Elisabeth

The Holy Elisabeth of Thuringia who gave away her gowns to beggars, washed the feet of the poor, brought bread into the cottages of the hungry and in whose basket roses miraculously appeared, is represented as one of the most mellifluous figures of the Middle Ages. Was she really as sweet as dep...

A royal book of protection of the saite period

A comprehensive examination of a Late Period hieratic papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum, a compilation of seventeen individual prophylactic texts whose anatomical focus is the ear. Many of the texts state that they are intended for the protection of the ears of a king named Psamtik, a historical fig...

Excavations at the cappadocia gate

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later 7th century BC, it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 one of the seven city gates was excavated in its entirety and ...

Piedras negras archaeology, 1931

Reintroduces the pioneering works of the University Museum's research at the Piedras Negras Maya site in Guatemala. Includes meticulously scanned and edited versions of the original reports, and illustrations. The interpretive essay and index enhance accessibility for modern readers, preserving a...

The katherine group (ms bodley 34)

Newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, "Hali Meidenhad"; and a psychologically astute sermon, "Sawles Warde" ("The Guardianship of the Soul").

Martin luther – traces of his life

This book offers a new look through the photographer’s eye at the well-trodden traces of Martin Luther’s life. The traditional stations of Luther’s life are given their due – but not simply as picture-postcard motifs: their memorial value is revealed in architectural details, in the atmosphere of...

Medinet habu ix

The Epigraphic Survey returns to its series of publications dedicated to the reliefs and inscriptions of the Medinet Habu complex, with a sequence documenting the Eighteenth Dynasty temple of Amun and subsequent additions, beginning with this publication of the reliefs in the six innermost rooms ...

Pseira iii

Ireland and europe in the middle ages

An exploration of Irish medieval art in a European context, looking at social and political aspects, racial divisions, cathedrals, Cistercian and Franciscan buildings, and thirteenth-century castles. The essays cover pilgrimages, Viking influence and high crosses, and highlight Bishop Roger of Sa...

Closure in the canterbury tales

For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. . This rethinking of traditional scholarship on The Canterbury Tales will be of great interest to Chaucer scholars and stu...

Structure and meaning in human settlemen

This book looks at the relationships between form, space, and cultural meaning in human habitation. Multidisciplinary explorations of common ground in architectural theories, settlement archaeology, and the study of cultural landscapes. With 220 full-color images, it combines thinking about cultu...

Archaeozoology of southwest asia and adjacent areas xiii

This volume publishes new research results in the zooarchaeology of southwest Asia and adjacent areas. The three main themes of the book are: new approaches in the study of animal remains; the subsistence economies of prehistoric and early complex societies; the roles of animals in the symbolic w...

Courteous exchanges

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers’ and audiences’ judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.

The ancient city road and the metro beneath vouliagmenis avenue (english language edition)

The archaeological excavations ahead of the new METRO construction in Athens in 2000, which uncovered many artefacts including foundations of homes and temples from ancient Athens. METRO line and Vouliagmenis Ave follow route of ancient road connecting Athens with the Sanctuary at Sounion and min...

In neuem glanz. with new splendour.

This exhibition catalogue provides insight into the spectacular conservation of this masterpiece from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. The Crucified Thief fragment, by the "Master of Flémalle", shines in new splendour. The book documents the spectacular results of the restoration, and describes an...

Culture, control and commitment

This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. As pointed out in the new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey first appeared; the Japanese are now moving closer to t...

The arab gulf's pivot to asia

The contributors of this book argue that, along with economic diversification, the Gulf countries have also diversified their foreign policies, especially with China, India, Japan and South Korea, among others. Together with Russia, this could eventually alter the current US-centric security para...

Beyond ruins

This book explores the potential of modern architecture renovation in the Global South as a catalyst for self-determination and community-building. The volume presents case studies, conversations, and visual essays by international experts in architecture, governance, regenerative design, contemp...

Carolingian commentaries on the apocalypse by theodulf and smaragdus

In the early ninth century Theodulf of Orleans and Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel served as advisers to Charlemagne. This book provides English translations of a Latin commentary on the Apocalypse written by Theodulf and three homilies on the Apocalypse by Smaragdus.

Settlement and subsistence in early formative soconusco

The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) are described here.

The english 'loathly lady' tales

This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.

The kingis quair and other prison poems

Reflects the wide scope of these "prison poems" by bringing together a new edition of "The Kingis Quair," a selection from Charles d'Orleans' "Fortunes Stabilnes," a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote abou...

The banū sulaym

This study focuses on Sulaym in the crucial transition period from Jāhiliyya to Islam, and hence it contributes to the study of the Prophet and his time.

Studies in arabic literary papyri. volume iii

The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. Poets and scholars in the various fields used concurrent oral and written transmission for the publication, transmission, and preservation of their literary products.