This second volume of Viktor Lazarev's studies makes available a comprehensive selection of his papers on the history of early Russian art, principally fresco and panel painting. Most of the articles
A detailed excavation report on the Shipton Mallet site excavated on the edge of the Mendip Hills in 1990. This presentation and interpretation of the information recorded by the Birmingham University
This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative t
A primary text providing an overview of British sporting development has become increasingly necessary for the general reader as well as the growing number of students studying Sport and Physical Educ
The 150 acta in this volume demonstrate the care with which three bishops administered this large medieval English diocese. It offers interesting information about the clergy of Norfolk and Suffolk (i
Vladimir Nabokov's extraordinary literary career, as a master of Russian and English prose, is unique. Acclaimed in the limited Russian emigre world, under the name of Sirin, Nabokov switched to writi
Examines the foundation texts of socialism. The author asserts that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantagous to the p
T.S. Eliot considered Herbert's religious verse above John Donne's and placed him firmly in the ranks of thegreat English poets. Peter Porter's new introduction gives a fresh perspective on the poetry
The Stoa of Attalos now covers the remains of several centuries of previous occupation: Mycenaean burials, houses, shops, and from the late fifth century, a succession of structures here associated wi
This reprint of Richard Brilliant's papers document the development of his ideas concerning Roman art and its links with Greek art. Divided into three sections, the papers discuss portraiture, the met
Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof
The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of
Table of Contents: Editorial Preface List of Plates Bibliography and Abbreviations Chapter I, The Cartography of Mendes (Robert K. Holz) Chapter II, A New Map of Mendes (David Stieglitz) Chapter III,
A great modern religious thinker comes to terms with the inheritance of the leading 19th-century preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and brings together a collection of the latter's most important lectu
The Hundred Years' War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the
While Tyndale's importance in the history of biblical translation is well understood, his theology has been much less studied. Ralph Werrell has become the leading authority on his theology, and in Th
Jean Danielou's ‘Philo of Alexandria' illuminates the life and work of a key figure in the history of religious thought. Philo of Alexandria was a first-century Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who was
The Practice of the Body of Christ' forges connections between two movements in today's theological disciplines. The first is the so-called "apocalyptic" interpretation of Paul and t
This study focuses on the architectural landscape of the lower Valdarno area, which formerly belonged to the diocese of Lucca and in the 17th century formed the new diocese of San Miniato.
RAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the majority of their operational missions involved flying into the fiery, smoke-filled skies of occupied Europe
Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb considers the material and immaterial culture left behind by the ancient Egyptian elite in their tombs starting some 5000 years ago. The book intends
Although food historians can rely on written evidence to provide them with early recipes and references to dishes that might have been, the only other sources available to them are archaeology (which
Archaeology of Mounds clusters in West Africa aims to understand the dynamics that enhanced and sustained the settlement systems made of distinct but close mounds. Most of the mounds-clusters are foun
A hybrid between the pagan learning he acquired throughout his youth and the Christianity he later came to embrace, Justin, the second century philosopher from Flavia Neopolis, saw in the governing st
This volume presents the results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to establish the ceramic chronolog
The book is intended to raise awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula landscape by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime act
Spiritual direction involves two willing participants: a director and a person or persons being directed. It happens more in the reality of life rather than in esoteric statements in books worth quoti
The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. This new publication includes selected papers from the first
This publication is the second volume in a multi-part reference work which will survey, catalogue and illustrate French manuscript illumination from the 7th to the 16th century. The first volume, Roma
This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stel
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within th
The book “Similar but Different. Bell Beakers in Europe” deals with a cultural phenomenon, known as the Bell Beaker culture, that during the 3rd millennium B.C. was present throughout Western and Cent
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of
The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achie
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end
Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the mod
Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen PrizeScholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World
This volume presents a compendium of the history of the city of Suessa (Sessa Aurunca – northern Campania, Italy) which was the principal settlement of the Italic peoples of Ausoni-Aurunci, and later
The development of settlement in the region between Chiusi and Volterra (northern Etruria, corresponding to the modern territory of Siena), from the Iron Age to the end of the Romanization period (9th
