
In his work 'Deliverance of God' Douglas Campbell presents what Chris Tilling considers a "complete rereading of Paul’s letters that genuinely offers a way beyond problems associated with old and new
Jeremy Gabrielson argues that the adoption of politics of non-violence was, for Paul and the communities he established, a constitutive part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Although the copper axes with central shaft-hole from south-eastern Europe have a long history of research, they have not been studied on a transnational basis since the 1960s. What has also been miss
This book surveys linguistically Celtic geographical names of Eastern Europe which are known from ancient and early medieval written sources and epigraphy.
Haughmond Abbey was a prosperous house of Augustinian Canons north-east of Shrewsbury. Today it is an extensive ruin in the guardianship of English Heritage.
A volume of essays honouring the ongoing career of Professor John Tait, Emeritus Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London, and Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society, by h
This volume examines the evolution of a rural landscape in north Kent from the Late Mesolithic (c 7500 BC) to the 19th century, as revealed by analysis of the results of excavation on a site overlooki
This volume in the Catalhoyuk series reports on the results of excavations from 2000 to 2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which the Catalhoyuk settlement and environment were
Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers
In this study of prehistoric innovation, the author argues that a range of technologies and practices need to be considered in order to place innovation into the pre-existing social and technologic
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the sec
This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the earliest figural painting ever to have been produced in Flanders on a continual basis. Most of the manuscripts are Psalters, but Bibles, a Bre
This volume presents the first results of research conducted on 'The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm' by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Cou
This volume of essays focuses principally on the collection of books of British and Irish antiquarian scholars held in the Gennadius Library. Collectively, the essays are the product of two thematical
This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of Heritage. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: H
In a call for fellow Jews to believe in Jesus, Kinzer (emeritus, Messianic Jewish Theological Institute) discusses a vision for messianic Judaism, Judaism from a messianic perspective, and Yeshua-fait
Belief in the afterlife in Judaism and Christianity emerges as a response to a real challenge, says Blanco (religion, Harvard U.), which is the problem of evil. He discusses theodicy as the philosophy
"Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the Fourth International Leiden in the Caribbean symposium, entitled "From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean." The contributions inclu
In this prize-winning book for historical and cultural studies in Andalusia, Arsuaga (medieval history, U. de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain) examines the construction of the social identity of
This collection of thirteen essays on literary analysis of travel writing from the Mediterranean region examines depictions of the Self and Other in texts from ancient Greece to the present. The works
