Ancient history

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period.

This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny.

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde's aestheticism.

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category.

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato's Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman.

This book highlights the extent to which women were positioned as historical subjects in the process of constructing political, social, and cultural history in Yugoslavia, while simultaneously facing the politics of institutional exclusion and academic ignorance of progressive ideas and emancipatory struggles.

This volume is concerned with the eschatology of Origen, the great 3rd century theologian and philosopher of Alexandria.

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s.

La Grece est a la source de la culture occidentale et de l'histoire europeenne.

Au XVIe siecle, explorateurs, trafiquants, conquistadores europeens n'ont nullement rencontre un monde primitif et desert ; la population indigene, 12 millions de personnes au minimum, vivait des ressources locales, ne connaissait pas de mortalite endemique et precoce mais beneficiait d'une bonne sante generale.

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

« Ce n’est pas une petite chose que Rome : par sa durée – près de treize siècles –, son étendue – touchant à trois continents –, les traces qu’il a laissées dans la mémoire des hommes, l’empire fondé par Rome acquiert les dimensions d’une expérience historique universelle.

Die landwirtschaftliche Produktion bildete eine der zentralen Aufgabe römischer Villen.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Maya und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelte Spiritualität und die komplexe Götterwelt dieser beeindruckenden antiken Zivilisation.

Xerxes I.