Munus amicitiae

Over thirty internationally recognized scholars contribute studies in honour of noted Anatolianist and Indo-Europeanist Norbert Oettinger. Munus Amicitiae ranges widely, with essays treating diverse topics in Anatolian linguistics, general Indo-European, Germanic, Indic, Celtic, and even Aegean a...

Yemen and the gulf states

Yemen is the only state on the Arabian Peninsula that is not a member of the GCC; it is also the only local state not ruled by a royal family. This timely volume analyses Yemen's relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Iran with a focus on recent developments, including the conflict after ...

Prehistoric investigations in iraqi kurdistan

Deals with the aims, methods, preliminary results and problems of three campaigns in Iraqi Kurdistan (1948, 1950-51, 1954-55), containing a valuable series of essays about special aspects of the project which was undertaken as a first major attempt to identify the earliest village-materials and t...

Is there continuity between persian and caspian?

This book studies the south-central Alborz as a language transition zone. This is a mountainous area, also known as Qasran, separated from both Tehran and Mazandaran by mountain chains. There are dozens of villages in the area with vanishing dialects that show various degrees of affinity with the...

Photopoems

The photographs in this book are not the work of a photographer but of the poet George Douatzis. Through the poet's eye images of the everyday acquire another dimension; the verses which accompany them create a lovely, human and, primarily, poetic result. English and Greek bilingual text. 226 col...

The digby mary magdalene play

Rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and glossed, an essential resource for the study o...

Studies in the history of medieval italian painting, volume iii

Edward Garrison's four volumes represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting in the Papal States and Tuscany in the C12th. The books feature photos of miniatures, ornamental initials, wall-paintings and panels. They represent one of the most valuable sources of information abou...

Before the pyramids

Catalogue for an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum presenting research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods: the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta. Will be a stan...

Berenike 1999/2000

Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, plans, and a large foldout map of Berenike and Sikait.

Statuary from royal buildings at amarna (2-volume set)

Two-volume set in slipcase Over more than a century and a quarter of excavations the royal and administrative buildings in the city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hundreds of statues that had been part of Akhenaten’s visionary plan. But fragmentation and dispersal have up until now ma...

Classical rhetoric and medieval historiography

This volume stands as a selection of works presented sessions at the thirteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, helping to “fortify the strength of interest and inquiry directed toward rhetoric’s symbiosis with historiography in centuries past”.

Profane scriptures

The modern Hebrew poet uses a new midrashic method that seeks to neutralize the Bible's sway over modern Israeli life. Despite Israel's political secularism, the biblical traditions still have a significant impact on Israeli society; the poet is forced to contend with the Bible.

Byzantium, eastern christendom and islam vol. i

These two volumes explore the role of visual arts and architecture in the cultural exchange between medieval Christian and Muslim societies in the eastern Mediterranean. The focus is on Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Vol. I covers Byzantine and Egyptian Christian art, while Vol. II studies Syrian Ch...

Kommos

As well as being an archaeological guide, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of 30 years of fieldwork and study at one of the lesser known, but most intellectually fascinating, sites in Crete. In prehistory, Kommos was a busy harbor town with trading links extending to Egypt and ...

Ceramics of chios 17th–19th century

The core of this volume is the collection of Chian pithoi belonging to Angelos Vlastaris combined with other important ceramics and a wealth of archive material. It presents a picture of the cultural and social flowering of Chios before the Massacre of 1822. Illustrated in colour and black & ...

The morton w. bloomfield lectures, 1989-2005

The idea for the Bloomfield Lectures was…[to] reflect to some extent Morton Bloomfield's wide and varied interests—in literature, in the history of philosophy, in language studies, in Judaic studies.

Kasapata and the archaic period of the cuzco valley

It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Arc...

Landscape archaeology in southern epirus, greece 1

The first in an anticipated two-volume set presents the results of the Nikopolis Project that was conducted between 1991 and 1996; the first large-scale, systematic survey in this region of Greece.

Ayia paraskevi figurines in the university of pennsylvania museum

The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 3

A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early ...

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume s (-sa to suu-)

This volume of the Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is the complete volume of the letter S (-sa to suu-), including fascicles 1-4. The CHD is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary.

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.

The northern homily cycle

Composed in rhyming English verse, the earliest and most complete work of its kind (Gospel paraphrases with homilies on the theme of the Gospel texts), its widespread and enduring popularity witnessed by three distinct recensions and twenty surviving manuscripts ranging from the early fourteenth ...

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