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The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
edited by Katariina Mustakallio and Christian Laes
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs.
The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who were unable to bring up their baby and handed it over to other people or the cruel whims ...
Paperback. Price US$56.00
Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum: Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik
by Johannes Lipps
The Basilica Aemilia, the subject of this study, consists of a basilica fronted by a portico and shops. Its location, scale, and decorative elements make it one of the most important surviving structures of the ancient city of Rome. In comparison with most other ancient buildings, especially in the Forum Romanum, it is particularly well preserved, and therefore of special scholarly importance. Yet historically it is an ...
Paperback. Price US$50.00
Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices
by Andrew Dalby
The hunger for spices and aromatics was responsible for some of the greatest journeys of exploration and colonialism around the world. This book forms a detailed history of all manner of spices, from ginger and sugar, to frankinsence and myrrh, to cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, and travels the world from Africa, Russia, the Pacific islands and the Americas, to Russia, Asia and the Far East. The origins of various spices, the history of their ...
Hardback. Price US$39.95
Die Fassade des Hauses IX 1, 20 in Pompeji: Gestalt und Bedeutung
by Hans Lauter
193p (Philipp von Zabern 2009)
Hardback. Price US$89.00
Germania. Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts / Germania
edited by Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Frankfurt a. M.
403p (Philipp von Zabern 2009)
Hardback. Price US$24.00
Hierarchie in der Baukunst: architekturtheoretische Betrachtungen in Ost und West
by Parya Memar
vi, 122p (Philipp von Zabern 2009)
Hardback. Price US$38.00
Ancient Iran from the Air
by David Stronach and Ali Mousavi
This book features many of the more exceptional landscapes and monuments of Iran as seen through the lens of the world's foremost aerial photographer, George Gerster. The photographs, which were taken between 1976 and 1978, are presented in six chapters, each authored by one or more scholars of international repute, and the work as a whole is edited by two of the main contributors, David Stronach and Ali Mousavi. Ancient Iran from the Air ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00
Demeter, Isis, Vesta, and Cybele: Studies in Greek and Roman Religion in Honour of Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
edited by Attilio Mastrocinque and Concetta Giuffrè Scibona
Foreign cults of female divinities were often accepted among different cultures and female cults were often reshaped after new models. The transcultural nature of many goddesses and the related problems are at the core of this book, which is dedicated to a prominent scholar in this field, G. Sfameni Gasparro. Social, political and cultural factors are especially taken into account in order to explain different iconographies, names, and kinds of ...
Paperback. Price US$81.00
Erdichtete Rituale: Die Eingeweideschau in der lateinischen Epik und Tragödie
by Christiane Nasse
German description: Die Unterscheidung von etruskischem und römischem Opferritual gehört zu den Grundüberzeugungen der Religionsgeschichtsschreibung. Christiane Nasse zeigt, dass diese Annahme auf einer Fehlinterpretation der zentralen Quellen und Besonderheiten einer hundertjährigen Forschungsgeschichte beruht. Die Kritik führt zu Dekonstruktionen: Weder erscheint die Hypothese von einer Dichotomie der ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$99.00
The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in historical thought and historiography in Republican Rome
by James H. Richardson
This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views concerning human behaviour and the impact that these had on the traditions of Rome's past. The second looks at the presentation of the gens Fabia in the literary evidence and at the ways individual Fabii were said to have behaved. The final chapter ...
Hardback. Price US$78.00
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