Archaeology
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The Christianization of the Late Roman Period: Cities, Churches, Synagogues, Palaces, Private Houses and Monasteries in the Early Christian Period [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828722
Published by : Pindar Press
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A collection of papers which have appeared during the last 10 to 15 years which aim to explain the phenomenon of Christianisation based on the examination of religious, social and economic case studies. Brenk traces the transformation of the l... .... Learn More -
Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain Volume 1: The Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb [Paperback]
Simon Greenslade (Editor)
£39.95ISBN: 9781789258790
Published by : Oxbow Books
Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing communi... .... Learn More -
Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity's Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran: A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the University of Edinburgh (2014–2016) [Hardback]
Eberhard Sauer (Author); Jebrael Nokandeh (Author); Hamid Omrani Rekavandi (Author)
£90.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254624
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 7
Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few realise that imperial Rome had a serious competitor in Late Antiquity. Late Roman legionary bases, normal... .... Learn More -
Mehmet the Conqueror and Constantinople: A Portrait of Youth and Ambition [Hardback]
Christopher Eimer (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781912667666
Published by : Spink Books
In its significance for both Islam and Christianity, and ultimately the wider world, the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453 was to herald the dawn of the early modern period and bring universal recognition to the man forever known as Mehmet the... .... Learn More -
Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis [Paperback]
Ken Dark (Author); Ferudun Özgümüş (Author)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258066
Published by : Oxbow Books
Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and survi... .... Learn More -
Butrint 7: Beyond Butrint: Kalivo, Mursi, Çuka e Aitoit, Diaporit and the Vrina Plain. Surveys and Excavations in the Pavllas River Valley, Albania, 1928-2015 [Hardback]
David R. Hernandez (Editor); Richard Hodges (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254334
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 7
This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial pl... .... Learn More -
A Globalised Visual Culture?: Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art [Hardback]
Fabio Guidetti (Editor); Katharina Meinecke (Editor)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254464
Published by : Oxbow Books
Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, i... .... Learn More -
City Walls in Late Antiquity: An Empire-wide Perspective [Hardback]
Emanuele Intagliata (Editor); Christopher Courault (Editor); Simon J. Barker (Editor)
£55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253641
Published by : Oxbow Books
The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefi... .... Learn More -
Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages: The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys 2013-2016 [Hardback]
Eberhard Sauer (Author)
£75.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251920
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 6
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via ... .... Learn More -
Byzantine Butrint: Excavations and Surveys 1994-99 [Paperback]
Kosta Lako (Author); William Bowden (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253436
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 2
The ancient walled town of Butrint sits at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. In its heyday it could command sea-routes up the Adriatic Sea to the north, across the Mediterranean to the west, and south through the Ionian islands. It also cont... .... Learn More
