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Imperialism and Jewish Society
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing …
Roman North Africa
This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus …
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic …
Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship …
Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule
This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq's principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the …
Journey through Genocide
Powerful accounts by genocide survivors, a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain.Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in …
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman …
Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity
Most ancient history focuses on the urban elite. Papyrology explores the daily lives of the more typical men and women in antiquity. Aphrodito, a village in sixth-century AD Egypt, …
Travellers in Ottoman Lands II
The twenty-six chapters of this volume have their origins in a three-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in …
Romulus' Asylum
Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: 'race-mixture' has been blamed for the collapse of the …
Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Western Art
This volume bring together John Beckwith's papers on medieval and Byzantine art. They focus on those subjects which the author made his own, Coptic and Byzantine "textiles, Western …
The Historians of Late Antiquity
The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict, political change and military conflict. The responses of contemporary historians to these turbulent times …