The monuments and inscriptions of caracol, belize

The publication of this book finally places the exquisitely carved but little known monuments of Caracol with those of Quirigua, Copan, and Tikal. New breakthroughs in the decipherment of Maya text have enabled the graceful hieroglyphic inscriptions to be translated.

Archaeological investigations at el-hibeh 1980

Excavations, surface sampling topographic mapping, and other archaeological and Egyptological researches were conducted at the site, of el-Hibeh between February 11 and March 16, 1980.

Kavousi iia

This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982-1984) and excavations (1987-1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete.

On the further shore of the enlightenment in modern greece

The Enlightenment in modern Greece is, without exception, characterised in our recent literature as a period of outstanding significance for the cultural history of modern Hellenism. Greek language text. 8 b&w illustrations.

The recovery of old english

The eight essays in The Recovery of Old English consider major aspects of the progress of Anglo-Saxon studies from their Tudor beginnings until their coming of age in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Formative lifeways in central tlaxcala, volume 1

First of 3 vols reporting on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Excavations at Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesitas and La Laguna are reported. Ceramics are described in detail. An innovative approach to the classification of figurines is presented, and a Formativ...

Croxton play of the sacrament

The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstandi...

Law, custom, and the social fabric in medieval europe

The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable...

Pathways to prismatic blades

This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the way the blades were manufactu...

Hebrew union college and the dead sea scrolls

Jason Kalman recovers the fascinating story of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls from their discovery in 1948 until the early 1990s when they were first made accessible to all scholars and to the public.

The study of chivalry

In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.

Prose merlin

Gives students of medieval Arthurian literature access to the Merlin section of the Old French Vulgate Cycle, an interconnected set of Arthurian works composed during the first half of the 13th century. Written in the latter half of the 15th century, it is a treasure trove of characters, incident...

Gordion excavations final reports, v

Excavations at Gordion's City Mound in 1961/62 uncovered Bronze Age remnants, presented in this detailed report placing Bronze Age Gordion within the broader Anatolian Bronze Age context. Professor Machteld J. Mellink contributes a cross-section of the Bronze Age City Mound and a brief stratigrap...

Studies in the archaeology of israel and neighboring lands in memory of douglas l. esse

In memory of Douglas L. Esse, an archaeologist and assistant professor at the Oriental Institute. The majority of the thirty-four chapters in this volume are concerned with the study of the Early Bronze Age.

Archaeology and history in sardinia from the stone age to the middle ages

A historical and archaeological introduction to the island of Sardinia, extending from prehistory to the Late Middle Ages. This first accessible reconstruction of island archaeology provides a balanced picture of the sweep of Sardinian history.

E mache tou marathona

Historian Christos Dionysopoulos goes head-to-head with 669 authors and 913 articles and books, emerging triumphant with a detailed study casting new  light on this historic battle fought in 490BC. 112 colour illustrations. Greek language text.

Early italian painting vol. i

Edward Garrison's 1949 index on Romanesque Italian panel painting set the standard. His four-volume work (1953-1962) is a significant research contribution to Italian medieval painting (11th-13th centuries). These two volumes collect his post-1945 articles, supplementing earlier works and updatin...

Tehom (abyss) (greek language text)

Photographs frame the narrative of a painful journey from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz: the loss of Renée Revah’s family in the concentration camp. She promises her grandfather, the sole family member to avoid this fate, that ‘Tehom’ (biblical Hebrew for ‘abyss’) will bring him to the scene of the c...

The galatas survey

This book traces the socioeconomic and political development of the Galatas area and its relations with other areas of Crete during the Neolithic-Ottoman periods. Two powerful rival centers in Crete, Knossos/Herakleion and Kastelli/Lyttos, brought the Galatas area under their control at various t...

Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 6

The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and throug...

Minoan wall painting of pseira, crete

This study of a fragmentary wall painting from the Minoan shrine on the islet of Pseira, located just off the northeastern coast of Crete, reveals a large-scale goddess facing a smaller suppliant in a presentation scene on an incurved altar platform; its style and technique argue for a strong Kno...

Hebrew union college annual volume 33

Excuses

'In the two decades since this book was first published, excuse making has flourished—both as a practice and as a process inviting investigation and theory.” So write the authors in their new introduction. But they also maintain that excuse making is a critical element in what social psychologist...

Labor problems of africa

Silk and purple (greek language text)

This edited collection opens a window into the world of Byzantine and post-Byzantine textiles by exploring the different traditions that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern era. The book’s contributors have created a complex scientific canvas, based on t...

Bethsaida: a city by the north shore of the sea of galilee, vol. 4

Archaeological excavation of the ancient city of Bethsaida has retrieved a wealth of information on some of the most intriguing topics from 10th century BCEto 4th century CE. This volume includes reports on archaeological and geological findings from 1997 to 2006 and the cultural and historical c...

Indirekte enteignung

The 1981 landmark decision on expropriation by the German Federal Constitutional Court resulted in a strictly formal concept of expropriation. The author challenges this view, providing a counternarrative of the right to property based on the German Basic Law, the norms of international and Europ...

Incised drawings from early phrygian gordion

This volume of Gordion Special Studies focuses on stone blocks with incised drawings from early Phrygian structures at Gordion, particularly from the likely temple, Megaron 2. It covers excavation details, analyzes the drawings, discusses potential sources, and proposes hypotheses on their origin...

Language, semantics, and cognition in ancient egypt and beyond

This collected volume offers a glimpse at the current state of research in different fields intersecting with the study of the Egyptian language (lexical semantics, semantic typology, visual semiotics, metaphor studies, cognitive linguistics, classifiers studies) and addresses some main research ...

The wartburg - world's heritage

The impact of latin culture on medieval and early modern scottish writing

This book investigates and re-evaluates the impact of Latin culture in crucial areas of late medieval and early modern Scottish literature and the role it played in the development of Scottish writing.