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Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region's …

Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an …

Explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world …

The Classic History of Rome's Fall From Glory inan Unparalleled Abridgment and ReintroductionFew historical works encompass the pathos, drama, and meticulous detail of Edward …

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?il-i Balkh ("e;The Merits of Balkh"e;), which was completed in 610 Hijri …

No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a …

Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that - at least in the case of Athens - has received far less attention. …

Adopted from the Celts in the 1st century BC, the spatha, a lethal and formidable chopping blade, became the primary sword of the Roman soldier in the Later Empire.Over the …

Do you want to understand how the world evolved into its current state? This book is your guide. It explores history's biggest empires. Our coverage extends to the British empire, …

In ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a …