The fuggerei

The Fuggerei, in Augsburg in southern Germany, is the world’s oldest social housing settlement. It has been in continuous existence since its foundation 1516. This richly illustrated guide book will lead you through the settlement while also providing a history of the project. Learn what the conc...

The reeves' progress

The Vogtland includes parts of today’s German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Bavaria, and part of Bohemia in Czechia. Over a period of centuries the dynasty of the Reeves of Weida, Gera and Plauen left a mark on the region. This copiously illustrated book explores the old domains of the reeves a...

The end of time in the order of things

Time and its end are among the fundamental questions of humanity. The fascinating but also terrifying anticipation of the end has repeatedly caused people to try to determine the time of its arrival. This volume pioneers the analysis of apocalyptic expectations in medieval Europe between 800 and ...

1000 years ago

The 1000th anniversary of the death of Emperor Henry II has instigated celebrations throughout the city and archbishopric of Bamberg . This book is a catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the historic museum in Bamberg, focusing on the emperor, and on his wife Cunigunde and th...

Gates to paradise

Europe's largest complex of medieval monumental bronze objects is made up of around 30 doors cast from various copper alloys. These doors, most of which are located in Italy, date from the 11th-12th centuries and are the epitome of medieval metal craftsmanship. This is the first book in English o...

Die erfindung der katharer

The Cathars: not the largest heretical movement of the Middle Ages, but a modern invention? Richly illustrated and supplemented by the translations of central sources, the book introduces into their complex history the idea that these famous heretics were constructed as an enemy image in the High...

Otto der große 912–973

The chronicler Widukind of Corvey described Otto I as "Emperor of the Romans, King of the Nations" when he wrote about his death on 7 May 973. This new biography on the 1050th anniversary of Otto’s death combines written, pictorial and archaeological testimonies to create a new overview of the gr...

The preslav treasure from bulgaria (tenth century)

For the first time since its excavation, the Preslav Treasure has been subject to scientific analyses, conducted in the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie Mainz, with a restoration and photographic documentation. This book comprises fourteen papers presented during the conference organised in collab...

Das lange 10. jahrhundert

Contributions in this volume from archaeology and history deal with the question of what effect external pressure might have had in decentralised political structures with personalised rule in the European empires of the 10th century.

Roma docta

An analysis of material in Roman and European archives and libraries, allowing for a reassessment of Rome as a long-devalued place of university study. The term place of study is also intended to direct our attention beyond university institutions as such to the considerable range of locations fo...

Andechs - bavaria's holy mountain

The pilgrimage church of Andechs high above Lake Ammersee is world-famous. Thousands of visitors come every year to take a break for body and soul. Abbot Johannes Eckert OSB offers a theological and spiritual perspective on the church of Andechs.

Ioannina (greek language text) pb

Ioannina is a city where legends and nature intertwine, a city in which the lake plays a leading role. This book looks at Ioannina during the ages before and after the invention of script, the Byzantine and post-Byzantine times, the city’s conquest by the Ottomans, the reign of Ali Pasha and the ...

Agora modiano - thessaloniki (greek language text)

The Agora Modiano in Thessaloniki has been redeveloped into a modern covered food market. Texts written by an assortment of local residents, and testimonies of shopkeepers who have spent a lifetime in Modiano, portray the Market. The accompanying rich photographic material captures nostalgic mome...

Norwegian epitaphs 1550–1700

As part of a detailed introduction to the post-Reformation church topography of Norway, some 140 epitaphs preserved in all parts of Norway from the period 1550 to 1700 are documented with illustrations, descriptions and short biographies. The book contains numerous illustrations of the epitaphs, ...

The story of lemnos (greek lang.)

In The Story of Lemnos Dimitris Plantzos has written the long history of the relatively unknown and, until recently, somewhat ignored Aegean island of Lemnos. The story is a fascinating narrative, a true chronicle of the place and its people. The book is illustrated throughout in colour.

Writing and the west german protest movements: the textual revolution

The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protester...

The queen's tower (greek language text)

The Queen’s Tower and Estate, located at Ilion, is a hidden gem of Attica. This book provides its history, covering the first years of the independent Greek State. Amalia, wife of King Otto, aimed to create a model agricultural unit there, to inspire the development of agriculture and livestock f...

Red creative

Explores China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai. Takes a long-term historical perspective and raises questions about the nature of contemporary creative capitalism and the universal claims of Western modernity, offering n...

The caucasus

The Caucasus as a bridge of cultures is at the centre of the transfer of innovation between Mesopotamia and Europe in the 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. This book covers the period from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age and deals with the geographical area from the Levant to the Pontic steppe a...

Cemeteries and sedentism in the later stone age of nw africa

Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt (Morocco), is one of the most famous cave sites in North Africa. This book presents new findings on the Iberomaurusian hunter-gatherer inhabitants who faced the major challenges of a rapidly changing climate.

Vorzeiten - time gone by

This book presents selected findings that are representative of the archaeological wealth of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as up to date information on findings from current research. The Rhine and Moselle make today’s Rhineland-Palatinate region both a hub and a transit area, at times a centre o...

