Delphi and its museum (greek language edition)

The three sites at Delphi (the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Sanctuary of Athena and the Gymnasium) and the Museum are described in detail. Covers the Pythian festival and the Delphic rituals. Written in an accessible style; incorporates the results of the latest research and conservation of the sanct...

Archaeological approaches to medieval europe

The collection is intended primarily as a sampler, but a thematic unity emerges around the potential of archaeological approaches to contribute to a political ecology of the medieval period. Indispensable for archaeologists and historians of the Middle Ages seeking an appraisal of the state of th...

Late medieval england (1377-1485)

The volume represents the second part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, covering categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts.

Lydgate's fabula duorum mercatorum and guy of warwyk

A romance that bears comparison to Chaucer's great works Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, is one of Lydgate's most accomplished works. In Guy of Warwick , Lydgate breaks with romance tradition, presenting the heroic English knight-pilgrim and his last great battle against the dread gia...

Der welsche gast (the italian guest)

A remarkable product of an important period in German literature and indeed in medieval European culture; it may be argued with considerable justification that Der Welsche Gast is the most significant didactic work of the German High Middle Ages.

Guide to the archaeological museum of thessaloniki (german language edition)

The Museum, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide presents the rich, varied finds from important Macedo...

Ancient messene (greek language edition)

A concise presentation of the archaeological site of Ancient Messene. This book, illustrated in colour throughout, will guide the visitor through the site, while also providing a brief introduction to the history of Messene and to the story of the site’s more recent development. Greek language ed...

Matthew parker and his books

Three lectures, presented before the University of Cambridge, that examine Matthew Parker as a noted collector of books, an avid annotator, and a keen student of Old English. Plates accompany the text to illustrate many characteristic aspects of Parker's interventions in his books.

Selected studies in modern arabic narrative

The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen's articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.

Mycenae (english language edition)

Mycenae, in the plain of Argos in Greece became the preeminent centre of the advanced culture that dominated mainland Greece from the C16th to the C12th BC. This new book will accompany the visitor to the archaeological site and museum, providing at the same time an overview of the Mycenaean worl...

The assembly of gods

Anonymous English dream vision allegory produced, probably, in the third quarter of the 15th century. Blends didacticism with the mythological and the courtly, and seeks to bring Reson and Sensualyté into accord by means of an assembly of the classical gods that is called to adjudicate the relati...

Journal of the international qur'anic studies association volume 1

This new journal from the International Qur'anic Studies Association will support the association’s mission of fostering scholarship on the Qur'an.    

New trends in qur'nic studies

This book discusses recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur’ān and its exegesis. In addition, it  addresses recent scholarship on tafsīr (qur'anic exegesis), including thematic interpretation, diacronic and syncronic readings of the Qur’ān.

Ancrene wisse

Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.

On john gower

The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. As well as place, the political element in Gower's writings has been subject to fruitful recent scrutiny; and again, there are important linkages and overlaps among thes...

The abu bakr cemetery at giza

Reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published.

Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 54 (2018)

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes articles on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.

Vernacular traditions of boethius's de consolatione philosophiae

This collection critically examines translations of Boethius's “Consolatio” not only into English and German but also into Dutch, Italian, Polish, Hebrew, Greek and Korean.

The art of painting in ancient greece (english language edition)

Covers painting in Bronze-Age Greece; painting of the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic periods, and ends with a study of Graeco-Roman painting in the 2nd-3rd c. AD. Looks at techniques, style and themes in multidisciplinary approach to the material record. Extensive bibliography. Engli...

Ayia irini

The prehistoric settlement of Ayia Irini on Kea, one of the Cyclades islands of Greece, is the site of an ancient settlement dating back to the late Neolithic Age. This volume summarizes the results of excavation of the southeastern part of the Bronze Age town.

The centre and its compass

Collection of essays in honor of John Leyerle. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. Essays reflect his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, int...

The preservation and transmission of anglo-saxon culture

collection represents most of the papers delivered on the conference theme of the Fifth Meeting (1991) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, which was the first ISAS meeting in the United States.

Vital expression (english language edition)

Ιoannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author, best known for his Memoirs. Τhis series of 24 paintings depicting episodes from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and from the Memoirs, belonged to King Otto of Greece, the first monarch of ‘modern’ Greece. 78 col. illus. Engl...

John hardyng, chronicle

One of a handful of texts written in the twilight years of Henry VI's reign, written in 18,782 lines of verse and seven folios of prose, offers a compelling insight into the tastes, hopes, and anxieties of a late fifteenth century gentleman who witnessed -- and all too often participated in -- ea...

Rabbi eliezer of beaugency, commentaries on amos and jonah (with selections from isaiah and ezekiel)

Introduction, translation, and critical notes to Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency: one of the most innovative exegetical projects of the twelfth-century Renaissance.

Piers plowman, volume ii, part 2: commentary, bibliography and indexical glossary

Volume 2 Part 2 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire editi...

Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 12

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies.

