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  • Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?

    Toward a Critical Historiography

    Series series ICMA Books | Viewpoints
    Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion.In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Antiquarianisms

    Contact, Conflict, Comparison

    Series Book 8 - Joukowsky Institute Publication
    Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between ... Read more

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  • Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art

    In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states—the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Byzantine Neighbourhood

    Urban Space and Political Action

    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider neighbourhoods as ... Read more

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    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

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    In the realm of folklore and enchantment, where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch invites you on a captivating journey through "The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales." Immerse yourself in a tapestry of timeless stories, where mythical creatures, valiant knights, and cunning tricksters intertwine. From the haunting tale of the White Wolf to the ... Read more

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    Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

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  • A Companion to Ancient History

    Edited by Andrew Erskine ...
    Series Book 199 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of ancient history.Examines the forms of evidence, problems, approaches, and major themes in the study of ancient historyComprises more than 40 essays, written by leading international scholarsMoves beyond the primary focus on Greece and Rome with coverage of the various cultures within the ancient MediterraneanDraws ... Read more

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  • The Byzantine World

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    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.Each chapter offers ... Read more

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  • The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

    For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to ... Read more

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  • Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600�800)

    An Island in Transition

    by Luca Zavagno ...
    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique "golden age" (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine "Reconquista" (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political sovereignty between the Umayyads and the Byzantines, bringing about the social and demographic ... Read more

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  • Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World

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    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the ... Read more

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  • Whose Middle Ages?

    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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