If St Thomas reached Kodungallur in Kerala only in 52 AD, as the Malabar tradition about the Apostle's mission holds it, where was he preaching the message of the gospel in the years preceding it. Can
The relationship between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia is an important subject. Apart from a few investigations on certain conflicts in different areas of Indonesia, little effort has been devot
Lock (archaeology, Oxford U.) and Faustoferri (Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici dell'Abruzzo) edit papers in memory of John Lloyd (1948-1999, formerly archaeology, Oxford U.). Lloyd's primary r
Legal Positivism and Conceptual Analysis Positivismo jurídico y análisis conceptual The recent discussion about legal positivism is whether or not a iuspositivist conception can explain two charact
Barker and Cranstone, respectively past presidents of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Association for Industrial Archaeology, present the results of these institutions' first collabo
Sisters of St Joseph Clare Ahern and Anne Boland joined the Aboriginal community at Yaruman (Ringer Soak) on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia, in 1984.
The reports of acts of plunder and vandalism affecting Europe’s archaeological heritage have increased in recent years. The result is loss of irreplaceable cultural artifacts and the destruction of ar
The dynamic development of science and technology in the last decades has led to new challenges in jurisprudence. This holds for individual fields of doctrinal law as well as the concerned fields of j
The Kalanga state Butua, which had dominated the Zimbabwe plateau (south central Africa) for four centuries, collapsed in the 1830s due to repeated difaqane invasions, and its population became subjec
The Old Greek of Isaiah represents an intriguing and complex unity within the Septuagint. The present volume contains contributions reflecting a variety of issues pertaining to this version, and also
Almost fifty years ago J. J. Butler started his research to trace the possible remains of a Bronze Age metalworker's workshop in the Netherlands. Yet, while metalworking has been deduced on the ground
As monograph 39 of the Museum of London Archaeology Service, this title outlines the archaeological evidence of an excavation held in 1994-1996 at 1 Poultry, London, at the site of the church of St. B
Over the years Robert Alexy has developed a systemic approach to legal theory, an approach whose dimensions include discourse theory, principles theory, and a non-positivist conception of law. Princip
When in the 1980s Tong Enzheng suggested his model of a "crescent-shaped cultural-communication belt" stretching from Northeast China and Korea along the Tibetan borderlands all the
In one of several volumes documenting the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), archaeologists look at objects made from bone. The 20 peer-reviewed papers were developed from both oral and p
The extensive archaeological excavations of multicultural sites in western Slovakia offer a remarkable amount of material that mostly consists of entirely new and unpublished finds.
From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. From older children, from teachers in the classroom, and fr
In this volume, the 3rd issue of the Proceedings of the 24th IVR World Congress, the reader will find a selection of papers on the general theme of The Philosophy of Precedent. The foundations, legal
The volume comprises 54 papers, while the attached CD contains the full material (84 contributions) presented at the 2008 CAA conference in Budapest. The studies are grouped around four large topics:
A large collection of 33 papers which cover a wide range of topics relating to the Late Roman military. Essays look at aspects of military reforms, of military strategy, from the broad picture to indi
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the megalithic necropolis of Petit- Chasseur in Sion (Valais, Switzerland), an international conference was organised from the 27th to the 29th
For Sanskrit readers and students of Indian philosophy, Kataoka, (Kyushu U., Japan) presents a reliable text and an annotated translation of the codanasutra section of Kumarila's seventh-century Sloka
Jacob van Breda de Haan is known as the author of the name Phytophthora nicotianae n.sp., the causal agent of ‘black shank’, an important disease of tobacco. Who was he? Where did he work? What did he
The book publishes the proceedings of the workshop held in Rome in March 2012 that was intended to bring together archaeologists, scientists and students involved in the study of use-wear traces on pr
Prospect Books first published this manuscript (from notebooks compiled by the late Master of Ceremonies and Chef at the Royal Palace at Luang Prabang) in 1981. The first edition was a parallel text:
Papers from the session 'The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies' given at the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (F
This volume presents the Lives of three women of the thirteenth century, all written by contemporaries. In the late Middle Ages, almost every town in Northern Europe had its own anchoress, who would k
Eight of the 29 papers are in English, the rest, along with the preface, are in French. The topics include the conjugation prefixes, the dative case, and the empathy hierarchy in Sumerian; some case p
Although human dignity is an old principle in philosophy, the history of its legal form is relatively short. Since its first adoption in the preamble of the Irish Constitution and the Universal Declar
This is the cookbook of the Museo di Palazzo Davanzati and comes from the material produced in the period 1980-1990 by Maria Fossi Todorow in collaboration with Mina Bacci, Chiara Baldasseroni, Mar
This study explains the social development of archaeological settlements and artefacts related to the first sedentary societies (1400 BC- AD 350) of the Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru. Such societies p
Henry VIII used his wardrobe, and that of his family and household, as a way of expressing his wealth and magnificence. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at
This work investigates the use of Old Red Sandstone from South Wales, Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset during the Roman period, for rotary querns. It is based on detailed petrographic studies of the
A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europe's greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conse
The books compares stories of Roman Catholic involvement in current and historical indigenous policy debates in Australia and New Zeland. They are stories of inconsistent and often confused applicatio
This research addresses the issue of variability within the Middle Dorset (2000-1100 B.P.) culture on the island of Newfoundland and on the island of Saint-Pierre in the French Archipelago of Saint-Pi