Studia occitanica

The first of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

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.

Games and sanctuaries in ancient greece (greek language edition)

Greek language edition. Foreword by Professor Sir John Boardman. Revised and expanded second edition, includes new historical and archaeological research on the panhellenic sanctuaries and their games, and new photographic material from the many sites and monuments where excavation and restoratio...

Studia occitanica, vol. 1

The first of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

The amarna letters

During Egypt's 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550-1292 BCE), the rulers of Levantine city-states sent letters written in Akkadian in the cuneiform script on clay tablets to the Egyptian pharaohs. This new edition offers a complete collection of the letters with transliterations; clear and consistent translat...

The regiment of princes

Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem.

New perspectives on the man of sorrows

Essays investigating an assortment of issues and problems raised by the Man of Sorrows, a figure charged with profound spiritual, metaphorical, and symbolic meaning that traveled across Europe, and permeated numerous religious contexts as it soared in popularity in the West from the late Middle A...

Saints and sainthood around the baltic sea

Addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia.

The middle english metrical paraphrase of the old testament

The paraphrase is a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal about vernacular biblical literature in Middle English, about understandings of the Bible, about the environment in which the Lollards and other reformers worked, perceived roles of women in history...

Kom el-hisn (ca. 2500 - 1900 bc)

This volume presents the findings of the excavation at Kom el-Hisn in the northwest Nile Delta. This provincial community was often in the orbit of Memphis, the capital and administrative centre of Egypt's Old Kingdom Period. Kom el-Hisn's faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are pres...

Studia occitanica, vol. 2

The second of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

A teaching grammar of middle egyptian

This book is an authoritative introduction to the "classical" phase of the ancient Egyptian language and its writing systems, known as Middle Egyptian. It includes practice exercises, detailed discussions of the conventional hieroglyphic script, syntax and grammar, diachronic change, the hieratic...

Emperors in images, architecture and ritual

This volume presents current research on Roman emperors' uses of images, ranging from the beard of Nero to Antonine funeral pyres to the roles of arches in shaping urban landscapes. Chronologically, the volume covers the reigns of Augustus through Constantine, and it examines the use of imagery b...

Asher and -she in the book of ecclesiastes

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s, fascicle 3

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking ...

The archaeology and geography of ancient transcaucasian societies, volume i

Report on the ongoing studies of Project ArAGATS, (Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies) details the general context of contemporary archaeological research in the South Caucasus as well as the specific context of regional investiga...

Persepolis ii

Persepolis II concludes the report on many seasons of excavations (1935-1939) at the site and is the first publication to adequately illustrate and discuss the pottery of the period, an essential addition to Achaemenian archaeological studies. P

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume p, fascicle 1 (pa- to para)

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking ...

The greek tile works at corinth

A series of kilns at ancient Corinth known as the Tile Works are given final publication in this awaited book, based on excavations conducted in 1939 and 1940. The book describes the kilns and their products, with a discussion of fabrics and techniques of manufacture, moving on to typology and da...

The mycenaean feast

This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also present new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece a...

The middle bronze age iia cemetery at gesher

Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. During five seasons of excavation, a total of 23 interments were excavated in the cemetery. This final report presents the burials and material culture from the cemetery and compares the data wit...

The oriental institute 2010-2011 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.

The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 2

This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East

Archaeology in the borderlands

Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world. This book re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, a...

Our work

Catalogue for exhibit showing many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a manicurist, brewer, boat builder, judge and others. The portraits are accompanied by commentary and will be of interest to educators, histor...

Britain's departure from aden and south arabia

Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the Uni...

Hebrew union college annual volume 31

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...

Dark goddess

What does it mean when an item within a museum talks back? How are the concepts of the trained gaze, the panopticon, and the sacred feminine connected? Artist and writer Shanta Lee Gander probes these questions and more in Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine.

Hebrew union college annual volume 35

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...

Bulletin of the egyptological seminar

Most of this issue of BES is devoted to "Abbreviations in Egyptology," a comprehensive research tool that provides scholars with more than 5200 abbreviations used in Egyptological and Biblical literature. It is of particular use to those without ready access to the Lexikon der Ägyptologie. 

The free and the brave

This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the relations and connections between Greece and the United States from the American Revolution of 1776 to the C...

'like 'ilu are you wise'

The thirty-seven essays in this volume cover, among other topics relating to northwestern Semitic languages, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.

Studies in early islamic history (with an introduction by g. r. hawting)

This is a collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Most of the articles concern the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abbasid caliphate.

Topography and architecture

This volume provides the fullest possible picture of the temenos of Poseidon in Greek and Roman times, including the closely related stadia and the sanctuary of Palaimon and several monuments excavated to the west of the sanctuary: the Sacred Glen, the West Foundation, and the Hippodrome.

Vedic ideals of sovereignty and the poetics of power

This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry.

Deviance and identity

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when this book was published in 1969. John Lofland traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of “grounded theory” to the study of deviant behavior.

Hebrew union college annual volume 52

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...