Oxford University Press, 2019. — 192 p. — (Oxford English Monographs). This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders - and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works - it comprehensively interrogates the construction, operation, and...
Encounter Books, 2024. — 640 p. When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasting their resources on ulterior objects, they would "win through" – and Thucydides believed him. After Pericles' death, however, to the...
Stockholm University Press, 2024. — 288 p. — (Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture, Volume 1). Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations. These new advances provide us with detailed information on several aspects of the early...
Routledge, 2025. — 278 p. Ethnography: The Basics introduces a broad and beginner audience to ethnography as a research methodology with diverse applications. By using everyday language and developing a warm and inclusive tone, the book provides an accessible entry point to the topic. It offers a picture of the practice of ethnography that is both human and humane, tackling...
Routledge, 2025. — 278 p. Ethnography: The Basics introduces a broad and beginner audience to ethnography as a research methodology with diverse applications. By using everyday language and developing a warm and inclusive tone, the book provides an accessible entry point to the topic. It offers a picture of the practice of ethnography that is both human and humane, tackling...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. Investigates the complex lives of famous Vikings, examining their spirituality, ambitions, and legendary adventures beyond mere conquest. Vikings. One of history’s most recognisable archetypes. These hardy warriors enjoyed fighting and conquering, but there was much more to the culture than physical might. A deep sense of spirituality and...
Lexington Books, 2025. — 420 p. In the 21st century, political debates appear to center on fundamental conflicts between “the people” and “elites.” Most of these discussions emphasize strategies to protect and empower the oppressed masses against a predatory ruling class. Much of classical political thought, however, was written from an aristocratic point of view: that is, it...
Brepols, 2022. — 362 p. Celts, Gaels, and Britons offers a miscellany of essays exploring three closely connected areas within the fields of Celtic Studies in order to shed new light on the ancient and medieval Celtic languages and their literatures. Taking as its inspiration the scholarship of Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, to whom this volume is dedicated, the papers...
University of Chicago Pressр 2025. — 162 зл A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries. In recent years, discoveries brought to light through analysis of ancient DNA - or aDNA - have made headlines around the world. While ancient DNA studies may appear to focus on laboratory science and objective results, the findings have also...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 336 p. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2020. — 136 p. An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia. For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice...
Routledge, 2005. — 296 p. This book focuses on the British Commonwealth armies in SE Asia and the SW Pacific during the Second World War, which, following the disastrous Malayan and Burma campaigns, had to hurriedly re-train, re-equip and re-organise their demoralised troops to fight a conventional jungle war against the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). British, Indian and...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 352 p. Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 208 p. This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of its time, regarded the English as adherents of two consecutive religions: Paganism governed the settlers of...
Vintage Books, 2024. — 416 p. Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial networks ever built "All roads lead to Rome." It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire, as Rome’s extraordinary legacy continues...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 184 p. What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions?...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 184 p. What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions?...
Manchester University Press, 2025. — 272 p. Minted in Florence around November 1252, the florin became one of the leading gold currencies of the Middle Ages. Historians agree that its success was mainly due to the need for a stable means of payment in the networks of international trade. The Florentine Florin investigates the florin as a medium with hitherto neglected...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 144 p. Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meaning come from? What sorts of things have meaning? And how do we grasp the meaning others want to convey? This Very Short Introduction is shaped by exploring possible answers to these...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what...
Liverpool University Press, 2025. — 336 p. Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual. Ancient cultures were not indifferent to this grim and painful moment and ‘the unknown beyond’. Needless to say, representations of the final moments and transition to the world of the dead filled many...
University of California Press, 2025. — 282 p. At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family - the ruling dynasty of Parthia - who were sent to live at the Roman...
University of Tennessee Press, 1988. — 390 p. Widely recognized as one of the major works on eastern archaeology published during the first half of this century, The Adena People remains a standard reference work on the prehistory of the Ohio Valley. The result of the collaboration between the eminent archaeologists William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow, the work is largely...
2nd Rev. Edition — University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 336 p. Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dismissed trade - specifically, market exchange - as unimportant. They argue that the Maya subsisted primarily on agriculture, with long-distance trade playing...
