Roman museums

A collection of essays by the late Donald Strong, grouped into four sections (general, architectural studies, sculpture, acquisitions at the British Museum), edited by Susan Walker. It includes Strong’s inaugural lecture as Professor of Archaeology at London University, on the Romans and archaeol...

Guide to the mesoamerican gallery at the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology

The middle english breton lays

First vol. to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

Kostas varnalis's papers

Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. As a poet he was an important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis. This book presents for the first time an in-depth view of this poet's literary work and life throu...

The life of saint katherine

In telling the story of the life of the virgin martyr Katherine, Capgrave uses many of the tropes that mark the enormously popular genre of hagiography as it was written throughout the Middle Ages. Incl. digressions on just and unjust rule; on child care; on medieval English feasts, jousts and pa...

On the margin of the euphrates

Examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information from surface surveys, and at the same time, the integration of cultural change within both the local environmental context and long-ter...

Sargonic texts in the ashmolean museum, oxford

Transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. The majority of the tablets are standard administrative texts, with a small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. 113 tablets are pres...

The archaeology of ancient cities

This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offering a new heuristic typology of cities. It reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter.

Hebrew union college annual

The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present. 

Nippur ii

A report on the excavation during the 1950s of an Early Dynastic Temple discovered in the northwestern part of the Religious Quarter of Nippur. The volume includes reports on the structural remains, the burials and the finds, such as pottery, tablets, seals, ornaments and figurines.

Constructions of childhood in ancient greece and italy

These 20 papers explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Studies in english bible illustration, volume i

George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination sheds light on Anglo-Saxon and Norman manuscripts' sources and artists' creativity. His two volumes trace links to antique sources, innovations, and lost art, while the second volume focuses on thirteenth-century Anglo-French Apocalypses an...

Lancelot of the laik and sir tristrem

This new edition makes available to students of English romance and of the Matter of Britain two significant Middle English Arthurian romances. With introductions, glosses, notes, and glossary, a very accessible edition for students.

Art and archaeology in israel and neighbouring countries

This collection covers 25 years of articles in four themes: architecture (pagan temples, early churches, synagogues), sculpture (iconography, style), mosaics (secular, religious, Classical influences), and symbolic art (Greek inscriptions).

The making of religious texts in islam

This is a study of the modalities, actors, technicalities and consequences of evolving religious texts in the perspective of the fragment versus the whole. The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, including contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the format...

Studies in silk in byzantium

This book collects 17 papers by Anna Muthesius, covering topics like Byzantine sericulture, silk's ecclesiastical role, and the impact of Byzantine silks in various regions from the 5th to 15th centuries. It complements her earlier work on Byzantine and Islamic silk weaving.

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...

Studies in indian sculpture and painting

Douglas Barrett, prominent in Indian art, presents three sections in his work: North India sculpture, Deccan painting & sculpture (Amaravati school), and South India sculpture.

The testament of love

First edition of the text to be published since W. W. Skeat undertook the task in 1897. . . . [I]n this edition, a diplomatic transcription of Thynne [1532 edition] is printed with, contrapuntally, a pointed version of the text which represents the efforts of R. Allen Shoaf, the editor, to constr...

Storm in the community

The first in a series of Yiddish polemical pamphlets appeared one week before the elections to the second National Assembly in the Republic of the Netherlands on August 1, 1797. This is the first bilingual edition of a major portion of this collection of documents and the first time any of them h...

Confessio amantis, volume 1

The complete text of John Gower's poem is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components-with translations-of this bilingual text and extensive glosses, bibliography and explanatory notes. Volume 1 contains the Prologue and Books 1 and 8, in effect the overall structure of Gower's poem.

Palamedes volume 9/10 (2014/2015)

Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.

Pots and pans of classical athens

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in classical Athens. By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancie...

Lake titicaca

Lake Titicaca - the world's highest navigable lake - was home to some of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. This lavishly illustrated book provides an indispensable guide for any visitor who has an interest in archaeology, history and culture, and for any reader wnating to know more...