Moravia played a very important role in the Palaeolithic migration of ancient Homo sapiens as it made a natural corridor between the south and the north of the central Europe, which allowed for shifti
'It is one of the most remarkable aspects of Viking Age England that... there are very few Viking grave" - Richards (2000). This study, by examining all the evidence for Viking settlement, and by look
Kemp (French, U. of Oxford) examines how elements of crime fiction are taken by four literary novelists of the late 20th century and employed within their own work to quite different effects from that
Of the 125 years that the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has been around, it has been excavating the ancient agora in Athens for 75, and counting. To celebrate the anniversaries, Mauzy
This work gives attention to decorated tombs of the northern group of cliffs composing Deir el-Gebrawi, the cemetery of the twelfth province of Upper Egypt and an important source of information on th
At the heart of this study of Roman pottery in Macedonian Greece is a catalogue of over 1,900 vessels from five sites in the area of: Amphipolis, Philppi, Kepia, Abdera and Thasos. Vaitsa Malamidou's
To determine the role that foreign immigrants held in Egyptian society, the author looks in this study at what it meant to be Egyptian and how foreign immigrants differed. Her analysis covers a discus
The 27 papers of this volume were originally presented at the Fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium, held at Van, Turkey, in August 2001. The papers concern current excavation and study at iron age sit
One of the most powerful and provocative writers to have emerged in Britain in recent years, Kelman has engendered a good deal of controversy over his widely reported, but often misconcieved use of 'b
Six of the eleven papers in this volume are revised versions of those given at a symposium session at the SAA meeting in Chicago in 1999, along with an introduction and four extra contributions.
"The Islands of the Aegean Sea offer plenty of scope for the study of Hellenic archaeology, but they are more particularly rich in the preservation of manners and customs which have survived the lapse
A study which aims to assess the importance of animals to the Late Neolithic community of Sabi Abyad in northern Syria and the broader significance of the evidence from this site for our understanding
In this lively and imaginative tale of unreliable magic, Simon receives his great-grandfather's Magic Box for his 7th birthday. Soon he finds that he can summon up two eccentric friends from another w
The world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, cannot be entered without knowledge of the shtetl — the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers in this volume, most of them presented at the seco
The second in a four volume Ordinary covering the period before the beginning of the heraldic visitations in 1530 and is designed to enable those with a working knowledge of heraldry to identify medie
"It is the best of Xenophon, it is the worst of Xenophon. Readers looking for a carefully researched, well balanced, and reliable narrative of Greek affairs from 404 to 395 (BC) will be disappointed"-
This edition is produced with particular concern for the student coming to Homer for the first time. The text is given with facing translation and commentary, but the usual apparatus criticus at the b
Of all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1
Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of
One of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warr
Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation and thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucr
The traditional way of publishing cuneiform texts is in the form of hand copies. This system requires, on the one hand, long hours of painstaking work by an experienced cuneiformist, and, on the other
Philip G Johnston's new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions. Written in France and Spain in 1928-19
In 1812 the architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837) wrote a strange and perplexing manuscript, Crude Hints towards an History of my House in Lincoln's Inn Fields, in which, in the guise of an Antiquary,
York has been England's second city for much of its almost 2000 years of history. This atlas, produced in the Historic Towns Trust's large portfolio format, traces the origins and growth of the city f
Excavations in the upper Walbrook valley, in a marginal area in the north-west of the Roman city, recovered over 70kg of broken vessel glass and production waste from a nearby workshop, giving new ins
Bowls is one of Britain's oldest sports, first recorded in the 13th century and played on thousands of greens spread across the nation, several of them hundreds of years old. In Bowled Over, bowls his
Newgrange in Ireland is a world famous monument not only because of its vast scale and copious megalithic art, but also because of its renowned alignment to the morning sun on the winter solstice. Yet
The book unfolds the story of Southgate House and it inhabitants from the mid-18th century until today. Located near Clowne, Derbyshire, it is a perfect example of a Georgian country house. For most o
In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels
‘If You Call Yourself a Jew' reads Romans as a dialogue between Paul and a gentile proselyte to Judaism. This fresh reading brings Romans into focus as Paul's exposition of the revelation of God's rig
A Rural Economy in Transition deals with one of the most important periods in the history of Europe and the Middle East - the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. In his monograph, Adam Izdeb
The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapi
"The outbreak of the First World War saw an upsurge of patriotism. The Church generally saw the war as justified, and many clergy encouraged the men in their congregations to join the army. There was,
This book presents a scrupulous and clear account of the history of Abyssinia: from the earliest records of it to the events of 1935. The book describes the country, the people, but also the legendary
The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja in Linear B, was chosen because it means “potter” (?e??μe?a, from Greek ???aμ??, “potter’s clay”) and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine’s scholars
What became of towns following the official end of ‘Roman Britain’ at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and l
This book views the triune God from a Pentecostal viewpoint. In so doing, it offers a fresh articulation of the theology of the Trinity that starts with Pentecost and with the Spirit. It concludes tha
This book does not aim at a "true" story of prehistoric belief, but rather an account of how eight different archaeologists imagine past religions. It is their purpose to observe and
As readers of Book 1, SeaBEAN, know, after Alice discovered a mysterious black box on the beach called a C-Bean, which transported her and her five schoolmates from the newly re-inhabited remote islan
