Late Antiquity & Byzantium

ISBN: 9783895008573
Published by : Reichert Verlag
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Jenseits der urbanen Zentren, die bisher stärker im Fokus der Forschung lagen, werden einschlägige Komplexe spätantiker und westgotenzeitlicher Villenanlagen im ländlichen Bereich der gesamten Iberischen Halbinse... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895008894
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: ZAKMIRA
The present volume is based on an interdisciplinary colloquium of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne and the Centre for Mediterranean Cultures. The aim was to examine the region's quite different critical development of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904982951
Published by : Archetype Books
Designed as a dialogue between numismatists, archaeologists and historians, this book explores the coins of seventh century Syria, a key resource in analysing the Arab conquest and early history of the new Islamic state. As well a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415642330
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This collection of papers analyses the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religiou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774165443
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107026384
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire. From clashes over admission to classrooms and communion to construction of the grou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107009455
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521124133
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine - modern Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories - from the destruction of Solomon's temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199663088
Published by : Oxford University Press
In 1947 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. This handbook seeks to probe the main disputed issues in their study. Lively debate continues over the archaeology and ... .... Learn More