Urban space between the roman age and late antiquity

This book investigates the substantial changes that can be perceived within the urban fabric and its surrounding territory in the transition period between the second century and the sixth century AD in several areas of the Mediterranean Basin that have remained unexplored until now.

Armi votive in magna grecia

The study of sanctuaries and sacred contexts in Magna Graecia and southern Italy has undergone profound changes in recent years. This volume collects contributions on the complexity, prevalence and significance of war in votive contexts of southern Italy between the Archaic and Roman periods.

Olympia

This book is an introduction to a crucial site of the ancient world, the site where the greatest sporting event of antiquity, the Olympic Games, were born. These Games at Olympia came to shape in large measure the history and the values of the ancient Greek world. The site is one of the most impo...

New research on late byzantine goldsmiths´ works (13th-15th centuries)

The contributions to this book are concerned with the material culture of goldsmiths’ works: crosses, reliquary caskets, jewellery, enamel works and precious stones, spanning the geographical area of Byzantium and many of its neighbours, from Russia via Trebizond and Serbia to Crete.

Discovering ancient crete (greek language edition)

The Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, one of the largest and most visited museums in Greece, houses and displays in its fully renovated exhibition the outstanding material remains of the ancient civilizations that developed in Crete over seven millennia, from the Neolithic era to the late Roman...

Discovering ancient crete

The Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, one of the largest and most visited museums in Greece, houses and displays in its fully renovated exhibition the outstanding material remains of the ancient civilizations that developed in Crete over seven millennia, from the Neolithic era to the late Roman...

Olympia (greek language edition)

This book is an introduction to a crucial site of the ancient world, the site where the greatest sporting event of antiquity, the Olympic Games, were born. These Games at Olympia came to shape in large measure the history and the values of the ancient Greek world. The site is one of the most impo...

The oxyrhynchus papyri. vol. lxxvii

Graeco-Roman Memoirs 98 This volume presents Oxyrhynchus Papyri nos. 5101-5126, which include an early and textually valuable copy of the Septuagint Psalms, five hexameter poems and diverse documents from the Roman and Byantine periods. 5101, probably the earliest extant copy of the Septuagint Ps...

Frankfurt am main-rödelheim. vom leben und sterben der soldaten napoleons / de la vie et de la mort des soldats de napoléon

In 1813, after the Battle of Hanau, hundreds of thousands of soldiers marched through the Rhine-Main region. Thousands died of exhaustion and plagues. For the first time, Napoleonic mass graves have been archaeologically excavated and scientifically examined, with impressive results. Text: paral...

The faunal remains from gönnersdorf

The Magdalenian open air site of Gönnersdorf (Rhineland, Germany) continues to provide new insights into the organisation of Upper Palaeolithic human societies. This analysis of the faunal remains investigates the ways in which the Magdalenian site occupants incorporated hunting and subsistence i...

Kallinikos

This is a collective work with articles written in Greek and English, covering aspects of Greek history and archaeology: vases and iconography; topography of the city of Athens; topography and architecture outside the city of Athens; worship; political ideology; and, ancient athletics. Text in Gr...

Groundbreaking technologies in the middle paleolithic of the levant

This book explores the use of Ground Stone Tools during the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, during which this technology developed and diversified. It presents three distinct case studies and shows the application of functional analysis using a high-resolution multi-scale approach, combined wit...

Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration iii

This volume continues the edition of unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. As in previous volumes, the text fragments are presented in both photographs and transliterations, with notes explaining particular forms and text variants. The fragment...

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...

Tehom (abyss)

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 non-independent territories of the caribbean and pacific: continuity or change?

By the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone – well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have eschewed independence and retain links of various kinds with the former imperial p...

Coptic culture and community

A wide-ranging exploration of the daily lives of ordinary Coptic Christians, from late Antiquity until todayThis volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to examine aspects of the daily lived experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority from late Antiquity to the pre...

The emergence of the modern coptic papacy

An authoritative history of the Coptic Papacy from the Ottoman era to the present day, new in paperbackThis third and final volume of The Popes of Egypt series spans the five centuries from the arrival of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present era. Hardly any scholarly work has been written about th...

Greek-orthodox people of constantinople, 1453–1600 (greek language text)

What follows the Fall of Constantinople? How do its residents survive and how do the Greek-Orthodox people organize their life? This book draws information from Constantinople chronicles, travellers’ narratives, diaries of Westerners who lived among the Greek-Orthodox people, as well as from text...

Sephardi jews (greek language text)

A documented tour of the history of the Sephardic Jews, chronicling their persecution and ejection from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the C15th, recounting their life in the Ottoman Empire, with an emphasis on Thessaloníki, until the first decades of the 20th century. Greek language text

Byzantium in the 16th century: constantinople and its afterlife

The contributions to this volume investigate diverse aspects of the urban physiognomy and cultural activity of Constantinople?/?Istanbul during its early Ottoman phase.

