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Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India, through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 5 [Paperback]
Heleene De Jonckheere (Editor); Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Editor); Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789252828
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Puṣpikā
Volume: 5
This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition ... .... Learn More -
Names, Time and Place: Essays in Memory of Richard McKinley [Hardback]
Della Hooke (Author); David Postles (Author)
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ISBN: 9780904920468
Published by : Leopard's Head Press
Richard McKinley was a distinguished historian of Leicestershire and a pioneering specialist in the history of English surnames. This festschrift contains twelve essays written by his former colleagues and friends. They focus on subjects which... .... Learn More -
Butrint 7: Beyond Butrint [Hardback]
Richard Hodges (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254334
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 7
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This volume brings together a collection of reports and essays pertaining to the Butrint Foundation project at Butrint, Albania. It includes unpublished archive reports discovered in Rome and Tirana, commentaries on their methodology and history, ... .... Learn More -
The Competition of Fibers: Early Textile Produciton in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10000-500BCE) [Paperback]
Wolfram Schier (Editor); Susan Pollock (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254297
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 38
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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles... .... Learn More -
Egyptian Games and Sports [Paperback]
Joyce A. Tyldesley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780747806615
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The Ancient Egyptians enjoyed a wide range of sports and games young men chased lions and ostriches across the desert, while dignified married couples relaxed over a game of senet. Children played with balls and dolls. Even the Egyptian kings ... .... Learn More -
Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods: An examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age graves in England [Hardback]
John Hunter (Author); Ann Woodward (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782976943
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The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and... .... Learn More -
Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot [Hardback]
Frank Brandsma (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843842576
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Thematically and as a narrative technique, interlace, the complex weaving together of many different story-telling strands, comes to its full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. The Grail appears on the horizon and alth... .... Learn More -
Dante in Love [Hardback]
A.N. Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781848879492
Published by : Atlantic Books
A.N. Wilson's book serves as a fine introduction to Dante, mixing biography with a detailed exposition of the political and literary background to his work, as well as discussion of its principal themes, and a look at his reputation and influence ... .... Learn More -
Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics [Hardback]
Claude Calame (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801438929
Published by : Cornell University Press
These interlinked essays explore the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional authorship. The volume shows that they made of their poems, through various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the colle... .... Learn More -
Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England [Paperback]
Ruth Nisse (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268036027
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling `miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse... .... Learn More
