Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to c...

Constantine XIs last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produ...

Land, Credit and Crisis presents a new understanding of the financial culture of the Bible. Biblical Palestine was characterized by an over-abundan...

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon ...

A multidisciplinary environmental history of early Chinas political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data  Over four thous...

Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic ...

Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the cent...

Explores a Byzantine emperor's construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical textsExamines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea b...

Bridges the gap between Plutarch Studies and Achaemenid Studies through analysis of key textsThis book addresses two historical mysteries. The firs...