Allen Lane, 2025. — 352 p. A major new account of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta. Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic – a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 224 p. The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way of understanding the history of the societies which...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2025. — 404 p. The Hindu Religious Tradition by Thomas J. Hopkins, originally published in 1971, provided a comprehensive survey of Hindu development from the Indus civilization to the present. This new edition incorporates up-to-date scholarship to provide a more complete history of India’s cultural and religious development, and is an invaluable...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2025. — 404 p. The Hindu Religious Tradition by Thomas J. Hopkins, originally published in 1971, provided a comprehensive survey of Hindu development from the Indus civilization to the present. This new edition incorporates up-to-date scholarship to provide a more complete history of India’s cultural and religious development, and is an invaluable...
Routledge, 2025. — 208 p. This book challenges previous definitions of modernity by comparing Max Weber (1864–1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the 20th century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of Waldorfpädagogik and the esoteric social reform movement of anthroposophy. While acknowledging that Weber and Steiner were different in several...
Routledge, 2025. — 208 p. This book challenges previous definitions of modernity by comparing Max Weber (1864–1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the 20th century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of Waldorfpädagogik and the esoteric social reform movement of anthroposophy. While acknowledging that Weber and Steiner were different in several...
Cologne: Böhlau, 2023. — 692 p. — (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Hansischen Geschichte 78). Medieval towns were vibrant and complex social environments where diverse groups and lifestyles encountered and influenced each other. Surprisingly, in the study of urban archaeology, the aristocracy, one of the leading and most influential groups in medieval society, has so far been...
Open Book Publishers, 2025. — 294 p. tep into the windswept steppes of Mongolia and explore a world where humans and animals have coexisted for centuries in a delicate, profound dance. This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between the Mongols and four animals—dogs, marmots, cats, and camels—shedding light on a nomadic culture that is deeply intertwined...
Princeton University Press, 2025. — 328 p. It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive...
Cornell University Press, 2025. — 276 p. Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact "served to contain violence." Applying the term "constant crisis" for its deliberate "dissonance,"...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains...
Cornell University Press, 2025. — 276 p. Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact "served to contain violence." Applying the term "constant crisis" for its deliberate "dissonance,"...
Oneworld Publications, 2025. — 384 p. A panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia’s historic rivalry… and why it matters now. The Great Wall of China – stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea – remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might. And yet for all its grandeur, the Wall also marks a vulnerability: an ever-present...
De Gruyter, 2025. — 554 p. Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome. This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 384 p. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldier’s Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their relationships to family and domestic life during this period, revealing how prolonged warfare transformed family and gender dynamics and gave rise to new kinds of citizenship. In...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 384 p. In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates or 'corsairs' based in ports such as Malta and Algiers. It was also a war of unequal means, since...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 240 p. This volume analyzes South-Eastern Anatolia's role as a cultural crossroads from the Hellenization phase to the Byzantine age, highlighting its strategic position and interactions with Cyprus and northern Syria. South-Eastern Anatolia at a Crossroads collects the papers presented in a thematic session at the 2018 EAA Congress held at Barcelona. The...
Springer, 2025. — 776 p. - A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated account of all aspects of one of the world’s most threatened antelopes - Summarizes all information available about this endangered species - Contains numerous photos, drawings, figures, and maps This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book summarizes all known information on the Goitered Gazelle (Gazella...
Editori Laterza, 2025. — 144 p. 1283: è da poco scoppiata la rivolta del Vespro siciliano che vede contrapposti il re Carlo d’Angiò e il re Pietro III d’Aragona. Quel conflitto politico-economico per il dominio di territori, rotte commerciali e mercati infiamma tutto il Mediterraneo. Si decide che sarà un duello tra i due sovrani a definirne gli esiti. Precisissimi trattati...
University of Chicago Press, 2025. — 400 p. A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity. The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 190 p. The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and major writers in the Latin literary canon, including the anonymous poems, Ciris and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 190 p. The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and major writers in the Latin literary canon, including the anonymous poems, Ciris and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 408 p. Explores the cultural landscapes of the late antique Central Zagros and their long-term transformations - Contextualises the socioeconomic milieu of the Sasanian Central Zagros in the late antique Near East - Highlights the role of nomadic and transhumant populations in the cultural formation processes of the Central Zagros, along with...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 240 p. It is generally accepted that Roman administrators, arriving in Egypt in the aftermath of Augustus’ annexation of the province, confiscated en masse the land and other property belonging to the temples of Egypt - estimated at as much as one-third of the country. It is further accepted that this confiscation doomed the temples by...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 240 p. It is generally accepted that Roman administrators, arriving in Egypt in the aftermath of Augustus’ annexation of the province, confiscated en masse the land and other property belonging to the temples of Egypt - estimated at as much as one-third of the country. It is further accepted that this confiscation doomed the temples by...