Harbours as objects of interdisciplinary research

Within the research project known as ‘Harbours from the Roman Period to Middle Ages’, an international conference titled “Harbours as objects of interdisciplinary research – Archaeology + History + Geosciences” was held in Kiel in 2015. This volume includes 26 papers presented at the conference

Harbours and maritime networks as complex adaptive systems

In this volume the concept of complex systems is used to discuss the interplay between social and environmental factors for the emergence and maintenance of maritime infrastructure and route systems in the ancient and medieval period. Part of the research programme ‘Harbours from the Roman Period...

Seasides of byzantium

The contributions in this volume concentrate on examining case studies for the most important maritime core region of the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean. General phenomena such as the organisation of the Byzantine navy and its operations or lighthouses are discussed, as well as new geoarchaeologica...

Ambassadors, artists, theologians

The contributors to this volume examine the complex dynamics which arose between the Byzantine Empire and the Near East. Moving beyond the tradition of histoire événementielle, the contributions collected here highlight the passing of artistic practices, ideas and interlocutors between Byzantium ...

The house of the coptic woman

A Notable African Book of 2023 (Brittle Paper)Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new p...

Aristocratic violence and holy war

This book discusses the relationship between the idea of Holy War in early Islamic societies and the competition for resources and legitimacy among Muslims who lived on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, providing a fresh perspective on the history of that region during the late Umayyad and early Abbas...

Making routes

A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South By the end of 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 100 million, the highest figure since the Second World War. The Russia...

Historic gardens and society

This book points to a sense of social responsibility at work in the preservation and use of historic gardens. It offers diverse international examples of the value of these cultural monuments in tackling current sustainability challenges—ranging from climate change to the contemporary relationshi...

The bronzes from san casciano dei bagni

Exceptionally well-preserved bronze statues from a sanctuary in San Casciano, Italy, were discovered in 2022, with more spectacular discoveries in 2024. The statues provide insight into healing rituals and religious practices at the transition from Etruscan to Roman culture. This richly illustrat...

Hinter den mauern und auf dem offenen land

This book is linked to the exhibition "Byzantium – Splendour and Everyday Life" held at the Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Mainz (2010). The contributions are concerned with Constantinople, the other Byzantine cities and their surroundings in the Balkans and Asia Minor, as well as everyda...

Argentum romanorum sive barbarorum

The proceedings of the 2nd « Rencontres internationales de numismatique » (Université Caen Normandie, 2017) collect together studies on silver coins from the 4th to the 6th centuries in the Western world. Despite its major role in the economy of Late Antiquity, precious metal coinage had not pre...

State, peasants, and land in mid-nineteenth-century egypt

An alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century EgyptThis book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide arr...

Vita vigilia est: essays in honour of barbara levick (bics supplement 100)

Descendants of a lesser god

A new perspective on the dynamics of dynastic rule in the southernmost province of Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the New KingdomThe First Upper Egyptian nome, with its capital, Elephantine, was important in ancient times, as it stood on the southern border between Egypt and the Nubian provinces...

Le septième siècle: changements et continuités/the seventh century: change and continuity

Cinemas and cinema-going in the united kingdom

In the first half of the twentieth century, cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity century. But with the transition to peacetime, leisure habits changed. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid...

Mapping the state

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...

Russia from the american embassy

Three-dimensional volumetric analysis in an archaeological context

This volume offers a detailed architectural analysis of the Palace of King Tupkish at Tell Mozan (ancient Urkesh), built around 2250 B.C., and located in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.

The twelve of england

A complete translation of the earliest known version of the Twelve of England, Professor Fallows presents the text in both the medieval Portuguese and an accompanying English translation. Contains a facsimile of the original manuscript, an introduction covering the historical context, colour illu...

Tell hamoukar, volume 1. urbanism and cultural landscapes in northeastern syria

Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. Presents the results of three seasons of field survey and remote-sensing analysis at the site and region. This area is one of the best-preserved ancient landscapes of movement in the world. Appendices describe the 60 si...

The temple of khonsu, volume 3

Graffiti on the roof of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak, in hieroglyphic, hieratic, and Demotic scripts, caught the eye of those who clambered up onto that part of the roof still remaining. The 334 graffiti recorded are illustrated by photographs and facsimile drawings. Incl. transliterations, tra...

The other tuscany

Essays in this volume offer non-Italian scholars a representative sample of current European research and a summary of recent debates regarding the historical evolution of those republics that posed the most formidable obstacles to the extension of Florentine hegemony.

The great islands

Gerald Cadogan is a British archaeologist whose contributions to the archaeology of the East Mediterranean relate to Crete and Cyprus. Contains 33 papers by an array of scholars who have been taught or examined by Cadogan or collaborated with him in the field or excavation workrooms over the last...

Medieval london

Caroline Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles revised and updated here.

Studies in medieval islamic intellectual traditions

Focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth to the fifteenth century CE, through a close study of manuscript materials. Chapters are arranged under five rubrics: Mu'tazilism, Zaydism in Iran and in Yemen, Twelver Shi'ism, Mysticism...

Gordion special studies, volume ii

Gordion's diverse terracotta figurines, spanning the Early Bronze Age to the Late Phrygian/Hellenistic period, are meticulously cataloged in this book. With 171 items, the collection sheds light on the site's evolution from a Bronze Age center to a Graeco-Celtic hub, providing a unique archaeolog...