Approximately 106 documents in 10 languages (in Romanized transcription with English translation) are presented in the first volume, which is about three times as big as the other two volumes. The foc
The important contribution of Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1455-1517) to polyphonic settings of the proper of the mass has long been recognised. The monumental posthumously published collection of his work in
Despite increased interest in recent years, the study of medieval Scandinavia and Eastern Europe is still confined mainly to local monographs. This compilation, stemming from a 2008 conference held in
The book is the first detailed study on the Nusayri-Alawi community of Cilicia available in a Western language. The Alawis are an Arabic speaking religious minority of ca. 300,000 people living in the
A fascinating study of the proceedings of the Valencia and Barcelona tribunals of the Spanish Inquisition, this book covers a period of time over 200 years, and compares the proceedings of the two. It
This lovely volume presents a group of 11 articles and case studies describing the multiple meanings and uses of liturgical texts from the Carolingian period into the twelfth century. Notable is the f
The transmission of early Tantric manuscripts through the writings of A-mes-zhabs, a seventieth century collector of Sakyapa tradition in India and Tibet is presented here. In this meticulous study, S
This study focuses on the rise of the Halaf culture, ca. 5900-5400 BCE, presenting the ceramics excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden at Tell Sabi Abyad during the 1999-2000 campaigns
Van 't Spijker (U. of Cambridge) focuses on the work of Peter Damian, Hugh of Saint-Victor, Richard of Saint-Victor, and William of Saint-Thierry to explore how the theme of self-knowledge manifested
This volume contains 14 essays, some based on presentations from “The Black and Blue Danube Symposium,” held at Colgate U. in New York in March 2013, that use the Danube River as a means to explore th
The aim of this work is to investigate how in Roman Egypt, double names were used by the local elite to promote their social status. Polyonymy (i.e. the use of multiple names) is found in Egyptian tex
The Bible depicts the Philistines and Hebrews in constant conflict, and Niesiolowski-Spanó investigates the extent to which the biblical narrative reflects historical reality. He considers the Old Tes
"Artefacts and environmental remains are abundant from archaeological excavations across Europe, but until now they have most commonly been used to accompany broader narratives built on historical sou
