The period in question saw a flourishing of manuscript production, and ownership of these luxury items was a special privilege of the elite. The invention of the printing press initiated their decline
Ritari (world culture and religion, U. of Helsinki, Finland) investigates what it meant to be a Christian in the Ireland of the late seventh and early eighth centuries. It was during this time, she sa
This volume describes and analyzes the results of the Bielefeld-Based Cross-Cultural Study on Deconversion, which was carried out at the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religi
This collection contains twenty two contributions to the study of Greek pottery of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, focusing in particular on Attic black figure vases.
Presented by Vivier (social and economic history, U. of Maine, France), 14 essays explore the role of the state in promoting change in rural society in Europe between 1750 and 2000. Topics include the
This volume compiles 13 studies selected from papers given at a meeting, "The Bronze Age in the Lebanon," held at the Institut Francais D'Archeologie du Proche Orient in Beirut in 2000. Focusing on th
Forty-eight international academics and independent scholars contribute to a text honoring the scholarly work of the Indologist-philospher Wilhelm Halbfass. The 48 chapters are organized into sections
A meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's pri
The relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the Ilkhanate, the Mongol state in Iran and the surrounding countries, were of a military, political-diplomatic, social or cultural na
