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OXFORD U. P. (2017)
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At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the emperor's imperial image ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.115,00 €
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A Magnificent Faith explains how and why Lutheranism - a confession that derived its significance from the promulgation of God's Word - became a visually magnificent faith, a faith whose adherents sought to captivate Christians' ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.39,30 €
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Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.120,00 €
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This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.26,00 €
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The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.99,00 €
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Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.206,00 €
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Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.192,00 €
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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.90,69 €
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How did fashion work in Europe before modern media? Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why did men ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.75,00 €
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In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.138,00 €
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In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.175,00 €
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Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.33,00 €
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Nearly six years after the Arab uprisings began it is clear that any dream of a pan-Islamic awakening is now more elusive than ever. The wave of unrest has deepened ethnic and religious tensions between ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.53,00 €
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Blood of the Provinces is the first fully comprehensive study of the largest part of the Roman army, the auxilia. This non-citizen force constituted more than half of Rome's celebrated armies and was often the ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.25,00 €
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In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.125,00 €
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This is the first book in English about the earliest historical civilization in the western Mediterranean, known as "Tartessos." Endowed with extraordinary wealth in metals and strategically positioned between the Atlantic and Mediterranean trading routes ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.49,00 €
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Explains the importance of banks and their role in expanding the money supply, even in an ancient economy
Helps students of ancient history to understand how and why an ancient economy could have achieved ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.190,00 €
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The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.120,00 €
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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the tradition of writing African languages using the Arabic script 'Ajami and the rise of the Muridiyya order of Islamic Sufi in Senegal, founded by Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
pvp.155,00 €
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This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in ...