Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared reg...

The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Ma...

Human olfaction the sense of smell enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments mor...

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...

Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus from the beginning of cinema to...

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not ...

This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably viv...

Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a...

Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a...

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire...

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire...

This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamias urban revolution in the late fourth millennium B.C. shaped a new mentality, leadin...

This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamias urban revolution in the late fourth millennium B.C. shaped a new mentality, leadin...