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Eternal Butrint: A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Albania
by Richard Hodges, with a foreword by Lord Rothschild
Located at a crossroads in the Mediterranean, the site of Butrint is a microcosm of changes in the region over the last 3,000 years. Few UNESCO World Heritage Sites command such scientific interest - and few are more richly documented. Set in a marshy landscape between an inland lagoon and the busy straits separating Corfu and Albania, Butrint boasts well-preserved, photogenic remains from most periods. The site has been occupied since at least ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$100.00, Our Price US$29.98
Italy and the West: Comparative Issues in Romanization
edited by Simon Keay and Nicola Terrenato
Nineteen papers examining varies responses to Romanization, and how this affects our view of the development of the Roman Empire. The traditional view of Romanization is as the triumph of a superior and more advanced culture over primitive communities, brought about by military expansion and resulting in the creation of a uniform political and cultural entity. It is only in the last twenty years that the variety of responses that Romanization ...
Paperback. Price US$39.95
Hadrian
edited by Thorsten Opper
This book presents the proceedings of the 2009 conference relating to the 2008 exhibition at the British Museum entitled "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" and complements and expands upon the exhibition catalogue. It covers such subjects as architecture, sculpture, archaeology, economics, numismatics and philhellenism and ranges over the Roman Empire from Britain and Spain in the West to Turkey and Georgia in the East. The original contributions by ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$80.00
Priests and State in the Roman World
edited by James H. Richardson and Federico Santangelo
This collection of 24 essays, written by a group of international scholars who specialise in the religious, political and social history of ancient Rome, explores the relationship between priests and State in the Roman world. Attention is devoted to a number of interconnected problems: the nature and scope of priesthoods in the Roman world, the rules governing access to them, the role that priests played in the various levels of government, from ...
Paperback. Price US$132.00
Ursupator tanti nominis: Kaiser und Ursupator in der Spätantike (337-476 n. Chr.)
by Joachim Szidat
English summary: The Roman Empire knew no institutionalized process that governed the transfer of power at the head of the empire. A change of government thus often led to crisis situations. Joachim Szidat examines elevations and usurpations of emperors in late antiquity after 337 through to the end of the western Empire in 476. Moreover, he illuminates the time of the tetrarchy and the early Byzantine era up through the middle of the 6th ...
Hardback. Price US$117.00
The Lost Memoirs of Augustus
edited by Christopher Smith and Anton Powell
Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period in which the wounds of Rome's civil wars were fresh, and the emperor's partisan past might be recalled with discomfort. Existing fragments and testimonia have suggested that the work was apologetic in purpose.
In this, ...
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Anastasius I: Politics and Empire in the Late Roman World
edited by Fiona K Haarer
When Anastasius I came to the throne in 491, the Late Roman Empire was in severe difficulty. Internal instability, exacerbated by the dominance of the unpopular Isaurians in Constantinople, resulted in a struggling economy, hostile relations with Persia, the abandonment of Italy to a barbarian king, and doctrinal schisms. Anastasius, an elderly statesman with long experience as an administrator and economist, turned his attention first to the ...
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The Roman Army in Jordan
by David Kennedy
This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A, there are chapters on Roman Jordan, the evidence for the army there, geography and environment, the Romans in Jordan and the Roman army there. In Part B there are 15 chapters ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$36.00
Bianca Lancia
by Siegfried Obermeier
German description: Siegfried Obermeier: Bianca Lancia - Die Buhle des Kaisers Sie ist die grosse Liebe des Kaisers Friedrich II.: Bianca Lancia, eine schöne Pisanerin, ist dem Staufer in Leidenschaft und Hingabe verbunden, sie berät ihn, stützt ihn und kämpft an seiner Seite. Siegfried Obermeier, der Altmeister des historischen Romans, erzählt die Geschichte dieser Liebe vor dem Hintergrund der bewegten Zeit des ...
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Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East
edited by Ted Kaizer and Margherita Facella
This collection of studies is devoted to the multifarious relations that the Roman empire maintained with the kings and princes of Near Eastern lands. Building on an outlook of
royal and princely realms from both the Roman and the Parthian point of view, individual papers focus on the specifics of different areas and themes through a set of updated regional studies. Themes include Roman citizenship, the coinage issued by the 'client kings,' ...
Paperback. Price US$102.00
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