The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best …
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is still considered one of the most significant figures of postwar French thought and remains central to anglophone cultural theory. He is read by …
This book explores how societies put the past to use and how, in the process, they represented it: in short, their historical culture. It brings together anthropologists, …
