The English Buildings Book is the most comprehensive single volume on English architecture for the general reader and architectural historian alike. It is a visual cornucopia and a tribute to the dive
Jenny Foreman's book for teachers and practitioners of drama, art, design and technology grew out of a research bursary from the UK's National Society for Education in Art & Design. They received
History and theory tend to negate each other in academic work, says Ffrench (French literature and thought, King's College, London), but he strives to break that pattern by mapping out the intellectua
In this monograph, MacDonald (French, U. College London) studies lives and practice of the biographers of Guillaume Bude, Faur de Pibrac, and Pierre de la Ramee, among other well-known French writers
English artists, poet, designer, and socialist Morris (1834-96) was not shy about sharing his views. The 13 interviews here from newspapers and journals during his final decade present his thoughts on
One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes
Religion in Chinese Garment provides an unparalleled insight into Chinese religious life before the onset of Communism, and is the companion volume to Meditation and Piety in the Far East, also publis
Grand public buildings and opulent villas more often than not steal the limelight from more mundane structures such as shops and workshops which, nevertheless, played a vital role in catering for t
A short, straightforward biography of Toyohiko Kagawa, the preacher and campaigner for social justice whose devotion to the poor of Tokyo before, during and after the Second World War made him famous
This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particularly at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at hi
Wounded and dying, Sir Gawain recounts to his young squire the legends of Camelot--the boyhood of Arthur, the quest for the Holy Grail, and Gawain's own encounter with the Green Knight.
David Lodge is internationally celebrated as a novelist and critic, and most recently as a writer for television. This study examines his work from The Picturergoers (1960) to Therapy (1995). There ar
An extensive review of the Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania. The important sites of Lepenski Vir, Vlasac, Padina, and Hajducka Vodenica are
Pliny's letters sent to Trajan from Bithynia, and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor. The edition makes this record accessible to eve
Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest of North America used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting o
Those who love to travel and discover the true soul of a city, they know that nothing is better than looking for unusual stories, legends and tales, better if told by city dwellers.
The Great Bend of the Euphrates River in North Syria and Southeast Anatolia was a strategic nexus of communications between different parts of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean. In spite of
Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional
What does ‘Roman' mean? How does the mythical city touch people's identities, values and attitudes? In the long-established and official imaginary of the West, Rome is the citta dell'arte, the city of
Mirio Cosottini dedicates his book "Playing with silence" to everyone who loves silence and its multiple facets. In this volume, he advances a series of questions and exercises throu
The Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900-2300 BC) is found in a large area, from Russia to the Netherlands and from Scandinavia to Switzerland. Supra-regional elements include beakers decorated with cord and/
Bo 9536 Bo 9736. The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragments. The fragments are part of a la
The churches of Rome constitute arguably the most important manifestations of art and architecture in the Western world. This book is a detailed description of 251 churches in Rome and the Vatican Cit
It is the mid-1960s and 17-year-old Sally is living in leafy suburbia with her bourgeois mother, indulgent father and infuriating sister. Mrs Phillips, a strict Roman Catholic, worries constantly abou
This monograph details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and
This book presents research on the archaeology of salt in Central and Eastern Europe, based on fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2012. The authors conducted a detailed examination of sites in sev
King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his
The Gothic revival began in the early years of Victorias reign. It quickly became the dominant form of building. New and exciting, it reflected Britains growing stature and a confidence in the country
Contributions by 37 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Costis Davaras, former Ephor of Crete and Professor Emeritus of Minoan Archaeology
George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an a
The origins of the book go back to an August 2007 conference where no papers were presented, only questions asked and knowledge shared about the demography, landscape, and cultural diversity of the no
A minister of the Uniting Church in New South Wales, Budden (public and contextual theology, Charles Sturt U.) considers what is accepted as normal in social analysis and theology in Australia, with p
This volume of geological mapping and data on the Lea Valley near London, has been produced under the auspices of English Heritage and the Museum of London Archeology to provide information on potenti
Higgins explores six decades of cross-cultural literary exchange which took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period in which English poets like Pound, Eliot, and Flint, frustrated by
Contributors identified only by name review the extensive literature on tombs and tomb deposits from the Minoan culture during the Bronze Age, in order to provide scholars a guide to variations and si
Hogue (theology, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago) is mainly concerned with power and uncertainty as one of the most pressing moral problems of the time, and he grapples with it here as i
Iranian scholar Rota spent 1999-2003 in Venice poring through local archives and libraries, and here relates what he discovered about what Venetians knew, or thought they knew, about Persia when the c
The papers in this volume arise from a symposium of the EAC convened to examine approaches to site listing and protection across Europe, including eastern Europe and Russia. It also addresses the conc
American archaeologist Darrell realized there was no reference providing thumbnail sketches of the kings of ancient Egypt, and would not be unless and until he wrote one. That was some decades ago, an
Round barrows are the most common form of prehistoric monuments in Britain with over 30,000 sites known, and have been subject to over 200 years of research and excavation. Last (English Heritage) mai
