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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and ...

- Multi-disciplinary approach: includes essays on archaeology, language, religion, history, and art. - International field of contributors. - Thoroughly illustrated throughout. Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, ...

Offers the most comprehensive, interpretative introduction to Roman funerary art available Contextual approach does justice to the objective importance one of the most significant bodies of material from the Roman ...

-Thirty five essays from an international team of scholars providing a comprehensive overview of the history of postwar Europe, and the ways in which historians are now rewriting it - ...

Provides up-to-date study of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship Includes nearly 900 illustrations This book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major ...

Extensively illustrated throughout. Contains a thorough bibliography for further research into the subject. Considers in detail how cultural objects from across the Roman Empire constructed, reflected, and challenged a specific ...

The Oxford Latin Dictionary is the world's most authoritative dictionary of classical Latin, with comprehensive coverage of the language from its beginnings until AD 200. More than fifty years in ...

Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The ...

- Presents avante-garde archaeological theories alongside time-honored and traditional approaches - Mixes grand overviews with detalied studies by regional experts - Includes over 170 vivid photographs, maps, and detailed illustrations ...

Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for ...

The first book-length history of the modern study of ancient South Italy, that is Magna Graecia Provides a new perspective for understanding the emergence of classical archaeology as a modern ...

- Diverse contributions in the field of public archaeology from a variety of international contributors. - An important source of debate and point of reference for seminar-based teaching and self-guided ...

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete. ...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii captures how studies of the Roman city are currently shifting away from architecture towards a dynamic understanding of activities within the urban space. This is becoming a ...

- Written by an international team of leading experts - Structure allows quick reference to the archaeology relating to specific periods, themes, or regions - Up-to-date, incorporating research results that ...

- Offers a broad view of the influence of Pompeii on the Western imagination, allowing readers to compare its impact at different times in history and for different audiences - ...

Extensively illustrated with images from a variety of media. Includes a handlist of surviving vestments of Byzantine provenance and a clear, comprehensive exposition of the vestments of the Byzantine rite ...

- A comprehensive guide to the history and interpretation of Ancien Régime Europe, with over thirty contributions from an international team of leading scholars - Looks at the main features ...

This is the story of the search for human origins - from the Middle Ages, when questions of the earth's antiquity first began to arise, through to the latest genetic ...

Brings together the latest scholarship from archaeological studies of ancient societies to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence Provides the necessary context for understanding U.S. policies such as ...