Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Distinguished photographer Edward Ranney presents nearly one hundred extraordinary photographs of the Peruvian huacas--the sacred rock shrines carv...

Die geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes gehen von einem spezifischen heuristischen Potential aus, das dem ...

Die altisländischen Königssagas sind einzigartige Erzählungen über Entstehung und Etablierung des skandinavischen Königtums von mythischen Anfängen...

The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mezs Renaissance of Islam offers a detailed survey of the Muslim world during...

North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the em...

This volume presents details, images and discussion of the contents of twenty English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s to the 1090s. Foun...

The thirteenth-century monarch Alfonso the Learned of Castile and his contemporary rival James the Conqueror, of Aragon-Catalonia, are key figures ...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the ar...

This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur...

Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tradiert? Antworten auf dies...

Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Borders are central to this rea...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuri...

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various...