Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding of the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the...

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers ...

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World...

This book was first published in 2003.Paul Speck's work is acknowledged to be of profound importance for the study of the history and culture of th...

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

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...