This work is designed to make Aristotle's neglected but fascinating writings on sleep and dreams accessible in translation to modern readers, and to provide a commentary with a contemporary perspectiv
The last two volumes in this series have looked at the confrontation between Christian and Moor in Medieval Spain exclusively from the Christian side.This book attemps to redress the balance by lookin
This volume comprises a study of both the site and the surrounding hinterland of one of the earliest and largest Early Bronze Age (3500-2300 b.c.) cities of the Levant. The site of Beth Yerah, located
This volume gathers together extracts from texts in Latin, Hispanic vernaculars, and French, concerning the relations of the Christians and Moors in Spain in the first four hundred years of their co-e
This book is about the map of an English county - Hertfordshire - which was published in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.For well over two centuries, from the time of Eliza
This book examines the long-held scholarly assumptions that the Book of Ecclesiastes represents a heterodox or otherwise "minority" voice in the Hebrew Bible. Such a conclusion is based on certain the
Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central role traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggested that even as late as the Pe
The volume presents a palaeographic study of the old hieratic inscriptions that were found on the blocks of stone masonry of the Old Kingdom tombs in the Saqqara and Abusir necropolis. The study inclu
"An impeccable work of historical scholarship which treats a subject long deserving of the intelligent attention it receives from Bryan W. Ball...The book contains a wealth of detail." Winton W. Solbe
For specialists from educational and therapeutic fields, parents, and those with hearing loss, Salmon (integrative education and community work, Orff Institute, Austria) compiles 21 essays on the use
It's a good thing that the Egyptians did not have an anti-graffiti campaign. Egyptologist Navratilova has carefully recorded eighteenth and nineteenth dynasty graffiti from three areas of Egypt. Each
Coppens (Egyptology, Charles U., Prague) describes examples of a typical arrangement in temples of the periods whereby the decreasing daylight towards the center is relieved by a complex called wabet
Augustine intended the Soliloquies and the Immortality of the soul to form a single book. For those who are unacquainted with Augustine it is a good book with which to begin. It deals, as he says, wit
Although C-Group sites in the area had been thought to be poor or plundered, Cemeteries T, K, and U yielded large amounts of undisturbed material that provided a valuable opportunity to check the chro
How have political conflicts impacted philosophical concepts and the rise of particular intellectual lineages in China? This question is part of a contested issue - the relative strength of state powe
After his victory over Mithradates VI the Roman general Pompey founded a number of cities in order to shape the newly founded Roman province in the inland of the conquered former Pontic kingdom, in th
A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or
The ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel has a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era. The story of its peoples can be assembled from a variety of historical and
For the first time a workshop of preindustrial times took place in Goteborg in 2012. The Preindustrial Flows and Contacts-theme gathered researchers from Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden and the Netherl
Magisterial in scope and scrupulous in its investigation and attribution of sources, 'Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy' will take its place as an important document that
Gold signet rings, jet pendants or simple lace ends – all dress accessories were highly significant and meaningful objects used in everyday life in later medieval Britain. This study of archaeological
The aim of this study is to interpret the scale and nature of the economy of the Eastern Mediterranean in the latter period of the LBA. It does this by using a quantitative approach that estimates the
While Darwin’s grand view of evolution has undergone many changes and shown up in many facets, there remains one outstanding common feature in its 150-year history: since the very beginning, branching
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into
Stating that counterfeit coinage in seventeenth and eighteenth-century money supplies was a fact of life, life-long numismatist Mossman introduces his monograph, explaining among other subjects, the e
A missionary for 20 years, Algeria-based Jenkins proposes that the key issue in the debate over Augustine's doctrines concerning grace, election, and free will is whether or not the human will has fre
In the mid-nineteenth century the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith saw the German states as an area with a tremendous potential for new converts. Subsequently the German states became the Mormons’ first ma
32 essays by international scholars on the subject of wrapped and stuffed foods, from the proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012.
Schon sehr fruh haben die buddhistischen Denker die Idee eines Selbstes, das uber den korperlichen und emotional-geistigen Konstituenten existiert, zu einem ihrer wichtigsten Angriffsziele gemacht. Ih
This research takes an integrative approach to the study of Hellenistic cult and cultic practices in an important part of western Asia by employing a combination of archaeological, numismatic and hist
This research centres on the ideology and socio-economic practices of the communities in the Argolid and the Methana Peninsula (Peloponnese, Greece) that existed during approximately 1200 BC through 9
Pipeline integrity is key to maintaining operational success, safety and security and minimising harm to the environment. Corrosion is a dominant contributory factor to failures, leaks and integrity t
This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views c
Allan, a senior scholar in the history of Islamic architecture, offers a significant addition to the scholarship with this beautifully illustrated, authoritative excursus on the monuments and defining
The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activit
Intensive Field Survey and Early Roman Colonization in the Po. In this study, the author addresses two important issues in Roman archaeology. On the basis of a comparison of intensive field surveys in
